The movie, Slumdog Millionaire, and the short story, A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary, show that when a person has a genuine will to survive, they will go to great extents to make sure that their determination does not vanish with the obstacles along the way. The director of Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle presents both Jamal Malik’s and Latika’s strong will to get through their challenging lives. Ken Saro-Wiwa, the author of A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary, retells a story about his sacrifice for the survival of the Ogoni People. Hope and will to survive is best displayed by Latika, Jamal Malik, and Ken Saro-Wiwa.
Latika, from the movie Slumdog Millionaire, had a rough life as a child. With no mother or father, she had to learn how to take care of herself. Jamal and his brother, Salim met Latika when they were kids, and together, they took good care of each other. Difficult circumstances tore Latika and Jamal apart. Latika was taken by a gang leader and taken to a prostitution district. When Jamal finds her again a few years later, their happiness doesn’t last long because Salim kicks Jamal out to be with Latika. Despite Latika’s wish for Jamal to be with her, she tries to protect him and says “Latika: You want to do something for me? Jamal Malik: Anything. Latika: Then forget me!” Latika’s love for Jamal is so strong that she let him go knowing that he might not be able to get her out of the life she was living.In the end, Latika’s hope and will to survive is stronger than all the terrifying experiences she has been through while growing up.
Jamal Malik signed up for the show “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” in hopes of finding Latika. “Who Wants to be a Millionaire” was the most popular show, and if he didn’t fi...
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...o-Wiwa was fighting for his people and their well-being, and that is what kept gave him hope and will to survive.
Everyone has a different idea of hope. For example, Jamal’s and Latika’s idea of hope was their love for each other. Their love is what gave them the will to survive and get through everything that was thrown at them in life, even at such a young age. Ken Saro-Wiwa’s hope and will to survive was his passion to help people of Ogoni and change their futures forever. Saro-Wiwa didn’t live long enough to see the courage he gave to citizens of Ogoni to fight on their own, but his people gave him hope to fight back while he could. He has inspired many people, and like he said, he wanted to die trying to make something right, and he did. If either Latika, Jamal, or Ken Saro-Wiwa lost hope, they would have never had the will to survive and achieve their goals.
In the book Cycle of Hope, Tricia Downing went from a competitive cyclist to a paraplegic in a matter of minutes. After spending the summer competing in multiple cycling races, Downing is back home enjoying the sunny autumn day riding her favorite route with her friend, Matt. Together, they go for a bike ride sightseeing and appreciating the beauty of the city. As they reminisce about their enjoyable summer, a car appears out of nowhere, and crashes into her. After landing on her back, Downing recalls that something feels terribly wrong; consequently, this woman becomes paralyzed from the waist down. The author uses the strength, courage, and determination learned as a competitive athlete to overcome her disability.
Most people hope the world is the way they believe it is. That is, most people hope that their view of the world is right. They usually do not hope for the truth about things to be much better than what they suppose it is. Sometimes the hope is a factor in causing the belief; sometimes the hope stems from the desire to be right about one's belief; and in some cases the hope may follow the belief, i.e., one becomes accustomed even to an austere view of the world and finally comes to prefer it. It seems that most people, especially most philosophers, would rather be right than have the world turn out to be even a better place than their theory allows. They might not admit this outright, but one sees in their writings no signs that they hope they are wrong and the world is better than they have supposed; one never sees them say: ``This is a somewhat grim view I have proposed, and I hope very much that I am wrong, but I am driven to this view by solid considerations''. The late A. J. Ayer is reported to have said shortly before his death that he certainly hoped that death would be the end of him, in spite of having had a ``near death experience'' which had ``slightly'' shaken his disbelief in survival. It is hard to know why anyone would hope for annihilation.
“Our horse chestnut [tree] is in full bloom, thickly covered with leaves and much more beautiful than last year.”
Ha and her family must flee Vietnam, leaving her papayas behind, or in other words, diminishing the little hope she had. It’s no secret the papaya tree represents Ha’s hope, so when Brother Vu cuts the papayas off the tree, it’s like hope is being cut out of Ha. In the poem, “Wet and Crying” it describes, “Brother Vu chops; the head falls.”(60) The author uses the word “head” to illustrate how the papayas were “alive” to Ha until Brother Vu beheaded them and they “died.” This also symbolizes how the hope inside Ha is dead as well. There are other things that contribute to Ha’s wavering hope, too. When deciding if Ha’s family should eat the papayas, Ha’s mother explains, “you… should eat fresh fruit while you can.”(60) This quote tells the reader
################################# Part 3 ######################################## Nature doesn’t intend for things to be perfect, if it was the contrary we wouldn’t be considered humans. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Birth-Mark portrays the story of a scientist, Aylmer, so self-absorbed, and supercilious in his own power of science that he would go so far as to remove the intentional “imperfect” birthmark that Nature has bestowed upon his wife’s face. “Cannot you remove this little, little mark… Is this beyond your power… Noblest, dearest, tenderest wife… doubt not my power” (216). Hawthorne uses the birthmark as a symbol to represent the imperfection that is within the human species, the mark also draws out the imperfection of those who have encountered it by displaying their tendencies to overlook the flawless beauty of Georgiana and focus solely on her birthmark, “Some fastidious persons… affirmed that the bloody hand… quite destroyed Georgiana’s beauty… Aylmer discovered that this was the case with himself” (214). Nature’s symbol is a paradigm of omnipotence. To simply put, Nature created the grand design of human life, and governs over our society but allows us as people to do as we please with our lives, so long as we do not alter with Nature’s creation, “…Our great creative Mother… She permits us, indeed to mar, but seldom to mend, and like a jealous patentee, on no account to make” (217). Despite Nature’s intention, being the pompous scientist that he is, Aylmer believes himself to be something more than a microcosm of Nature’s creation. In other words, because of his unparalleled ability in the subject science, like other...
