The greatest thing happened today. My AP Enlgish 12 teacher, Mrs.Fassbender, came up with the great idea of choosing a movie based on a piece of Literature Fiction and showing it to the class to analyze. Now let me tell why I like this so much.
1. It's in a movie form. That's a PLUS.
Movies have a certain quality transporting you from your current location to the story being told in the movie. It is sort of like you live as the characters live and feel what they characters feel.
2. It's a creative modernized new way to teach.
I believe this kind of assignment is far more efficient than if Mrs. Fassbender were to give each of us, her students, the book All Of The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and told is to read it, answer some questions, write essays about it, and take some tests. The wonderful thing about literature of any kind is the inspiration it offers to artist or to other subjects like drama, history, and sociology. Literature can inspire someone to paint a picture, make a movie, a TV series or even some great business. Literary fiction should be taught this way because that's a way to appreciate the hard work of the writers, actors and directors. Releasing your own imagination and creating wonderful works that relate to all aspects of our lives in one way or another is not an easy thing to do. To make it even better we discuss the movie after to gain new knowledge so when you watch the movie again with someone else, you will be the one making the most insightful comments.
3. It's a more memorable experience.
I feel experiencing insightful stories like All Of The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy as if they were your own makes the story not be a words that you read but rather something you felt. The story now becomes a part of you and that is really important. The key of Literary Fiction is to make you understand better the world and other people and how will you do that if you don't experience the experiences of other people from different places and time periods? We have to explore the territory and not just rely on the map.
Enough about my excitement. Now I will talk about what I thought about the movie. The plot was similar of a relationship similar to Romeo and Juliet's. The only notable difference is the time setting and cultural differences. This love story involves cowboys and early rural Hispanic culture. It's really a unique story since it shows the soft side of the Western life style. One of the questions asked during our discussion was how does the title relate to the story. Besides the fact that some scenes were of beautiful herds of horses, I think this is actually a metaphor for experiences. I think it is saying all of the pretty experiences gained from what has happened to the protagonist. As cowboys are really loyal to their horses, the protagonist will be the same with his experiences.
What did you think?
Jose.
1. It's in a movie form. That's a PLUS.
Movies have a certain quality transporting you from your current location to the story being told in the movie. It is sort of like you live as the characters live and feel what they characters feel.
2. It's a creative modernized new way to teach.
I believe this kind of assignment is far more efficient than if Mrs. Fassbender were to give each of us, her students, the book All Of The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and told is to read it, answer some questions, write essays about it, and take some tests. The wonderful thing about literature of any kind is the inspiration it offers to artist or to other subjects like drama, history, and sociology. Literature can inspire someone to paint a picture, make a movie, a TV series or even some great business. Literary fiction should be taught this way because that's a way to appreciate the hard work of the writers, actors and directors. Releasing your own imagination and creating wonderful works that relate to all aspects of our lives in one way or another is not an easy thing to do. To make it even better we discuss the movie after to gain new knowledge so when you watch the movie again with someone else, you will be the one making the most insightful comments.
3. It's a more memorable experience.
I feel experiencing insightful stories like All Of The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy as if they were your own makes the story not be a words that you read but rather something you felt. The story now becomes a part of you and that is really important. The key of Literary Fiction is to make you understand better the world and other people and how will you do that if you don't experience the experiences of other people from different places and time periods? We have to explore the territory and not just rely on the map.
Enough about my excitement. Now I will talk about what I thought about the movie. The plot was similar of a relationship similar to Romeo and Juliet's. The only notable difference is the time setting and cultural differences. This love story involves cowboys and early rural Hispanic culture. It's really a unique story since it shows the soft side of the Western life style. One of the questions asked during our discussion was how does the title relate to the story. Besides the fact that some scenes were of beautiful herds of horses, I think this is actually a metaphor for experiences. I think it is saying all of the pretty experiences gained from what has happened to the protagonist. As cowboys are really loyal to their horses, the protagonist will be the same with his experiences.
What did you think?
Jose.
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