“Secret Window, Secret Garden”, by Stephen King, is a story about Mort Rainey, a writer accused of plagiarism by John Shooter, a mysterious man from Mississippi. Shooter threatens Mort, and promises to do revenge if he does not get his story back. The story untangles with Mort having startled dreams and conversations with himself. His plan is to prove that the story does not belong to Shooter, however some events will prevent him from doing that. Amy Milner, Mort’s ex-wife, and her current husband, Ted Milner, are also victims and suspects, together with Mort. As the plot changes, with deaths and strange things happening, the existence of Shooter is questioned. The book and the movie have a similar context, although they follow and end with different plots, giving the readers quite a few scenes to be compared.
The movie starts with Mort discovering that Amy cheated on him with Ted. He then meets Shooter, and his goal to prove that he is the real author of the story begins. In the movie, Amy’s house is seen burning, and the suspects are few, although Mort has Shooter in his mind. Then, at the end of the movie, it’s revealed that Mort caused the fire. In the book, Fred Evans, and old man and important character not shown in the movie, appears at the end, explaining to Ted and Amy that a bottle of wine was
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He does not get caught, although the sheriff warns him to avoid visiting the town, because people feel intimidated by his presence. People do not get to speculate about Mort’s weird behavior, or even a supposed mental illness. However, in the book, he only tries to kill Amy, but Mr. Evans - who had followed her - shoots and kills Mort, saving her. They explore a little bit the reasons behind Mort’s attitude, and they seem to have an idea of his disease, and how he was out of his mind and
They go back to Philadelphia it appears to be ghost town. No one is anywhere to be seen when. They arrive at the coffee house they see that they’ve been robbed and mother and Eliza where gone. The next day Mattie and grandfather eat breakfast. Then mattie goes to market and finds it empty when she find herself being assaulted by a older woman she rushes home and doesn’t tell grandfather. She goes to sleep and wakes to two men breaking in one man starts messing with Grandfather sword and almost hits Mattie she screams and tries to run but one man catches her. He tries getting information out of her. but grandfather finds them he tries to shoot him but gets away he then starts punching Grandfather he closes his eyes them Mattie stabs the man in the shoulder he screamed in pain and finally ran
William joins the military and while he’s gone Margaret invites William’s mother Mrs. Anglin and brother Marshall to her parents’ house for dinner, which doesn’t go well because Mr. and Mrs. Ryder refuse to sign in an even more awkward silence. William comes back injured but not crippled and they live with her parents until he’s accepted into college. Margaret’s parents are sad to see her go but as soon as they can they go see her and it was unannounced. Margaret’s parents are very upset to see the place where she’s living and go to sign how upset they are that William hasn’t provided better for their daughter. Her parents never visit her again. The next time Margaret sees her parents is when she’s very pregnant to let them know that they’ll be grandparents. Lastly William and Margaret move into better housing where they will raise their child till William graduates from college. Margaret and William invite everyone to their baby shower after the birth of their son and her parents show up after everyone has gone. Margaret is upstairs with her son and William answers the door and her parents surprise her. When they see each other all the turmoil between them is gone and they enjoy each other’s company. The movie ends with Janice’s retirement party where Abel, Margaret, William and their son go and Janice’s signs a speech that Margaret
Anyway, Alice gets on a computer in the back of the lab and starts to look for the email “she sent to her mother”. The email was written exactly how she would write and email to someone; lowercase letters, signed ally, no dear…. and she even believed that she committed the crime. Then she put in the disk that her father wanted her to bring. She reads about her father and his brother but the information is not enough to find out who could possible kill her father. Soon she has to leave and she decides to print out the document. Once the document is printed out, she leaves, lucky for her she doesn’t need to use a student ID to exit the lab. She meets up with Paul and she tries to get rid of him. Fortunately, she gets a place where she can sleep over for the night. When morning hits the radio is on and the owner of the room is in the bathroom probably listening
Component 2: drama responding required to choose a video clip and discuss the three dramatic elements that appeared in that video. Dramatic elements are the techniques to design the dramatic presentation, atmosphere, verbal or non-verbal interactions, mood and emotion to grab the attention of audiences (Dinham, 2017; ACARA, 2017). I have selected to view the video clip "The Secret Garden: There's someone crying" (Movieclips, 2012). After observing, analysing and evaluating the video clip critically, I have decided to explore the characters, voice and movement.
