What’s scarier than censorship?
The novel “IT” is all about fear, and the many ways in which it manifests itself. Author Stephen King holds nothing back in his gory, vulgar depictions of racism, homophobia, murder, suicide, antisemitism and more.
Speaker: 16 year old AP Lang student
Occasion: Banned books week, beginning of Autumn, Halloween approaching
Audience: Mrs.Schafer’s AP Lang students/my classmates
Purpose: To poke fun at the censorship of literature and show why it’s so ridiculous.
Subject: The censorship of literature, specifically in terms of Stephen King’s “IT”
Tone: Sarcastic, facetious, annoyed, satirical
The video begins with videos of waterfalls and other peaceful scenery with the title, “The Following is an Entirely Accurate and not at all Facetious Representation of the World”. It goes through cheesy stock photos and nature scenery for roughly 30 seconds before the video stops and cuts to an error screen. The music turns scary and cuts to scenes that I actually film. It’s filmed like an apocalyptic blog— Blaire Witch style. I’m not sure who will star in it yet, but they’ll start off in the dark, clutching a copy of “IT” and whispering to the camera. They’ll give a small summary of the novel and why it was banned. They’ll also explain that they have to hide the book because it’s highly illegal to read it ever since it was banned. Suddenly, there’s a door creaking; in walks someone in a Pennywise mask, who forcefully rips the book away from the lead and knocks the camera over. The screen cuts to black and restates the quote that I opened my first blog post with: “What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.” -Jacques Derrida
*here’s my draft for the beginning!
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