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Day 11 Assignments
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Jack’s Creating Irony
IRONY IN THE SHOW THE 100
After entering into a love relationship with Finn, Clarke discovers and saves Raven, who turns out to be Finn’s girlfriend from The Arc. Then, after Finn is stabbed, Clarke can only save him if Raven fixes the radio so Clarke can talk to her mother on The Arc about how to perform the surgery.
Bellamy teaches Charlotte how to use a knife to protect herself but she uses it to Kill Wells, the son of the Chancellor, doing, in her mind, what Bellamy told her to do, ”Slay your demons”
On The Arc, after turning
in her husband for planning to tell the people onboard the truth about how
much oxygen is available and how long they can last, thus causing her husband’s
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<st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Tracy</st1:city></st1:place> Some Irony in LOST
What I learned doing this assignment is to actively play up irony. I certainly didn’t know how to do that before this exercise for my own story.
One place irony shows up in this episode of Lost, and the series, is with the character John Locke. He is named for the 17th century philosopher and friend of Isaac Newton; I had to look this up to learn more. But the show’s character is not depicted as a clone of the man of reason, but instead, a man of mysticism. The man of science is depicted by Dr. Jack Shepherd. Another instance of irony with Lost’s John Locke is his predilection for being an authoritarian figure. That’s the opposite of his famous namesake. This episode focuses on Locke’s insistence to his new apprentice Boone that the other survivors just couldn’t handle knowing about the hatch they found, so lures Boone into a conspiracy of silence — especially from his sister.
Locke portrays himself as caring about the welfare of the others as their selfless hunter until he doesn’t want to — then lies about the availability of boar. Locke is paired opposite the more innocent Boone Carlyle — 25 years younger. Boone has also been an eager helper whenever he could be after the crash, as he too has a need to prove himself to be bigger than he was.
We get a big shock when it turns out Boone’s stepsister Shannon used him numerous times to get some of his wealth by pretending to have abusive boyfriends to pay off, turned it against him, then slept with him! While Boone is very hurt, angry and confused, Locke is clear — maybe even moving towards the evil side. Locke somehow uses a drug or hypnotism to induce Boone to have such a powerful hallucination that the young man finally gets rid of his need to rescue <st1:place w:st=”on”>Shannon</st1:place> and the claws that she had sunk deep into him. Now he belongs to Locke.
Creating Irony in EL <st1:city w:st=”on”><st1:place w:st=”on”>PUEBLO</st1:place></st1:city>
1 The elegant Catholic priest Father Diego Perez likes being rich from a respected trading family. He does not take a vow of poverty. The only order operating in <st1:state w:st=”on”><st1:place w:st=”on”>California</st1:place></st1:state> territory is the Franciscans, known for their penniless, fanatical devotion, rough robes, and odd hairstyle.
2 Father Perez discovers his family has Sephardic Jewish roots, having escaped from <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:country-region w:st=”on”>Spain</st1:country-region></st1:place> when Jews were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492. They have been long-settled along the <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:placename w:st=”on”>Rio Grande</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=”on”>River</st1:placetype></st1:place> in Commancheria/Tejas territory. They have adapted to formidable Commanche behavior. Perez doesn’t understand the pacifist Tongva Indians enslaved in El Pueblo.
3 The priest realizes how these Jewish families escaped persecution from the Inquisition was to sacrifice a child to become a nun or priest in the Catholic faith and pretend to be Catholics. He is that shield for his family but is wavering on the priesthood.
4 Father Perez, like all priests, is light-skinned. He benefits from high-caste status, though secretly not pure-bred Spanish. While preaching a traditionalist anti-Semitic doctrine, he cannot reveal he has Jewish ancestry as that could result in his entire family being killed by the Inquisition in <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:country-region w:st=”on”>Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
5 The priest wants to explore the Bible for his Jewish traditions, rereading it in a new light. Jews do not worship Jesus as God.
6 Perez supports the Insurgents in the war of <st1:city w:st=”on”>Independence</st1:city> in <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:country-region w:st=”on”>Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>. He is stranded in El Pueblo, which is pro-Royalist.
