Tugas Modul : Learning Tasks M4LA4

Nama : Hilda Hosfia, S.Hum

Sekolah : SMPN 32 Kab. Tebo

Learning Tasks M4LA4

Instructions
Task 1
Read these two movie reviews, then analyze them by comparing the social function, generic
structure and language features between those reviews!
Movie Review 1
Peace of Autumn
Cliff (Joseph Arnone) is a suicidal war vet.
Kora (Daniella Alma) is a street artist with a penchant for truth-telling and meaning.
When their paths cross, they change each other's life forever within the short span of a unique
yet believably authentic friendship. It's a friendship that leads them down a path they could have
never anticipated.
A Peace of Autumn is an intellectually satisfying and emotionally resonant film that tackles
the challenge of two quite substantial characters within the span of a short film running just over
seventeen minutes in length. Both characters end up being people you want to know, Cliff's despair
obvious and real and filled with the kind of rage that intimidates yet compels. It's also easy to
understand exactly what draws Kora into the situation, perhaps something within herself as both a
human being and an artist - if, indeed, one can actually separate those two anyway.
Joseph Arnone, who stars in the film along with serving as writer and director, creates such
a multi-layered character that you're never completely clear where everything is going, while
Daniella Alma's Kora oozes compassion and vulnerability. Together, the two create a story that
draws you in even when you think, and I stress think, you have everything figured outArnone also
lenses the film and he does so with an eye toward the awkward intimacy that exists between these
two, a friendship borne out of what is both spoken and unspoken between the two A Peace of
Autumn has only recently been finished and should have no problem finding a home on the indie
and underground film fest circuit where its heartfelt story will companion a program of dramatic
shorts quite nicely
http://theindependentcritic.com/a_peace_of_autumn

Movie Review 2.
A Beautiful Silence
It was only a year or so ago that I found myself reaching yet another crossroads in my faith
journey. After having attended seminary and grown in ministry within my Anabaptist
denomination, I found myself disillusioned by not just belief systems but how those belief systems
were being lived out within the life of the denomination.
The more I grew in leadership, the more it bothered me. So, I turned in my ministry license
and moved away from a ministry path that I I found conflicting even as I loved the many people
I'd gotten to know over the years.
I thought about this faith journey often while watching Steven Adam Renkovish's
meditative and thought-provoking short film A Beautiful Silence, a film that he professes was at
least partially borne out of his own disillusionment with the church and the legalism contained
within. What A Beautiful Silence projects so beautifully is that divine awkwardness found between
faith and doubt, an awkwardness that longs for authenticity yet reaches and too often finds artificial
expressions of the divine experience.
While it may sound like A Beautiful Silence is a faith-based film, it is not a faith-based film.
While it may very well resonate most deeply with progressive Christians, I'd also dare say that
those who've led a more disciplined spiritual life will identify with the doubts and fears and
anxieties expressed by Brittany Renee Smith in the film. Smith, who also co-wrote the film, gives
a relaxed, natural performance that feels less like performance and more like we've become
observers to a journey deep within her soul.
While some who've praised A Beautiful Silence have mentioned Malick and Von Trier, I
found myself contemplating the works of Van Sant, especially films such as Gerry and the
recent The Sea of Trees, the latter being a film a good majority of the world seemed to hate yet I
adored.
A Beautiful Silence is a refreshingly honest film, not entirely devoid of hope yet also
refusing to create a false sense of hope for the sake of somehow honoring the faith journey. The
film has already been an official selection at over a dozen indie film fests, while it Renkovish
picked up the prize for Best Director at the Franklin County International Film Festival. The film
has also been nominated for prizes at the Blackbird Film Fest and Smoky Mountain Film Festival.
Filmed in and around Greenville, South Carolina, A Beautiful Silence captures the simple
beauty of the surroundings yet also captures the wounded soul of a young woman struggling with
God, faith, meaning and the world around her. It's an experience that is likely familiar to many
persons of faith, yet an experience not often portrayed with such honesty on the big screen.
A Beautiful Silence doesn't project easy answers. Indeed, that appears to be an intentional
choice as the journey itself isn't easy and the answers you may discover will be uniquely your own.
If there's a divine purpose behind A Beautiful Silence, it's the realization, perhaps, that we are not
alone in our faith and we are not alone in our doubts and wherever we go there's at least a sliver of
hope that we can discover somewhere, someway within that beautiful silence.
© Written by Richard Propes
The Independent Critic
http://theindependentcritic.com/a_beautiful_silence
Complete the Following Table Analysis
No Component A Peace of Autumn A Beautiful Silence
1. Social Function : is to To inform the reader that To inform the reader that the
appreciate or to critic a book, the summary explain an film is not a faith-based film.
movie, shows, and other intellectually satisfying
and emotionally resonant
film and this film is a
program of dramatic
shorts quite nicely.
2. Generic structure:  The first paragraph  The first and second
 Orientation/Introduction: tells us the event and paragraph tells us the
Background of the text the participants experience’s writer
 Evaluatioan: concluding  Cliff (Joseph Arnone) regarding the film.
statement, opinion,
recommendation. is a suicidal war vet.  It was only a … belief
 Interpretative recount: Kora (Daniella systems were being lived
summary
 Evaluative summation: Alma) is a street out within the life of the
The last opinion artist with a penchant denomination.
for truth-telling and
meaning.  The more I grew …. I
loved the many people I'd
 The second paragraph gotten to know over the
tells about the years.
reviewer opinion and
appreciation toward  Third paragraph tells us
this film about orientation of the
 A Peace of Autumn is film
an intellectually  I thought about this faith
satisfying and journey often while
emotionally resonant watching Steven Adam
film that tackles the Renkovish's …and too
challenge of two often finds artificial
quite substantial expressions of the divine
characters within the experience.
span of a short film
running just over  The next paragraph is
evaluating.
 seventeen minutes in
length…..  While it may sound like A
Beautiful Silence is a
 The last paragraph his faith-based film, it is not a
evaluation of this film faith-based film. … and
that this film will more like we've become
companion a program observers to a journey
of dramatic short deep within her soul.
quite nicely
 A Beautiful Silence is a
refreshingly honest film,
… at the Blackbird Film
Fest and Smoky
Mountain Film Festival.

