10/11 Connor Erickson

Today in class we continued working on our intertextuality essays. Some students were drafting their essays while others were finding evidence to integrate in their essays. There were more absences than usual so we worked on our essays the whole entire class period. My essay is on the differences between the movie, Captain Phillips, and the book, A Captain's Duty. My group talked a little bit at the beginning of class about where everyone is in their drafting process. Zach is doing his essay on the movie and book Money ball, and then Jackie and Lauren are doing their essays on the movie and book, Room. Zach is in the same stage of drafting as I am. We both wrote our thesis statement, topic sentences, and found evidence for each body paragraph. Now all we have to do is actually write the essay. Lauren and Jackie are a little further ahead because they already wrote their topic sentences, thesis statement, and found evidence and now they're in the drafting stage. After talking a little bit at the beginning of class about what stage we were in, everyone got to work.
The main differences that I'm focusing on for my essay are the character of Captain Phillips, the point of view that the story is told from, and the emotions of Captain Phillip's family. The movie and the book has a lot of scenes that are not exactly similar but that's because the author and director may have different tastes. Hollywood needs to change the scenes in order to make a movie a blockbuster hit so that wasn't really surprising. What was surprising was the difference in the way Captain Phillips acts, how first person is told in the novel and third person in the movie, and how the family is included in the novel but not so much in the book. Now that I have my evidence and topic sentences, drafting the essay will be a lot easier.