HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

Theme(s): Pedophilia love vs. sex Lil Bit and Peck

Main Actions: Seducing peck takes advantage of Lil Bit and her brother what ignites it is
when Peck undoes her bra for the first time.
Genre/Style: Music and the car, the car is used in sequence because the story is told by gear and
different driving lesson turns. Reverse Sequence of events are back and forth (reverse and
drive, reverse and drive)
Quotes: In my family, folks tend to be nicknamed by their gentiles. Lil Bit
Props: Camera,

ARCADIA
Theme(s): Sex - Love vs. Intellect learning
Bernard is focus on the sex just to get ahead
Main Actions: Learning
Genre/Style: Comedy Drama, style flashbacks and correlation of the eras. Two completely
different eras but very similar themse and main actions.
Quotes: Everything is turned to love with her, new love, absent love, lost love Thomasina
Props: Candle, the primer, the letters/poems

SHINING CITY
Theme(s): guilt Ian from homosexuality, johns guilt stems from the ghost of his wife (cheating
on her and leaving)
Main Actions: Confronting/Confessing
Genre/Style: Drama - Emphasis on conversational manner of the genre
Quotes: I always I mean youve been... you were the only... when it was all so hard for
me. - Ian
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*influenced by Pinter, lots of pauses and ellipses.

THE CLEAN HOUSE

Theme(s): social class regarding Matilde and Virginia and Laine. How they treat her and how
she acts is different than her stereotype. HUMOR - jokes
Main Actions: Fixing
Genre/Style: Romantic Comedy
Quotes: I like cleaning, it clears my head. - Virginia
Props: red panties color is important because it shows that it is not Laines. She wears plan
whites. The tree he brings at the end.

BENGAL TIGER
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