Question

Read the following paragraphs about four films and then identify the purpose of each paragraph: to summarize, to analyze, to synthesize, or to evaluate.
1. This film could easily have been cut down to less than two hours. By the final scene, I noticed that most of my fellow moviegoers were snoozing in their seats and were barely paying attention to what was happening on screen. Although the director sticks diligently to the book, he tries too hard to cram in all the action, which is just too ambitious for such a detail-oriented story. If you want my advice, read the book and give the movie a miss.
2. During the opening scene, we learn that the character Laura is adopted and that she has spent the past three years desperately trying to track down her real parents. Having exhausted all the usual options—adoption agencies, online searches, family trees, and so on—she is on the verge of giving up when she meets a stranger on a bus. The chance encounter leads to a complicated chain of events that ultimately result in Laura getting her lifelong wish. But is it really what she wants? Throughout the rest of the film, Laura discovers that sometimes the past is best left where it belongs.
3. To create the feeling of being gripped in a vice, the director, May Lee, uses a variety of elements to gradually increase the tension. The creepy, haunting melody that subtly enhances the earlier scenes becomes ever more insistent, rising to a disturbing crescendo toward the end of the movie. The desperation of the actors, combined with the claustrophobic atmosphere and tight camera angles create a realistic firestorm, from which there is little hope of escape. Walking out of the theater at the end feels like staggering out of a Roman dungeon.
4. The scene in which Campbell and his fellow prisoners assist the guards in shutting down the riot immediately strikes the viewer as unrealistic. Based on the recent reports on prison riots in both Detroit and California, it seems highly unlikely that a posse of hardened criminals will intentionally help their captors at the risk of inciting future revenge from other inmates. Instead, both news reports and psychological studies indicate that prisoners who do not actively participate in a riot will go back to their cells and avoid conflict altogether. Examples of this lack of attention to detail occur throughout the film, making it almost unbearable to watch.

Answer 1

Answer: 1. To Evaluate

2. To Summarize

3. To Synthesize

4. To Analyze

Explanation:

1. When evaluating a work the main goal is to determine its worth and this is usually done based on previous perceptions as well as set standards. The person is statement 1 gives their opinion of the movie basing it off of the director being too ambitious. They give the film a low value because people were sleeping through it and then offer their opinion that the book should be read and the movie avoided.

2. When summarising the main purpose is to convert the large amount of information available to a smaller and more concise format from which the main idea of the work can be discovered immediately. The owner of the second statement made you as the reader know what happened in the film in not too many words so you get the main idea.

3. When works are synthesized, the author makes note of different things and then brings them together to form something entirely new. The author of this statement notes how the various elements were used to entice the viewer such as the music, the actions of the actors, and the tight camera angles. These are things were not central to the movie but the author made note of them and created a whole new narrative of why the movie was so successful.

4. When analyzing, the work is broken down into its composite parts to see how and if the parts go together. The author of the statement breaks the film down into a composite part which was when the prisoners helped the guards in shutting down the riots. The author then proceeded to explain how this part is not logical and then related this to the entire movie showing that the author also dissected other parts of the film and saw similar behavior.