Truman+Show+-+Quotations

[[image:truman_cutout.jpg]]Quotations.
=Using quotations effectively=


 * Gathering and selecting quotations.**

//Selecting and using the best quotations can turn an ordinary piece of writing into a much more sophisticated one. Consider the following approach to identifying good quotations for your work. These prompts will help you in any text study.//


 * Identify a character in the story you wish to explore.**

Find three quotations about this person.


 * Quotation 1 is a comment the author makes about the character**. It should be a revealing quotation, one which goes quite some distance in helping us define the character's habits, beliefs and mannerisms.


 * Quotation 2 is a comment the character makes about himself or herself**. This will aid us in understanding how the character perceives himself or herself and his or her relationship to others. It might also reveal how he or she relates to the world. Comments which expose the person's understanding of his or her world can offer us insight into their values.


 * Quotation 3 is a comment made by another character**. This will offer us a sense of how other people respond to the character. The comment may be positive or negative but when reflecting on what is offered we must bear in mind the sort of character who is making the comment. There may be more than one in this final category depending on how different characters relate to our character under study.


 * Identify one or more significant settings in the story**

What word/image or phrase does the writer/director use to capture the feel of this place. Does it have a smell? Does it have a sound? Does it have a taste? If you were to reach out and touch it, what might it feel like? What colour seems strongest in your mind as you read it? What shape or sense of space is created in your mind as you read it? Is the place compared to a place that people will recognise? (an Italian Restaurant, a locker room, a Hair Salon)

If you can answer any of these questions identify what word/s gave you that sense and record these words or phrases


 * Identify a couple of key plot moments in the story.**

What is so significant about these moments? How does the direction of the story, or our perception of the direction of the story change, after reading this passage? How is our understanding of what the author is trying to achieve made clear in these words?

Discuss the significance of the following quotations from the film "The Truman Show".

//Christof: “We’ve become bored with watching actors give us phoney emotions. While the world Truman inhabits is in some respects counterfeit, there is nothing fake about Truman himself… nothing you see on this show is fake. It’s merely controlled.”//