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Little Miss Sunshine Belonging Analysis

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Journeys can be driven by the desire to escape to a better place, but the process itself is just as significant as it discovers and transforms an individual’s perspective and identity. In Crossing the Red Sea, the migrants’ journey from war-torn Europe is ironically at a standstill, forcing them to contemplate their past and present circumstances. The voyage is a source of alleviation from emotional seclusion demonstrated through the personification “Voices left their caves / Silence fell from its shackles”, creating a mood of hope. Negatively, however, the migrants’ “limbo-like” status is highlighted by the metaphor of “patches and shreds / of dialogue”, creating a pessimistic tone increasing the sense of lost identity. The metaphor of “a …show more content…

The Hoover family is demonstrated as dysfunctional, throughout the opening sequence of the film, as it introduced characters individually, through a series of close ups of each. Beginning with a pulse-like non-diegetic music, each new character introduced is accompanied by the adding of a new instrument to this beat, an instrument that causes reflection on the personality of the character being introduced. When the family is in the bus, Edwin “didn’t wanted [Dwayne] making the same mistakes, [as he] made when [he] was young” demonstrating that Edwin didn’t wanted Dwayne to follow his footsteps, as Edwin began to live his life, too late. The dysfunctionality emphasises the difficult journey of discovering and transforming the negative attitudes of the family, just as the restful, healing nature of a sea journey in Crossing the Red Sea, is a significant step in allowing the migrants’ feelings to discover and transform from the horror of war to the hope for peace and …show more content…

The difference between a winner and loser is emphasised when Olive tries to impersonate a winner of an “American beauty pageant” while watching her on television. Rather than being tall and graceful, Olive is obese and short wearing oversized glasses foreshadowing the outcome of Olive entering a beauty contest. However, according to her grandfather Edwin’s theory of winners and losers, Olive “is not a loser”, as in his definition, “a real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning, that they don't even try”. Hence the idea of trying to win suggests the importance of the journey towards such a goal. As indicated in Ithaka, overcoming the obstacles along the way is the aspect of a journey that develops individuals to the point they are able to either achieve their goal, or feel happy to walk away from it. The journey to the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, and the obstacles overcome along the way, re-unites the family. The discoveries made and transformative aspect of journeys which catalyse their inner growth illustrates the family’s new

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The Red Umbrella, by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and Immigration photo by Jose Hernandez-claire both show the subject of family separation. In both of these text the author and artist use similar and different techniques to show that Immigration can bring stress and sadness to families. In both The Red Umbrella and the Immigration photo they share some similar techniques. They share the similar technique of figurative language.

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This essay will focus on the foreshadowing and symbolism techniques found in Pat Barker’s book Border Crossing. It shows her intended message that relates to real life, especially in that moment of time when it was published as the book was written during a time when children who committed crimes was a big conversation topic. This was due to an unfortunate event, in which two 10-year-olds kidnapped, tortured and murdered a 2-year-old boy. The essay will discuss how Barker uses a quote from page 10 and uses mud to foreshadow the important events that come later on in the book. Also, how she used mud and fire to symbolise many things such as Danny’s problems, Danny’s personality and how it may feel to work with young criminal offenders.

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Certainly, the movie showed how Hoovervilles were a sad place to be. In the movie, Hoovervilles are portrayed as a dangerous place because a scene showed many police officers on horses arguing with civilians, and citizens looking out the windows with a look of trepidation, which gave a picture of disarray, and disfunction inside the Hooverville. In real life, Hoovervilles had a small governing system and were able to function like an actual city, as long as they held unto the sanitary laws. Only men were allowed to live in these small towns, but occasionally women, and children would come in and out of the Hoovervilles. The movie showed the disfunction of the police and the male society, the shacks of the homeless males, and how indigent was the life of a Hooverville citizen.

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“Nineteen”, by Elizabeth Alexander uses language and tone to form a multi-sensory poem about remembering her youth and desire to connect to her past Vietnam vet lover. These aspects of language and tone are embedded in the outer form of the poem, as the author forms an imaginative recreation of her young adult life, which directly impacts the reader to allow for an enjoyable simple read. The elements of language and tone formation ensure the translation of Alexander’s emotions or feelings of her youth for the audience to relate and understand. In the first place, the language within “Nineteen” is casual and not really poetic.

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A twelve year old boy a world away from his parents once wrote in a letter to his parents: “And I have nothing to comfort me, nor is there nothing to be gotten here but sickness and death.” This child was Richard Frethorne, and in “Letter to Father and Mother,” he communicates his desperation caused by the new world’s merciless environment to his parents to persuade them to send food and pay off his accumulated debts from the journey. He accomplishes this with deliberate word choice and allusions to the bible to appeal to ethos, pathos, and logos. Frethorne uses diction, imagery, and facts to create a letter to his parents which aims to garner sympathy for his state of life and to persuade them to send food and pay off his debts.

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