Shortly after this, Jason invites Hanna to go on a spring break trip with his friends to New Orleans. Hannah feels conflicted about it, as she wants to try to find information about her birth, her mother, and herself. To her father’s disdain, she goes on this trip. An important part of this scene is where she is in a hotel room with Jason’s Girlfriend. She tells Hannah that she thinks she does all of this for attention. This causes Hannah more emotional distress. The reassurance of worthlessness she got makes her feel even less wanted. She feels like a burden on everyone and wishes she didn’t exist. From the viewer’s perspective, this scene is hard to watch without feeling some emotion and sympathy. I empathized with Hannah and I feel that …show more content…
In some establishing shots, it is shown that Jason has known Hannah since childhood. They are show as being very close friends and he as a bigger role in her life as the movie progresses. He supports her and comforts her when she first finds out her breaking news. He enables her to go find her real self against the will of her father. When she feels neglected and worthless, Jason picks her up to take her to the hospital she was born at. He consoles her when she learns about her brother and is even more supportive when her biological mother neglects her entirely. He eventually falls in love with her and takes her on a real date. Throughout the film Jason is Hannah’s emotional crutch and provides her with the friendship that is necessary for dealing with the struggle that Hannah is fighting. He is one of the most important characters due to his reliability as a friend. He helps the audience connect to friends they may have that are as supportive and loyal as him. I think Jason was completely vital to her and that the film wouldn’t have been as good without …show more content…
Hannah’s journey was realistic enough to keep me drawn in and all the things she went through kept me right with her emotionally. Although I am more pro choice, I felt that this movie did a great job of staying out of the political side of things with abortion and religion. I think the movie was completely relevant to the average person, as sometimes everyone feels that worthlessness, confusion, and doubt that Hannah felt. I think it was also very good as a lesson in psychology as you can do a good lesson about stress, and its effects. You can see how Hannah struggles her whole life with the emotions and how they compound with the stress of many traumatic events. So all in all I think this film was pretty good and it’s relevance is important to not only psychology, but people dealing with a lot of emotional distress. Hopefully, what I have taken out of the film is similar to what others do and that it stays relevant throughout
2) Hannah tells stories of her “other” life in which she attends school and looks forward to the weekends. As Chaya, her new friends are again shocked by the fact that she-a girl-attends school. Hannah explains that he...
At first, Hannah was a pesty, teenage girl who didn’t care about her family or religion. After undergoing a harsh journey, Hannah soon began to change her attitude. She now understands her family and her heritage better. As Hannah’s mind shifts, the theme is developed. Hannah understands how the events in a person’s life can impact the person they are today. In addition, she learned that it is important to remember our history. Those who do not remember the past are destined to repeat
In the first place, she was developed to be secretive because of her loneliness, but befriending Jacob, Norman, and Paul makes her more social, which showed that life is better with sociability. This portion of the novel helped state that, "She looked surprised as though she couldn't believe she had talked so much " ( from page 131). Hannah is generally secretive and lonely, for she lost her family and was made as an example for her lost ears, but when she found out that Jacob was caring and friendly, she decided to trust him and answer his questions. Afterward, she was surprised and stopped, as if waking up from a dream but did not regret it totally. What we should discern from that, Finding a caring friend could change the reality. Moreover, their friendship then developed, and they got to be a family. In the second place, Hannah was unpredictable but did not point to it directly, yet exposed it for her friends, she did all she could. That was stated indirectly in the section on page 161, " She looked at the faces around her – Jacob, Oteka, Paul – and it was as though she began to draw strength from their courage emanating from them and enveloping her. " What Hannah only needed to reveal her real personality and impulsiveness was some courage from her friends, that she loved and cared for, which she read in their eyes. So, McKay delivered " friendship is strong " by making Hannah impulsive. If she was designed to be calm or shy, Norman would not have made it, or even Jacob, sacrificing it to save his friend. Hannah was described in that figure to enhance the idea of friendship's power in
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Hannah's Mormon background embedded in her strict beliefs about traditional love and marriages and the idea that being gay is unnatural and devilish. This background doesn't allow her to accept Joe's sexuality. It is in this upheaval that Hannah moves from Salt Lake City to New York in hopes to save her son and his dying marriage. Her arrival, However only makes the situation worse. She carries out responsibility as a mother-in-law and takes care of the abandonment and valium-dependant Harper and manages at the same time to dive Joe completely out of the picture.
