- Gus is dressed as a solider, but his clothes are dirty. This tells us that we should be afraid of him.
- Flora is dressed in a plaid dress, and she has ribbons in her hair. This tells us that we should feel that she is sweet, innocent and childlike.
- The lighting is darker around Gus, this is made to make him seem more menacing.
- The lighting is brighter and softer around Flora to make her seem innocent.
- As Gus is following Flora, he is crouching down and staring intently at Flora.
- Flora runs around looking at things in nature, she fills up her bucket with water. She jumps around, and looks at a squirrel. She moves back and forth on a log. These activities make her seem very childlike.
- The music associated with Flora is childlike and playful. The music assoiciated with Gus is tense.
- The cross-cut editing scene shows her mother frantic and worried as she tells her son that she’s worried about Flora. The cut scene to Ben, shows him worried as he looks for Flora. Gus says I’m a captain now and I want to marry to Flora. It has an iris focused on Flora as she’s nervous looking around. And an iris around Gus that shows that he’s staring at her. This communicates danger, becuase the director wants us to think that Gus is trying to kidnap Flora and make her his bride. Then Flora runs away when he tries to touch her, as she’s running, the music is very suspensful. She hides and then continues running. Then Ben finds her bucket. We see Flora running around with her arms flailing. Then Ben sees Gus, and yells, “hey”, then he finds Flora. And she is taken back to the house to be taken care of.
- The work of writers like John Tyler Morgan and Frederick Hoffman shaped a viewing public that would accept this sequence with few to no reservations. Becuase their discourse and multiliteracies enforced the belief that African Americans were dangerous and predators and they enforced the idea that white people are heros and innocent.
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