ObservationsOne Tree Hill

Megan Clifford 2/06/14

The figured world I will be observing is a television show called One Tree Hill. One Tree Hill is a television show that is about a small town in Wilmington, NC. The show is based around a few teenagers that grow up together starting in high school and then grow up and start families. There are nine seasons of this show and the first season opens with a bunch of teenagers in high school. Season nine, the final season, is showing all of the changes that have happened to these people throughout many years. There are so many places that occupy this show; there are individual houses, town businesses and basketball courts. There are 2 specific crowds in the television show; they include the jocks (and popular crowd) and the not popular crowd. I am observing the first season of One Tree Hill. This season is the beginning of high school for most of the characters. The main characters are freshman in high school and are making friends and developing futures. The rules and regulations for this series are normal community guidelines. For instance, bullying is not tolerated but still performed and love and lust are a huge part of the show. It is normal for the characters to talk at a normal voice and treat each other how people in the real world would treat people. It is acceptable for the characters to meet at casual hangout spots and gossip and talk about life. Things that would be inappropriate inside this show would be to disrespect elders, physically and emotionally harm another character, put down another character, and crude humor. This series is based on reality and is by no means a comedy. There are many discourse communities that are shown throughout this show and they include the different friend groups that associate with each other, the different couples that form, the families that are included, and the cheerleading and basketball team.

Artifacts: People, physical objects, emotions and ideas that pertain to a certain figured world and are significant in some way.

Basketball: Both Nathan and Lucas are very good at basketball and use it as a way to define themselves. Basketball is also used as a competition between the half brothers. Basketball is also a huge part of the school; everyone is involved in cheerleading or cheering on the players. The whole show is first based off of basketball and the basketball team.

Family: Nathan and Lucas Scott both have the same father. They did not grow up with each other and recently learned about the father they both shared. This starts a rivalry between the two Scotts.

Jealousy: Lucas gets asked to join the high school basketball team and Nathan sees this as a threat. Nathan gets jealous and tries many things to get back at Lucas. Nathan is jealous of Peyton and Lucas’s connection. Lucas is jealous of Haley tutoring Nathan.

Love: Nathan’s girlfriend Peyton is very appealing to Lucas and Lucas tries to flirt with her. Nathan gets very protective and tries to keep Lucas and Peyton away from each other. Nathan goes after Lucas’s best friend Haley as a way of revenge. Haley falls for Nathan and this is a big problem for Haley and Lucas’s relationship.

Actors:

Lucas – Lucas is the main character, Dan Scott’s second son out of wedlock. He lives with his mother Karen. He has no immediate father. He loves basketball and is part of the not-cool crowd in high school. Lucas has worked for everything he owns and helps out his single mother a lot.

Nathan- Nathan is popular at school and the best basketball player on the team. He runs the basketball court just like his father did years before. He is Dan Scott’s first son. He is a rich boy that gets whatever he wants whenever he wants it.

Keith – Lucas and Nathan’s uncle. Keith is Dan’s brother and tries to mediate any problems that involve Dan. Keith has a love interest in Karen (Lucas’s mother). Keith is like Lucas’s father he never had.

Dan- Nathan and Lucas’s biological father. Dan is an older version of Nathan. Dan has taught Nathan to think only of himself. Dan is the town’s only dealership owner and is very wealthy. Dan got Karen pregnant in high school and left her for another woman (Nathan’s mom).

Haley – Haley is Lucas’s best friend since they were nine years old. She has grown up with Lucas and is basically his sister he never had. Haley is Nathan’s tutor.

Peyton- Peyton is Nathan’s girlfriend at the beginning and slowly starts to break it off with him. Peyton has a love interest in Lucas. She is a cheerleader that does not belong behind pom-poms. She is very misunderstood.

Coach Whitey- Coach Whitey is the head coach of the basketball team. He is very kind-hearted and does what’s best for the team. He does not like how Nathan is a miniature Dan Scott and tries to put Nathan in his place.

Karen – Lucas’s mother and Keith’s love interest! Dan impregnated her and he left her to be a single mother. She has a certain hatred for Dan.

Discourse Communities: Lucas and Haley: They are best friends and they tell each other everything… well almost everything. A few people try to come between this relationship.

Lucas and Nathan: They are stepbrothers and have tension between them at the beginning of the show. They come together through the hatred of their shared father.

Nathan and Dan: Dan tries to control Nathan’s future. He also does not take any part in Lucas’s future even though he is his biological father.

Karen and Dan: Former lovers, Karen got pregnant and Dan left her right after high school.

Nathan and Haley: Nathan uses Haley to try to get to Lucas. He ends up actually liking her in the end of his prank.

