Write a 400-500 word response to the movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus.” Your approach should begin and center around one or more of the literary techniques mentioned in chapter 27 of our text.

• Point of View (437)  Ex.  Analyze the narrator (director) and his role in the movie

• Setting (428) Ex. How does the setting affect the story? The characters? Etc.
• Plot (the conflicts of man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. himself) (439) Ex. What type(s) of conflict can be seen in the movie?
• Characterization (440-441) Ex. How does the director go about revealing the character of one or more of his characters?
• Symbols (441-442) Ex. What features, objects, or persons might be symbols? Of what?
• Irony (442-443) Ex. What expectations oppose what actually happens?
• Theme (443-444) Ex. What possible meanings does the movie reveal? What lesson is it trying to teach?

BE SURE TO WRITE IN PRESENT TENSE!

Be sure to use the qualifying words on page 437 in the purple box.

Be sure to include a Works Cited section to your paper.