Ms. Keenan's 12th Grade English: March 2013

Tomorrow's exam will be part fill-in-the-blank, part short-response, part awesome-refection. Students who miss the exam tomorrow will take a more difficult in-class essay when they return. BRING PENS!

Be sure to study the following elements/topics:

Basic Plot
Setting
Characters
Conflicts (including examples of Man v Man, Man v Self, Man v. Nature)
Role of Nature
Role of Myth (specifically the Aurochs)
Role of Society (in The Bathtub and on Dry Land)
Relationship between Hushpuppy and Wink
Role of the Elysian Fields
Role of mothers in the film
Tone of the film
Main message(s) of the film

Links: (Sites may or may not be blocked here at school)
IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125435/

SCRIPT
http://screenplayexplorer.com/wp-content/scripts/BOTSW.pdf

SCRIPT
http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Beasts-of-the-Southern-Wild.html

SCRIPT EXCERPTS

HUSHPUPPY

All the time, everywhere, everything's organs be beatin' and squirtin' and talkin' to each other

in ways I can't understand. Mosta the time they probably just sayin’ "I'm hungry," or "I gotta poop,"
but sometimes they talkin' in codes.

HUSHPUPPY

Daddy always saying, that up in the dry world, they got none of what we got. They only got holidays once a year. They got fish stuck in plastic wrappers, they got their babies stuck in carriages, and chickens on sticks and all that kind of stuff.

HUSHPUPPY

One day, the storm’s gonna blow, the ground’s gonna sink, and the water’s gonna rise up so high,

there ain’t gonna be no Bathtub, just a whole bunch of water. But me and my Daddy, we stay right here. We who the earth is for.

MISS BATHSHEBA

This here, is an Aurochs. A fierce, mean creature that roamed the earth back when we all lived in caves. They would gobble the cavebabies down right in front of theircave-parents. And the cavemen couldn’t do nothing about it, because they were too poor, too stupid, too small. Who here thinks the Cavemen were sitting around crying like a buncha ****? Y’all better think about that. Cause any day now, the fabric of the universe is coming unraveled. The ice caps gonna melt, the water's gonna rise, and everything south of the levee's going under. Ain’t gonna be no Bathtub, just a whole bunch of water. Y'all better learn to survive. Way back in the day, the Aurochs was king of the world.

HUSHPUPPY

Kids that got no Mamma, no Daddyand nobody. They got to live in the woods, and eat grass, and steal underpants.