Nathan and Peyton: Nathan dates Peyton for a really long time and has always treated her bad. She sets her eyes on Nathan’s stepbrother and they do not speak much after that.

Literacy Practices: A few literacy practices include talking face to face and through letters. Phones were not a big item in the early 2000’s so that was not used. Gossip was also a tool that people used.

Observation #1One Tree Hill

Episode 1Observation:Note: The times are being recorded as the time on the episode. Course of events seem to happen within minutes even though they are being displayed over a period of days inside the television show. Each show is usually 40 minutes or less. I am also not displaying the whole episode, only parts that I see important.

Description of Location:Episode begins in a high school basketball court and there is a game being played. While this basketball game is being played there is also another basketball game being played on a court by a river in a public park (they call it the River court).

4:35: Nathan prances up and down the basketball court, being the only one to score on the team during an important basketball game. The coach takes Nathan out because he makes snide remarks towards the coach. Meanwhile, Lucas is playing on the river court with his friends. Lucas is making all of the shots on the river court. They resemble each other in the style of which they play.

8:00: Keith meets with Coach Whitey and tries to show him Lucas’s ability to play basketball. Keith finally convinces the coach to They watch Lucas play on the river court and Whitey decides that he will ask him to tryout.

10:00: Nathan gets very offended by Whiteys attempt to add Lucas to “Nathan’s Team”. Nathan’s father Dan is also astonished at Whitey and tries to get him fired. Dan does not see Lucas as a son and sees him as a threat to Nathan’s basketball career. If there is another star on the basketball team, Nathan will not be the center of attention as Dan was 20 years ago.

15:00: Lucas challenges Nathan to a one-on-one basketball game at the river court. They make the conditions on who will get what when either one wins. If Lucas wins, he gets to be on the school team, if Nathan wins Lucas can’t join the school team.

17:00: The game begins and most of the school’s population is surrounding the small court and egging on Nathan. There are approximately 6 people there to cheer on Lucas. The game is going back and forth. Lucas and Nathan shoot one after another keeping the score tied.

19:00: Lucas shoots the winning shot and shoots a smile at Peyton. Nathan is angry and leaves the court immediately making Peyton leave with him in his car. Nathan shows many signs of jealousy and does not tolerate Peyton saying anything to Lucas after the game.

20:00: The show ends with Lucas walking onto the school basketball court and the whole team is shocked at Lucas’s actions.

Conclusion of episode 1: Lucas is now being known inside the town after playing Nathan while the whole school watched. Lucas is now on the basketball team for the school. Nathan and Lucas’s rivalry truly begins.

Observation #2One Tree Hill

Episode 3

Description of location: Inside this episode the setting of most of the scenes are around the school. There is a lot that happens inside the gymnasium as well as the hallways and rooms. This episode has a few scenes at Lucas’s house and Nathan’s house as well.

Observation:Note: The times are being recorded as the time on the episode. Course of events seem to happen within minutes even though they are being displayed over a period of days inside the television show. Each show is usually 40 minutes or less. I am also not displaying the whole episode, only parts that I see important.

5:00: There is 25 seconds left on the clock at a school basketball game. A team member passes the ball to Nathan and he misses the basket. The team gets the ball back once again and a player passes the ball to Lucas. With three seconds left Lucas shoots the winning basket and the crowd goes wild. Nathan is furious with the outcome of the game (Lucas shooting the winning shot and not himself).

12:00: Lucas is showering in the locker room at school; Nathan and his friends take his towel and all of his stuff inside his locker. Lucas is forced to walk to his car covering himself with basketballs. By standers giggle and joke about Lucas. The coach sees Lucas and realizes that the team is ganging up on him. Nathan and his friends are proud of their prank. This prank helps start the fiery rivalry between the half brothers.

14:00: Coach calls Nathan over to him during a practice. Coach proceeds to tell him that his position is now being changed from point guard to small forward. Nathan laughs it off as a joke and the coach takes offence to this. Coach makes it very clear that Lucas is now taking Nathan’s previous spot on the team.

15:00: Nathan arrives at home to his father bashing on him about losing his spot. Nathan now realizes that his father is trying to manipulate his life to be exactly how his was. Dan (Nathans father) convinces Nathan that Lucas is no longer a teammate if he has snatched his spot from him; he is Nathan’s opponent. Dan says “And how do we defeat our opponent? Identify his weaknesses and attack them.”

16:00: Scene opens with Nathan talking to the whole team excluded Lucas. He is trying to get the whole team to hate Lucas because Lucas is getting more playing time than the rest of the team after being on the team for only 1 week. Nathan convinces the team to make Lucas suffer to earn his spot on the team.

18:00: Nathan walks into the tutor center and confronts her and tells her that she is now his tutor. Haley rejects the offer and tells him that she cant be his tutor because she is Lucas’s best friend and it would be wrong for her to talk to him.

