Short Story Analysis: “A Television Drama”
Plot Summary
The short story’s plot begins by introducing the main character Carolee Mitchell. Carolee is in her home doing her daily chores when suddenly she looks out her window to find many policeman, police dogs and police cars outside on her street. Carolee did not know what was happening so she continued on with her chores. In a few moments Carolee notices a young man drenched in blood in her garden outside. Carolee wants to call the police but questions what good it would be considering they are already on her street. She wants to call someone but none of her neighbors were home. Thinking that he was injured and maybe was not even the man the police were after, she looked out the window
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Setting The story takes place in a neighborhood that i estimate is quite small considering Carolee knows her neighbors are gone. The setting revolves around Carolee’s home. Her doing her chores in her home and the suspect roaming around outside. The setting influences the story a lot because it influences Carolee’s reaction to what happened. She had never seen anything like that in person and it opened her eyes to how society really is.
Conflict
In the story there are 3 types of conflict, Person vs. Self, Person vs. Society and Person vs. Person. Person vs. Self would come in when Carolee had to decide what she was gonna do. Would she call the police or help the person or just leave well alone. Person vs. Society would be the police force against the suspect. Finally Person vs. Person would be when the suspect shot the other police officer and when he was getting shot at.
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Symbolism
I believe that Carolee symbolises many people in our society at the moment. People who are oblivious to what is actually happening and how our society functions. Her reaction to what happened how the police came into her neighborhood and how the man was drenched in blood and was tumbling around showed lack of experience. Like lack of knowledge of what was actually going on.
Literary Devices In the story the author used foreshadowing. The foreshadowing came in when Carolee heard the dogs barking. This foreshadowed that something was found or the dogs found someone so
During the story the author often uses foreshadowing to give hints to the reader of things that will happen in the future. When the story starts, a storm is coming on a late October night. The storm symbolizes the evil approaching the town. Usually it seems a storm would resemble something dark and evil, because a stormy night is always a classic setting for something evil. At the
Where: The story takes place in Harlem, New York. The settings are at the subway, the school, the brother’s childhood home, Isabel’s home, the narrator’s home, and the nightclub.
First thing first is the foreshadowing, since it was the first thing most of the reader noticed. After the couple-Armand Aubigny and Desiree Valmonde- got married and got a house, “The roof came down steep and black like a cowl, reaching out beyond the wide galleries that encircled the yellow stuccoed house. Big, solemn oaks grew close to it, and their thick-leaved, far-reaching branches shadowed it like a
Losing a person can be the hardest conflict to overcome, but gaining a person can change your life for the better. Many conflicts can be formed by simple problems in life. Losing and gaining people can for the most difficult conflicts to fix. This is a cool relating to the author's life when she was younger. In a place that is not a huge city yet not a little town. Problems between a person vs. themselves, others, society and their fate is what the author uses in the story. In the book The Start of Me and You written my Emery Lord is all based around the topic of conflict in four different groups of people or things.
Within “The Landlady” the author displays foreshowing in order to build suspense within the reader, us. The story ended with Billy’s discovery of the stuffed animals, which the suspicious Landlady have stuffed. We then hear a change within Billy’s voice. His voice got shaky. As if he’d consumed or inhaled something, causing him to feel this way. Lastly, we see the Landlady. Staring with a smile on her face.
Conflict can be especially seen more towards the end of the short story when they encounter the misfit. The type of conflict that occurs during the encounter can be deducted to be man versus man and man versus self. Man vs. man is seen through the struggle between the family's decision on where to have their vacation. This same type of conflict is also be seen with the family's confrontation with the misfit. When the grandmother meets the misfit after the family crashes, she is trying to beg for her life to try to appeal to his morals, ultimately to try to convince him not to kill her .
out he’s not there and was taken by an ambulance a few hours earlier. They weren’t able to get
Stories are all different but the one thing they all have in common is conflict. Conflict is a problem that has to be dealt with there are two categories that conflict is put in external and internal. External is also divided into two man vs. man which is a conflict between two characters and man vs. nature which is a character against the setting (environment) and sometimes society. Internal conflict is man vs. self this is when a character has a conflict with themselves. Three stories that will be stated throughout this writing are “Pedestrian”, “The Sniper”, and “Marigolds”.
The conflicts have a great impact on the shape of the character of the novel. Character versus society and character versus self can be found throughout the story which forges a vivid and stereo novel. First of all, the major aspect of conflicts of the novel is the character versus society. The setting of the story is the America after world war two,which was the society developed rapidly.
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In the article “The Trouble with Television” by Robert MacNeil explains why television is harmful to society. MacNeil states, “Television variety becomes a narcotic, not a stimulus.” His meaning by this is saying television is like a drug to one’s brain. People can get very addicted that it is harmful. As everyone knows, drugs are very harmful to someone’s health. However, this is not the only flaw from watching television; there are many more.
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When someone asks you if you like television, what would you say? Well for me I would answer yes, evidently to Robert Macneil that that is our problem. According to the article, The Trouble with Television by Robert Macneil, Television is addicting. By the age of 20 an average person will have watched an average of 20,000 hours of television. Plus after that 10,000 hours for every decade you live after the age of 20 that is a lot. With that time you could be out of school living on your own and not at home. I really wish that you could finish school at your own pace and not have to get up so early.
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