Hardboiled emphasizes a protagonist that is presented with a cynical attitude or voice. Hardboiled typically features an inner monologue of a detective, which has been used widely by authors and creators of detective fiction. Veronica Mars genre is an example of hardboiled detective fiction where the main character is a teenage girl who adds the sarcastic inner monologue to the series, which is a different and modern take on hardboiled fiction. Veronica Mars is a young woman who attends Neptune
that I connect with as closely again. I still remember her monologue now two years later and the way it felt to have those lights come up and shine on me. I still can feel the way my heart raced as I fought with my “husband”, and nothing will ever compare to the way my friends showered me with praise after every time I stepped off that stage. Louann restored confidence in both myself as an actor and as a teenage girl worrying about boys, girls, and family. I can honestly say that I’ve used her lines
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare is a rich play for interpretation mainly because of its controversial content, due to the of power dynamics of Petruchio and Katharina. I chose to stage The Taming of the Shrew because I found the storyline engaging and I felt that the play would be able to be staged nontraditionally while continuing to retain its storyline and original language. For my production I would like Katharina and Petruchio to be in their late teens around 16 to 19 years old
Teen girl films are Janus-like in nature, being aimed at teen girls themselves, but also at opening up the world of teen girls to their parents and society at large. The marketing for Mark Water’s 2004 film Mean Girls reflects this divided focus, using a two-pronged approach to attempt to attract the largest range of paying customers. On an aesthetic level, from the appearance of the promotional website to the music used in the trailers, the film tries is aimed at teenage girls. However, on a less
Skim's internal monologue is diary-like, with an interesting use of scratched-out words. Despite the fact that Skim can be regarded as a work of fiction, it comes across to the reader as autobiographical or a semi-autobiographical. The comic is in many ways a commentary on the personal life of the author, Mariko Tamaki. The comic talks about and narrates the story of a Skim, a Japanese - Canadian school girl who comes across as being self - righteous and aloof. The diary format that Tamaki has employed
interior monologue in the mind of an introverted teenage girl, like excerpts from her personal diary during her miserable freshman year of high school. Instead of blending in and finding her way through high school. She withdraws and secludes herself from the other students. She calls herself an "outcast." Melinda is so desperate to hide from the world; she turns an old janitor's closet at the high school into her safe haven. She cuts classes to hide in her closet. How lonely could this teenage girl
How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl, White Girl or Halfie by Junot Diaz and Girl by Jamaica Kincaid are both fictional stories that provide somewhat of a guide or blue print on how to navigate through poverty and other difficult circumstances surrounding one’s social standing and identity in life in order to fit into what is considered to be the norm of society. How to Date a Brown Girl, Black Girl White Girl or Halfie gives an account of a teenage boy of Dominican descent who develops and promotes
which follows two teenage mothers, Josie and Lily, while they are being tormented and harassed by a shape-shifting fairy, named The Skriker. Josie is in an asylum, where she had been taken after murdering her new born baby, and baking her in a pie. The other teenage mother, is named Lily, who is currently pregnant, and is the best friend to Josie. Through out the play the Skriker turns up in various guises, including; an American woman in a bar, a nasty little girl eaten up with sibling
shown through the perspective of a teenage girl who has recently had a sibling suddenly die and they are coming to terms with their grief in similar and different ways. The theme of ‘life after death’ is used in a spiritual way as well as showing how each main character continues on with their day-to-day life after the death of their sibling. Both Nelson and Hand write of instances where the spirit of the sibling appears in times of distress and happiness in the girls’ respective grieving periods.
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, is a story written in the first person about a young girl named Melinda Sordino. The title of the book, Speak, is ironically based on the fact that Melinda chooses not to speak. The book is written in the form of a monologue in the mind of Melinda, a teenage introvert. This story depicts the story of a very miserable freshman year of high school. Although there are several people in her high school, Melinda secludes herself from