Adaption

Question 1

Context hypotext

Answer 1

M metonym for mankind “he tells himself that he Is the only one, I am the only one” to have the tiger, speaking to a small 1999 audience (selfish, ill concerned about the bigger picture)

Question 2

Context hypertext

Answer 2

sunlight on Martin as he scatters the ashes, he is much more likeable and relatable to a more climate concerned audience.

Question 3

Redemption hypotext

Answer 3

metaphor of M for mankind too busy ‘wanting to reach his buried coffee’, a distraction from ‘night falling’ (night = the end of the world)

Question 4

Redemption hypertext

Answer 4

M cremates tiger “what you want is gone forever.. I’m going to see the sights”: m refuses to be ‘the hunter’ and sees the sights, enforced further by the embrace from Bike at the school.

Question 5

Gender hypotext

Answer 5

Lucy sent to “an institution with a nice view of the harbor”, a weak and sickly (dabbles in prescription drugs) human in a bigger climate crisis, blamed by Mrs Mindy for her kids “And Lucy! That Lucy didnt even hear it - those pills of hers”.

Question 6

Gender hypertext

Answer 6

Lucy awoken by M in a white nightdress, costume choice a reference to a sleeping beauty, is then washed by M to recreate her as a changed and cleansed person, she is killed in film as well.

Question 7

Extinction hypotext

Answer 7

“unholy strangled hissing roar”, careful and militaristic dissection, “Snap, on go the translucent rubber gloves” taking 10 viles of blood and ovaries “the motherlode safely packed away”

Question 8

Extinction hypertext

Answer 8

Martin cries after hunting the tiger, kneels and picks it up like a sick child (mid shot)