Comments on: Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta http://whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=18 Harriet Jordan Mon, 11 Feb 2008 09:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Administrator http://whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=18#comment-12 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 09:04:05 +0000 http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/testblog/?p=16#comment-12 Not wanting to sound like your teacher, but … I think you should try and work out for yourself what the main plot is. Though for different readers, different aspects of the story are likely to be important. [Digression – at a work training course once, we had to summarise the plot of a movie in one or two sentences (can’t remember why) and my group chose Million Dollar Baby. My summary was compleletly different from everyone else’s, because I saw the story as being about Clint Eastwood’s character, and everyone else thought it was about Hilary Swank’s character. End of digression.]

But some things you might consider when trying to work out what is (for you) the main plot of Saving Francesca are … friendship, dealing with family crises, growing up, being true to yourself rather than being the person other people want you to be, coping when your support structures disappear, learning about yourself and your own strengths and weaknesses. And I’m sure there are lots of other things as well.

BTW, I agree that Will was pretty heartless. Actually, I really didn’t like him much at all. But maybe if the story had been told from his point of view, you might have seen that he was also confused about who he was, where he was going and who he wanted to be with. And maybe he would have come across as more sympathetic and understandable. Maybe.

]]> By: Delilah http://whitegauntlet.com.au/harriet/?p=18#comment-11 Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:50:06 +0000 http://www.whitegauntlet.com.au/testblog/?p=16#comment-11 Hey! What is the main plot of Saving Francesca? I have to know for an essay I am doing on Saving Francesca. I agreee… Will was the least interesting character who made his feelings very confusing. I think it was heartless when he pashed her at the party when he already had a girlfriend – leaving Francesca with false hopes, (at least for a while).

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