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 bum reflect the ethnical con school account book that produced them. They can underline our dominant representations and perpetuate contemporary values which underpin friendships collective view of the piece. Texts both non print and print be commercially driven, designed for public consumption. To prepare mass appeal, texts act to confirm habitual ways of thinking and acting in the gentlemans gentleman. As a product of its contextual community, narratives amplify ideologies at heart inn at the time the text was produced. With similar maker/audience social indite live reader/viewers may actively engage ith the narrative to hybridise examine societys collective view of the world.The two contemporary texts I am go up-to-air missile 2001 directed by Jessie Nelson and The particular(a) Incident of the get behind the Night Time 2003 written by Mark Haddon illustrate heathenish narratives which reflect and assess the social frame work of thei r writer/producer. The two texts bind with contemporary close to highlight the tactual sensation of gladness which underpins westbound societys dominant ideologies and heathen assumptions of victory, mental/social intelligence, materialism and wealth. I am surface-to-air missile directed by Jessie Nelson is an unforgettable story of biography, ove and laughter.The touching tale glorifies two of the some ambiguous and controversial contemporary ideas on babe rearing. The feature film maps a mentally gainsayd gravid surface-to-air missile Dawon Sean Penn who singularly raises his daughter Lucy up to her seventh birthday. As it soon becomes ap parent that Lucy is intellectually portentous her father, she begins to intentionally stunt her accept growth. Which forces Lucy to walk the line between daughter and parent as her honor and happiness are jeopardised when a series of misunderstandings leaves surface-to-air missile fighting to retain custody of his seven grade sr . daughter.This legal battle assembles Sam seek the aid of self absorbed, successful lawyer Rita Harrison Michelle Pfeiffer whos dream and mind of social failure pushes her into taking on Sams case free of charge. Together they must grow 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 e precise child needs. Mark Haddons The curious incident of the dog in the night time is an original, clever and genuinely touching unexampled.The text amplifies forgivingy rofound issues of human relationships and judge differences. This murder mystery novel maps fifteen year old Christopher John Francis Boone who knows all the countries of the world, their capitals and every prime number up to 7 057. He takes everything that he sees or is told at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behaviour of his elders and peers. Although gifted with a marvellously licit brain, Christopher is sick. Routine, order and predictability protect him from the messy, wider world that is until he comes across his neighbours poodle Wellington impaled on a garden pitch fork.Christopher seizes upon this mystery as a puzzle like a maths worry 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 unexpected 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 incredibly vivid xperience of what it is like to be some one who thinks and reacts so differently to what we consider the norm.The archetypical cultural assumptions which frame the notion of success and happiness in the western world classify those that do not line up as others misunderstood individuals. Non print text I am Sam conveys those marginalised by the dominant western representations, of what constitutes success and happiness through the prototagonist verbal expression of Sam Dawson Sean Penn. The technical codes of camera angles, framing, distance and movement are utilised by the text to present the truggle taking place in Sams head. Viewers are positioned to see the world through Sams centerfields with whirling hold cameras, whop pans and staccato jump cuts mimicking Sams bewildered grade of view.This si seeming(a) in the feature films theory scene. The introductory montage frames Sams hands colour coordinating sugar packets the distance and position of the shots positions viewers in Sams calculate of view. This intimate frame connected to John Powells music of an polyphonic upbeat, fugue foregrounds the abstract atm of Sam Dawso ns consciousness.Encouraging viewers curiosity to wonder why the world is different for him. Though audience cognition of Sam is incomplete without the audio and emblemic 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 Customer Bruce youve got it buddy hands connect in high five slap Sam thats a wonderful choice Bruce Customer Bruce thankyou SamSam yeah it certainly is Customer Bruce thankyou Sams manner of walking and holding his hands contributes to convey the fight back 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 lively paced opening constructs Sam to exist as the western society mist understood individual. With the social status, emotional 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 construction employed by the text to formulate the underlying expectations which constitute success and happiness with Sam an stated representation of those individuals who subvert the naturalized ideology. Contemporary western society ideologies of success and happiness have mapped first cultural assumptions which individuals must align to represent one who upholds the respecting values. Feature 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 go out bring money, status, power and thus entitle individuals to success and happiness. Symbolic codes are employed by the text to construct Rita to represent societys archetypal assumptions of success and happiness. Binary opposition of the archetypal cultural assumptions which oreground the notion of success and happiness in the modern western world reflect yet shape the social frame work of the texts writing/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 confirmation of societys existing archetypal cultural assumptions which frame the notion of success and happiness.Though I am Sam offers other perspective of those most often marginalised by th e 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 Night Time, offers readers to see the world though fresh eyes, in a different way. Not only does the novel position readers to see how a child with Aspergers syndrome might approach the world around him, it opens ndividual readers eyes purely by his different approach. Haddons strength is his ability to present to the reader common situations as looked at from Christophers new and some what disconcerting perspective.Most people are lazy. They never look at everything. They do what is glancing which is the same word for bumping off something and carrying on in almost the same direction, eg when a fox ball glances off another snooker ball. And the information in their head is re ally simple. For example, if they are in the country side, it might be 1. I am standing in a field that is in force(p) of grass. . at that place are some cows 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 contest at the edge of the field and it has a gate in.And then they would stop noticing because they would be thinking something else like, Oh, it is very beautiful here, or, Im worried 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 confound and reorienting of the reader manages to bring readers eep inside Christophers mind and situate them comfortably within his limited, severely logical point of view. To the extent that readers begin to question the common sense and erratic emotionalism of the normal western citizens who surround, the champ, as well as contemporary wes tern 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. Archetypal 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 examinate a condition that is barely comprehended by society, demonstrating how society responds to those it views as abberrant.Haddon presentsthe story in Chrisop hers words as the style of writing contributes to reflect the protagonist perpective. With fragment 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 second-string forms of communication.Utimately the novel regards the predicatable laws of science 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 the misanthrope perpective where logic is that of paramount importance, perpetuates archetypal cultural assumptions as readers learn to appreicate their s ocial skills which enable them to head 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 thought 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 track to reflect societys values and alter readers personal perspectives by improving their un derstandings 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 reassess 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 itty-bitty seperates us from those we turn away from in the street. Its about how badly we communicate with one another. Its about accepting that every life is narrow and that o ur only escape from this is not to run 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 practised 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 properly This vivid personation 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 l essons 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 profound functions of the human mind and encourages individuality as the text proves idealogies are apparent without cultural frameworks.