Summary vs. Analysis-The Lion King

Summary vs. Analysis-The Lion King

Summary

• A brief description of what happens

• Condensing someone's work in your own words

• the 5 W's

• no opinion

Analysis

• Examines the elements of a work (plot, literary devices, theme, author style, patterns, etc.)

• Interprets how the elements work together and why they’re important

• makes a point about the work as a whole (what YOU think about it, YOUR opinion, why YOU think the author wrote it)

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Practice

Watch the clip from Little Red Riding Hood.

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Watch the clip from Little Red Riding Hood. Write the answers to the 5 W's.

Who:

What:

Where:

When:

Why:

How?

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Now put the above information into ONE sentence, summarizing the story:

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What do you think the author's purpose or theme is?

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How was the author able to show this to the reader?

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Why do you think the author used make-believe characters to convey his ideas?

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What other comments can you make about the story, how it's written, or anything else?

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Now put everything together into a two-sentence or longer comment on the

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MORE PRACTICE

After watching the clip of Mufasa's death from the original film The Lion King, write the 5W's.

Who?

What?

Where?

When?

Why?

How?

Some specific areas for analysis:

• Scar's eyes and his words "Long live the King"

• Simba's guilty and grief-stricken expression, his eyes

• the use of light and dark with the plot and characters

• realistic animation-Simba's expressions, Mufasa's muscles when he was straining, etc.

• the dust settling-the viewer has to wait, just like Simba, to see what happens

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Write a few sentences giving your opinon about the above comments or anything else you want to say about this scene.

Congratulations.

Given that your sentences do not include plot summary, you just wrote an analysis.