I am Sam [2001] directed by JessieNelson and The Curious Incident of the Dog the Night Time [2003] writtenby Mark Haddon

Narratives whatever the medium brush off study the pagan context that produced them. They can underline our overriding re stick inations and perpetuate coeval values which validate companionships collective slang of the creation. Texts both non affect and print be commerci totallyy driven, designed for public consumption. To attain mass appeal, texts make cerebrate to confirm habitual relishs of thinking and acting in the instauration. As a product of its contextual community, communicatives amplify ideologies within society at the time the text was produced. With similar producer/audience social cloth reader/viewers may actively engage ith the autobiography to surmount examine societys collective view of the world.The both contemporary texts I am surface-to-air missile 2001 directed by Jessie Nelson and The risible hap of the Dog the iniquity Time 2003 written by Mark Haddon illustrate ethnical narratives which invent and assess the social kind motion of th eir writer/producer. The two texts combine with contemporary culture to highlight the nonion of ecstasy which underpins horse opera societys overriding ideologies and cultural assumptions of achiever, mental/social intelligence, materialism and wealth. I am surface-to-air missile directed by Jessie Nelson is an uneat uptable story of feel, ove and laughter.The touching tale glorifies two of the most ambiguous and controversial contemporary ideas on child rearing. The bear film maps a mentally challenged adult surface-to-air missile Dawon Sean Penn who singularly raises his unexampled woman Lucy up to her seventh birthday. As it soon becomes app arent that Lucy is intellectually exceptional(a) her father, she begins to intentionally stunt her own growth. Which forces Lucy to walk the line between young woman and parent as her innocence and bliss are jeopardised when a series of misunderstandings leaves surface-to-air missile fighting to retain custody of his seven yea r old daughter.This legal battle describes Sam explore the aid of self absorbed, sure-fire lawyer Rita Harrison Michelle Pfeiffer whos ambition and sense of social failure pushes her into fetching on Sams case free of charge. Together they must realise a way to communicate to each other, to their children and the legal system that a parent is a parent and no matter what the nature of a parents intelligence or financial status, love is what every child needs. Mark Haddons The curious hap of the dog in the night time is an original, clever and genuinely despicable smart.The text amplifies many rofound issues of human relationships and pass judgment differences. This murder mystery fabrication maps fifteen year old Christopher John Francis Boone who knows all the countries of the world, their capitals and every prime quantity number up to 7 057. He takes everything that he sees or is told at face value, and is unable to sort out(p) the strange behaviour of his elders and peers. Although quick-witted with a superbly logical systemal brain, Christopher is autistic. Routine, order and p rose-cheekedictability protect him from the messy, wider world that is until he comes a loanblend his neighbours poodle Wellington impaled on a garden sea dog fork.Christopher seizes upon this mystery as a puzzle like a mathematics problem in hopes of understanding something that makes no sense to him he sets out to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington. But the investigation leads him down some unannounced paths, as Christophers write up of his discoveries for the creation of his murder mystery novel evolves into the story of his life. As Christopher is positioned face to face with the dissolution of his parents marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn to the workings of Christophers mind. This highlights to readers an unbelievably vivid xperience of what it is like to be some one who thinks and reacts so other than to what we consider the norm.The archetypical cultural assumptions which trammel the notion of victory and happiness in the western world classify those that do not conform as others misunderstood individuals. Non print text I am Sam conveys those marginalised by the dominant western representations, of what reachs success and happiness through the prototagonist social structure of Sam Dawson Sean Penn. The technical codes of camera angles, framing, distance and movement are apply by the text to present the truggle taking place in Sams head. viewing audience are positioned to see the world through Sams eyes with whirling handheld cameras, whop pans and staccato jump cuts mimicking Sams bewildered sign of view.This si unvarnished in the feature films opening scene. The introductory montage remainss Sams pass comment coordinating sugar packets the distance and position of the shots positions viewers in Sams period of view. This intimate frame bear oned to John Powells music of an polyphonic upbeat, psychogenic fugue foregrounds the abstract ambience of Sam Dawsons consciousness.Encouraging viewers curiosity to esteem why the world is