7 Because Lucas is Creole (Spanish born in the <st1:place w:st=”on”>New World</st1:place>) he cannot attain high political status which he craves. Only those born in <st1:country-region w:st=”on”><st1:place w:st=”on”>Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> are assigned the best government positions. He will find that to be true even in the rural territories.
8 Lucas prides himself being the best dancer in town, knowing the most fashionable dances from <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Mexico City</st1:city></st1:place> society. The locals are fascinated with the sailor jigs performed by Joseph and Thomas to make them laugh.
9 Lucas craves a position of honor, but his father committed suicide which led to his family being shamed. It is not his sin, but being devout, Lucas carries it like the devil on his own back. He came to succeed in El Pueblo without telling his uncle how his brother died.
10 Lucas is light-skinned, which he prizes. He benefits from a high-caste status, but is not pure-bred Spanish. He is ignorant that in his family ancestry there was an African slave brought to the sugar cane industry.
11 Lucas deigned to court Antonia, even though dark-skinned. But then she dumps Lucas for the white American.
12 Lucas is staunchly pro-Royalist and defends his position in his university class. He left <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:city w:st=”on”>Mexico City</st1:city></st1:place> to avoid being drafted into the military to fight against the Insurgents.
13 Joseph believes he’ll be able to catch a passing American ship when it lands with illegal contraband. He is put in jail 28 miles from the coast, his boots taken away, and he doesn’t know how to ride a horse.
14 Joseph is not interested in getting married, but is betrothed to the daughter of the owner of the hacienda the pirates burned to the ground.
15 Protestant Joseph and Thomas would never consider conversion to an “idolatrous” religion. To stay in <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:state w:st=”on”>California</st1:state></st1:place> requires Catholic baptism.
16 Antonia believes she can choose who she will marry, and it will not be a man older than 10 years her senior.
17 Antonia’s Plan B is to run away to a convent in <st1:country-region w:st=”on”><st1:place w:st=”on”>Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region> to be a free woman; that privilege does not extend to mixed-race females from the provincial frontiers — only Spanish-born, high caste or rich women can become nuns.
18 Thomas is a runaway slave. He believes he is as far away from the <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:country-region w:st=”on”>United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> as possible to get caught. He can’t stop looking over his shoulder.
19 Many of the mixed race villagers come from brutal slave heritages back in <st1:place w:st=”on”><st1:country-region w:st=”on”>Mexico</st1:country-region></st1:place>. They came to <st1:state w:st=”on”>California</st1:state> for free land, supply ships from <st1:country-region w:st=”on”><st1:place w:st=”on”>Mexico</st1:place></st1:country-region>, a military protective presence. They think nothing of enslaving the local Indians to provide their free labor force.
20 The pirates were lured by the hope of capturing a famed Spanish treasure ship crossing the Pacific for 250 years. The ships stopped three years earlier due to the civil war raging across <st1:country-region w:st=”on”>Mexico</st1:country-region>; the Insurgents wouldn’t let them dock and unload the loot– turned around back to <st1:city w:st=”on”><st1:place w:st=”on”>Manila</st1:place></st1:city>.
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Lesson 11
I loved this lesson! Going through all my characters/storylines and discovering irony that was already there for some of them, (which I wasn’t aware of). But then ‘creating’ irony for some of my characters has shown me more ways to get layers and depth out of their relationships.
Assignment One
Irony in episode 10 Handmaid’s Tale –
Aunt Lydia is very fond of and loves the handmaid’s under her care (calls them ‘beautiful, precious), yet, doesn’t blink an eye when she tortures and disfigures them to ‘show them the way’. In response to June’s rebellious streak, Aunt Lydia is about to give June an electric shock, to install a tracker inside her head, and says “ this will be painful I’m sorry to say, but you are so very precious we wouldn’t want to lose you.”
Ironic quote at the start of the episode “They should never have forced us to wear uniforms if they didn’t want us to be an army.”
June seduces the man who rapes her once a month – to keep him on side, to gain information, ultimately to ask that he protects her daughter from his wife’s threats.
Serena once wrote a well known feminist book only to help write the laws that imprison women, and put only men in charge.
