Search options (Page 4 of 9)

Congrats Dagnee!

Hi Dirk, I'm going to answer the last part by pointing out that king David had cried out to the Lord a lot. Psalms is full of those cries, pleas, and shouts for God's help.

As for your first part, study how Jesus had used the word hypocrite, there are times it feels he's using it as a swear word. I would also consider the curses people had given one another as angry words/swearing.

To me nothing in that list takes the Lord's name in vain. Since His name isn't used in any of those phrases.

Karen

Great ideas. By doing that we can go over the reviews I had received from other reviewers together, especially the ones we all agree have ideas I should heed and brainstorm the best ways to make the changes.

I'm feeling very excited about doing this.

Karen

P.S. That is an awesome picture. And it's wonderful that you can share those pictures you've been working on with this small group of reviewers, so they can see the vision we are seeing of certain areas of the ship and other things we decide to draw pictures of.

I'm going to be out of town this weekend so I won't be able to start reading the stories until I get back home.

Hi Sarah, Welcome to the group. I should expand on this and ask what questions would you like to ask.

Janet, there is nothing wrong with making realistic characters. Christians do swear at times. And even Jesus hung out with people that would have been considered unsavory back when he was on Earth and I'm sure they didn't refrain from what they said around him.

Movie: Sahara by Clive Cussler

I haven’t read this novel yet, but I’ve seen the movie a lot. And my husband can attest to how I always comment that there are no holes in the plot at all. This is amazing to me, since it has two interwoven plot lines.

1) The inciting incident

With two plot lines this story actually has two inciting incidents. The first one is for Ava, the UN scientist’s plot, she’s investigating a disease and finds out it had spread to Mali, a much contested part of Africa in a region run by a very domineering warlord. When she starts to investigate these findings she is attacked by the warlord’s goons. Dirk Pitt comes to her rescue and brings her aboard the ship he’s working from to salvage a statue from the ocean.

The second inciting incident is when Dirk is shown a confederate gold coin at a small pawn shop in Africa. In his research he had learnt that only five were made, one having been given to a ship’s captain who captained a civil war ironclad that had gotten lost at sea and Dirk was trying to find that ship. So this starts his quest to locate that ship in Africa, since he can’t imagine that that coin got to Africa in any other way but on that ironclad.

2) The conflict (both external and internal) and which category each layer belongs to (character versus society, character versus self, etc.)

The external conflict is against both the warlord and his minions trying to keep the scientist from discovering the source of the disease and with the actually contamination that was causing people to get sick. There is also some romantic tension between Dirk and the female scientist.
In the movie form I can’t put my fingers on the internal conflict for Dirk, since he’s a very charismatic, self-assured individual. As for the female scientist, I feel her internal conflict is in allowing herself to not let her work take over and keep her from enjoying life.

3) An analysis of the tension in a particular scene (why do we feel tension and what techniques does the author or film-maker use to create it?)

There are many tense scenes, but one in particular is very tense. Ava and a doctor friend of hers made it to a remote village in Mali after Dirk had transported her by river on his bosses yacht to a small town close to the village. She had just been lowered into the well to collect some samples, when the warlord’s minions arrived and took her doctor friend captive. The warlord shows up and interrogates the doctor who lies and says that Ava wasn’t there, the warlord then kills the doctor and tells his minions to kill everyone and to make it look like Twaras did it. She hears the commotion and covers her glow stick just in the nick of time as a minion looks down the well to see if anyone was down there.

Hi Mike, Welcome to the group. Thanks for sharing this experience you had with us, It sounds like it was a wonderful blessed evening of entertainment. I love learning that a musician has a strong spiritual background.

My reflection:
From the first paragraph of Angels Fall:
Reese Gilmore smoked through the tough knuckles of Angel’s Fist in an overheating Chevy Cavalier. She had two hundred forty-three dollars and change in her pocket, which might be enough to cure the Chevy, fuel it and herself. If luck was on her side, and the car wasn’t seriously ill, she’d have enough to pay for a room for the night.

I was completely hooked after reading that paragraph and then when  it was confirmed just a little farther down the first page that  Reese was in the Teton’s I wanted to read more. I could also feel Reese’s character from that opening paragraph and wanted to know why she was driving through the Teton’s in a car that probably seen its better days.

Then when the MC made it to the small town nestled in the majestic mountains and she started introducing a few of the townsfolk. It became even better.

Nora has a way smooth voice to her writing that makes the reader almost forget they are reading a novel and makes it more like you are listening to your friend tell you her story.

On the micro level you can fully see and appreciate Reese as a MC and even before you know what she physically looks like or her age you already feel connected to her.  And on the macro level the setting in the novel is a live and vibrant.