John Hugh’s does a good job of portraying people in a variety of ways. Ferris is the ki that can get away with anything that he wants to, Cameron is actually sick and is worried about getting
The character Ferries Bueller is the film Ferris Bueller’s day off is introduced as the protagonist of the teen gene. Ferris is the typical fun, enargite, mysterious teenager who is loved by everyone. The first image shows Ferris laying sick in bed with his mother standing over him. Ferris is manipulating his parents into thinking he was sick to get the day off school. A slightly low angle was used to show that Ferris is making his parents think he is seeing them as superior to him.
Ferris Bueller’s Day off tells the story of a high school senior who employs deception and manipulative tactics to skip classes with his best friend and girlfriend. Meanwhile, his sister and the school’s principle work separately to expose him as a fraud. During the first scene of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Jean and Ferris are at odds while he’s rendering a performance to convince his parents that he is too sick to attend school. While convincing his parents, Jean stands nearby expressing disdain through body language like explicit hand gestures, foot tapping, hands placed on her hips; and verbal challenges like criticizing her parents’ decisions to let Ferris stay home.
In Fahrenheit 451, depression caused Guy Montag to become irrational. Ray Bradbury who is the author of Fahrenheit 451 simulated a world, where depression causes Guy Montag to choose irrational actions. Ray Bradbury shows the reader the importance of depression by creating a character named Guy Montag, who begins to question everything he has ever known, and slowly sinks into a depression. At first Guy Montag thinks that he's a happy man, an ordinary man with an ordinary job. Everyday is the same for him, except for one day in particular, when he meets Clarisse McClellan.
The movie ends with Cameron finally standing up to his parents and admitting to something he did, although it was against his will. He usually hides behind Ferris, but this time he decided to take all of the blame. Although it appears that Ferris and Cameron are trying to alienate themselves from their families, it is seemingly true that it is the other way around. Mr. Bueller and Mr. Frye focus their lives on materialistic things. Mr. Bueller spends all of his time at work, trying to make as much money as possible.
A tragic hero must be fundamentally good but have a fatal flaw that ultimately leads to their downfall. McMurphy truly was a fundamentally good person.. Throughout the course of the novel, he grew to really care about the other patients on the ward. In the beginning he annoyed Nurse Ratched solely for his own benefit and entertainment.
McMurphy epitomizes a tragic hero throughout One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest because his hubris and his struggle to fight for his dignity leads to his
The result of Ferris going against the school system and experiencing real life outside of school makes him an anti-hero. [You jump very quickly to this main idea from your description of the school system as it looks today. Steps missing: is school the bad guy or the good guy? Does Ferris’s school look similar to what you’re describing?] The movie begins with a fake sick Ferris and his concerned parents in his bedroom.
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel that was written by J. D. Salinger in 1951. It was first published by Little, Brown and Company and was originally written for adults, but became popular among teenagers for its teenage main character, who deals with problems a large number of adolescents face in their transition into adulthood. It is not a difficult book to read, especially considering it is only 234 pages. The story revolves around the protagonist, a 16 year old boy named Holden Caulfield, who recently flunked out of a prestigious preparatory school.
In the novel, McMurphy attacks the nurse brutally and attempts to kill her, “doctors and supervisors and nurses prying those heavy red fingers out of the white flesh of her throat as if they were her neck bones, jerking him backward” (Kesey 319). Also, the narrator shows mercy towards McMurphy by smothering him in his sleep, “and scissor the kicking legs with mine while I mashed the pillow into the face. I lay there on top of the body for what seemed days. Until the thrashing stopped” (323).
By weakening McMurphy’s power in the ward, she creates an environment where can continue to thrive in her power through the systems she has set in place. However, Nurse Ratched’s plan does not succeed and McMurphy is allowed to proceed with his fishing trip. He continues to undermine the nurse’s authority to the point where he physically assults her after she blames Billy’s death on him. His actions give Nurse Ratched an opportunity to give him the ultimate punishment, a
His rebellious and free mind makes the patients open their eyes and see how the have been suppressed. His appearance is a breath of fresh air and a look into the outside world for the patients. This clearly weakens Nurse Ratched’s powers, and she sees him as a large threat. One way or another, McMurphy tends to instigate changes of scenery. He manages to move everyone away from her music and watchful eye into the old tube room.
The movie was mostly focused on the feud between the warden/nurse Ms. Ratched and McMurphy. McMurphy tried to go against the hard-set plan set by the institution. More he tried to establish dominance and leadership within the group. This threatened the nurse’s ways of subduing patients, and they felt of less importance in their own institution. This led to a bitter rivalry and because of it the nurse tried to subdue, with same techniques as with other patients, McMurphy even after realizing that he was not a mentally unstable person.
Teenagers tend to have a tough time trying to identify their real friends, figuring out who is there for them at times when most needed. In “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”, Ferris knows Cameron is unwell, so he encourages Cameron to takes his sick day to another level. Ferris helps Cameron recognize that it is okay to have a little fun and do something out of the ordinary. The two take Cameron’s dad’s luxury car out for a drive and venture out into the city. Ferris helps Cameron overcome the fact that because Cameron’s dad is a careless parent, Cameron should be able to still have a life worth
Loneliness can be one of life’s greatest motivators. In the film McCabe and Mrs. Miller nearly every action taken by McCabe is to avoid this feeling alienation and loneliness. McCabe is easily the most fearful of every protagonist in the New Hollywood era. He is a man so filled with fear of alienation that he builds his own community to avoid it and saddest of all makes himself the dealer in poker to avoid missing out on a single hand. McCabe is similar to the protagonists in Five Easy Pieces and Easy Rider because of he is in the middle of a society without one.
