Part C Develop a clear thesis statement based on your comparison of the print version and the film. (You will base
the presentation you create in the next task on the same thesis statement.) Using your notes, find textual
evidence that supports your thesis statement. In this case, textual evidence can include not only quotations
from characters in either the play or movie, but also notes about the setting, stage
directions, organization,
characters, tone, and mood. Consider the following questions before you create the thesis statement:
• Which details of the setting or the characters' actions in the film version are not spelled out in the print
version of the play?
• How does the depiction of the scene in the film compare with the print version?
• Which details are consistent with the text version?
• How well does the film version capture the tone and mood of the text version?
• Does the film adaptation reflect a sense of suspense or mystery?
Write the thesis statement here.

(on Roman Polanski in 1971)

[1] nothing that comes from the desert expresses its extremes better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas. tormented, thin forests of it stalk drearily in the high mesas, particularly in that triangular slip that fans out eastward from the meeting of the sierras and coastwise hills. the yucca bristles with bayonet-pointed leaves, dull green, growing shaggy with age like an old [5] man's tangled gray beard, tipped with panicles of foul, greenish blooms. after its death, which is slow, the ghostly hollow network of its woody skeleton, with hardly power to rot, makes even the moonlight fearful. but it isn't always this way. before the yucca has come to flower, while yet its bloom is a luxurious, creamy, cone-shaped bud of the size of a small cabbage, full of sugary sap. the indians twist it deftly out of its fence of daggers and roast the prize for their [10] own delectation why does the author use the words "bayonet-pointed" (line 4) and "fence of daggers" (line 9) to describe the leaves of the yucca tree? . to create an image of the sharp edges of the plant to emphasize how beautiful the plant's leaves are to explain when and where the plant grows to show how afraid the author is of the plant