Let It Go
Final Presentation
English 10
Basis of Comparison Brainstorming
All three works of art seem interested in exploring… big idea or topic (e.g. war, love, desire).
Don’t self-edit here – just list out all the possibilities.
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Now, take your top two potential themes from the list above and make them more specific. There are a couple of really easy
ways to do this:
* Add an adjective:
* Make it to an adverbial phrase:
* Add a subordinate clause:
* Add a correlative conjunction:
* Experiment with more
specific synonyms:
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These three works of art are about difficult love.
These three works of art are about how love can complicate ideas of self-worth.
Although these three works of art seem to be about the end of the world,
they are actually more interested in how love can blossom even at the hardest of times.
These three works of art are not only about love’s power to transform a person but also
about love’s power to transform a community.
These three works of art are about love, or perhaps more accurately
they are about teenage infatuation.
Once you have established the WHAT of your presentation (aka. the basis of comparison, shared theme, controlling idea), you need to start
brainstorming the HOW (the specific literary/filmic/musical techniques and/or elements) being used to develop that theme.
* Review the books by…
looking at your notes
skimming through the work
looking at online resources (e.g. Wikipedia)
* Review the literary elements chart BUT as you search through the books, don’t be afraid to write down really interesting scenes or
moments, details even if you don’t know exactly what literary element/technique it represents. Call us over and ask he for help on
figuring this out.
* Also, don’t worry too much about how the particular element/technique detail relates to the theme just yet.
Shared Theme/Basis of
Comparison/ Controlling Idea
Work of Art # 1
Work of Art # 2
Work of Art # 3
Notable Elements/Techniques
Notable Elements/Techniques
Notable Elements/Techniques
Once you have a list of the elements/techniques/scenes, we need to evaluate them based on the following criteria:
* For each work, which elements/techniques are used in particularly unique/original/interesting ways?
(for example, J.D. Salinger’s choice to write The Catcher in Rye from the point-of-view of a disillusioned teenager was one of the
elements that distinguished that book from all the other books written at that time).
* For each element/technique, how does it help create the shared theme? Can you explain how the element/technique
emphasizes/evokes/complicates the main theme? You may consider if this element directly or indirectly creates the
theme.
(for example, let’s say my theme is about the importance of coming to terms with the past and that the literary element I think is
most interesting in Catcher in the Rye is the narrative perspective; I might discuss the way Holden’s narrative is written almost
like a confession. Throughout the book he spends so much time avoiding or lying about his past but in his first person narration,
he finally opens up about those painful things, like the loss of his brother and how absent his father is).
Everyone I see just wants the walk with gritted teeth
But I just stand by and I wait my time
They say you gotta toe the line, they want the water not the wine
But when I see the signs I jump on that lightning bolt
Chances, people tell you not to take chances
When they tell you that there aren't any answers
And I was starting to agree
But I awoke suddenly in the path of a lightning bolt
I drink to remember, I smoke to forget
Some things to be proud of some stuff to regret
Run down some dark alleys in my own head
Something is changing, changing, changing
I go back to Clifton to see my old friends
The best people I could ever have met
Skin up a fat one, hide from the Feds
Something is changing, changing, changing
So I kiss goodbye to every little ounce of pain
Light a cigarette and wish the world away
I got out, I got out, I'm alive but I'm here to stay
So I hold two fingers up to yesterday
Light a cigarette and smoke it all away
I got out, I got out, I'm alive but I'm here to stay
He's down in the kitchen drinking White Lightning
He's with my momma, they're yelling and fighting
It's not the first time praying for silence
Something is changing, changing, changing
Whole of my life I've been left behind
But I've never felt more alive.
High speed conversations
Speeding on down the line
Looked in your eyes
Said the saddest goodbye
But I've never felt more alive.
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* Two Fingers – go back to Clifton – there’s a story for every corner of this place, Running so hard you got out but your knees got skinned
* Taste It – fiery zeppline, bittersweet taste – end of a relationship, talking on a bad connection. Never felt more alive.
* I’ve Seen it All ---- Stabbing at a party
* Simple As it Is – love song – tried all these things – but happiness was there.
I've been in search of stones
Making up the pavement of less-travelled roads
Mining for treasure deep in my bones
That I never find
Tried absolution of the mind and soul
It only led me where I should not go
Oh and the answer well how could I miss
Something as simple as this
Something as simple as this
I've been falling, crashing, breaking
All the while you were stood here waiting
For me girl
Broken
Down, I'm coming down this town for my heart lies
Far and away where they took you down.
Led them over to your house
Where I'm broken.
Stuck in speed bump city
Where the only thing that's pretty
Is the thought of getting out
There's a tower block overhead
All you've got's your benefits
And you're barely scraping by
In this trouble town
Troubles are found
In this trouble town
Words do get 'round
Hear the sirens down the street
The kids get light on their feet
Or they'll be in the back seat
In this trouble town
Troubles are found
Sitting on the pavement
Boy you've missed your payment
And they're gonna find you soon
If there's a beating in the rain
If there's a little bit of pain, man
You're the one it happens to
Somewhere there's a secret road
To take me far away I know
But 'til then I am hollow
SLIDE
I've got autumn leaves and heartbreak dreams inside, inside...
Cause you and and me on this frozen sea we slide, slide....
I'll wait all on my own like a flower in the snow,
With just my shadow following me out into the cold,
Where I walk past the trees to look for my love.
I want to go someplace and find you there.
Don't go away
I need you to stay
I want to go someplace and find you there.
“Then the carousel started, and I watched her go round and round...All the kids tried to grap for the gold
ring, and so was old Phoebe, and I was sort of afraid she's fall off the goddam horse, but I didn't say or do
anything. The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not
say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it is bad to say anything to them.”