 The last paragraph tells us

this film is a divine
purpose behind A
Beautiful Silence
3. Language features  In the paragraph 1 it  It uses past tense in first
 Focus on specific used mostly simple and second paragraph
participants,
present and some in  It was only a year or so
 using adjective,
 complex clauses, past tense since it ago that I found myself
 using metaphore tells about the reaching … within the life
summary of the story of the denomination.
in the novel.
 The more I grew in
 Cliff is a suicidal war leadership, the more
vet. Kora is a street …gotten to know over the
artist with a penchant years.
for truth-telling and
meaning.  While it may sound
 When their paths like A Beautiful
cross, they change Silence is a faith-based
each other's life film, it is not a faith-based
forever … film.
  Awkward, satisfying  A Beautiful Silence is a
and emotionally refreshingly honest film
resonant film

 an eye toward the

awkward intimacy
that exists between
these two

 It's also easy to

understand exactly
what draws Kora into
the situation, perhaps
something within
herself as both a
human being and an
artist - if, indeed, one
can actually separate
those two anyway.

Task 2
Read the movie review text entitle Round Trip then answer the questions!

Round Trip

The Rover meets Groundhog Day with a touch of Mad Max in this short Australian comedy,
written and directed by Ren Thackham. Round Trip is a blisteringly funny journey into the wild
where anything can, and does, happen.

Danny Bolt plays Constable Rose, a charming and likeable cop hoping for the easy transport
of a prisoner in the back of his police car. Said prisoner, Ned (Lee Priest), is anything but
cooperative though, and seeks escape at his first opportunity. However, their current location is in
the massive unknown that is the Australian outback, where strange things start to happen.

