'A Walk to Remember'
Question: Discuss the transformation that occurs in Landon?s life due to the influence of Jamie Sullivan.
During the book A Walk to Remember Jamie changed Landon into a completely different person and he didn't even know it. She taught him not to judge people from first impressions, how to help others and think of others and he realised that there God is worth reading about and that miracles could happen. None of these would have happened without Jamie there to help him along.
Firstly, Jamie had started to teach him not to judge people by first appearances. He learnt that people like Jamie are really caring, nice and sweet to be around and that they?re really not that bad. ?Here she was, covered in puke, actually thanking me for the evening.? (pg. 62) This shows that Jamie was very polite, even in the worst of times. Then you see Jamie going from being an unattractive boring teenage girl (??Jamie had never been on my social calendar.? pg.20) to being a gorgeous angel in the school play (?She looked exactly like an angel??You?re beautiful??? pg. 134-5). This show that even though she might not look like she is on the inside, she really is like an angel.
Secondly, Jamie had taught Landon how to help people. ??it was the right thing to do.? (pg.146). He had said this after he had added money to a collection for the orphans to buy them presents. This shows that Landon did a good thing for them by giving Jamie the extra money to buy those presents ...
When Boone was appointed to the position of football coach at T.C. Williams High School, he became the visionary of success to the program. His vision for the team from the beginning was to win a state championship. As a leader one must be a visionary and have an ultimate goal that needs to be accomplished. Difficult situations continuously present themselves and need to be handled effectively in order to accomplish the leader’s vision, which often occurred during Boone’s journey with his team. Throughout the film, no matter what circumstances Boone encountered, he was able to stay focused on the goal of winning a championship which consequently allowed the team to
That was a very courageous thing to do because he could have easily told T.J., but he didn’t because he didn’t want T.J. to fail seventh grade again. Stacey is a great friend to T.J., but is T.J. a great friend of Stacey? When your friend is in need, should you help them or leave them to die? When T.J. was beaten up at Strawberry, he came to the Logan’s house because he had faith that they would help him. T.J. wanted help so badly he said,”Stacey, help me get home, he pleaded”
Throughout this novel Lily’s personality is shown through how she responds to what people think. Lily was that girl
Dead Man Walking is a great book that deals with one of our nations most controversial issues: capital punishment. The books narrator, Sister Helen Prejean, discusses her personal views on capital punishment. She was a spiritual advisor and friend to two death row inmates; Elmo Patrick Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie. From her experiences, she developed views on the death penalty. She believed it was morally wrong and spoke openly about it. Sister Helen successfully defends her views on capital punishment while stating that capital punishment should be illegal. Her experiences have taught her that although these criminals were dangerous and deadly, and that their crimes were inexcusable, a death sentence should not be the answer.
...n effort to get along. Their friendship was so secure and they were so pleased that they had learnt to overcome the racial issues and spent the time to get to know each other. They both still acted as if they were better than each other and they weren?t going to attempt to change this, even when they were playing football together. If something went wrong they would blame each other, or disagree, and always end up fighting and usually about different things, like who was better and right. By observing the friendship emerging between Gerry and Julius other people began to realize that having friends of a different race was not wrong. This also made Gerry and Julius?s friendship grow even stronger as they made a huge impact on the community. They started to understand each other and created a bond that was so strong that their appearance didn?t seem to matter anymore.
If a good movie is one that makes you think, Mindwalk must be superb. However, I haven’t even read the book it was based on and I can say that the book must have been better. The actors are laughable, and the physicists’ accent changes with each new scene. Furthermore, the transitions to each scene are as smooth as sandpaper. The purpose of this movie wasn’t, and with good reason, to be glamorous though. As many of our “Hollywood” movies are. The fast action, sex, blood, money crazed movies that we all love. The fact that Mindwalk was based on a book also gives some explanation to the choppy scenes, as many omissions were probably made. Financing played a role in the actors chosen for the movie, a kind of ironic humor if you think about it in context to what the entire movie is about. All of this in mind, and the fact that it was a lengthy 2+ hours; it could never be a blockbuster hit. I, on the contrary, enjoyed it. Some of the issues raised are those that many of us think about often, or maybe I am just hoping that I’m not the only one.