The ultimate irony – one of the handmaid’s is rescued from an unsuccessful suicide attempt. She is hospitalised and cared for so she is healthy enough to be stoned to death.
My series ‘stroke’:
Leo is a magician – tells his daughter he can make anything disappear and then reappear. Secretly he plans and thinks he has made Nadine disappear for good…but she reappears later.
At children’s parties he plays ‘what’s the time Mr. Lion (instead of Mr. wolf). He freezes like a statue – he’s very convincing of how good he is at not moving. Later, he has a stroke and become paralysed. (But in fact he has been drugged).
Nadine learns to and becomes skilled at regularly injecting her sick father with his medicine, only to regularly inject her best friend’s father with poison.
When Zoe first became friends with Nadine, she had lied about who she was and where she came from. Nadine persuaded her to be herself. But years later, Nadine is the one to create a secret identity.
Zoe hates that her husband is a liar. But she is also a liar – to herself.
Zoe’s strained relationship with her cold, aloof mother brings her to a therapist who is even more colder and aloof.
A retired journalist teaches journalism but doesn’t believe in what she is teaching. Her worst student ends up teaching her and getting her to rekindle the investigative journalist inside of her again.
Nadine’s son’s father is a ‘monster’ in her eyes. But she then plays her part in unleashing the monster within her son.
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Janeen’s Creating Irony
What I learned doing this assignment is that I need a better way to keep track of all of the info I’ve developed regarding the characters, scenarios, etc. I’m looking into software tools to help.
Assignment 1:
Big Little Lies
Madeline jumps into help people whenever she sees what she thinks is injustice and ends up making the trouble worse. (Everyone denies Perry was pushed, but Perry was pushed and in the end, they have to go confess to their perjury) <div>
Celeste accepts everyone’s praise for her perfect marriage/life and she is being abused at home.
Jane wants to kill the man that raped her, but in the end, someone she barely knows does it for her for a completely different reason.
Assignment 2:
Character Irony:
Cara
Thinks she’s not very powerful, but is afraid she caused Mike and Mindy’s deaths.
Randy
Randy wants Cara to use her powers to help/save the farm for the kids, but doesn’t think she can do anything to slow his Alzheimer’s decline
Mindy:
Mindy never doubted Mike’s fidelity regarding Molly, but was always wary of letting Cara get near him alone — something that rarely happened over the holidays in Chicago.
Mike:
Molly had been Mike’s first love, but he had never considered anything romantic when he pressed to help her when he saw/heard about Jim’s abuse of her.
Jim:
Jim was always jealous of Mike even though Mike was glad that he and Molly got married since he had always liked Molly and knew she needed/wanted to marry a farmer. <div>
Jim’s jealousy causes his abuse of Molly to escalate, causing Mike to try to help her but she never strayed or wanted to stray. Jim jealousy drove the love of his life away from him.
Situational Irony:
Mindy thought something bad was going to happen to Mike and her and set up the guardianship/POA agreements, but did nothing to stop it. <div>
Mike knew about his dad’s Alzheimer’s, but promised not to tell Molly so he included language in the will and also missed opportunities to have Mindy help Randy.
Environmentalists decry the use of RoundUp by farmers not realizing that to get the yields they need to continue farming, they have to use the hybrid seeds their neighbors do and use low tillage methods that require RoundUp resistant seed. If they try to go organic or even just avoid RoundUp, their neighbors’ spraying will kill their crops and they will go under. Catch-22.
Mindy and Cara each thought the other was more powerful.
Cara was jealous of Mindy’s life and now she has it — sans Mike.</div></div></div>
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ASSIGNMENT 2:
What I learned from this assignment is that irony is something I need to plan for and establish before writing the script<b style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>
IRONY IN MY SHOW CONCEIVED
1. Kayla, who has a gambling problem, believes the environment a child grows up in determines their personality and worth, rather than the child’s genes, and attempts to prove this by switching her eggs with royal-blooded Victoria’s, seducing Sir George for his seed, then having the child raised in the Everglades by the Miccosukee Indian Shaman Billy Osceola. Ironically, the blue-blooded young man, in addition to becoming a great alligator wrestler and python hunter, proves himself to be a mathematical genius like his mother and helps to run the tribe’s casino accounts, running into Kayla’s gambling debts.
