Imagery

Authors note: This short piece is going to be about the differences between a movie and a short stories imagery and how it effects the readers interpretation of the characters.

There are not that many short stories that have different imagery in the movie than in the short story. The short story A clean and Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway  has you picturing in your mind different imagery between the short story and the movie.  The short story is about a man who stays late in a café. In the story the old man wants more and more to drink and the two waiters say that he is going to get drunk and not make it home so they force him not to have anymore and send him on his way.

First of all, The positioning of the characters in the café in the film greatly changes the way the reader interprets the story and the characters in general. For instance the old man sitting down at a table by himself with light all around in the movie. The reader would think that he is a nice person and seems like he is living a good life and he doesn't seem depressed. Put in the short story it tells the reader that the old man is sitting in a dark place in the café with a shadow covering him. That greatly changes the readers interpretation of the old man and what the reader thinks about him.

It effects the readers understanding from reading the story to watching the film greatly because how the imagery is different in both the story and the film. The reader is going to have different interprets and kind of confuse themselves after reading the story than watching the film because the imagery that was in the story to the old man in the film is very different and the scene around him makes the people interpret different thoughts and wonder what the characters are going through. 

On the other hand there are also two other examples that may have the reader thinking differently. One is the scene lengths and how they are longer than usual it will get people thinking more about what is showing on the screen and getting the reader to interpret what the film is really trying to say. For instance at the end of the film when the older waiter was walking slowly back to his house it made the people watching it think that he was depressed and lonely because of how slow he was walking and how long the scene length was. The other one is the sound that really effects the tone because when people here the sound they can tell if it is a happy film or a depressing film. There is no sound in this film so you can tell that it is depressing and sad. 

Many readers would like to have the film the same as the story so they can read the story and when  they watch the film they would see the same imagery as in the book. If the director of the  film made it the same as the short story it would be the same he didn't make it the same because he wanted readers to see what their interpretation would be.

Spring Assessment

Authors note: This short piece is going to be about the differences between two people in a short story and the similarities they have. And the tone of the story.

In every short story there is at least two characters that have many differences and some similarities. Just like in the short story A clean and Well Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway there are two waiters an older one who has lots of respect for people that come in the café late and a younger waiter that has no respect for them and wants them to leave so he can get back to his family. You probably think that this is a happy story because of the title put it is not it is a depressing short story.

Many of you might know that older people like to stay up late and talk with people, That’s what the older waiter is like he loves his job and is nice to costumers that come into the café even if they stay late. The younger waiter is the opposite he doesn't like when customers come in just before closing and he has a family to take care of and wants to be with them. 

The tone in the story is sadness because the old man sitting and drinking is very depressed and lives on his own and doesn't talk to anyone and get mad fun of. Also the tone is sadness because it is at night and it is quiet in the town and all the shops are closed excepted for the café and a bar. The author made this story because he might have been in the same situation as the old man sitting at the table with his drink he was probably lonely and lived by himself in a lonely place.

I recommend this book to people that like sad stories and what depressed people are like. For me I didn't like the story because it was a sad story and I like more sporty books and how some are exciting not just sad and lonely stories.