Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Inside Reading for 7/1

As an assignment we were supposed to read "Introduction to Drama" pages 779-801. I took Drama for a year in high school as a freshman. I loved it! My favorite was the Improv unit. This unit was when you had to get up in front of the class and the teacher assigned a setting and you had to make up a skit to that setting. You had no previous practice or script...that's what made it fun. A setting is where the story takes place. So for instance in the book I'm reading, Twilight, the setting takes place in Forks, Washington. I also read through the reading and it talked about characters. So for Twilight the main character is Bella because she is the one telling the story and it follows her story pretty much. Another character is Edward. He is also a main character, but in the beginning he is very mysterious. The reading also talked about the protagonist and the antagonist. You could consider Edward the antagonist right now because he knows that he wants to "get" Bella and he wants more than her blood so he warns her to stay away, but then continuously talks to her and tells her he can't stay away from her. Bella would be the protagonist because she doesn't know that Edward is a vampire. She is just a normal girl attending school like she is supposed to and staying out of trouble...for now. Another part the reading talked about was the rising action. The rising action could be when Bella finds out that Edward is a vampire...only I haven't gotten that far so if you have read the book don't spill! ;) I hope the end is an open denouement because I want to have unanswered questions so that the next book answers them. Normally I would want a closed because I have to know what goes on but in this case it would be ok for and open. Overall I liked this reading because I think it's something that I'm interested in. It had things I was familiar with and that I have used outside of class. I hope all of the rest of our readings are as easy as this one was.

1 comment:

  1. Great work associating the drama terms with Twilight. BTW, are you hooked yet?

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