2. Victoria, who seems to have everything, reveals herself to actually have depression problems because she is unable to relate to people
3. Kayla, who has a chip on her shoulder because her white father never married her black mother and was never involved in her life, discovers he has actually always been behind the scenes helping her while Victoria’s parents, whom Kayla thought were the reason Victoria was successful, only care about themselves
4. Sir George and Victoria, who want to create a child with blue-blooded genes that could be a match for someone in the royal family, unknowingly use Kayla’s eggs and therefore raise a daughter in England who is one-quarter black.
5. Santiago, who wants to sell embryos with Hitler’s DNA from Hitler’s granddaughter to white supremists in America, actually uses Kayla’s eggs instead of Victoria’s and ends up selling embryos with one quarter Kayla’s genes
6. Kayla switches her eggs with Victoria to prove her point but ends up not being able to know her own biological children.
7. Professor Matthews, a Druid and, because of his cryogenics lab, in charge of the 1500- year-old skull of Bran The Blessed, uses Bran’s DNA and the eggs he thinks are Victoria’s to create a blue-blooded son, but instead gets Dana the Celtic Princess who turns out to be a wonderful, tall, athletic beauty and singer who has millions of followers on social media.
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Jean’s Creating Irony
What I learned doing this assignment is now that I’m aware of what to look for in a show that is binge watchable, I can see the elements the writers have put in. Like today’s lesson. The irony was woven into the show from the very beginning and built on episode after episode. Most of the time, I wasn’t aware of it. But looking for it now, it’s everywhere. That tells me that I need to make sure to include irony from the very first episode in my show.
Assignment One:
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES:
Stefan and Damon fall for Elena who looks like Katherine from 1864 who the brothers both loved, too.
The Gilbert family was part of Mystic Falls founding families and killed vampires. Elana and Jeremy have relationships with vampires.
Bonnie, a witch, doesn’t want to help Stefan or Damon because they are vampires but is always put in a situation that if she doesn’t her close friends will die.
Jeremy hates vampires but ends updating one.
Stefan wants to remove himself from the violence but ends up killing Vicky to save Elana.
Damon makes Vicky a vampire who then almost kills Elana who he cares about.
Sheriff Forbes is in charge of killing vampires and finds out her daughter is one.
Stefan came back to Mystic Falls to start a new life and be ‘normal’ but whatever he tries shows that he’s not normal – he’s something more.
Damon, who does everything in his power, even hurting those he cares about, to free Katherine(who he’s been pining over for the last 147 years from the tomb, finds out she’s been free all along.
Damon gets Bonnie, who hates vampires, to do the spell to open the tomb. She gets her grandma to help because she’s not strong enough. It works but her grandma dies and Bonnie finds out that she let loose 26 vampires,
THE VAULT:
Sharra, who is morally straight-laced turned her boss in for fraud that hurt many clients, but when it’s possible to change her past and stop her parents from dying, she will break all the Vaults rules, barring the consequences.
Sharra is a good person where her brother is a psychopathic sociopath.
Sharra thinks she killed her parents, and she actually did by a series of events she set off.
Lazarus cares deeply for his ‘family’ and will die for them, but he keeps it secret that their life is connected to the Vault which is dying.
Sharra’s recruitment to the Vault is supposed to solve its problem when actually she is the creation of the problem, creating a time loop.
Faolan wants to stay away from the agency but his chance meeting with Sharra in the past hooks him back into the drama that made him leave in the first place.
Each agent gets agrylium injected into their brain,(it’s the means to connect them to the mainframe to time travel) and don’t know that it’s a living thing and now they are connected to it.
Sharra has no fighting skills but ends up taking her enemy out with sheer determination and brains.
Tanner, the nice guy/hero, turns rogue to save Sharra’s life, and to get him back, Maitland erases his memory, taking away more than just the block of his rogue days. He doesn’t remember Sharra and all they’ve been through.
Maitland controls the agents by using diplomacy and tough love but secretly he’s a liar and manipulator. He gets caught out by Tanner who looks up to him and it destroys their relationship.