Hitchcock uses many techniques throughout the film “Rear Window” to convey suspense. The major theme of the film regards Jefferies voyeurism. His intrigue in the everyday lives of his neighbours is viewed as intrusive and morally wrong on principle. However, without this voyeuristic tendency the crime committed by Thornwald would never have been solved. Thus, the audience is lead through emotional turmoil in questioning whether it is wrong to invade someone’s privacy, or just and heroic to solve a crime. We see the climax of the film when Lisa and Stella venture out of Jefferies apartment to investigate the murder of Mrs Thornwald. This leads to a confrontation between Thornwald and Jefferies. These scenes build suspense through the use of detachment, the use of ‘split-screen’, ‘red-herring’ plot devices, lighting, music and diegetic sound.
This story is a tale of the unexpected and the main way it is achieved is by making the build up to the climax of the death seem so normal. I would not expect a happy married couple, in a warm, cozy house, to be the setting for such an evil, thrilling murder to take
A person that brutally killed four people, and unaware of the very fact that he is the one that murdered all of them. “Strawberry Spring” by Stephen King is a story that takes place at New Sharon college, at the start of strawberry spring, and the narrator tells the story about how there is a killer on the college campus, and in the end we find out he is the killer. “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a story from the perspective of a mentally ill woman, who is on a summer stay at a colonial mansion, and her husband makes her stay in a bedroom to treat her mental illness, however the result is compromised due to the wallpaper in the room making her feel more ill than ever before. Lastly “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar
The novel begins on a Halloween day with Annie McGowan going to the park with two of friends, Marla and Rene. When they arrive at the park, Annie notices someone new and could not keep her eyes off him. She decided to go up to him and she introduces herself to him. She finds out that his name is Kevin Griffin. Later that night, Kevin was accused of kicking Sue; however, Annie finds out that he was innocent because Sue was the one who
When a young author from New York City decides to take a trip to the southern city of Savannah, he finds himself falling in love with the town and ends up renting an apartment. He encounters many different characters, including Danny Hansford and Jim Williams, that gives the reader a good look into the aura of Savannah. The main conflict in the book occurs when a murder happens in an old mansion located in the town. The book follows the progression of the trial and the outcome following the court’s decision.
The movie told us a story about how love never dies. Demi Moore portrayed a woman named Molly who lived with her boyfriend Sam. Sam had a greedy and money grabbing partner Carl played by Tony Goldwyn. This is the typical kind of partner who has no real life of his own and will do anything he can to get millions. Of course these kind of characters never mean to do anything harmful to their supposed friends but something always goes wrong. Carl arranges to have a sleazy character rob Sam in order to get what he wants from him and finish his sleazy business deal. Sam and Molly are coming home late one night when the “pretend” robbery happens. Unfortunately Sam chose to fight back and gets knifed. He dies there on the street and soon realizes he has become a ghost.
Many shows depicted on television reach a large audience. The mini-series of Over the Garden Wall is a mature television show intended for children (Ashby). The following pages embody details about the show, the symbolism, and the cultural context the show contains. The paper begins by explaining what the show is about and the characters featured. There are also 10 sections that include the actual episodes contained in the mini-series. “Chapter 1: The Old Grist Mill” is the pilot episode of the series and introduces Wirt, Gregory, the Beast, and the woodsman. “Chapter 2: Hard Times at the Huskin’ Bee” the brothers meet a key character named Beatrice and perform a series of tasks in a very odd town. “Chapter 3: Schooltown Follies” the brothers
While trying to figure out what to do with the body they go have a look at the cook Mrs. Ho to find her murdered in the kitchen, with the knife in her back. On coming back to the study Mr. Boddy has vanished to be later found bleeding from the head in the washroom attacked with the candlestick.
The novel "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood is a short story about Iris Chase Griffen and how she starts writing the story of her life for her granddaughter during the time of World War I. She tells the story with scenes from her present life as well as many flashbacks throughout her life. In the story, the protagonist, Iris Chase Griffen, has difficulty with the death of her sister, her unhappy marriage to her husband and her affair with Alex. During the story, she encounters her sister’s journals and ultimately learns that her husband, Richard was raping her sister Laura. Literature is to be known to have an emotional impact on the reader and this novel by Margaret Atwood is no different. There are several conflicts in this work, and they all help to convey themes of human nature vs. society and herself.
The Secret Window is a film released in 2004 directed by David Koepp and written by Stephen King. The main issue in this film is one of a psychological basis which keeps the audience on their toes and maybe even slightly confused until all of the pieces fit together at the end of the film. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the psychological issue that plagues the main character, Mort Rainey (portrayed by Johnny Depp), and identify any biases or misinformation presented in the film.
movie then unfolds as part of the paper that Danny is writing. It goes through how Derrick and