Michael Melch -- Real Life or Just Fantasy

   Good work -- this is a  mostly excellent reflection paper on Pan's Labyrinth.
   I think you have clearly understood and explained some of the borders 
   involved in the film.  As you see, part of the subtlety of this film comes 
   from the fact that we, as the audience, have to negotiate that fantasy/reality 
   border too.  We have to be constantly updating our ideas of what is real and 
   what is only going on in Ofelia's imagination.  Personally, I think the final
   scene is probably also intended to be taken as fantasy in Ofelia's mind 
   as she dies.  But of course that's not the only interpretation and your
   discussion of the mortality/immortality border is also a good way to read
   the ending.  

   Your writing is also mostly very good.  There are just a few sentence like
   this one from page 1 that could use some additional work:

   "Here we can also see the boundary of morality, between right and wrong, existent 
   and how the characters in the film choose to transcend it or not."

   > The "existent" is hard to parse -- I did not see at first that it 
   was modifying the "boundary of morality" (right?)  I think that to make this
   sentence work, you would need to recast it by saying that Ofelia is
   choosing not to cross the boundary between right and wrong (from the right 
   side to the wrong side) by going along with the Captain's desire to 
   hold onto his son.  

   Content:  A

   Mechanics:  A-