Brilliantly filmed, wickedly funny, and intelligently paced, Thackham steers with both
hands on Round Trip for a thrilling and controlled viewing experience. The laughs come when
they are supposed to, especially from the banter between Priest and Bolt. One of my favourite
moments is when Bolt’s police officer talks about wanting a tattoo to the largely inked Ned. It was
a perfect example of great timing and characterisation.

The location is used spectacularly. With the unforgiving sun a constant menace, contrasting
wonderfully with the breathtaking landscapes and endless horizons. There are also some pretty
impressive stunts thrown in for good measure, with Constable Rose’s cop car being flipped a
couple of times.

It was fantastic to see Thackham’s script hold up to the strain of attempting multiple genres.
The coalescing elements of comedy, action, mystery and horror could so easily have been too
much for another filmmaker to hold their balance, but Thackham holds the reins tighter than Ned’s
skin-tight vest against his bulging muscles. The lines are funny throughout and there is a genuinely
compelling degree of peril and intrigue from the storyline. To say much more would spoil it but
you should most definitely seek this film out.

I would perhaps have liked a little bit more exposition than is given. Only to help me invest
more into the two characters and the dangerous situation they find themselves in. That being said,
the charisma of the performers goes a long way to assist this. The performances are excellent,
Priest playing the unstable criminal with impressive amounts of humour. Bolt is utterly hilarious
as the Aussie officer, delivering some of the most memorable moments in Round Trip.

Everything I have said in this film review goes a way to attest to the splendour of
Thackham's short film, but two words come to mind if you are looking for a more concise
conclusion. Fair dinkum.

Answer the following questions!

1. What is the genre of this movie?

A. Science fiction
B. Drama
C. Action
D. Tragedy

2. Which one of these statements is true according to the text?

A. The performance is great but it is ruined by the unstable criminal played by Priest
B. The set of location is comfortable for the movie actors
C. The characterization is not precisely characterized by the director
D. The most memorable scene is played by Bolt
3. The word ‘Throughout’ in the paragraph 5 has the closest meaning with …
A. Passing
B. All over
C. Exclude
D. In the certain time

4. What is the reviewer true intention in giving the review about the movie?
A. To tell that the movie is hilarious
B. To describe about the spectacular set of location
C. To prove how excellent the movie is
D. To describe the character in the movie

5. What is main idea of the fifth paragraph?

A. The good steadiness of the multiple genres in the movie
B. The multiple genres in the film
C. The multiple genres that is awfully executed by the director
D. There are too many genres in one short film

6. What is the story about?

A. A cop and a prisoner who did something fun in the journey to the prison
B. Two men that found something strange in their journey
C. A prisoner that always tries to escape from the back of the police car
D. A cop that struggling in guarding the prisoner at the back of his seat

7. Which one of these words that has the closest meaning with ‘splendor’?
A. Awful
B. Spell
C. Majesty
D. Drought

8. These statements are true according to the text except …

A. The writer cannot handle the compilation of the genres in this movie
B. The actor is acted like the way director want it to
C. The actor assist the movie with his charisma
D. The set of the location is extremely hot

9. How is the way of the reviewer giving the review?

A. The reviewer talk only about his experience in watching the movie
 B. The reviewer gives a piece of the scene and then gives a review about it
C. The reviewer only tells about his feeling towards the movie
D. The reviewer talk about how great Thachkam is

10. Below here are things that is reviewed by Olson except …

A. The filming location
B. How Thachkam managed to balance all the genres
C. The characterization followed by a piece of scene
D. The summary of the movie

Answer:

1. C
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. C
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. A

Task 3
Read the following novel reviews, Identify the reviewer, the topic and the social function of
each novel!

