Thursday, November 19, 2009

Iterations

When i got finished reading "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been", and watching Smooth Talking I saw a lot of similarities. One thing about the short story is that it starts to be very repetitive and seemed to drag along in the end, Smooth Talk also did that at the end whe A. Friend was trying to get the girl. Repetitiveness is one thing that I really do not care for I just get tired of reading something that seems like it is taking forever to read. The three nonfiction stories were similar but there were certain differences within each article. You could see how different people tell the same story but in a different way. Reading the nonfiction articles of Charles Schmid gives us an idea of Arnold Friend. I really liked reading the nonfiction articles about the story because it gave the real hard truth and facts about where the real idea for "Where are you going, Where have you been". The video was way off and I didn’t really like it at all, maybe because it was a horrible depiction of what we just saw and read. The movie was the best description of the short story because you could actually see the story being played out in front of you. Writing the same story in different iterations is creative and impressive but i find it easier to understand when i see the movie first then reading the short story.

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