The Sapphires Essay

Nikki Giovanni is a Writer/Poet who uses a lot of 1st person Point of view in her writing to explain ideas, and is a very detailed, straightforward writer. Some poems that I will be taking examples from is ‘The Beep Beep Poem’, ‘Kidnap poem’, and ‘Nikki-Rosa’. Nikki giovanni also writes both fiction and nonfiction poems. Some of her non fiction poems were written in the 60’s during the Civil Rights Movement. Most of her fictional poems were from her thoughts about her personal life and real events.

Australian theatre practitioners use various performance styles, techniques and dramatic conventions to help portray their ideas to their audiences and make them feel a particular way to the ideas presented in a play. Without the use of these styles, techniques and conventions it wouldn’t be possible for the practitioners to emphasise their ideas. In the play ‘Ruby Moon’ Matt Cameron the playwright uses various techniques such as symbolism, transformational acting, cyclical and episodic dramatic structure and a fractured fairytale.

The Sapphires, directed by Wayne Blair is a 2012 Australian musical comedy-drama based on a true story. The film is written by Keith Thompson and Tony Briggs, staring Jessica Mauboy, Deborah Mailman, Shari Sebbens, Miranda Tapselland and Chris O'Dowd. The film was based on a true story exploring the themes of family, courage and race identity. Wayne Blair explored these themes by using various techniques throughout the film to have an effect on the audience.

Good morning Selection Panel of the Australian Film Board. Today I am going to convince you that The Sapphires, directed by Wayne Blair is the perfect movie to enter the competition to represent Australia. The movie was released in 2012 and is based on a true story of four Aboriginal girls that tour around Vietnam in 1968 singing for the soldiers. The main parts of the movie that stood out were; how it demonstrated the Australian value of perseverance, the difference between each individual character and the representation of the Aboriginal culture.

The audience are likely to sympathise further for David with the wide shot of the kitchen shown afterwards. In this shot, the audience can see how the characters are seated around the kitchen table. David is on the end of the table, indicating how he may be slightly segregated from the rest of his family. The first bit of dialogue spoken by David was “You ate all the bloody Weetabix”. This indicates his frustration towards Ben for getting better care from his parents. Furthermore, David’s mum then suggests him to have some Alpen instead but David replies saying that he doesn’t like it. This suggests how David’s parent care more for Ben as they don’t know what David likes and dislikes. Additionally, afterwards there were cutaways of David’s mum kissing Ben goodbye and David displaying a disgusted expression. All of these actions signify how David has a weaker relationship with his parents compared to Ben which result in the audience feeling sorry for him.

The basis of the novel ‘Montana 1948’ is the notorious Hayden family of Bentrock. The family is a paragon of power and control as the males are all respected and superior. But because of Frank’s offenses , the family has a dispute and divide . The two sides do not agree with one another and relationships change between members of the Hayden family throughout the story. Gail and David’s want to bring Frank to justice whereas Julian wants to let Frank go despite the crimes he committed.

There is conflict wherever you go, but quite a lot of cases involve racism towards another race. Inspired by sisters Laurel Robinson and Lois Peeler and their cousins Beverly Briggs and Naomi Mayers, The Sapphires, directed by Wayne Blair, strongly displays races coming together to rid of the conflict between them. Following the story of three Aboriginal sisters who wish to have their turn under the spotlight, you will experience the themes of love, family, prejudice, war and relationship throughout the film. Two key themes that Blair had used to reach the audience was love and family.

When the word, villain, is said most people would think about an animated movie or television show. In this film, there are multiple villains with different characteristics and different motives. Some villains had good intentions and others purposely played the villain role. A villain is described as a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot. “In Lila and Eve,” the villains would be Alonzo, the justice system, Lila, and Eve and these are known to be the villains because someone feels a sense of fear or hatred toward each other. Although everyone in this group are villains they are also victims. Each victim seek revenge or justice, and in most cases, both which in turn make that victim a villain.

He runs into the same type of conflict, man vs nature. When you grow up you gain experience in all aspects of life. How to hold a job, pay bills, or even in Dave’s case operate a weapon. Lack of experience hurts Dave in this incident. He doesn’t know how a firearm works, or the damage it does.

One of the themes in the novel ‘Enchantress from the Stars’ is that of magic and superstition. The term Enchantress is meant to refer to an attractive woman with the ability to use magic. Despite the many things that Engdahl discusses in her novel, she finally settles on a title that reflects the existence of magic and the belief in superstition. The enchantress referred to in the title is Elana whom Georyn views as an enchanting woman from the stars. “How can she help the Andrecians, who still believe in magic and superstition, without revealing her own alien powers?” (Engdahl 126). Sylvia's choice of title is questionable given that the theme of magic is not dominant in the novel. As a reader, it is expected that I would not have expected that such a title would have been the best unless the theme of Magic received a greater concern. However, on another side, Sylvia's choice of title is justifiable. Many people have beliefs in magic and superstition and may be such knowledge inspired the author's inclusion of such a theme. Nonetheless, the importance of the issue of bringing out the coordination of the novel's plot cannot be undermined.Nonetheless, the

Dave also says he doesn't like his gang. On page 8 Dave says to Tigo "You got to stick with the club don't you?" Dave isn't sure if he has to stick with the

Dave in the story tries to present himself as this kid who is now a man, he wants to showcase to others that he is no longer some little kid that can be made fun of. Even though his actions don’t resemble those of a man, but instead of a kid who is trying to act like one, his thinking that a gun is what makes a man and certain actions that take place is what makes him a consistent character. From beginning to end his mindset of what makes a man doesn’t change, but instead is reinforced after he is humiliated. “Something hot seemed to turn over inside him each time he remembered how they had laughed” (Wright 188).

. Many elements of the story would change if it was set in 2016. With contemporary transportation, Kino would have been easily able to travel to the capital and find a salesman to sell the pearl to. In fact, with the Internet, it is unlikely Kino would even have to leave La Paz to sell his pearl. Kino expressed how difficult the journey was by saying that it was “over water and through Mountains” (Steinbeck 53). Lastly, it is unlikely Kino would have gotten away with his murders. Kino killed many people who attempted to steal the pearl from him. With modern technology, Kino would be caught by police and would be unable to return to his normal life. Juana says “You have killed a man. We must go away. They will come for us” (Steinbeck 61).

The novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’ addresses many themes and motifs, but one of the more prevalent is pride itself, which Austen expertly weaved throughout, showing the effects it has on both the perpetrator’s lives and the lives of those around them. This theme of pride relates to the time period the novel was written in, which was the Regency era, where the class system was deemed of significant importance and particular traits of the gentry were considered necessary, including an extent of pride. Austen attacks this view and admits a harsh observational outlook by having everyone in the book hold some degree of pride, whilst bloating the major characters until they become caricatures revelling in exaggerated tendencies. The two

I bent over to pick up the twinkling gem. It was large, easily the size of a quarter, so it must be expensive. I was no gemologist, but I did know that the larger the gem, the more pricey it was. I rolled it around in my fingers, letting the light from the street lamps catch in all of its facets.