It's another week already December! Only a little while left until the coveted Christmas break. Almost there, guys!
We've been talking about the holidays and service, two topics that I think are important for us to reflect upon from time to time. Have you been watching Christmas movies, drinking hot cocoa, or shopping lately? Around my house, we've been doing a little of all three. We even made cinnamon Christmas ornaments that I painted. It's a crazy fun time of year.
We're going to stay in line with our recent discussions, but I'd like to tie this week's post back into literature. Beginning Monday, we're going to hear tell of a classic Christmas story. We'll be listening to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens until we either run out of time, meaning Christmas break approaches, or we run out of story, meaning the CD is over. Either way, you're going to meet Ebeneezer Scrooge and the three ghosts that teach him a valuable lesson. This story has been done and redone in so many different formats by so many different networks and producers; yet every time I hear it, I love it even more. Hollywood constantly remakes movies. The same story could be told in print, retold in a modernized print, made into a film, remade into a film, and even remade again. Consider this truth when you answer the questions.
This week's initial question: Why do you think there are so many different versions of the same story? If you can't relate your answer to A Christmas Carol particularly, it's okay. Think of a story you know that has been told and retold in a variety of ways. There are hundreds out there. I mean, I am pretty sure Cinderella has been redone a thousand times. To answer the initial question, consider the following sub-questions: 1) What types of stories are often retold? Why? 2) How are the versions different? Why do you think they are different? 3) How does the author or movie producer relate their version to the original story? For instance, if you are thinking about the fairy tale Cinderella, the different versions typically all have in common a mistreated girl who finds the man of her dreams.
Answer the initial and sub-questions in a 4 sentence, insightful paragraph. Be sure to tell me what story you thought about in your answers. Happy writing!
I think there are a lot of versions because people want to make money.The night before Christmas because it is a famous story.I don't think any versions are different.they have different story lines.
ReplyDeletewell the stories that are retold today in the present is The Christmas Carol and The Charley Brown Chistmas. Theyre diffrent because the ghost are different and the person aka scrooge and so they been changing the people. They try to make it like how it was apost to be and how it is now.
DeleteWell Mrs.Kline i do know of a lot of story such as the movie we watched a few weeks back known as the1998film vertion of Romeo and Juliet that was modernized. Most of the time i woulld say Love stories. Some of the stories are different because they change the story line. They dint change the whole story line.
ReplyDeleteWell Mrs.Kline i do know of a lot of story such as the movie we watched a few weeks back known as the1998film vertion of Romeo and Juliet that was modernized. Most of the time i woulld say Love stories. Some of the stories are different because they change the story line. They dint change the whole story line.
ReplyDeleteThe night before Christmas and Romeo and Juliet was told a lot. The story's are different for one being about Christmas and the other about romance. They are both different because they do not have the same story line. They do not change any story line in any book or movie.
ReplyDeleteSome stories that are often retold are christmas stories or scray stories because they let you know about the holiday. I think they are retold because the people telling the stories forget how they go. They relate because they go by how the storie goes.
ReplyDeleteWell I think why they do that is for different age group kids, then teens ,then adults.because they made a Christmas carol story with mickey mouse and that would be for little kids.and then the rest is for the other people. But they still have the same story line but it's different about what happens. Like the cartoon Cinderella is for kids then the others with the singers in real life would like be for teens or adults. But that is what I think.
ReplyDeleteA lot of stories are remade because people know the stories are "perfect". They are classics and many movies are remade just for money. The stories/films are sometimes different, involving a little change in the plot. They are different because people want to change them up and involve things from different cultures or just remake them for fun, or a twist. They relate their version to the original because they change it completely... in other words it wouldn't be the story they intended it to be.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about how Spiderman was retold the latest Spiderman I watched was very different from the previous ones especially since there was no Mary Jane in it.Not only was there no Mary Jane in this Spiderman movie all the characters were different there was even a different guy playing Spiderman and his grandparents who raised him.I'm not sure why they made them so differently but I didn't really like it I guess it was because I was so use to it the other way.The story line was mainly the same there were a few things that were different but it was mainly the characters that were different but Spiderman was still a super hero that tryed to save people and of course there was the bad guy that tryed to destroy Spiderman.
ReplyDeleteThe christmas carol is a retold story.The old christmas carol movie is black and white and the new christmas carol movie is in color.You can even tell the story your self. Some of the christmas carol movies the three ghost look different.
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