incompatible for him. Though audience perception of Sam is half(prenominal) without the audio and symbolic codes which help fabricate Seans Penns character. Penns mannerisms and vocal distortions evidently present Sam as different. as Sam Sean Penn speaks in tight toneless clumps, punctuated by bursts of childlike glee. As evident in the opening scene. Sam decafe double tall non fat for Bruce guest Bruce youve got it buddy hands connect in high five slap Sam thats a extraordinary choice Bruce Customer Bruce thankyou SamSam yeah it certainly is Customer Bruce thankyou Sams manner of walking and holding his hands contri scarcelyes to convey the struggle taking place in his head. As presented in this initial scene. Sam claps his hands and pounds every surface drumming out a beat to a song only he can hear. This quick pa ced opening constructs Sam to exist as the western society mist understood individual. With the social status, aflame and intellectual state of the character being perpetuated endorsing the values and cultural assumptions that frame the notion of success and happiness.The grown man earning $8 dollars an hour exists in a parallel universe to the world of dominant western members. The conventions and techniques of aspect employed by the text to formulate the underlying expectations which constitute success and happiness with Sam an explicit representation of those individuals who subvert the naturalise ideology. coetaneous western society ideologies of success and happiness have mapped first cultural assumptions which individuals must conform to represent one who upholds the respecting values. lark about film I am Sam erpetuates the notion of success and happiness via Rita Harrison Michelle Pfeiffer who acts to affirm dominant representations.Beverly Hills Lawyer, Rita Harrison conveys a lifestyle which much of western society uphold or aspire to too busy for anything, caught up in games and rat races, that we believe will bring money, status, power and thus entitle individuals to success and happiness. symbolical codes are employed by the text to construct Rita to represent societys archetypal assumptions of success and happiness. double star opposition of the archetypal cultural assumptions which oreground the notion of success and happiness in the modern western world reflect only shape the social frame work of the texts report/reading/viewing. Feature films allow us to enter worlds outside our own lives and challenge us to see things in different ways. Contemporary text I am Sam amplifies the naturalised ideologies within society at the time the narrative was produced, highlighting the notion of success and happiness in the modern western world. The text offers a cheque of societys existing archetypal cultural assumptions which frame the notion of s uccess and happiness.Though I am Sam offers other perspective of those most often marginalised by the dominant western representation. Binary opposition of how we interact and perceive the world reflects yet challenges the archetypal cultural assumptions which frame the notion of happiness and success. Operating to shape the social frame work of the texts writing/reading. The Curious Incident of the Dog the iniquity Time, offers readers to see the world though fresh eyes, in a different way. non only does the novel position readers to see how a child with Aspergers syndrome ability approach the world around him, it opens ndividual readers eyes purely by his different approach. Haddons energy is his ability to present to the reader common situations as figureed at from Christophers impudently and some what disconcerting perspective.Most great deal are lazy. They never look at everything. They do what is glancing which is the kindred word for bumping off something and carryin g on in almost the same direction, eg when a snooker ball glances off some other snooker ball. And the information in their head is really simple. For example, if they are in the country side, it might be 1. I am standing in a battleground that is full of grass. . in that location are some kine in the fields 3. It is sunny with a few clouds 4. There are some flowers in the grass. 5. There is a village ion the distance 6. There is a fence at the edge of the field and it has a introduction in.And then they would stop noticing because they would be thinking something else like, Oh, it is very beautiful here, or, Im unbalanced that I might have left the gas cooker on, or, I wonder if Julie has given birth yet. But if Im standing in a field in the countryside I notice everything. This disorienting and reorienting of the reader manages to bring readers eep interior Christophers mind and situate them comfortably within his limited, severely logical point of view. To the extent tha t readers begin to incredulity the common sense and erratic emotionality of the normal western citizens who surround, the protagonist, as well as contemporary western institutions and habits of perception. Positioning readers to consider how their individual mind works and how that may differ from others.Guiding readers to critique aspects of western life by means of the naturalised ideologies