Review 1.
A BROTHERHOOD OF SPIES
Cold war secrets exposed
Book Page review by Edward Morris
Book Page Top Pick in Nonfiction, May 2018
The Cold War between the U.S. and Russia was at its iciest from the early 1950s until well
into the 1960s. Neither side knew a great deal about the other’s military capabilities and even less
about any grand designs for world supremacy. The information the two superpowers did possess
came mostly from spies, diplomats, gossip and news reports. Although securing reliable
intelligence was clearly in the Pentagon’s interest, its chief focus was on improving its weaponry.
However, the nascent Central Intelligence Agency was interested in experimental aerial
reconnaissance projects.
Into this jurisdictional minefield entered four inordinately talented civilians who took it upon
themselves to build and test technology that might reveal what was actually happening in Russia:
Edwin Land, the inventor of the first Polaroid camera and a genius in the field of optics; Kelly
Johnson, an engineer who zeroed in on designing lightweight, high-flying aircraft that could
photograph the Russian landscape while, ideally, evading radar detection; Richard Bissell, a
Connecticut blue blood the CIA assigned to oversee and facilitate the hush-hush project; and
Francis Gary Powers, one of the daredevil pilots selected to test the new spy plane, which they
called the U-2. Powers would later be shot down over the Soviet Union in the U-2, sparking even
more saber-rattling.
Among the more colorful characters traipsing through this wide-ranging narrative are the
bulldoggish General Curtis LeMay, J. Edgar Hoover, the influential and socially well-connected
columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop, the surprisingly restrained and canny Nikita Khrushchev,
John F. Kennedy and Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, who regarded Powers as a coward
and traitor because he didn’t kill himself before being captured by the KGB.
A story as well told as Monte Reel’s A Brotherhood of Spies is an irresistible call to binge-
reading.
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22569-monte-reel-brotherhood-spies#.Wus7-siFPIV

REVIEW 2
THE MAP OF SALT AND STARS
Two lives, a thousand years apart
Book Page review by Omar El Akkad
Among the many things the violence of war obliterates, perhaps the most malicious is
history. Now in its seventh year, the civil war that has turned Syria into the site of one of the
world’s worst humanitarian crises has also corseted one of the oldest societies on earth into a kind
of perpetual infancy. Syria, it sometimes seems, only began to exist seven years ago, as a place
defined only by its current calamity.
In many ways, The Map of Salt and Stars is at once a testament to the brutality of the
current Syrian conflict and a reverent ode to ancient Arabian history. Syrian-American writer
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar has crafted an audacious debut, ambitious and sprawling in both time
and space.
The book follows the story of Nour, a Syrian-American girl living in New York. In 2011,
after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother decides to move the family back to Homs to be
close to their extended family. But Nour’s arrival coincides with Syria’s slide into civil war. Amid
grotesque violence, Nour is made a refugee, a traveler through Syria’s neighboring lands.
Almost a thousand years earlier, another girl’s story unfolds. Rawiya, seeking a better life for her
mother, disguises herself as a boy and joins a legendary cartographer on a quest to map the known
world.
The two stories unfold side by side, split by time but joined by a common geography.
Because the modern part of Joukhadar’s narrative carries the urgency of the present tense, but the
ancient half reads like an old Arabian fairy tale, the dual story structure is at first jarring. But soon
the book finds its pace, and the intertwining tales complement each other in ways a single narrative
could not. A swooping bird of prey that threatens to devour the ancient story’s traveling
companions finds its modern-day analogy in the form of Syrian fighter planes dropping bombs on
besieged cities.
There is a heartfelt quality to the story, evident in the meticulous historical research that must
have gone into the creation of the ancient part of the book. The Map of Salt and Stars presents
an Arab world in full possession of its immense historical and cultural biography, marred by its
modern tragedies but not exclusively defined by them.
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22549-jennifer-zeynab-joukhadar-map-salt-stars#.Wus9vMiFPIU

