Four essay 2 page for each

Questions for The Ring:

1) The first line in The Ring is “I hate television,” what does this mean in context of the film itself, and horror in general?

2) Who is Samara, and why does she kill people?

3) What is the function of sex in The Ring?

4) How doe drugs and alcohol function in The Ring?

5) Why does Samara wait seven days until she kills her victim? What is the significance of seven?

6) How does parenting function in The Ring?

7) What kind of person is Noah? Why does Noah refuse to be a Father to Aiden? What are the consequences?

8) What kind of person is Rachel? What kind of mother is she?

9) How do horses function in The Ring?

10) Why does Samara’s mother Anna kill her and dump her in the well?

11) Who is Samara’s real father, and why is that so important?

12) Why set The Ring in Seattle Washington, what are the advantages of the Pacific Northwest?

13) How does the television set function in The Ring?

14) What is the function of television?

Vocabulary for The Ring:

1) Parricide: the murder of a parent or closer elative.

2) Suicide: the act of deliberately killing yourself.

3) Revenge: to punish somebody in retaliation forharm or injury done.

4) Supernatural: relating or attributed to phenomena that cannot be explained by natural laws.

5) Hybrid: an animal that results from the mating of parents from two distinct species or subspecies.

6) Bastard: a person born of parents not married to each other.

7) Nymph: a minor goddess or spirit of nature in mythology, inhabiting areas of natural beauty such as woods, mountains, and rivers and traditionally regarded as a beautiful young woman.

8) Nymphet: a sexually aware and sexually desirable young woman, especially a woman in her early teens.

9) Folklore: traditional stories and explanations passed down in a community or country.

10) Chain Letter: a letter sent to a number of people, each of whom is asked to send copies to the same number of new people, sometimes requesting and promising money to recipients.

11) Curse: a malevolent appeal to a supernatural being for harm to come to somebody or something, or the harm that is thought to result from this.

12) Virus: anything that has a corrupting or poisonous effect, especially on people’s minds.

13) Infection: the transmission of infectious microorganisms from one person to another.

14) Contagion: an illness that spreads from one person to another, especially by physical contact between persons or contact with infected objects.

15) Generation X: the generation of people born roughly during the years 1965 to 1980 in Western countries, especially the United States, often regarded as disillusioned, cynical, or apathetic.

16) Generation Y: the generation of people born approximately in or after 1980 in Western countries especially in the United Sates.

17) Journalist: somebody who works as a writer or editor for a newspaper or magazine or for television or radio.

18) Photojournalism: a form of journalism in which photographs play a more important role than the accompanying text.

19) Nuclear Family: a social unit that consists of a mother, a father, and their children.

20) Sin: an act, a thought, or behavior that goes against the law or teachings of a particular religion, especially when the person who commits it is aware of this.

21) Paternity: descent from a father.

22) Patrilineage: descent traced through the male line.

23) Patriarchy: a social system in which men are regarded as the authority within the family and society, and in which power and possessions are passed on from father to son.

24) Clone: a collection of organisms, cells, or molecular segments that are genetically identical direct descendants of a single parent by asexual reproduction, for example, plant cuttings or grafts.

25) Half-Bred: used to describe a domestic animal that has only one parent of a known pedigree.

26) Animal Husbandry: the branch of agriculture concerned with breeding and rearing farm animals.

27) Thoroughbred: a pure breed of horse descended from English mares and Arabian stallions, originally bred in Britain and most often used for racing.

28) Bastard: a person born of parents not married to each other.