Faolan who has been tortured in the past, tortures Grayson, justifying it as payback for what Grayson did to Sharra, but really he’s doing it because he likes to inflict pain.
Lazarus left his loving wife, young son, and Earldom in the 1700s to serve the greater good of mankind, but he can never go back to his former life.
To the agents, the Vault system functions mechanically, however it is a living entity and is feeding off their electromagnetic energy. To get rid/kill it, they have to remove the agrylium in their head, which would make them a vegetable or kill them.
The Vault facility is actually the alien life force manifesting/creating the physical structure from information extracted from the human mind.
Faolan uses his communication device(Comlink), a smart computer with a female personality program, to replace human relationships.
Cam, the chef medic, is supposed to be tamper-proof, but Grayson deactivates Cam and sneaks him to the future where he has him reprogrammed to answer to him without anyone the wiser.
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Ron Reid Jr. Creating Irony!
“What I learned doing this assignment is irony makes an interesting journey for the story stand out in plot and or structure. I think I am learning to set up what might be a comedy or a chance for my characters breath somewhat.
ASSIGNMENT 1: Example Show LOST
Irony of the show is not always strong or direct on the show. <div>
But some ironies is one of the monsters on the islands is the polar bear that attacks in the pilot. Polar bears aren’t found on tropical islands. But one of the main characters kills the polar with their gun.
Another is the survival of the plane crash victims themselves why they survived.
Another is the tail section of the plane has all of the survivors survive on the other side of the island.
The relationships of the people on the islands seem impossible.
Shannon who had a person Sayid arrest in Australia ends up falling in love with him on the Island after finding more meaning in her life.
Michael asks his son, Walt to stay away from the old man John, John in turn finds their missing dog and helps to give the credit of finding the dog to Michael, that helps him in turn bond with his son.
Sawyer helped by Michael who doesn’t call him a friend.
Sawyer who gets better risks his life to help find Michael.
The show LOST is really built on a lot of ironies that we don’t expect that keeps the shows unexpected that I need to bring into my own writing.
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Sawyer getting headaches due to over-reading- this resulted in him needing glasses and since his eye sight on both eyes needed two different glasses to be welded together. Another irony is that one of the glasses had to be a pair of woman’s glasses.
ASSIGNMENT 2: Show#1 SIGMA 2619
My shows is about an alien who comes to earth to retrieve some tech that will save his planet.
The irony will be the same people are the ones he should not give the tech too!
The irony will also be that the very same people are the ones that have possibly wiped out his memory so they can’t be remembered by the main character as he comes to earth.
The irony of the woman who he runs across and might be the one hiding and using the tech his trying to find is that she and Bruce, the alien might already know each other. In fact they might be have former friends or even lovers.
The irony is that trying to just work with the humans might have created a love triangle between the alien, the female agent his working with and the first girl they encounter who had her memory wiped out. The irony of staying out of the spotlight has not worked.
The irony of trying to help everyone won’t overshadow the idea that the one agent wants to get a promotion and if that means recovering the tech to get that promotion he may take it.
Irony of the mystery woman who has the tech is that she is not evil but maybe just trying to keep evil hands from taking the tech off of earth and destroying other planets if you used on a large scale.
Irony is that Snowy, the girl who is rescued doesn’t know or accept that she needs helps at all.
irony of the main partner not knowing his partner is falling for the alien they are working with.
Irony of the relationship what if! if the alien and the agent had a relationship, where would it go? If he gets the tech would he return to earth?
Irony of what if again. What if the tech was destroyed or not found in time- like in 60 days, what will happen?
Assignment #2 Show #2 THE KIDNAPPING OF CASEY K
Irony of the main characters is they don’t know each other until something happens.
Irony of the main person kidnapped is he has many people who don’t care for him but he knows their secrets and that might be the driving force for their help.
Irony of some people who were helped by Casey didn’t know Casey was helping steer their lives behind the scenes for the better.
Irony of Casey K as an arrogant genius was his down fall to getting kidnapped. People used his need to have a big party and many helpers to have the kidnappers to staff themselves as the helpers and plan his kidnapping right under his nose.
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