REVIEW 3
WARLIGHT
Growing up in the wreckage of war
BookPage review by G. Robert Frazier
Learning who you are and, perhaps more importantly, who you are meant to be isn’t easy.
Nathaniel Williams, the young hero of Michael Ondaatje’s latest novel, Warlight, spends much
of his adolescence and later years pondering this.
The author of the Booker Prize-winning The English Patient, Ondaatje confounds his 14-
year-old protagonist from the outset when the boy’s parents announce they are going away for a
year and that he and his 15-year-old sister, Rachel, will be left in the care of a strange acquaintance
known as the Moth, a man they are certain is a criminal. In 1945 England, at the end of World War
II, Nathaniel and Rachel must adjust to their newfound parental abandonment and accept the
Moth’s warning “that nothing was safe anymore.”
As narrated through Nathaniel’s intimate firsthand perspective, the siblings test their new
guardian by rebelling at school. But instead of meeting a stern lashing for their behavior, they are
surprised by the Moth’s calm understanding and protective demeanor. Equally surprising is the
cast of unusual characters associated with the Moth who wind up staying at their house, including
Norman Marshall, better known as the Pimlico Darter, a smuggler and racer of greyhound dogs.
The siblings drift further from each other as Nathaniel finds a surrogate father in the Darter
and Rachel is drawn closer to the Moth. Events cascade with the surprising return of their mother,
Rose. But this isn’t a cheerful reunion, as her abandonment and silence about her secretive service
in the war have a profound effect on her children and leave more questions than answers—
questions that plague Nathaniel well into adulthood and long after his mother’s death.
Contemplative and mysterious, Warlight is utterly engrossing.
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22547-michael-ondaatje-warlight#.Wus9_ciFPIU
Complete the following table based on the review texts 1,2, and 3

Component Review 1 Review 2 Review 3

A Brotherhood of The Map of Salt Warlight
Spies And Stars
Name of Reviewer Edward Morris Omar El Akkad G. Robert Frazier
Topic A thrilling dramatic The story of a A story tells us about
narrative of the top- contemporary girl's 14-year-old
secret Cold War-era flight into exile from Nathaniel and his
spy plane operation the Syrian civil war is sister Rachel whose
that transformed the deepened by the parents having
CIA and brought the parallel tale of a 12th- moved to Singapore
U.S. and the Soviet century girl. near the end of World
Union War I
Social Function To tell the readers To tell the readers To tell the readers
about a gripping work that this beautifully that a masterpiece of
of narrative nonfiction. nuanced debut novel shifting memory
This work provides a and it is a good novel novel briefly.
satisfying take on a in any case
central chapter of the
Cold War—a dramatic
story.

Task 4
Read the following novel reviews, Identify the reviewer, the topic, and the social function of
each review

REVIEW 1
THE MARS ROOM
Woman behind bars
BookPage review by Alden Mudge
BookPage Top Pick in Fiction, May 2018
Much of the action of Rachel Kushner’s brilliant new novel is set in California prisons. She
has done her research, and the novel is filled with distressing factual details like death-row inmates
sewing sandbags and prison staff using a powerful, probably toxic disinfectant called Cell Block
64. And of course there are the stultifying, dehumanizing prison routines.
But the moral scope of The Mars Room is really too large for it to be considered a prison
novel. Through its vividly rendered characters, it asks the reader to ponder bigger questions—
Dostoyevskian questions—about the system of justice, the possibility of redemption and even the
industrialization of the natural landscape.
The novel’s central character is Romy Hall. We meet her as she is being transported from a
Los Angeles jail to Stanville, a prison in California’s agricultural heartland where she is to serve
two life sentences. She is 29, born to a cruel mother in a San Francisco neighborhood that bears
little resemblance to the high-tech mecca of today. She is the mother of a young son she worries
about obsessively. Until she fled a stalker by moving with her son to Los Angeles, she hustled as
a lap dancer at a place called the Mars Room in downtown San Francisco. We don’t learn the
details until late in the novel, but we know that because of her ineffectual lawyer, she ends up in
prison for killing her stalker.
Kushner (Telex from Cuba, The Flamethrowers) is both tough and darkly funny in writing
about her characters’ situations, and she writes not so much for us to empathize with them, but
rather to understand them. The Mars Room is a captivating and beautiful novel.
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22546-rachel-kushner-mars-room#.Wus-QsiFPIU

