English 2

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In Citizen Kane’s final shot, a reversal of the film's opening images, a dissolve shows the exterior of the Kane's palatial mansion at dusk, panning up with the black smoke of his burning possessions pouring from the chimney of his palace and filling the sky. The smoke of Kane's youth, his sled, disappears into the night sky. The camera pans down the chain-link fence where the sign "No Trespassing" is visible again as it was at the film's start. The film fades out on the "K" of the crest of the Kane estate. The film’s shot of a “No Trespassing” sign symbolizes the fact that Kane was a man of solitude and grief, which is represented in the text’s statement of the end of an unhappy man’s narration. As Utterson narrated Dr. Jekyll’s story, Kane’s is narrated by a number of characters. Utterson’s statement also represents a complete closure to the narration of Dr. Jekyll since he states “…as I lay down ...

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