Blog Assignment #3

The scene opens up with a car accident; a fatality seems to have occurred based on the damages.*ACT: These actions set the scene up for an explanation of the fatality on the part of the boy. **REF: The action seems to take place in a crowded city of some sort, a setting where tumultuous fatalities are likely to occur.

“I’m ready to communicate with you now, tell you my secrets.” ***HER: The enigma is revealed; what secret is the boy keeping from his mother? “Someone got hurt. A lady, she died.” “You can see her? (Mom leans over steering wheel, looking for carcass in street) Where is she?” ****SEM: The unstable meaning, the dead person, is what the mother expects her son to be referring to, yet he is finally addressing his sixth sense and she has no idea what he is actually referring to. “Standing next to my window.” ***Equivocation: The mother cannot see the corpse, so to her it seems that he is lying, yet he can actually see her; both fraud and truth intermingle.

“You see ghosts Cole?” He nods. “They want me to do things for them.” ***Partial answer: Cole has revealed that he can see spirits, yet the specificity of such an occurrence is still yet to be uncovered by the mother. “They’re the ones who used to hurt me.” ***Suspended answer: Rather than explaining how or why or in what manner he sees the spirits, he adds a new detail to the already overwhelming news.

“She [grandma] wanted me to tell you she saw you dance. She said when you were little that you and her had a fight right before your dance recital. You thought she didn’t come see you dance. She did.  She hid in the back so you wouldn’t see. She said you were like an angel. She said you came to the place where they buried her, asked her a question. She said, the answer is ‘every day.’ What did you ask?” “Do I make her proud?” ***Disclosure: Not only is the truth of Cole’s talent revealed, the mother finally believes him, for he has a validation of events that happened unnoticed by the mother, reinforcing his claim. Mother and son embrace. *The mother finally feels a connection with her son that she hadn't felt ever before.