Short story

West Side Story Introduction: West Side Story est une adaptation cinématographique de 1961 d’une comédie musicale montée à Broadway (New York). Cette comédie musicale a été créé le 26 septembre 1957 au Winter Garden Théâtre de Broadway. La comédie musicale comme le film (10 oscars) connurent un succès planétaire. Présentation du film L’œuvre Titre: West Side Story Date: 1961 Réalisateurs: Robert Wise et Jerome Robbins Musiques: Léonard Bernstein et Arthur Laurents Paroles: Stephen Sondheim

HISTOIRE DES ARTS AMERICA, extrait de West Side Story Présentation et histoire de l'oeuvre : Réalisée par Robert Wise et Jérôme Robbins (1961) et mise en musique par Léonard Bernstein, cette comédie musicale électrique transpose l’intrigue de Roméo et Juliette dans le quartier de West Side, au cœur du New York des années 1950, sur fond de rivalités ethniques et de violences urbaines. Maria, la Porto Ricaine, tombe éperdument amoureuse de Tony, le Blanc. Mais cet amour interdit va vite déchaîner

Le groupe One Direction est un Boysband. Ce sont 5 chanteurs qui ont été regroupés à X-Factor UK. Ces jeunes garçons ce sont beaucoup apprécié. Ils n'ont pas gagné X-Factor, mais ont conquis le monde avec leurs musiques. Il y a : Louis TOMLINSON, Zain MALIK, Liam PAYNE, Niall HORAN, et Harry STYLES. Ce groupe a été créer le 23 Juillet 2010. Depuis, ils ont sortis 3 album, ainsi qu'un 4eme, nommé Four, qui sortira le 17 novembre. Dans l'ordre de sortie : Up all night avec le UANTour, Take me home

At first we can think the main difference between a novel and a short story is the length. Indeed, while there are less than fifty pages in a short story, the novel is not limited (usually more than one hundred and fifty pages). Nevertheless, when we compare them carefully, it seems clear that there are also differences in the composition and the style of these narrative forms. Concerning the composition, we can mention first the characters. On the one hand, in a novel, the author takes time

Anglais Lecture Analytique Bac Texte no. 1 : The Story of an Hour I’m presented with a document which is a short story written by Kate Chopin. First of all I will present a short biography about the author. Kate Chopin born on 8 February, 1851 was an American author of short stories and novels. She is considered to have been a forerunner of feminist authors of the 20th century. Her important short stories was “Desiree’s Baby”, “The Story of an Hour” and “The Storm”. She died on 22 August, 1904

Commentary of Auggie Wren's Christmas Story Paul Auster is an American writer born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, who started to become renowned from the 1980's with novels such as City of Glass (1985) which is one of the novels that compose The New York Trilogy or Leviathan which got him rewarded with the Mecidis Prize. Auggie Wren's Christmas Story is a short story Paul Auster first wrote for the New York Times Op-Ed page on Christmas Day, 1990. It will be later on edited as a book and adapted

Many sentences, lines, dialogues, etc. help write a story like the short story. Yet the title is what completes it. This is also the case with The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, a mysterious writer, where – as you might guess – a heart is what succumbs someone to guilt to end p telling the tale of his wrong-doing. The title, in this short story, is extremely relevant to the story. It’s what gives readers an impression of what could happen. If the author had called it “The ticking time bomb”

THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN INTRODUCTION This text is a story written by James THURBER in 1940 and taken from the collection Fables for our time. It is entitled The unicorn in the garden. SUMMARY There are three characters in the story: a man, his wife and a unicorn. None of them is named. The story begins as follows: one morning, a man who was having breakfast while his wife was still in bed upstairs beheld a unicorn eating the roses in the garden. COMMENTARY First we will focus

(les réponses doivent l’être aussi). 1. The genre • This text is a short story. What do you know about this genre? What is particular about this form, especially about its last lines? • This short story is a ghost story, which means that it belongs to a particular literary genre. Find information about it, and say what the reader can expect when reading such a story. 2. The style How is the story written? Is it a classic narrative? 3. The chain of events Put the following

Extended essay on Katherine Mansfield 3) Discuss the ‘pervading themes of loneliness and alienation’ that run through many of Mansfield’s short stories. Throughout many of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories themes of loneliness and alienation frequently appear. It is more so elements of loneliness and alienation as opposed to themes, for the stories remain all very descriptive and different from one another, with these elements being used in different ways. Through the course of this