Faulkner's ideologies from his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech are very present in his short story "That Evening Sun." Faulkner presents the idea that a writer can "help man endure by lifting his heart" by writing about courage, honor, hope, pride, sacrifice, compassion, and pity. He also believes that problems of the human heart are the only thing worth writing about. Faulkner, in his acceptance speech, makes a direct call to future writers and poets to do their part. "That Evening Sun," emulates his beliefs.
Nancy, a black servant, is mistreated yet symbolizes many of Faulkner's descriptions for a good story. "When you going to pay me, white man? When you going to pay me, white man?" (Faulkner 168). Nancy is displaying courage by standing up knowing her question will earn her a beating. Faulkner establishes a sense of pity in the story. “I just a nigger. It ain’t no fault of mine” (Faulkner 175).There is the pity Nancy feels for herself, and there is the pity the reader feels for Nancy. The pity the reader feels for Nancy engages our "spirit capable of compassion" and pulls at the emotions of our heart. One cannot help but have an emotional reaction seeing Nancy's situation. She is grossly mistreated by the townspeople, and has a fear Jesus, her husband, will kill her fro having another man's child."That Evening Sun" is filled with real life problems, problems of the heart, because a story with no heart lacks meaning.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
A Clean Well Lighted Place
- For the most part the adaptation was appropriate. A part that I thought was not appropriate was the repetetivness of the "nada" part. A part I thought was innacurate was that the characters were British when the story takes place in Spain.
-I thought that the film closely followed the story. I was able to follow each part and it somewhat followed what I imagined when I read it. Yes, the ideas are reflected by the camera panning across a bar with different voices saying prayers with words substituted with the word nada.
-I saw changes in the characters accents. In addition I thought the characters lacked the emotion in their speech. The part which was the most noticable change was the nada part. The film exadgerated and over dramaticized that part, which I found to be very annoying.
-The filmmakers got the text from the story excact, but they lacked portraying what is between the text. I thought the text portrayed his message better than the film. Through text, Hemmingway was not limited by sets and bad actors but could use the readers mind to elaborate and fill in the meaning.
-If I was to make the video I would have portrayed visually and stressed the contrast of light and dark. I would have stressed the importance of his excesstensial nialist view, but would not have over done it like in the film.
-I thought that the film closely followed the story. I was able to follow each part and it somewhat followed what I imagined when I read it. Yes, the ideas are reflected by the camera panning across a bar with different voices saying prayers with words substituted with the word nada.
-I saw changes in the characters accents. In addition I thought the characters lacked the emotion in their speech. The part which was the most noticable change was the nada part. The film exadgerated and over dramaticized that part, which I found to be very annoying.
-The filmmakers got the text from the story excact, but they lacked portraying what is between the text. I thought the text portrayed his message better than the film. Through text, Hemmingway was not limited by sets and bad actors but could use the readers mind to elaborate and fill in the meaning.
-If I was to make the video I would have portrayed visually and stressed the contrast of light and dark. I would have stressed the importance of his excesstensial nialist view, but would not have over done it like in the film.
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