Rubab Tariq

Translation Essay 

Course 2400 (Prof. Scanlan) 

                 Translating  Roddy Doyle, “New Boy” (2007)

The story of “New Boy,” written by Roddy Doyle, depicts nine-year-old Joseph’s first day of school in Ireland after he moved from Africa  to the different environment and school system. The main characters in which the movie and story revolve are Joseph , Teacher lady , Seth Quinn, Christan kelly and Hazel O’Hara.The setting took place in school of ireland .

The first topic I’d want to talk about is narrative. The story is portrayed through the eyes of Joseph, a nine-year-old African refugee who is starting school in Ireland for the first time. The film alternates between scenes of Joseph’s prior school in Africa and his new school in Ireland, showing the differences between schooling in his native country and Ireland from his perspective. Joseph’s insightful perspective on the various ties between instructor and student in both countries is offered to us.

I Will discuss the milk scene that occurs in the New Boy.While Green presents an overly colorful picture of Doyle’s story that contains some new elements, the film nearly precisely follows the original story in the conclusion, and so conforms to Linda Cahir’s traditional  translation.

In the movie the milk scene where Christan kelly threw a milk carton to Joseph has so many similarities and differences which i can tell my readers. First i will talk about sound in the difference and the main difference that i notice was non diegetic sound in that milk scene in the background there was instrument playing that was not in the movie but you they add in the movie to seems more dramatic it also allows the audience the ability to connect emotionally to your characters and their situation.  

The similarities I noticed was mise en scene, in both film and text,both scenes took place in the playground when they have lunch break ,all the characters are the same in both film and text.But in the movie the after he threw the milk on joseph was not potrate in detail as text.The way joseph try to take his sweater to wash it but he notice that his shirt also wet so there is no way to wash .

In conclusion ,New Boy is a hat immerses the audience in the mind of a third-person character and allows them to experience what it’s like to be an outsider “The New Boy.” The audience experiences this emotion through the mind of the Protagonist, in this instance “Joseph.”