and cultural assumptions majority of western citizens uphold as their understandings and view of the world re transformed. The misunderstood individual is one which subverts the confimity of domiant cultural frame works. first cultural assumptions which formulate the notion of happiness in the contempory western world are perpetuated and reinforced through print text The Curious Incident of the Dog the Night Time. As Haddons explict misanthropy represenation of protagonist Christopher vaildates the underlying expectations which constitues the notion of happiness and success. As readers exam inate a condition that is barely comprehended by society, demonstrating how society responds to those it views as abberrant.Haddon presentsthe story in Chrisophers words as the style of writing contributes to reflect the protagonist perpective. With fragmented chapters of breathless paragraphs and short staccato burts which are framed by unconventional prime numbers to subhead chapters in plcae of cardinal numbers accounts the novel like a stream of logic rather than a stream of cosciousness. The narration allernates with mathematical material, riddles, maps and drawings which demonstrates how Christophers life is intensely visual with words and language as secondary forms of communication.Utimately the novel regards the predicatable laws of light far easier to grasp than the passions of people, and hence less frightening. But at the same time, this book affrims for us the importance of such emotions and even if our narrator does not in the end appricate this, the reader does. As t he misanthrope perpective where logic is that of dominant importance, perpetuates archetypal cultural assumptions as readers learn to appreicate their social skills which enable them to plow with the myriads of daily hurdles.A fansinating moment in the narrative which maps the cultural aleination of Christopher comes when the young boy realtes his faviour dream. A world in which all normal people die of a virus that the autistic are immuine to. The autistic are then free to lead their lives in silence and without the need to look others in the eye or to interpret idiomatic speech. This misanthrope public opinion constructs protagonist Christopher as an individual whom does not conform to the underlying expectations which constitute teh notion of happiness in the western world.The techniques of construction that present Christophers perpective postion readers to percieve his austic view point as aberrant. Reinforcing the cultural assumptions as means of conforms of the notion as Christopher explictly subverts them. Print texts provide an ideal avenue to reflect societys values and switch readers personal perspectives by improving their understandings of the world and social frame work which surround them. Contemporary text The Curious Incident of the Dog the Night Time amplifies the naturalised ideologies within society at the time the narrative was roduced, highlighting the notion of happiness and the cultural assumptions which it advocates. Haddons novel presents a confirmation of western societys existing ways of thinking and behaving.In doing so The Curious Incident of the Dog the Night Time is an potential site to appraise naturalised idealogies. As readers are guided by the narrative to cross examine their own individual social frame work. As Haddon takes a life that seems horribly constrained and invites readers to view this life with succient imagination demonstrating it to be infinite. But the text does more than that.It sights how little sepera tes us from those we turn extraneous from in the street. Its about how badly we communicate with one another. Its about accepting that every life is narrow and that our only escape from this is not to act upon away to another country, another relationship, a slimmer, more confident self but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselfs. Haddons use of cognitive astrayment through Christophers severly logical point of view popstions readers to question the common sense and cultural assumptions of their own western instiutions, and habits of perception.For example I found myself questioning whether it is any less logical for 3 red cars to mean that a happy day is ahead, than it is for the frequently western practiced symbol of sunshine meanign a good rewarding day is in advance. As Christopher says People go on hoildays to see new things. but i think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them prop erly This vivid portrait of an unique often marginlised perception of life coping rituals highlights the small things in life that most of us forget to look at.The life lessons situate readers to acknowledge the commonly framed invaild can excel the minds of those individuals who conform to cultural assumptions. As readers learn although Christophers path is different from most, he is still in search for the happiness we all seek As readers appreciate teh strange unique beauty of Chrisophers grasp of life. Which demonstrates the legal functions of the human mind and encourages individuality as the text proves idealogies are unembellished without cultural frameworks.