Assignment 3.5: Culture in Film

2. Personal and Cultural Identity

Discovering and developing our personal and cultural identity means we need to recognize...

1. Relationships and cultural contexts
2. Personal values and choice
3. Personal strengths and abilities

 The interrelationship between land, story, and community plays a vital role in many works.  Looking closely at the way a story represents place can reveal a lot about human relationships and different ways of understanding place and land.  How can we read a variety of settings - rural, urban, interior, exterior - as enriching our understanding of the way the characters relate to their surroundings, to themselves, to each other?  How does the plot structure, setting, and theme (main idea) portray a cultural identity?