Translation Essay Draft

The short story, New Boy by Roddy Doyle is a reading that talks about the hardships of the child protagonist: Joseph, and his experience of transitioning into a completely different school environment. Throughout the reading Joseph feels uncomfortable, different, and out of place with his classmates and starts to feel homesick. Throughout the short story, we sympathize for this poor child, and come to the conclusion as to why Joseph finds himself in this predicament. Due to how descriptive the reading is, we are able to paint a good mental image and garner feelings on how Joseph felt but luckily the 2007 film, New Boy, helped fill in the blanks and highlight certain stuff of importance that wasn’t as recognized in the reading. Despite there being a multitude of differences between the film and the reading, we are met with similar conclusions but yet we see certain characters in a different light based on how the film captures them.

Body Paragraph 1:

• Traditional translation between the film and reading. Analyzing the two settings and atmosphere from the book and film.  
• Milk scene, Joseph’s reactions

Body Paragraph 2:

• Talk about the differences within the film and reading using film concepts: Color, non-diegetic/diegetic sounds, transitions

Body Paragraph 3: 

• Talk about exchange concepts: Forgiveness and Sacrifice. 
• Forgiveness: Joseph coming to amends with his classmates and meeting in the middle, setting aside their differences. 
• Sacrifice: Joseph moving to a completely different school environment in order to continue his education, Josephs father sacrificing himself and complying with the police in order to keep his son safe.

Conclusion:

Wrap up the overall essay by reiterating my points made within my body paragraphs, talk about thesis statement and how important it is to recognize the differences that have been made within the reading and film of New Boy.