REVIEW 2
MY EX-LIFE
As we stumble along
Book Page review by Harvey Freedenberg
Stephen McCauley’s bittersweet seventh novel gives the lie to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
pronouncement that there are no second acts in American lives. Because for all their missteps, the
angst-ridden characters that populate My Ex-Life seem determined, in their endearingly flawed
ways, to make the best of their unique circumstances.
Most of the novel’s action unfolds in the slightly shabby seaside resort of Beauport, just north
of Boston. It’s home to Julie Fiske and her restless daughter, Mandy, who’s on the cusp of high
school graduation. In the midst of a fractious divorce and pressured by her husband to sell the
rambling home they once shared, Julie reaches out to her first ex-husband, David Hedges, a college
admissions consultant, in a desperate bid to help her daughter and bring order to the chaos of her
life. David left Julie three decades earlier after discovering his true sexual orientation, and he now
lives in San Francisco, where he faces his own real estate crisis—an impending eviction.
McCauley seasons the novel with a liberal helping of the anxieties of contemporary American
life, chief among them upper-middle-class parents’ apprehension about their children’s futures and
aging baby boomers’ regret that life’s brass ring will always be just out of reach. He excels in some
wickedly funny scenes that depict Julie’s fumbling efforts to turn her home into an economically
productive Airbnb, as well as a tender portrayal of the odd sexual tension that bubbles up during
Julie and David’s reunion. They’re the sort of people who know their lives possess all the
ingredients for happiness, but who seem to have lost the recipe. For all the idiosyncrasies of
McCauley’s creations, it’s likely many readers will see aspects of their own lives reflected in these
pages.
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22552-stephen-mccauley-my-ex-life#.Wus_pMiFPIU

REVIEW 3
MR. FLOOD'S LAST RESORT
Watch your step
BookPage review by Stephenie Harrison
What do you get when a cantankerous old hoarder in a decrepit mansion collides with a
world-weary caregiver who has a reluctant talent for communing with the dead? The answer is
Jess Kidd’s imaginative second novel, Mr. Flood’s Last Resort, an enchanting thriller that
disarms and delights.
When Maud Drennan is assigned to look after Cathal Flood, all she knows is that he has
managed to run off his previous caregivers through a combination of psychological warfare, booby
traps and outright hostility. However, Maud is made of stronger stuff than her relatively plain
appearance would suggest, and she arrives at Cathal’s doorstep ready for a fight. With dogged
determination, Maud slowly enters into an uneasy truce with the inscrutable old man, but she also
comes to realize that there is more to Cathal—and his property—than meets the eye.
While the moldering manor house is filled with decades-old detritus and an army of slightly
feral cats, it is also a mausoleum of secrets, potentially lethal ones. When Maud learns about the
suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Cathal’s wife—and the house begins to offer
up clues regarding a cold case that eerily echoes memories from Maud’s traumatic childhood—
she knows it is up to her to uncover who Cathal Flood truly is and to appease the restless spirits
that haunt the halls of his home.
Unique and unconventional, Mr. Flood’s Last Resort is an unforgettable mystery that will
appeal to fans of Tana French and Sophie Hannah, as it charms and unsettles in equal measure.
Kidd (Himself) deftly balances whimsy and humor with a genuine sense of malice and danger.
Savvy readers will question who can be trusted, as nothing—not even Maud—is as it initially
seems.
https://bookpage.com/reviews/22550-jess-kidd-mr-floods-last-resort#.Wus_5ciFPIU
 Component REVIEW 1 REVIEW 2 REVIEW 3
A Brotherhood Of The Map Of Salt Warlight
Spies And Stars
Name of Reviewer Alden Mudge Harvey Freedenberg Stephenie Harrison

Social Function To tell the readers To tell the readers To tell the readers
about a Rachel about the kind of about the
Kushner’s brilliant new witty, sparkling, spellbinding tale of a
novel which set in sharp novel that tells lonely caregiver and
California prisons us about a fractious a cranky hoarder with
briefly. divorce and pressured a house full of
to sell the rambling secrets.
home.

