10 Cloverfield Lane is an intense sci-fi thrill. Before going to see this film, I already had an idea in my head of how the film would be. I saw the first one and I was completely disappointed with the entire film. After learning that J.J. Abrams would be the producer of this film, it raised both my excitement and expectation of the film. The combination of the acting, special effects, and sounds completely made this movie better than I could've imagined.
Lane Kruse Mr. Whitaker English 9 13 February 2023 The Odyssey compared with O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Odyssey written by Homer in the early 7th century B.C. is a fascinating story about Odysseus and his struggles to return home, after the long war in Troy.
In the 1930s, the United States was experiencing the largest period of economic havoc that had ever occurred in its history. Unemployment rates skyrocketed and production outnumbered consumption, resulting in an unhealthy economy. From 1933 through 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt was president and implemented his New Deal Policy in an attempt to provide job opportunities for the American people. Women and minorities, such as African American people, began to receive greater recognition through the workforce, aiding the country throughout the Great Depression and helping to develop a stronger sense of unity and nationalism. The film O’ Brother Where Art Thou accurately portrays the rural South throughout the 1930s in the midst of the Great
Bell loses his identity after the event but is shown when he promises himself to save Moss. After Moss’ death, Bell feels defeated and recalls to the time he left his comrades dead on the battlefield and he just left. But after Chigurh flees and the mexican hitman is gone, Bell learns that fate cannot be changed and nothing can be done about it. Later on when Bell retires from sheriff, he then fully regains his identity after thinking about the tragedy in the war and realizing that he must live with it and just accept fate. Through Bell and Moss’ struggles and the ability to conquer them, Northrop Frye 's theory of literature is present in No Country for Old Men.
The book, The Catcher in the Rye, takes place in the years of the 1940s-1950s of New York City. Author J.D. Salinger expresses in the book about the struggles and the countless amount of stereotypes and establishments of the American society. Holden Caulfield, J.D Salinger’s protagonist, gives perspectives of society’s conflicts and facets of society. Holden addresses that would should not change, but should be preserved within a glass case at a museum. Now explore the varieties of encounters and how the give an example of the theme of conflict between control and independence that the protagonist confronts in the book, The Catcher in the Rye.
Introduction: The book No Country for Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy is full of drug dealers, gangs,and a psychopathic killer. This book definitely does not lack in the action department. No Country for Old men is a book that follows Llewellyn Moss, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell,and Anton Chigurh as well as a few others. The book starts out with Llewelyn Moss hunting in the desert as he tracks his prey he comes across a convoy of vehicles parked out in the middle of nowhere through his telescope.
While these moral codes can be manipulated by conventions dictated by religion or law, they can also be developed through personal ordeals and events (and the lessons that people learn from these occurrences). All of the moral codes in No Country For Old Men are relatable to human society to a certain extent, including Ed Tom’s strong belief in religion and law, Moss’ determination to keep his loved ones safe, and even Chigurh’s fierce dedication to his dignity and honor. On the other hand, these characters are also relatable because of their moral flaws, from Moss’ greed and overconfidence to Ed Tom’s selfishness in the end, when he decides to retire instead of dedicating himself to apprehending Chigurh. In this Neo-western film the traditional archetypes of the hero and the villain are skewed.
Returning to No Country for Old Men and Stagecoach, the differences continue to display themselves, mainly with the problem of fatalism. Fatalism is the idea that a person’s life is already determined by fate. This meaning that all natural freedoms and government allowed freedoms are essentially not existence because all the decisions or events that come through out a person’s life have already been decided. Making any idea of freedom moot. This was displayed in No Country for Old Men when Chigurh flips his coin to decide whether a person will live or die.
Fresh Off the Boat is a very nice TV series that is airing on ABC. It is currently on its second season and has been airing since 2015. This unique comedy is a memoir of an Asian- American man by the name of Eddie Huang. FOTB recalls his childhood growing up as a hip-hop head 12-year-old who had to move across the country from D.C.’s Chinatown to a white suburb in Orlando. The show is produced by Eddie Huang himself and directed by Lynn Shelton.
The movie Cinderella Man was incredibly accurate of what it was like to live in the great depression, in its portrayal of the characters, setting, and events of the movie. Like in the movie, Jim J. Braddock was a boxer that lived during the great depression. He had many adversities that he had to face, and they are generally what fueled him to continue fighting. Movies usually tend to over exaggerate struggles, but Cinderella Man shows the raw reaction and reality during that time. The details about the characters in this movie are very accurate except for a few small details.
Jessica Casimiro October 30, 2015 English 3/PayLea Short Story Essay Patrick Rothfuss once claimed, “The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” The novel Catcher in the Rye focuses on Holden Caulfield, an angst-ridden teen conflicted between remaining in a state of prolonged innocence or transitioning into the world of adulthood, thus facing the corruption and phoniness that it correlates with. Through Holden’s dynamic character, J.D Salinger depicts how innocence is slowly lost when exposed to adulthood. Reluctant to the idea of growing up, Holden strives to protect the innocence of himself and the ones’ around him. Holden reminisces about the Natural Museum of History, a place he enjoyed going
In class we have gone over certain pieces of literature of vast cultural meaning for a person, such as Homer's works, and the question is, do I think that there is any work of literature that has that same meaning for society today? No, I do not think that there is any work of literature that has the same meaning. When one thinks of "Homer", one automatically refers to the author of the earliest epic poems such as, Trojan War, Iliad and The Odyssey, which almost every pupil has learned or read one if not all three of these stories. As a child I learned about Homer in Middle School and it continued all the way up to College. As a high school student we would have to memorize parts of these poems and then recite them to the class.
Reading Response Three Many details in the tales told by the three old men in pages 1190--1197 are relevant to Shahrayar 's situation. Shahrazad is using these details to change him from an angry, misogynistic murderer into a loving husband. Through storytelling, Shahrazad is able to change Shahrayar in three ways. After Shahrayar was betrayed by his wife he became cruel and violent because of the pain he was in.
Motivation is the deciding force that guides a person on any journey. Every action or decision you make is consciously or subconsciously influenced by prior thoughts and events. These thoughts and events can create several different types of motivations in different people. In A Few Good Men, the main character has many turning points because of the challenges presented to him throughout the film. In Rob Reiner’s
The English Patient was released in 1996, the same year I was born. It won Best Picture, and I have been curious as to the quality of the Best Picture of my birth year and whether or not it reflects my life in anyway. Hopefully, it does not reflect my life in the future (it hasn’t yet). Thankfully, my life has also not been as mediocre as this Oscar-winner. Set during World War II, The English Patient stars Ralph Fiennes as a horribly burned patient (we later find out his name is Count Almásy) whom Hana (Juliette Binoche), a Canadian nurse, decides to tend to as he dies in a monastery in Italy.
