Talent Mr Ripley Analysis

When people first start reading a book there is one burning question: "What is this story about?" It’s a heavy question, especially for a fiction novel with so many fabricated details. You can fix this by saying a story is all about decisions. Of course, there are other themes, but the entire story is connected by the questions characters ask themselves and the outcome of their own answers. We can think about how this mimics real life. How every day we are forced to consider life's chance situations; some casual, some pressing, but all of them impacting our final growth as people and those around us to some degree. A good example of this is when in the book "The Outsiders", our protagonist Jonny decided to kill Bob in self-defense, this resulted in Jonny and Ponyboy going on the run. The decisions, the choices, that were made by Jonny change the course of his and his cohort's entire lives in an instant--directing the whole final tale and story outcome.

When defining the possible limitations of the “Empathy and (Film) Fiction”, it is in high priority to consider the experimental set in the research and the film examples Neill provides in the essay. The set of examples the author uses in the essay does correspond only to the award-winning or highly-rated films that are assumed to be “good” in evoking the empathetic or any other emotional response. This excludes possible alternative response to “bad” or “not-so-good” films. In addition, Neill does not cover many other cases of the empathetic response to the fictional character; thus he ignores the complex set of emotions the audience usually expresses (e.g. the antagonist as the main character, disgusting scenes etc). As a result, deficiency of the elaborate experimental set generates more questions in the issue. At the same time, however, the strength of

Tom is the most important character, yet he is not a flawless figure. Tom is irritated and annoyed easily, impatient and ignorant. His anger is clearly displayed in scenes with Gwen who expresses illiterate and disrespectful comments towards Tom’s family. Tom develops to acquire his own appealing death, during the course of the play. He has been hesitant to speak about his death, as he ignores Meg’s attempt to begin a conversation on the matter: “Are you afraid? / You coming to the concert tonight?”. Gow signifies Tom’s acceptance by giving him King Lear’s lines about crawling towards death.

I don’t like this” (1 & 2) Soon however it was as the mother and father had switched moods. The mother was acting very nice and wanted the stranger to come in. Before long the father wanted the man out and became very aggressive. The author does this to show how the mother and father started to act very differently when the stranger showed up. It makes us ask the question, how did the stranger bring these personalities to the mother and father so quickly. She is trying to build suspense upon the story. The author puts mixed moods in the reader's when the characters all start acting different. It makes the reader wonder why the characters are acting like this making the reader want to know what's going to happen next. With suspense building, the reader comes to the edge of there seat and the author does this so the reader can feel like there in that moment.

During the book, characters such as Mister Tom change dramatically, we are shown through their speech and actions that they change in order to fulfil a purpose. At the beginning of the story, Mister Tom, a misanthropic old man, has a shy young boy, Will, put under his care. Placed in a new and alien situation, he has to reciprocate, as he develops compassion and learns to care for Will as well as taking on new roles and becoming more open. Magorian uses characterisation to display to the reader Tom's progression, with points that are taken from different stages of the book such as "Eat up, I ain't got all day.", " and '"I love you too, boy," he (Mister Tom) grunted.', this shows immense change which allows him to care for his emotional needs. This is as his diction and tone have changed from harsh, rude and demanding, to caring and loving. That clearly shows that his identity has changed in order to care for Willie. Very early on we are shown he doesn't accept the inevitability of war and refuses to buy a gas mask, however, soon after Willie arrives he purchases two gas masks in order to protect the boy, his actions and morals being clearly shaped from very anti-war to cautious in order to provide for Willie. He later even volunteers for a role in protecting the town from fires,

The expressions of the characters, caused by their surrounding, is also a factor that can alter the psychological traits in a character. The Man states “He does not trust his dreams, believing that they are "the call of languor and of death” (McCarthy 15).The man has a vivid

(12) shows Tom?s authority and the how gender roles affected everyone back in the 1920?s. Tom?s overpowering demeanor hides his actual self, he has a strong aura around him which suggests his authority on everyone around him, making him a kill joy. ¬

looks at how the director choose to introduce the situation the characters face, the conflict that happens and the resolution of the story.

In this play Anne had made a relationship when she was trapped in a attic for two years. In this movie they need to see how Anne and Peter first met and reacted to one another. Then to the end how the felt about each other. Although the play and the movie have different actions. Both works contain the same major conflicts.

This connects the reader to the story. This connects to the reader and helps the reader relate to the fight between the couple. The author uses dialogue because it helps the reader establish the tension and fury between the two characters. The text states “ What would you like to do? Get the button back and push it? Murder someone “(108). This textual evidence illustrates how the dialogue was worded helped the reader establish how the characters were feeling at this moment. The text states “ Why are you getting so upset? It's only talk.”(108) This evidence portrays the frustration between the characters and how this creates a divide between the characters. In conclusion, the dialogue helps the reader establish the tone and helps the reader understand the story better.

Horror movies. The type of genre that gives a thrill of adrenaline, yet also gives nightmares late at night. Everyone has watched a horror movie at least once in their lives. And during the movie there is also a time in which the viewer just wants to punch the TV screen and call it quits. Whether it is because their favorite character just did something dumb, or because the ending was horrible, there is always a moment in which one thinks: I would have chosen a better option. I could have survived. In literature, it is often the same thing. Believe it or not, fear is a huge contributor to how the story goes; how it ends, and who dies. Fear either motivates the character to take action or, defeats them. But fear doesn’t act alone. Fear influences people, but what influences the fear? The answer is quite simple, no matter how shocking it can be. Just as love brings happiness, it also brings forth the poison of fear. Whether it is the fear of losing the person they love, or fear that they are no longer loved, both of them are huge contributors on how a character’s actions or decisions are influenced.

ways as the each author’s intentions are to direct the reader to the main plot by describing the

It helps the reader become immersed in the story. Tom can also be compared to as a Christ figure through the concrete imagery. “... Soot cannot spoil your white hair” (8) and “ That cirl’d like the lambs back” (5). Tom is being compared to as pure and a lamb; the Lamb of God, which will be in greater

For much of the film, especially given the empathy and intelligence which Damon instils, it is possible to admire Ripley as ‘talented’ in the same way that Fitzgerald saw Gatsby as great. Tom Ripley is the caricature of the American Dream, ambitious, driven, winsome, and well versed in the mantras of the bourgeoisie.

To elaborate further, the game makes use of multiple techniques to emphasize this bond and how crucial it is to the narrative. Perhaps one of the clearest examples of this occurs in how the story is focalized. Focalization is the specific point of view of the narrator and ties in their knowledge of the characters and events: “It refers specifically to the lens through which we see characters and events in the narrative” (Abbott 73). At first, the game appears to have a third-person narrator who is emotionally distant from the events of the story. After all, they express no grief or fear if another player is killed. In the end, however, it is revealed that the narrator is actually Akane describing the events she sees through Junpei’s eyes. In the True Ending, Junpei wonders how he could have possibly known about the password to open the coffin or Ace’s true identity since those facts are only presented to the player in alternate routes. While Junpei is left bewildered by the source of the information, the narration