Jojo Rabbit: narrative

Plot and story: a three-act structure, an opening in the middle of the war, and the screenplay's point of view through Jojo.
Structure: Jojo finding Elsa as the inciting incident, plot points such as the moment he finds his mother's shoes, and the fall of the town as the climax.
Techniques: withholding Rosie's resistance work, foreshadowing (shoelaces and shoes), and the ticking clock of the war's end.
Characters and their functions (Jojo, Rosie, Elsa, Captain Klenzendorf, the imaginary Hitler), Jojo's change, themes of hatred and innocence, and how the narrative mixes comedy and tragedy.
A worked answer to a practice Section A question on narrative, part by part: the short parts that ask you to identify and explain, and the 15-mark final part on a key sequence.
How to answer each part: the marks, and what the short identify and explain parts need as well as the extended answer, since naming a technique instead of a specific example from the film loses marks there. Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.

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