Big Fish an amazing story

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Big Fish an amazing story
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What kind of film is it?

• Jaws?
• A killer whale?

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The Story

• It is not a horror story showing the fight
  between humans and a vicious gigantic fish
• A touching story between a father (Edward Bloom)
  and his son (William Bloom). When the father was
  dying, the son went back home and pierced
  together the a true picture of his father from
  flashbacks of his fathers adventures.

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Misunderstandings between father son

• The son felt that he didnt see much of himself
  in his father and the father didnt see much of
  himself in the son either.
• Edward was a social person who likes to tell
  tall tales
• The son, William, didnt think much of these
  stories

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Williams comments on his father

• To talk about my father, its impossible to
  separate fact (the truth) from fiction (the
  exaggerated make-believe stories)
• However, everyone loved his father. Edward was a
  very loving, cheerful person.

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William tried to find out more about his father
through various people

• In Williams view, his father talked about a lot
  of things he never did (the fiction) and he never
  talked about things he did (the fact).
• An unusual ending William told his father an
  exciting story about the big fish when Edward was
  dying.

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New vocabulary

• Chemo the therapy used on patients who are very
  ill.
• Gigantification the process which makes one
  become a giant (a man of huge size)
• Senile very old
• Mystical power the power which cant be
  explained.
• A tall tale an untrue story