Water for Elephants

Starring:  Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson, an early narration and opening cameo by Hal Halbrook

Plot - Love Story

Conflict - Man against himself,  survival during the depression

Characterization  - A maniac (somekind of disorder)

Point of view -

Ironies

Symbolism –

Theme

Tone/Mood –

Imagery -

Plausible vs Implausible -

Foreshadowing - The boss asked if his new employee was sure-footed and then they trekked across the top of the train to start their new friendship.  Then at the end of their friendship, he trekked across the train seeking revenge for his maltreatment of him, the girl and the animal.

Quotable lines

Best Part - The glowing countenance of Reese Witherspoon.

Strengths and Weaknesses -

She didn't have hope until the young guy came for her.
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Atlas Shrugged

As the old fable says, "Atlas held the world on his shoulder", but then he decided to be aloof or apathetic, so he shrugged and the world became a mess. At least our world, a world of democracies advancing, has turned more socialistic, slowly but surely. Without warning or action by anybody.

Hanna

  Artsy but action-packed

Visual foreshadowing included a white swan at the beginning and at the final scene.
A caribou/elk at the first and then a deer at the end.  But the words, I just missed your heart was the more dramatic foreshadowing.