Monday, September 22, 2008

In-Class Assignment for Tuesday 23 September 2008.

EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Go to the following segments of Eye of the Beholder from The Twilight Zone TV series; then answer the questions below. The segments are: 1, 2, 3.
Warning: There are two shows with the same name, Eye of the Beholder, so this time it's safer following the links instead of clicking on the segment in youtube, since you may be confused if you click the wrong Eye of the Beholder (also in 3 segments), an entirely different program.


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
    1. In the beginning, what does the nurse bring the patient?
    2. What time does the patient think it is?
    3. What time is it?
    4. What weather is it according to the nurse?
    5. Were there clouds in the sky according to the nurse?
    6. Why does the patient like to look at the clouds?
    7. When will they take the bandages off?
    8. What does the nurse say when the patient says, "It's pretty bad."
    9. What do people do when they look at the patient?
    10. When the patient insists the bandages be removed, what does the nurse answer?
    11. What temperature change for the patient does the nurse announce on the intercom?
    12. How does she say the patient is resting?
    13. What does the patient say she would do if she has the same face when the bandages are removed?
    14. What is the patient's name?
    15. How big is her universe, according to narrator, Rod Serling?
    16. According to the narrator, what is the patient about to enter?
    17. What is the patient's number?
    18. What time does the doctor want the nurse to come back?
    19. What for?
    20. How does the doctor describe the weather?
    21. How many times has the patient been to the hospital?
    22. How many times does the doctor think it is?
    23. How does the patient describe what it's like living with bandages on her face?
    24. What does she smell?
    25. Has the hospital treatment made any difference, according to the doctor?
    26. What factors (2 are mentioned) prohibit a surgical treatment?  
    27. What is the mandatory number of experiments?
    28. What happens if the patient doesn't respond to treatment?
    29. Why does she want to walk in the garden?
    30. What does she want to be like?
    31. What is an alternative to treatment?
    32. What does she call the special area?
    33. What is it designed for according to her?
    34. How rational is the patient behaving according to the doctor?
    35. What does she want to put on her face?
    36. What doesn't the state have the right to do about ugliness?
    37. How does the doctor look according to the nurse?
    38. After doing everything for the patient, what does the doctor hope for?
    39. What does the nurse think the doctor is doing to himself?
    40. What does the nurse tell the doctor he mustn't let happen to him with his patient?  
    41. How does the nurse describe the woman's face?  
    42. How does the doctor describe her face?  
    43. What does he say about the face of her real self?  
    44. What does the doctor believe people should be allowed to be?   
    45. What has this case done to the doctor?  
    46. When is the leader of the country speaking?  
    47. What does the leader speak about?  
    48. What 3 things does the doctor require of the patient before he removes the bandages?  
    49. What does he want the patient to describe to him?  
    50. What does the light look to her at first?  
    51. The second time?  
    52. The third time?  
    53. What does the doctor want the patient to remember before removing the final bandage?  
    54. What does she want the doctor to do if she's still ugly?  
    55. What word does the doctor use for this action?  
    56. Who is the man she accidentally finds when she runs away from the hospital staff?  
    57. When will he take her there?  
    58. Where does the man say she will be able to live in peace?  
    59. What kind of sense will she have?  
    60. What question does she ask the man?  
    61. What's the old saying?  
    62. What questions come to mind to the narrator? Where is this world and when?
    63. What kind of world is it where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation?
    64. What lesson is to be learned in the twilight zone?
    65. Discuss the theme of the program and how it relates to the subject of the show, social issues or to realities you know.
    66. Prepare two questions you wish to ask your classmates about the program.

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