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1. First complete the **chart below** comparing the narratives of the two stories. How does the story start? || It starts when Gus is given an assignment to take photo with his favorite thing for thanksgiving || It starts out with explaining What the place was like that the story took place in. ||
 * || **Happy Thanksgiving Gus ...** || **Assignment America ...** ||
 * What is the opening situation?
 * What is the problem of challenge that is posed? || He tried to find something to take a picture with || The dog, Bella, suffers from a spinal injury and can't move ||
 * How does this create conflict between characters? || Both Gus and his friend wanted the same thing || Bella and Tara, the elephant

What is the conflict? || What has changed? || In the beginning they are given something to do at the end, they finish it || The opening of the story opens up happy explaining the two friends. The end goes from bad to happy || How is this achieved? || Yes because Gus tells the story. || No both people who work at the place tell the story ||
 * How is this resolved? || they both take the picture || the people let Bella and Tara see each other until the dog heals up ||
 * How is the closing situation different to the opening situation?
 * Do you see the story from one character's point of view?

2. Then, by paying particular attention to the visual images in the stories and the ways in which these provide clues to the meaning of the stories, write a paragraph explaining how you "read" the stories to get the full meaning of each of the stories. You may find it useful to consider some of these factors: //**Feliz dia de Gracias, Gus!**// **Paragraph Here**: The color of the story is very light, relaxing. In the story, you can always see the main character's face. The words are bold, explaining the story. The words are big. The pictures are big so that they can show as much as they can. Pictures have the main character with someone else. The pictures show what is going on in the story at that point of the story. This story takes place in a town. This story's pictures have a light texture to it. Everyone is always standing up straight. It has a very soft voice. (nice observations.)
 * color
 * framing
 * composition
 * size
 * type of shot
 * subject matter
 * setting
 * lighting
 * pose
 * text (or voice)


 * //Assignment America// Paragraph Here**: It is filmed straight from there so its colors are natural. It shows the area where it is filmed. The people sound very serious. Doesn't show the animals close up, but to where you can see them. The type of shot is a middle shot. Focusing on the two different animals having a great relationship. The story takes place at an elephant sanctuary. It is light where the story takes place. The animals are always walking, running, playing or eating. The voices sound very happy until sadness comes along when the dog suffered a spinal cord injury, But then it was happy again along with the seriousness of what they said about people looking past thier physical differences.