Generic structure  The first paragraph  Stephen Orientation

tells us McCauley’s  What do you get
chronologies in the bittersweet when
story. seventh novel a……thriller that
gives the lie to disarms and
 The novel’s central
F. Scott delights.
character is Romy
Fitzgerald’s
Hall. We meet her
……flawed ways, Evaluation
as she is being
transported from a
to make the best  When Maud
of their unique Drennan is
Los ………..novel,
circumstances. ……… his
but we know that
(Orientation) property—than
because of her
meets the eye.
ineffectual lawyer,  Most of the
she ends up in novel’s action  While the
prison for killing unfolds in the moldering manor
her stalker. /……estate house is filled
crisis—an with …….. spirits
 Last opinion that haunt the
impending
 The Mars Room is eviction. halls of his home.
a captivating and (Evaluation)  Unique and
beautiful novel unconventional,
 McCauley …. Savvy readers
seasons the novel will question who
with a liberal can be trusted, as
…… aspects of nothing—not
their own lives even Maud—is as
reflected in these it initially seems.
pages.
Last Opinion
 (Summary)
Language feature The orientation use In the paragraph 1 it In the paragraph 1 it
present simple and used mostly present used mostly present
present perfect. simple since it tells simple since it tells
The story review uses about the summary of about the summary of
past simple but for the story in the novel the story in the novel
opinion the writer use but the next but the next
paragraph it used paragraph it used
present simple.
past. past.
In giving opinion, the In giving opinion, the
writer use present writer use present
simple. simple.
Part 2: Constructing Review
Reading Review
1. To read Review text
Writing Review
1. To determine the social function of the review text
2. To write the background and summary of the book or movie
3. To write the evaluation and intrepetation
4. To write the Evaluative Summation : The last opinion consisting the appraisal or
the punch line of the art works being criticized.

Task 5
Look at these videos

https://youtu.be/oROVuDxJDKo

https://youtu.be/C4ccvVkJFGg
How to Write a Book Review for Amazon
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvTBroh0_2k
Choose one of your favorite novel then write your review briefly!
Book Review
Message In A Bottle
By Nicholas Sparks
Reviewed by Hilda Hosfia
Spark shows us he can in a story that renews our faith
in destiny. In the ability of true lovers to find each other no
matter where, no matter when... Message In A Bottle.
The writer wants to shows that the main theme in the
novel of Message in a Bottle is sadness. From beginning till
the end the story tells of the sadness experienced by the
characters. Only a small portion in this novel has romance and
happiness scenes.
Boston parenting columnist Theresa Osborne has lost
faith in the dream of everlasting love. Three years after
divorcing her cheating husband, the single mother is
vacationing on Cape Cod when she finds a bottle washed up
on the shore. Inside, a message begins: ""My Dearest
Catherine, I miss you."" Subsequent publication of the poignant missive in her column turns up
two more letters, found by others, from the same mysterious writer, Garrett Blake. Piqued by his
epistolary constancy, Theresa follows the trail to North Carolina, where she discovers that Garrett
has been mourning his late wife for three years; writing the sea-borne messages is his only solace.
There are also finds that Garrett just might be ready to love again... and that she might be the
woman for him. There are few surprises here as we watch the couple learn to love in Catherine's
slowly waning shadow. By the time they do, Sparks has proved that a man who romantically (and
manually) pens missives to his lost lady love in the era of e-mail is a welcome hero in this fin-de-
millennium fax-happy world. Until the distance becomes a problem between them. And then
Garrett found her letters to Catherine at Theresa's apartment. Garrett got anger, he felt it was a
private thing that should not be known, especially the public media.
In this novel there are lots of grieves, message in a bottle from Garrett to his beloved wife
is already the first sadness in this novel that made the reader touched.
The strengths of this novel is word selection. He uses a word that is easy to understand so
that the reader has no difficulty understand it. Because according to the writer opinion, in his way
of creating an easy-to-understand novel it's easier for the reader to capture what the author wants
to convey the intent in the story
The weakness of the novel readers can guess the end of the story in this novel. At the
beginning of the story it was mentioned that Theresa divorced and became a single mother, and
then Garrett wrote the message in a bottle to her beloved wife who had found the message found
by Theresa on the beach. When Theresa and Garret meet and fall in love, the conflict approaches
them because Theresa feels that Garrett has not been able to move on from his wife, Catherine. At
the end of it they are not together because the end of the story, Garret passed away when he tries
to save people when a storm breaks out. The last weakness of the book is lack of romance. The
story of the novel Message in a Bottle tells of a woman who fell in love with the man who wrote
the 7 message in a bottle and then they fell in love with each other. Only in that section there is a
romance scene in this novel when they love each other. But most of these novel stories start from
beginning to end, leading to sadness and deep sorrow. The writer feel it will be more interesting if
more romance scene added in this novel.
There's an important lesson behind this story. It can be concluded that in a novel there are
strength and weaknesses. It depends on the reader's point of view. After reviewing, the author gets
some strengths and weaknesses of this novel. Although this novel has some weaknesses, the author
strongly recommends this novel to be read because it can motivate us to treasure the people that
cherish us in the present

