Monday, April 6, 2015

All Boys, All Blogged: April 6, 2015

Focus: What symbols and patterns are emerging in The Truman Show?

1. Warming up with happy Monday thoughts

2. Questioning the film in grid groups: what are you wondering so far? How many images of dead-ends can you think of from last week? What might they suggest?

3. Watching The Truman Show and focusing on the following in your notes:

This document will eventually be worth 40 points in the growth category.

Include the following categories in your notes:

a. Characters: Names, personality traits, clothes, things they say

b. Motifs/symbols: Specific objects that seem symbolic, what they might represent, and how they change throughout the film


c. Questions: Level 1, 2, and 3 questions; try to answer them at the end of the film


d. Connections to Fahrenheit 451: Be specific and original (these will form the backbone of your essay)


4. Wrapping up: Post one specific connection you've discovered between The Truman Show and F451

HW:
1. Study the remaining words in your F451 vocabulary packets; quiz Friday.

2. If you're delivering your banned book speech Friday, prepare and rehearse.

26 comments:

  1. The people in the bar and the two security officers lives revolve around the Truman show just like Mildred revolves around her TV.

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  2. Montag and Truman both build up clues about their society that it is being censored and then they each have their breakout moments of finally going against the society.

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  3. Montag and Truman both became aware of the strange things going on in their society and they both try to find ways of getting out of it.

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  4. One connection I am noticing between The Truman Show and F451 is that in both people revolve around their televisions.

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  5. In both the Truman show and F451 the society is glued to their tv at all times.

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  6. The world relies on watching the Truman Show and many people are obsessed with it. TV controls a lot of peoples lives.

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  7. I have noticed that between Truman and Montag, whenever they do something out of the routine, the "eyes of the world" see it and send some type of backup. For Montag they sent in his boss, and for Truman they sent in his best friend, etc.

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  8. One connection that I have noticed between the truman show and F451 is that they are starting to figure out what is going on in there own world. They found out that they are being controlled.

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  9. Truman and Montag both keep running into dead ends when the people in charge don't want them to find out about reality.

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  10. Truman is now running away as a wanted man just like Montag running away in F451 and everyone wanting to catch him.

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  11. Guy and Truman both are going in circles, they are not getting anywhere.

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  12. Just like Montag, Truman wants more than what his life is offering. He doesn't find satisfaction in his meaningless life anymore.

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  13. Truman is really not in love with his wife like Montag.

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  14. Similar to F451 their society is controlled but not fake, real human interaction but extremely controlled.

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  15. Truman has escaped just like Montag in F451. The directors/government don't know where he is and neither does the audience.

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  16. I've noticed that Truman and Montag are similar because they both have figured something out that they shouldn't have and now their whole world is after them.

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  17. One connection I found between F451 and the Truman show is how society can revolve around T.V, like how people's day revolve around watching the Truman Show, and how people like Mildred love watching T.V.

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  18. I notice both towns in the Truman Show and F451 that they are controlled by a higher force which can't be stopped unless the person does something about it. Clarisse and Sylvia are very alike too

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  19. Both characters seem to be content with life before they meet someone or an event happens that causes them to change their outlook on life.

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  20. Both "The Truman Show" and "F451" are both centered around a perfect normal life.

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  21. Everyone around the main character seems oblivious except maybe a couple people. So for Truman that would be Silvia and for Guy that would be Faber

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  22. Both Truman and Guy Montag have begun to question their entire setting and location. They are suspicious of everyone around them and cannot quite figure out what is going on.

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  23. People around him act ike nothing is weird or different

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  24. One connection between F 451 and the Truman Show is that everything about life seems fake to Truman and Montag. They catch on to it and there has been one key influence to make them think this way. (Clarise and Silvia)

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  25. I have noticed that in the Truman show everything seems to be in perfect unity and the whole system starts to collapse when the main character starts to go against the flow

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  26. Staged Fear - The Government in F451 to make the people believe that they needed them. The death of Truman's father to make him afraid of the water so he couldn't leave.

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