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Compare And Contrast Mirror Image And The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

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Every single living person has an identity that is constantly changing. This is because each identity is shaped by one’s experiences, as proven by Lena Coakley’s story "Mirror Image" and James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” as the main characters in each story deals with the concept of identity. “Mirror Image” is a non-linear story about a fourteen year-old girl named Alice who is the survivor of a car crash and is forced to get a brain transplant, putting her brain into the body of another child roughly her child. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” deals with an ordinary man in his day-to-day life, while he intersplices his routine actions with daydreams of wild and unfulfilled daydreams. While the stories are very different from each other, they both contain characters …show more content…

In "Mirror Image", though Alice struggles to realize who she is regarding identity, she soon came to the conclusion that “[she is] here” before “[walking] home” (18). In this, Alice decides by herself who she believes herself to be. Additionally, a similar instance occurs in “"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty".” When asked about himself, Walter pauses and insists that he is “thinking” and asks his wife if “it ever occurs to [her] that [he is] thinking?” (37). In order to understand who he is, Mitty reflects upon himself. By this comparison, the main characters in both "Mirror Image" and "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" are similar on the account that their internal conflict is the guiding point in the story, as identity is decided upon from within as opposed to from merely their outside influences. In relation to this, the main characters are also the focus of both stories by the limited point of view the stories are told

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Throughout the film A Secret Life of Walter Mitty wrote by Steven Conrad, you can see Walter as an introvert and someone who is not comfortable with himself. He likes to remain invisible. Until he goes out on an adventure to find Sean. Where Walter Mitty quickly moves to a dynamic protagonist with the help of writer Steven Conrad's creation of static characters.

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If I were able to have dinner with Walter Mitty from James Thurber 's “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” I would have to say yes. I have three main reasons to say yes and many a person may say no. I however may find his company enjoyable and much like my own. I would also have to see the way he looks at the world.

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In the film, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the viewers are introduced to the main character, Walter Mitty. From the beginning, Walter’s actions and words can lead one to infer that his character is painfully shy, awkward and quiet. In combination with his awkwardness and shyness, he continually has these moments where he enters “his own world,” and fantasizes about the things he’s too timid to do or that he finds heroic. This is especially unusual to his peers and co-workers who try to converse openly with him.

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Key details in the film illustrate how the rest of the world see Walter. He is a shy dull man that is boring and maybe some might say a loner. When you watch the movie beginning to end you see his identity transform from timid to brave and courageous. He steps out of his shell and does thing he thought he would never do. Walter Mitty found his identity.

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Walter Mitty feels that through imagination he could be in a place he could really belong but the thing is, by having these “episodes” it excludes him from belonging in reality which poses the question, is it more important to belong with yourself or with others around you? It is clear that Walter Mitty uses his mind to escape reality where he feels he belongs, but it is also interesting to see how he has given up on trying to belong in reality and accepted the fact that he will be useless as time

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The component of coming of age that Philip develops is empathy. The main character of the book The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber is Walter Mitty a middle-aged man whose mind wanders. The coming-of-age component that Walter Mitty develops is identity. To begin, the start of the Book Nothing But the Truth by Avi Phillip Malloy is a young

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One way The Secret Life of Walter Mitty exposes imagination is through expressing creativity. According to the University of Malaysia Perlis, “Imagination is the ability to form mental images, phonological passages, analogies, or narratives of something that is not perceived through our senses”(Murray Hunter). The creativity in this film is expressed through Walter 's daydreams and how extreme they are. One particular daydream was a fight scene with his boss. Walter is bullied by Ted, his boss.

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One second he's a pilot next second he's being told what to do with his constant nagging wife, this is a familiar situation as Walter zones in and out from reality, but these are not just loose thoughts or fantasies, these are astonishing worlds Walter ponders upon and it is similar to non-other. The secret Life of Walter by James Thurber is a perfectly depicted story by Thurber, he excellently goes in depth on the thoughts that course through Walters' head, Thurber illustrates to the audience the disparity between Walters external and internal relationships Walter has with those in his environment. Nevertheless, in “the secret life of Walter Mitty” James Thurber uses dramatic irony and imagery to convey versions of reality Mitty zones out to escape his meager rather dull life, which in reality Walter is a push-over.

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