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By Saturday she was so / utterly miserable that it / seemed she could hardly / live until that night when / she would get her / new shoes. Exposition establishes timeline and also uses free indirect discourse to frame the next sequence and its exchange.
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3:57
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She caught a bad cold. Her throat hurt / and her head ached. Exposition creating pathos.
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4:51
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Sometimes she lay awake / in the night--wide-eyed--/ thinking of the fate of / her family. Provides exposition and explanation of the fantastically personified Hand of Poverty in the next shot.
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10:59
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At last it was time to receive the blessed pay envelope. Exposition establishing timeline and mood.
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12:55
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"Aren't you going to me / the three dollars, Mama?" dialogue as exposition for previous exhange.
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13:00
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"I can't do it, child. We got to eat / and no one will let us have / any thing more except / for cash." Dialogue explaining core narrative problem from mother's perspective and the issue of debt.
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13:13
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"I've got to have a new pair of shoes." Dialogue to father.
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18:45
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"Give me carefare, mama. I'm going to Lil's / over Sunday." Dialogue as exposition that establishes that the protagonist lies to her mother because the next sequence at The Blue Goose.
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Sadly, she imagined a different life one filled with luxury and pleasure. Provides exposition for previous POV sequence with the shoes and transitions to ballroom sequence.
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Wednesday and Thursday in contined to rain. Establishes timeline of events.
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1:29
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There they were.../Her shoes!/Poor child, she knew / them by heart. Narration as free indirect discourse that precedes close-up of desired object (the shoes), creating a narrative frame for the close-up as a POV shot.
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2:26
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"Other men find work!" dialogue spoken by mother to father, advances characterization of father as a bum.
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2:47
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Every evening she scraped the caked mud from her bare, swollen feet. Exposition that creates pathos for the protagonist.
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"I'll be sure to find some / work, and I'll give you / the money then." Dialogue after father shows off his broken shoes, establishes family power dynamic and reason for poverty.
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"We haven't tasted / meat all week, mother." Dialogue from younger siblings expresses pathos and desperation, and basic needs as trumping commodity culture and personal need.
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It was only a matter / of hours before they would / literally fall to pieces. / She felt that the end / had come. Exposition with free indirect discourse. It also parallels the fate of the object (her broken shoes) with the individual's mind and the narrative conclusion.
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