Homeward Bound intertwines two old-fashioned narratives of suburban 1950’s with rampant anticommunism; allowing it to be a persuasive historical argument. Attempting to establish why, unlike both their children and parent, postwar Americans citizens looked to marriage along parenthood involving great enthusiasm and promise. May discovers that cold war philosophy and the domestic restoration were dual sides of the same coin. Postwar American citizens felt the need to become liberated from past mishaps to be more secure in the following years. According to the author national containment was an product of the uncertainties and objectives released after the war. Within the household, potentially threating social entities of the new age could be tamed, where they could add to the security and fulfillment of life that men and women wanted to obtain. However, the satisfying emphases of 1950’s great minds and physiologists suggested personal and private resolutions to social issues. The modern family was the place in which that alteration was expected to occur. The household was the atmosphere in which families could feel comfortable with themselves. Giving that, domestic restraint and its calming corollary weakened the potential for political involvement and protected the alarming effects of anticommunism and the cold-war consent.
... the book has to offer. She gives Montag a new outlook on life, simply by asking questions, and actually taking interest in his life.
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We all know that college sports are a very corrupt system. From Drugs, to sex, scandals, academic fraud, and pay-for-play schemes and on and on. College sports is a runaway train at this point from all of the corruption it has. One thing that could help solve much of this corruption is paying the college athletes a base pay. College athletes deserve at least a base pay for all of the effort and time they put in to these sports. And let’s face it, many athletes in these high end division one schools go to the college for the sports, not the education. College athletes deserve compensation for all their time and effort in their respective sports.
...'s Blues" gives different views of the word family that have a huge impact on their story's plot. The four men Crane tells the audience about describes a brotherhood that is not related and doesn't even know each other but comes together as a whole to survive the rough seas. Faulkner explains a family, also not blood related, but have been knowing each other for a very long time. They grow into a family as time passes and takes care of Emily. The blood line brotherhood in "Sonny's Blues" gives an idea of real brothers who go through what ordinary siblings have to deal with. Family may not be a household rather than people who grow to love each other from situations and natural coming together. A bond between unkindred people is always stronger than a blood line untouched.
The future holds a different meaning for everyone, for some it holds hope while for others it holds despair. This constant wondering about the future has influenced many works to be written about the future. Some of these works propose a blissful future, but the majority paint the picture of an unfortunate dystopian world. Recently I read Daughters of the North, a novel in which the dystopian future of England is shown. Shortly after reading Daughters of the North, I watched The Road. This film showed a similar view of the future, yet more grim and unappealing that Daughters of the North. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting these two works to show two different points of view of what a dystopian world is. After watching The Road I realised there was a large amount of books and movies that believe the future will be grim. I believe this is because as humans we fear what may be in our future due to the conflicts that we face today and wish to warm the world.
Traits such as having a closed mind to the concept of love. Neither Landon nor Jamie were looking for an intimate partner and shunned the thought of love. Also, both characters exhibited the trait; stubbornness. Landon was stubborn in that he would act out in school no matter how many times he got into trouble. Jamie exhibited stubbornness by not wanting to accept new people into her life, such as Landon. These traits were the only similarities that Landon and Jamie initially shared. According to the interpersonal attraction theory, these common traits exhibited in different ways, helped to bring Landon and Jaime
In conclusion, Yeats obviously uses symbols in all of his texts! He is an absolute animal when it comes to using symbolism in his poems. First of all, Yeats uses the boat, or sailing to symbolize death in his poem Byzantium. Second, the falcon and falconer is used in Coming to represent the world losing touch with faith. Third of all, in Swans, the swans are a symbol for younger experiences, which will one day leave and you won’t be able to remember. Next, in Innisfree, the place Innisfree is a symbol for peace, because that is basically the speaker’s happy place, and it is perfect and peaceful. Lastly, Yeats uses the book in Old to represent the past, when the woman sits down with the book and dreams. In the end, Yeats is the winner of the greatest symbol using poet!
Symbols have been used often in the history of our planet. Cultures such as Egyptians used literal symbols in their writing to represent objects such as animals and water. However, symbols don’t always mean a written figure. Often the word symbol means a metaphorical representation of something using something completely unrelated in literature or in speech. In fact, almost any work that has lasted all these years contains major symbolism in some way or another. William Butler Yeats, a great writer of the early twentieth century, wrote many incredibly symbolic and meaningful literate works. The following five poems of William Butler Yeats all have important symbols in them that are crucial to the poems, whether the symbols are personal or cultural: When You Are Old has a small symbol of the night sky; The Lake Isle of Innisfree uses the symbol of a log cabin; The Wild Swans at Coole uses the obvious symbol of swans; The Second Coming uses a beast as a symbol; and Sailing to Byzantium uses sailing.