Theme Of It's A Wonderful Life

The importance of family/community

It’s a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra, one of the themes is the importance of family and the community. Capra portrays a character named George Bailey who has been an important family and friend his whole life. George Bailey had a choice to put his own life before others many times, but he didn’t, instead, he chose to help his family and the community. Capra reveals to us the theme of the importance of a family and a community, when George saves his brother from a possible death when he uses his honeymoon money to pay people and save the town, and when he saves Mr. Gower, from jail domming him for life. Just as Jacob Marley saved Scrooge from having a bad life like Mr. Gower over would’ve in " A Christmas

Gower from being locked up in jail and saved the whole town from hating him. In the film we see Mr. Gower crying over his son's death, and drinking his pain away, and packaging medicine. While he was packaging medicine that would have gone to a kid that was sick, he accidentally packaged the poison instead of the real medicine. The importance of community played a big role in this scene because without George being there to observe, Mr. Gower would have killed a kid and would have had the whole town out after his guts, kind of like Jacob Marley when he helped Scrooge just like George helped Mr. Gower. In the story, we read about how Jacob Marley saved Scrooge from the heartbreak of everybody hating him and having a terrible life. Without Jacob, the 3 spirits would have never come and Scrooge wouldn’t have gotten his act together Scrooge says “ I will live in the past, the present, the future, the spirits of all three shall strive with me, oh, Jacob Marley, heaven, and the Christmas time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, Jacob, on my knees!”. Both Mr. Gower and Jacob praised their savior. Jacob Marley and George Bailey both contributed to this theme because, without either of them, Scrooge and Mr. Gower would’ve been