Th Rip and Supplementary Texts Flashcards
What is reality?
Reality is defined as a state or fact of being real, however as human we are able to interpret our own realities in many different ways. There are many factors which help to determine the version of events told, this includes age gender, background, experience and position of the witness at the time.
What stories were in the rip?
. The Lap Pool . The Obituary of Gina Lavelle . Sea Level . The Water Person and The Tree Person . The Whale Watchers . Stones Like Hearts . The Aquarium at Night . Masculine Shoes . The Cartoonist . Prometheus and Greg . How to Kill a Cane Toad . The Rip . The Life Alignment of the Coffee Grower
Summarise the following short story: The Lap Pool
. Leon K. is struggling to deal with his life as he is having to prepare for a court case
. His only escape is swimming in his pool, where he swims a kilometre a day
. He lives in the country and finds nature soothing, but is actually from the city
. He also never felt like he belonged because his parents came from Hungary (he gets called slurs such as ‘wog’)
. He accepts the fact that he does not belong when he is bitten by a snake and feels absolutely helpless and has no clue what to do except call the wildlife saviour
Summarise the following short story: Sea Level
. There has be a tsunami warning
. Panicked parents pick up their children
. Max ends up being the only remaining child
. He was the boy “for whom no one came”
. Max didn’t seem to care but the teachers thought it was unusual
Summarise the following short story: The Water Person and The Tree Person
. Andy Melrose and Lynne Melrose
. They didn’t seem to understand each others worlds
. After 23 year of marriage Andy never thought that anything could be wrong
. When Lynne speaks of their different worlds, she is actually suggesting that they have grown apart
. When they are on holiday and he looks back from the ocean to see if Lynne is watching, she isn’t
Explain the following supplementary text: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
. Oskar has just lost his father as a result of the terrorism occurring on September 11
. His father left him with an adventure to find the 6th Borough before he died
. Oskar has somehow convinced himself that finding the 6th Borough will help him find his dad
. He is unable to accept that his father is gone and originally continues this adventure as a way to “stretch his last 6 seconds” with his dad
. However, this morphs into fabricated reality that his father is still able to come back to him
. This quest ends up distracting him and blocking him from seeing the actuality behind this situation
. He eventually realises that he can never get his father back and it crushes him
Explain the following supplementary text: “La Condition Humaine” Magritte
. This is a picture with a canvas on an easel in front of a window.
. The canvas has a painting of the view outside the window and is aligned perfectly to trick viewers into believing that it is just a view through the window.
. La condition humaine = the human condition
. The human condition is the trait of humans to always want answers and meanings.
. This work represents the fact that not all things have a meaning (Magritte is mocking people who seek interpretations or meaning for art)
. The picture is not meant to have a meaning
. The viewer can not be certain that the painting is depicting the view behind the canvas
. Message: not everything can be explained, we must accept that
Explain the following supplementary text: The Twilight Zone (The Howling Man)
. A travelling is lost during a thunder storm (1920’s)
. He comes across a mysterious monastery and seeks refuge from the rain
. He hears howling and wonders thinks the monastery is holding someone prisoner
. He feels like he’s in a bizarre dream or nightmare (shifting camera angles)
. The man is told that the imprisoned man is the devil
. He believes they have made a mistake because the man seems harmless
. Hero struggles with conscious
. This was set after WWI but before WWII (suggests that the devil being let loose will cause another World War)
. Although the prisoner unusually howls like a wolf, the main character decides to release him
. Something evil happening but the main character is unsure whether it is a group of religious maniacs torturing an innocent man or the devil
. Truth of who is evil is hard to tell until its too late
What supplementary texts did you have?
. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close . Fight Club . "La Condition Humaine" Magritte . The Twilight Zone (the howling man) . "The Two Fridas" Kahlo . "Tears" Man Ray