20:00 Nathan reenters the tutor center and shows Haley the F he just received on the test to try to guilt her into tutoring him. This is his first attempt at his plan b to hurting Lucas.

24:00: Lucas arrives at the river court after school to shoot some baskets and finds the court to be trashed and ransacked. “You Sucks” is written on the backboard and Lucas finally realizes that being on the team is not going to be as easy going as he thought.

25:00: Peyton shows up at the river court to confront Lucas about what her boyfriend did to his court. This is her first attempt as to showing her true feelings for Lucas. Lucas asks her why she is still with Nathan. She replies with “Sometimes its good, sometimes there’s no one else.”

26:00 Nathan calls Haley at work and quickly hangs up on him.

31:00: Lucas is walking to meet Haley at a movie and some guys on the basketball team hit him, put a bag over his head and shove him into a blue van. He is awakened when they throw him on the ground and leave him in the middle of nowhere. Lucas is forced to walk back to town alone.

Conclusion of episode 3: Lucas is starting to become a part of the popular crowd after he does really well in a close basketball game. Nathan is trying really hard to boot Lucas off the team by bulling him. After most of Nathan’s pranks don’t work he goes after Lucas’s best friend Haley and tries to get close to her to hurt Lucas.

Observation #3One Tree Hill

Episode 6

Observation:Note: The times are being recorded as the time on the episode. Course of events seem to happen within minutes even though they are being displayed over a period of days inside the television show. Each show is usually 40 minutes or less. I am also not displaying the whole episode, only parts that I see important.

4:00: Nathan invites Haley to the first away basketball game. He flirts with her and Haley seems interested. They shoot smiles at each other and go different ways.

10:00: Lucas and Nathan share some inappropriate words on the basketball court. Lucas taunts Nathan and Nathan throws the basketball at the back of Lucas’s head and it starts a fistfight in the middle of the game. The referee throws out both of the Scotts and the team almost loses the game.

11:00: After the game, when the whole team is on the activity bus. Coach Whitey makes Nathan and Lucas walk the rest of the way home. Nathan and Lucas are left stranded on the side of the road in the middle of the night.

11:30: While Nathan and Lucas are walking and fighting, a car pulls up and asks them if they would like a ride. Nathan gets in and quickly realizes that the owners of the cars did not have good intentions. The driver tells Lucas that if he doesn’t get in the car, Nathan dies. Lucas enters the vehicle.

16:00: The car that Nathan and Lucas are in pulls up to a gas station. The owners of the car happen to be basketball players from the team they just beat. They hold Lucas and Nathan up at “gun point” and make them enter the gas station with only boxers on to buy random embarrassing items.

20:00: The cops show up at the gas station and they flee the premises as fast as they can. The driver of the car pulls into the woods to hide from the cop passing by. Nathan grabs the fake gun and everyone quickly exits the car. The players from the opposing team tell them that they will have to fight each other in order to get their clothes back. Nathan throws the first punch and they start to fight. Right when the fighting gets intense They grab their clothes and the keys to the car and start to run away.

24:00: The boys have a long talk and start to bond with each other while walking back to the school.

Conclusion of episode 6: Nathan and Lucas are stranded together after a fall out in an away game. They are forced to walk home together and start to enjoy each other’s company even though they will never admit it. They put aside their differences and work together for the first time.

Interview QuestionsTo Elena Mast, a peer that also enjoys and loves One Tree Hill1. Tell me how you feel about Nathan and Lucas’s rivalry in the beginning of the series..In the beginning of the series, I felt very confused because I didn’t know the background between Dan and Karen and Deb. I was also confused about why the rivalry existed. I didn’t realize that they on different sides of the school and it didn’t really click when i first started watching the show.

2. Whose side did you take when watching the rivalry between Lucas and Nathan and why? I chose Lucas’s side because I didn’t like Nathan always bullying him. I was also attracted to Lucas. Nathan was always rude to Lucas and I wouldn’t appreciate that happening to me.3. When the basketball game started in the first episode, who did you think was going to win and why? I thought that Nathan was going to win because he has all of the experience and he had coaches teaching him since he was young. I wanted Lucas to win but I didn’t know that Lucas’s skills were that high. It was really shocking to see the outcome.4. Who did you think Peyton would settle with in the end, Nathan or Lucas? And why? I thought that she was going to settle with Lucas because he was so sweet to her. Lucas always appreciated what Peyton did. Nathan treated her so badly and acted like he didn’t care for her at all most of the time.5. Who is your favorite character on One Tree hill and why? Brooke was my favorite character because she had so much confidence in herself. She had a side that no one understood or knew about until you got to know her. She was also so strong and I really enjoyed her personality.