Sunday, April 17, 2016

Blow up

POV: the story is narrated by its protagonist which is Michel and the point of view the reader gets is first person mainly (narrated by Michel) but has moments when Michael is talking about himself that he talks in third person so there is no ultimate point of view but it's mostly first person.

Setting: Paris in the 20th century.The story has two main locations, whether Michael is in his room where he writes the story or he is at the park where he took the picture.

Plot: the story has two timelines, one in which Michel took the picture (past) and the other one in which he is waiting to see the blow up reveal of the photograph. The first timeline revolves around Michel typewriting his experience at the second timeline in which he takes a picture of a couple. The main plot is Michel slowly coming to realize the truth about the picture he took as he starts to analyze the blow up reveal which leads to the climax in which he realized that what he thought was an intriguing seduction from a woman to a boy was actually a homosexual seduction. This event leaves mental damage to Michel and causes the effect of not only coming to conclusions at the same time Michael does but also understanding the story from a mentally unstable narrator.

Conflict: man vs self. Since the main problem is the narrator slowly coming to not knowing what it's real and what is not then we can assume that that since the only thing that brings conflict to Michel are his thoughts based on what he has seen then it's pretty clear the conflict comes from himself or rather his perception of reality or a fake reality.

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