Character description: Francesca
Francesca Francesca is a name that comes from a Italian origan, this name means free. In the novel she is also called Frank or Frankie.
Francesca is a shy teenanger who changes they way she speaks when she is around different people. When shes with her friends she tries to speak so she fits in but when she is with her parents she speaks like and adult. Sometimes when Francesca is with her parents they fight and yell because of whats going on in there lives at the moment. Whenever Francesca can she grabs the opotunity to yell and scream at her father because she is upset and she blames her father for her mothers miscarrige and depression. Francesca never swears infront of her parents but does with her friends. In the book she swears once infront of her parents but that’s only a because she is having a fight with her dad and it slips out.Francesca is a very complitcated seventeen year old teenager whose appearance is like a ‘Tom Boy’.
She attends Saint Sebations school, which she hates and wants to go to Pius Senior College because that’s where all her ex Stella friends went. Francesca’s mum said she wasn’t allowed to go to Pius because there they didn’t have many opotunities, so she was sent to Saint Sebations. Saint Sebations was a boys only school but let in girls at the start of the year. Francesca just wanted to go to Pius because she justs wants her normal life back with her old friends.
Francesca reacts to people in different ways. When shes around friends she swears, jokes around and carrys on, but when she is with her parents she is much more polite and doesn’t swear because she knows she will get into trouble. Francesca finds every opertunity she can to yell and fight with her father. Francesca has a big impact on the story because everything she does is different all the time, so whenever she changes they way she acts or speaks the story changes.
Character description:Luca
Luca (Francesca’s little brother)
Symbolism of name: Luca was named by Francesca; she named him after a character in Suzanne Vega song. She named him after this song because she loved the certainty the character had about who he was.
Speech: Luca speaks in a very mature way even for his age. From this I have gathered that Luca is only at about the age of 10, as it says that he is in year five at school. He uses words such as, Papa and Mommy. He sometimes speaks a lot more mature than what his age actually is. He doesn’t swear unless his mother or father says he can. Luca just like any child at his age doesn’t understand what is going on with his mother. He always asks Francesca “when is mummy getting out of bed”, and “why won’t mummy talk to us but will talk to papa”.
Appearance: Luca is a male, 10 years of age and is year five at Saint Stella’s. Luca is a cute, smart, and has a voice of an angle. Luca looks like a ’soccer freak’ because he loves soccer.
Actions: Luca usually walks around in a very happy mood, but when he sees his mother in a sad and depressed mood he goes into a sad mood and usually goes and sees Francesca to be comforted. Luca and Francesca are very fond of each other; they care about each other and worry when they don’t see each other. Luca and Francesca have a way of showing affection in public and that is for then to pinch each other.
Other: Luca is a very different child compared to others. He shouldn’t be sad or have to go through what he is going through. He is only young and deserves better then what he is getting. It’s good that Francesca is trying to help him out but its just too hard because of what’s going on at there home. It sucks that the teachers wont let Francesca and Luca see each other during school because of there two separate parts in the school.
I know someone that is sought of like Luca; they are very similar in speech and action ways. It’s good that the person I know doesn’t have to go through this terrible thing just because his mother is depressed and can’t be bothered getting out of bed and trying to make an effort to see her children.
Film Review: Madagasca
Madagascar, an immense animated children’s movie features many famous voices – as Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith and David Schwimmer. It is a great comedy as well as an excellent adventure that catches the eye of children and also does just as well for adults.
The movie tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals. Marty, a free-spirited zebra who dreams of one day returning to the wild, while his best friend Alex, a spotlight loving Lion, who relishes the fame and luxury given to him by the zoo, Gloria, a practical and pragmatic hippopotamus, and Melman, a hypochondriac giraffe. These animals very different from one another often find themselves caught in the middle while trying to support each other.
The adventure begins, after Marty’s tenth birthday he decides to escape from the zoo and get a small taste of what the world outside the zoo is like. The freedom and life of the New York streets. His three friends discover that he is missing and set out on a new adventure to find him. This stunt lands all four of these animals in boxes on a steamship getting shipped of to Kenya. They never reach the destination of Kenya as these boxes were flung overboard in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
Washing up on the shores of Madagascar, the friends come to terms which the fact that they are no all alone and on there own. Once they were able to finally put there differences aside and work together the four of them both learnt valuable lessens about freedom and friendship.
I found that the film of Madagascar is a fantastic film to watch. It’s funny, in some parts scary but also an immense adventure to go on. I would recommend this movie to children from ages to eight and thirteen because there are some parts of this movie I would not recommend from children under the ages of eight. It’s a great movie and anyone with a sense of humour and a bit of adventure you should watch it.
