The moving scene where John is punished and after starts writing in the dust with a stick. And it’s that last bit of idea that led me into this next one. I think that the literacy of slaves was considered dangerous because if a slave knew enough as much as their master/owner did, they would have a sense of control and free will about them, as I think John displays in the movie.
The only thing she has from her old life is a picture of her brother. The scene is sort of like her new life, she is driving away from the old one to the new one, it is blank, waiting for her to start again from the start she has new parents, a new house and new friends. When I close my eyes I see the scene were the car is driving along in the snow, there is nothing there it is like the car is driving along on a blank sheet of paper, there is nothing written on it no trees no houses not even a smudge of a road, a blank world. Below are some thoughts from some Outlaw Readers club members, ending with a couple of intriguing questions for you to mull over. We have such great conversations in our movie clubs. In our final movie, Dead Poets Society, a band of young men at an elite prep school have their love of poetry ignited by an unconventional teacher, inspiring them to meet for midnight poetry readings and make choices that defy the expectations of their parents and the school administration. The first three dealt with book burning as a strategy of oppression and censorship: The Book Thief, set in Nazi Germany Nightjohn, set in the American antebellum south and Fahrenheit 451, set in an imagined future in which firemen rout out books and burn them. For this last club we viewed and discussed four movies-all of them adapted from novels-set in times and places in which reading is forbidden in one way or another. We had three movie clubs in a row this spring at Brave Writer-Monster Mash, Enchanted April, and the one that just wound up: Outlaw Readers and the Power of Words. Naturally, we also look at literary elements such as story, theme, character, and narrative voice-so movie clubs prepare the participants for literary analysis as well as media literacy! Our conversations call for close observation of composition, camera movement, light, sound, music, and performance. Brave Writer movie clubs draw a robust and enthusiastic bunch of cineastes.
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