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No happy endings? Noir you kidding me?

The question of “what is noir?” cannot be answered in just one concrete, full-proof definition. This is evident strictly from the four readings that I explored this week. Although “The Postman Always Rings Twice”, “The Killers”, “The Shadow”, and “Debris” all vary in form, setting, plot, and many other elements; …

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Deception, Murder, Intrigue, and Suspense…Oh my

Our noir readings took me for a spin this week. My emotions were all over the place. There were times when I liked particular characters and other times when I went against them.

With regards to The Postman Always Rings Twice, I did’t really realize how I felt until I …

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The Shadow

This reading didn’t impress me much but must say still see noir there! You’ve got the crime, murder and drunks present. Definitely sultry and noir materials. I found it to be a very twisted plot in this script and not sure I like readings like this. A lot of he …

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Reading Noir…

The Shadow “The Death Triangle” was definitely my favorite to read. Once I actually figured out who all the characters were (it’s a lot of names to keep straight) I was right on the edge of my seat the whole story.  The part where they flashback to their time stranded …

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Time is Chasing After All of Us

One of the assignments this week was to read for different pieces of noir and reflect on them.

I started with reading The Postman Always Rings Twice. It was a pretty good story. It took me a little while to get used to this type of writing, but once I …

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Postman Always Rings Twice

Oh my, I must say I had to keep reading I couldn’t put it down even with the fast pace in how things were happening. Noir is seen here as it is black, full of crime, and of course there’s dames involved. Boy talk about tropes, he wrote “but she …

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Noir in different writing styles

This week i decided to read The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Killers, The Shadow and Debris, they all had different themes and styles of noir presented in them all.

 

The Postman Always Rings Twice by James Cain

This story was most definitely an example of noir readings. The …

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Animals are more important than humans

The short story called Debris from Shenandoah literacy was a good short read. I found it very interesting and many different things contributed to making it interesting. The story started out as a seemingly nice couple living on a farm. The lady did seam a little weird about needing to …

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“The Killers” and “A Matter of Procedure”

The Killers was not what I expected. The most I got out of it was the cultural implications about organized crime and Prohibition. Which I suppose are important settings in noir now that I think about it. In the beginning I believed that all they were looking for was alcohol(completely …

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