Felipe Del Rosario Martinez
Prof. Cynthia Pittman
INGL 3104-134
7 May 2018
Comparison between a script and a story: “Triffles”
and “A Jury of Her Peers”
“Triffles”
and “A Jury of Her Peers” talks about the mystery of knowing who committed the
murder of John Wright, husband of Minnie Wright. The difference between these
two are that one is written in narrative form and the other one is written as a
play or script. It doesn’t change the plot of the story but in this essay,
we’re going to see which type of writing is more effective.
First,
the script is more precise than the narrative because in the script you can see
or imagine exactly and how the characters are moving through the area. Meanwhile,
in the narrative it doesn’t gives much attention to it. In the script you know
what the characters think because of what they think but in the narrative form
you know what the characters are thinking because the author shows or tells you.
This means that you receive a clearer information of the thoughts of the characters
on the narrative than in the script. Also, in the script you can’t get confused
on where the events are going on because every time there’s a change of
setting, its more marked with huge description of new settings than it is in
the narrative form where there’s a paragraph after a paragraph talking of a lot
of things which happens chronologically. In the narrative form it can be confusing
the understanding of the setting in some events because the story is
continuous. Also, the script its more fun and entertaining because the dialogues
makes the story more real and gives you a better perspective of how things
really happened. The narrative it isn’t so entertaining because it doesn’t the
characters don’t tell the story, it’s the author who tells it. The script comes
first if the story was created written and the narrative form comes first if
the story was told orally. Another aspect where the script is more effective
than the narrative is in the detection of the mood in the story. In the script,
the mood is more palpable because the feelings of the characters are more
obvious because of how they talk. In the other part, we have the narrative form
which is more difficult of sensing the tone because the characters talk less, and
the readers mostly found the tone when the author describes things or very
happy or very sad. The narrative is more direct than the script in terms of
going through the plot because it has less dialogue which means that it reduces
the chances of interpreting the events differently from the author. The script
gives more focus on the character rather than the situations. Because of this,
the main theme is less obvious in the script than in the narrative because its
less direct. In the script the characters are described more because the point
is to understand the characters. In the narrative, the characters aren’t so
important as the events that moves the plot.
In
conclusion, stories can be written in different forms and still have a similar
effect on the reader. For the question “Which is more effective?” I would have
to say it depends on the reader and what type of reading he or she likes the
most. Either a play or a narrative. I think the most effective way to express
or tell a story is via dialogue and a script because for me, it seems more real
and easier to picture how the plot moves from the introduction, to the climax,
and to resolution.
Work Cited
Pittmann,Cynthia. Class Assignment “Comparison between a script and a
story: “Triffles”
and “A Jury of Her Peers”. Intermediate English.
UPRRP. 7 May 2018.
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