Task 6
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Choose one of your favorite film then write your review briefly!
Movie Review
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
By Stephenie Meyer

Reviewed by Hilda Hosfia

This fifth and concluding film in the cinematic franchise
based on Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga leads up to an epic
confrontation on a frozen lake in the American northwest. On
one side are vampires from all over the world dedicated to
peaceful coexistence, led by Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), a
newly initiated vampire herself, mother of a precocious child
and married to the vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson).
After watching Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) struggling
throughout four films to keep her relationship with vampire
Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson), and her friendship with
werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), we finally get to see
her with everything she wanted. Bella’s now a vampire, Edward is her husband and they have a
half-human, half-vampire child Renesmee (Mackenzie Foy) who grows at twice the normal rate.
And although her union with Edward was fully accepted amongst the vampire community,
their new baby Renesmee wasn’t so lucky. After a false accusation, the new family is in grave
trouble with the powerful Volturi who only happen to be the largest vampire regime. Even still,
the Cullen’s are prepared to use their special gifts against anyone who threatens their family.
There are certain details of this film that one has to accept in order to appreciate it. First,
aside from the vampires’ requisite to drink blood, the Twilight saga movies focuses on the majestic
viewpoint of vampires rather than their dark side. And, when assessing the situation in that way,
it might make it easier to digest that teenage Bella was literally dying to be a vampire in order to
be with Edward, unbeknownst to her parents and only has to lose her soul to do it. Furthermore,
even with Bella and Edward being married, there’s no way around the fact that Twilight glorifies
teenage pregnancy.
If these details can be accepted or moved past for the sake of fiction, this film is awesome!
I’ve seen the previous films in the Twilight saga and I thought they were captivating at times but
I’ve never been impressed this much. However, the writing in Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2
seems to be the best yet. The storyline is wittier, interesting, cleverly done and the action scenes
are completely unexpected.
Even the actors gave better performances. The highlight performances for me were from
the beautiful Kristen Stewart, who plays Bella Swan. Not only did she give a believable
performance as an incredibly strong vampire in such a tiny frame, but she made it funny and
fascinating to watch. Also giving an always reputable performance was Michael Sheen, who plays
Aro, one of the three leaders of the Volturi. There’s something about his malicious depiction that
is so grimy, yet you’ll love to loath him! Robert Pattinson, who plays Edward, was funnier than I
ever remember him being. Taylor Lautner, whose character is Jacob, gives another vigorous
performance and the other wicked actor that amplifies inhumanity is Dakota Fanning.
I saw this movie surrounded by a packed theater of energetic Twilight fans. It was almost
as equally entertaining to watch the film as it was to be amongst the energy of the crowd for Team
Edward vs. Team Jacob. And especially all the boisterous fans who were anti- Volturi. Of course
the second Jacob took off his shirt, girls in the audience went bananas. Aro and his crew got an
equal amount of rowdy boos.
Regarding the topic of appropriateness for young impressionable teens, this film warrants
at the least a conversation to your youngsters on issues like intense sexual content, violent murder
and teen defiance.
Overall, if you’ve never seen any of the Twilight saga films, this is the one to see. If you’re
a fan already you will be blown away with how this final movie goes out with a blast. Go see
Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2; it’s worthy! Surprisingly, It is one of my favorite films.

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