“The path Joe Rantz followed across the quad and down to the shell house that afternoon in 1933 was only the last few hundred yards of a much longer, harder, and at times darker path he had traveled for much of his young life” explains Daniel James Brown in his novel, The Boys in the Boat (Brown 31). The reader follows Joe through his early trials, errors, successes, and failures, all of which molded him into a persevering character. Through disappointments and abandonment, Brown’s The Boys in the Boat illustrates Joe Rantz, son of mechanical pioneer Harry Rantz, as a cunning, intelligent, and hardworking individual determined to succeed in his endeavors. Although Harry Rantz, Joe’s father, began adulthood with a “most satisfactory life —
Those who had already been working through the Great Depression, though, had arrived with some of the necessary skills already in the process of developing. During the Great Depression, it was not uncommon for people to be homeless, without food, and separate from their families. For these men on the rowing team, they had to push through these difficulties, along with passing classes grades, making enough to pay for college, and achieving physical strength to row. However, most people did not possess this hope and determination naturally.
He is alone; he has no job opportunity in Washington because Roy has died. But Joe is happy. Joe has finally faced unlocked that “hidden thing” and he has embraced it. Joe’s secret exists no more, and he gains that confidence and sureness that he was missing. Although Joe loses everyone else, he finds himself.
Blackfish tells of the story behind Tilikum, the killer whale that is being held captive at Sea World. Tilikum has taken several lives over the course of the last few years and has participated in harmful and violent behavior since its arrival at the theme park. The documentary analyzes and reveals the mistreatment of the killer whales encaged and being held captive there, the lives lost at Sea World, and how deceptive the theme park really is. According to the second humanity formulation of Kant’s Categorical Imperative which states that individuals must never treat others as a tool or the sole purpose of a need. As visualized in the documentary, the killer whales, and other mammals were treated poorly and as objects for the means of entertainment.
Not only does Joe show the cruelty through the stories of brutal and inhumane treatment of people in the past but he also shows the cruelty in his own treatment after he breaks through the silent barrier of communication. Joe has just broken the barrier with his tapping of morse code, the nurse and the individual who knows morse code understand what he is trying to do. The unknown individual and Joe have a very simple conversation which ends with the crushing of all Joe’s hopes for a real life, “What you ask is against regulations who are you” (page 235). Joe at this point has given
Joe grew up in a broken household where he was abandoned many times; this resulted in him because immensely independent with the inability to trust others. The lack of trust
He became materialistic, which was complete contrast from his positive, big hearted Joe. What we learn about Joe is that he is very superficial, he is charmed by Slemmons and easily fooled by people’s façade. Consequently, the conflict intensifies as Joe intends to show of Missie May to Slemmons in the opening of the ice cream parlor. In the text he says, “Go ‘head on now, honey and put on yo’ clothes.
This is a reflection of who Joe was in the beginning of the book, where he was just another kid with no worries. It is ironic because of who Joe has developed into and what he's been through. However, by the end of the chapter, Joe is portrayed as a child who is dependent on his parents to bring him back home. His young age is an obstacle but it also provides some protection as he would be tried as a juvenile and no one really suspects him. 13-year-old Joe is already making well-advanced decisions that no regular 13-year-old would be making at this age.
If anyone had helped Joe when he most needed it, he might be in a better
In a time of political and religious turmoil in Europe, a young Jewish boy, Elie Wiesel, was living oblivious to the danger all around him. Choosing to ignore reality, Elie continued his extremely religious lifestyle, until on a spring day in 1944, everything changed. The Nazis had made it to Elie's small village and were rounding up all the Jews to be immediately deported to concentration camps. Once there, they were treated with no pity. Elie was separated form his mother and sisters, he only had his father left.
In the use of symbolism of swimming, Cheever shows that addiction creates a reality where we hide from the real world and eventually destroy our life. Addiction to anything starts out simple but it can lead to devastating results. When addicted the world becomes different from the one you are used to. This then becomes your paradise which you then hide in.
Families being torn apart, being ripped from everything they’ve known growing up and being isolated within a camp where no one truly knows what’s happening to them. That’s what was going on in the life of the Jews during WWII, they were being treated as if they were no longer human, being tossed in concentration camps and given just a number to identify them, completely taking away their self importance. The atrocities that occurred during the Holocaust are being subtly portrayed in the movie “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas,”directed by Mark Herman, a story told from the eyes of an eight year old boy named Bruno and his unlikely friendship with a Jewish boy named Shmuel. The movie tells the story of how a young boy begins to realize what kind of solder his father truly is and what is going on during WWII as his parents had kept him enclosed in this idea that all is well in the world. Through the use of imagery, colors, and pathos Mark Herman successfully portrays the horrors of the Holocaust through the innocent and peculiar friendship of two nine year old boys, Bruno and Shmuel.
The Coen brothers write about the Odyssey in their film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?. O Brother, Where Art Thou? mimics the Odyssey in a surreal sense. The writing from the Coen brothers depicts many parallels between the two stories, almost as if O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Hemingway’s use of trains/tracks as a symbol occurs in Big Two Hearted River, Canary, and Hills Like White Elephants. First, In the story Big Two Hearted River, The choice that Nick mad is to go back into the wilderness to deal with his PPsD. To get there, he takes a train, the train to his future. Nick got off the train and...”The train went on up the track out of sight...” (para 1). Nick has to get off the train to go to the wilderness until he is mentally stable and whole.
WHALE RIDER The film ‘whale rider; was directed by Niki Caro. The story is a representation of the importance of tradition and ancestry. Symbolism is used in this film to help to show the importance of the community they live in and the elders and ancestors that have helped to build and structure their religion and the people that live within the community. The symbols that will best represent the importance of the film are the whale tooth, the bike and the windows.