For this story lab, I decided to explore the TV Tropes website. I found this website incredibly useful and interesting. To start I looked at tropes directly related to my storybook like Old, New, Borrowed, and Blue and Suddenly Suitable Suitor. What I really like about these sites is that they give good historical/background information into each trope as well as providing tons of examples. Perusing the examples is definitely the most fun part some of the choices are so obscure or random it really made me laugh. One of the examples of the Suddenly Suitable Suitor is a Scooby Doo episode.
In addition to the articles centered on my storybook, I looked at tropes from some of my favorite genres. I love mysteries and thrillers so I looked through several tropes. One of the ones that stuck out to me is the Anonymous Killer Narrator. This is a trope I've seen a lot in books I read so I was interested to read more about it and see more examples.
Finally, I was shocked to see there was a section for reality tv tropes. Reality tv is definitely one of my guilty pleasures so I looked through a bunch of the tropes on there. Real Life Writes the Plot was particularly interesting to me because I had honestly never thought of that as a trope at all. I also wonder how it can constitute a trope since it's something that happens in real life and is not manipulated for entertainment? Either way, I found the website interesting and helpful.
(Scooby Doo! in Arabian Nights from Wikipedia)
Hey Meghan,
ReplyDeleteWhat are tropes? I looked at the links to the website you linked in the story, but I am still not quite sure what exactly a trope is. Or how Scooby Doo is related to all of this... From what I can gather it seems like a trope is a sort of stereotype or overused process. Am I on the right line of thinking here? I saw the title of your post and I was interested to find out what a trope is. Enjoy your last few weeks of the semester!
Brady