Hope is essential to survival which is described in the novels Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah and Sold by Patricia McCormick. The novel Long Way Gone is a true story about Ishmael Beah. Ishmael became a forced child soldier during the civil war in Sierra Leone. His village was attacked when he was only 12 years of age. Ishmael, his brother, and his friends sauntered from village to village trying to get the daily essentials such as food and shelter. Every day was a struggle for surviving. He would think about his family and hope those days would come back to him. The novel Sold from Patricia McCormick is about a Nepali girl named Lakshmi that was sold into slavery at the age of 12. Lakshmi’s stepfather tells her to take the job in the city to
Imagine attending a low class segregated school, no matter how smart you may be, you are always categorized. Picture yourself surrounded in a city that’s filled with crimes and poverty, being judge constantly because of your residency. In the book Amazing Grace, Jonathan Kozol interviews the children of Mott Haven and other lower class cities in the state of New York. Some children in the community are very well educated; however, some of them who obtain such knowledge lack confidence in a poor environment. How can one maintain through such chaos and still aspect to succeed? Having faith, motivation, and positive people in one’s life can really make a difference in their outcome. Although the population is high for lower class children of the ghetto, there is much hope for each individual who follows a clear path.
Throughout all stages of human life, it becomes increasingly apparent that there are certain hardships that we must face in order to reach our next. Perseverance is the ability to work through hardship in order to get to your goals, this concept is central to the film Slumdog Millionaire. This idea of pushing through tough times is seen throughout the duration of the film but is outlined specific scenes, primarily the beginning and end. In the novel, Religion: The Basics, by Malory Nye, we can begin to develop an understanding of how religion is a part of everything we do, whether we are willing to acknowledge it or not, and in turn allows us to find the drive to push through. Nye’s text contributes to this belief using theories in his Ritual
And though he experiences both sides of the paradox, it is ultimately the uplifting and inspiring effect of hope that pushes him to fight back against his oppression rather than continue to accept his enslavement. Grappling with hope and using it to move himself forward against overwhelming odds shows that even though it can be used to pacify people and keep them in their place, wishing for a rosy future that can never exist, it can also be the fire that motivates them to finally change their
lost their mother, Latika was out in the rain getting drenched playing in the mud by herself. The
Desmond Tutu shares, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite of all of the darkness.” Tutu is a South African social rights activist that has inspired people to oppose apartheid, the separation of blacks and whites in South Africa. Hope can be found in devastating situations. Edwidge Danticat, in Krik? Krak!, continues this idea. She illustrates the struggles of poverty and the oppressive government Haitians face. In eleven beautiful, painful short stories, she depicts the grind Haitians endure in their own country and in America. Through motifs of flight, Danticat conveys that hope amid tragedy motivates people discover freedom.
For most people, survival is just a matter of putting food on the table, making sure that the house payment is in on time, and remembering to put on that big winter coat. Prisoners in the holocaust did not have to worry about such things. Their food, cloths, and shelter were all provided for them. Unfortunately, there was never enough food, never sufficient shelter, and the cloths were never good enough. The methods of survival portrayed in the novels Maus by Art Spieglmen and Night by Elie Wiesel are distinctly different, but undeniably similar.
On July 27, 2004, Barack Obama made arguably his most important speech, “The Audacity of Hope”, at the Democratic National Convention Keynote Address. These conventions are for political parties to announce a winner for nomination. All the way through his piece, Obama focuses on connecting Americans and himself to the audience. In fact, at the time, Barack Obama was a US Senate candidate for the United States president, and in making this speech, was offered a window for raising his popularity. Throughout “The Audacity of Hope” speech, Barack Obama implements three main devices to raise his political popularity: repetition, abstract language, and structure.
In the film, “Slumdog Millionaire” showed the world how India is a society that is filled with violence and abuse. Slumdog Millionaire exposes the tragic effects of poverty in many different cities of India. The film talks about a Mumbai boy, Jamal, who grew up in the slums that became a contestant on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” During the contest, Jamal were arrested under suspicion of cheating. Jamal was being interrogated by the police, and revealed events from his life history to explain why he knew the answers on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
The “Hope” is optimism. Freedom from hope is freedom to your soul. You can no longer hurt yourself by living. It is hard to believe that being hopeless leads to living, but living is an imprisonment. We try to be the best we can be but does life limit us?