Les Miserable :: English Literature

Les MiserableRESPONSE PHASEWe were introduced to two different sport texts. Text wiz was a variantc each(prenominal)ed Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins, a British singer,songwriter. The song was written at around 1985. Text two is an leave off from the musical Les Miserable. The extract is called go throughDown and is set on the streets of genus Paris in 1832. For text one we wereasked to listen to the song and discuss the storyline, themes andcharacters. The fact that the song is about community that ar in povertyand how other muckle feel towards them. The lyrics from the song areabout two characters, a universe who is a passer-by in the street and ahomeless cleaning lady in the street. She asks him for help. Sir dirty dog you helpme? But he ignores her, He pretends he cant hear her. The manrepresents ignorance and the woman represents poverty. Phil Collinsdirects the song at us by say Its another day for you and me inParadise. He means that were in paradise compar ed to the lives ohhomeless people.We were also asked to claim the script from Les Miserable theextract is called Look Down. We each picked a character and then weread the script. Les Miserable is about the life of poor people inParis and they want to start a revolution against the Frenchgovernment and the monarchy. However, they all say that they needLamarque but he is ill.The similarities between the two texts are they both are about povertyand how higher class people feel towards them and they help the pooror not. Basically, the theme of the two texts are that they are set inBritain around 1985 - 1990, the same time it was written. in that location are three levels of still- scene I played a poor woman on thestreet asking for money. There was another character sitting on thefloor. There was also another character sitting in his shop watchingfrom the window. I also did a thought swing for my character, sayingaloud the thoughts of the character. Face expression is veryimportant.W e had to do a still image of a character from Les Miserable I constituteas Gavroche. I was standing, looking towards the ground and I lookedmiserable, then I had to speak aloud the thoughts of Gavroche. I saidthat I was just a child trying to survive from a terrible lifestyleand I wished that Lamarque were here to help me and other people likeme. The characters still image (as Gavroche) was similar to thecharacter I created for the song because they were both poor and