Big Fish

1)compare the lives of the major characters and use 3-5 scene examples
2)fantasy in realism
3)magic realism

2) -A fish that could never get caught, passing over hundreds of hooks.
- Fish that size of a grown man
- That he would be give the key to the city
- All the people in Specter are really smiley even the men.
- Spending three years working at a circus just to find her.
- Planting a field of dapholds for the girl of his dreams.
- The fact that Edward was able to come down from the sky without being seen when he was in the army.
- That sister/twins where welling to help Edward, go half way around the world to get back home.

1) Father (Edward Bloom) - likes to tell the story of his fish story to everyone.
Father (Edward Bloom) - Loves to tell stories
Father (Edward Bloom)- tells the story of when he was a boy, and he went to the witch's house, when he looked at the eye, it told him how he would die. This means he knows when he won't die from.
Father- (Edward Bloom)Says when he was a kid he had to be in bed for three years because he was growing all at once. And his muscles couldn't keep up with his bodies. He went around saving dogs from fires, and was a basket ball star.. etc A new man came into town and was eating all the sheep.. so big his voice blow him away. He was a Nice Giant. Edward got the key to the city.
Edward bloom- the hard it is to do something (going through the forest) the better the out come.. he ended up in this really nice city.
Edward- had dreams that his aunt would die and she did, then had a dream that his dad would die, and then the milk man died.
Edward- When he meet the love of his life time stopped
Son- Feels that his dad thinks the world goes around him.
Son- Saw nothing of him self inside his dad.
Son- Hasn't talked to his dad in 3 years, but comes back once his dad is dieing.
Son- Doesn't love his dad because he feels like he has a second family. He also believes his dad tells stories because he can't stand his own life.
Son- feels like he knows his dad like a ice berg he only see 10% of him. That hes fake, only see the surface.
3) - During his fathers birth he flow out of his mothers, across the floor.
- Giant/man when he talked he would blow his away, he doesn't want to eat Edward. The gaint is really hungry, his name is Carl. Nice Giant.
- That the town of Specter was suspecting him. everything is sweeter here. no one got mad at the girl for stealing the shoes.
-The lady he saw in the lake was really a fish that looks different to all people.
- Trees are grabbing him, as soon as he said that it wasn't the way he was going to die they stopped.
- Time stopped when he meet the love of his life, then it moves extra fast to catch up.
- The circus man knew him
- Being hit through the air, and he didn't die.
- The circus guy is really a werewolf
- Thunder storm that made the city an ocean, woke up in the morning with his car in the tree.

by Amber Lovell