Hannah husband died and so she allows herself to be use as a sex object by other men. “Sula came home from school and found her mother in bed curled spoon in the arm of a man.” pg.44 Sula had no male figure in her life so she turned to Nel who gave her the closeness she been searching for. Sula shape her identity in that she was determine to prove her point when put in a situation that questioned her character. “She slashed off only the tip of her finger. The four boys stared open mouthed at the at the wounded and the scrap of flesh, like a button mushroom, curling in the cherry blood that ran into the corners of the slate." Pg. 54 Sula choose the path of exploration when she left the Bottom after Nel’s wedding, her experience was of trying to discover herself. Sula’s return to medallion brought about hatred towards her by the town people because Sula had changed. She would sleep with the men in the town and discard them. She also put Eva in a nursing home because she said Eva was mean to her and that she was scared of Eva burning her like she did Plum. The town people despised Sula for her action. They even when as for as accusing her of pushing Teapot down the steps when in truth he fell down the steps and Sula was only trying to help. She didn’t care what they say about her because she didn’t have conversations with the town people with the exception of Nel upon till their
That same night, I walked by Hannah’s cell and I saw her staring down at a newspaper clip out of a young teenager shaking hands with another man. I recognized that the boy was the man who visited today. Could he be Hannah’s son? If he is, then why hadn’t he visit her all this time? Hannah brushed her fingers across the books on her shelf, and took out a sheet of paper and started writing in it. This time, her eyes turned grey and they were empty, but free.
The tapes are the centerpiece of the story and the largest motif for showing the impact that people have on those around them— even if they do not realize it. While it would be easy to write a paper on every person on the tape and how they made an impression on Hannah’s life, the focus is on Alex and his story. Alex’s story affected many people – not just Hannah. Alex’s Best of Freshman Class and Worst of Freshman Class list affected everyone whose name made that list. Hannah is not afraid to call him out on that fact; "There are some sick and twisted people out there, Alex – and maybe I'm one of them— but the point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it" (53). Sure, the way this list objectified women let them be handled like they were toys for men, but it definitely hit every girl’s self-esteem. The perfect example of this is the fight that Hannah and Jessica have in the café. The whole fight started over their names being on that list. While Alex made the list as a fun joke, he unknowingly ruined a friendship; Isolating Hannah further. “It’s a punch in the stomach and a slap in the face. It's a knife in my back..."(68). Alex's quest for popularity in a new school left him unaware that the choice he was making to pass around a list, a list that idolized the way his
Growing up in a household where a person’s parents are constantly arguing can be stressful. It is even worse when the parents divorce because it causes a split between the child and their parents. In the story “Jason Will Be Famous” toward the end of the story it was revealed how dysfunctional Jason’s parents were and that he longed for them to reconnect as a family. Jason constantly had dreams of himself being kidnapped. The dream first seemed to be a nightmare, until the recurrence of the same dream lead him to believe he could possibly get kidnapped. In daydreams Jason thought of what he would do if he was kidnapped and how he would escape. He thought of how important he would be after his escape and how his parents would change their thoughts of him. Jason had visions of himself cool
After they have sex, Jason is confused with what he has just witnessed. He thinks, “I felt hungry and nervy and sick and jealous and sluggy and shamed and many things. Not proud and not pleased and not like I ever wanted to do that”(90). This is symbolic of his immaturity, for he doesn't understand what sex is, and doesn’t understand the feelings and emotions. The irony in this quote is that Jason has always wanted to experience sexual tension with someone, but as soon as he sees it, he feels utterly ashamed and denies he would ever do it.
Jason pictures himself in a world where he won’t be distracted, which will give him the opportunity to focus and achieve his goals. He started thinking about it, planning what he’ll do and how he’s going to make the best out his second chance. “He won’t be like his dad, he thinks, he won’t waste his chances. He’ll grab what comes and run with it” (Allison 34). It will be all about him and the basement, who he will become, who he was meant to become. “In the basement, they won’t feed him much, so he will get all dramatic skinny. He could learn to eat imaginary meal meals and taste every bite-- donuts and hot barbecue wings and stay all skinny and pure. He’s going to come out that basement Brad-Pitt handsome and ready for anything” (Allison 34-35). In his mind, these are all the opportunity that he’ll get to become who he wants to be.
This movie portrays an excellent look at the problems we all face. When I first saw this at I related completely to Conrad's character, the feeling of wanting to escape everything even if it means taking your own life. While watching the movie I was able to relate to the adults and could really feel for them a lot more than I thought I would. Each character has a unique sense of reality to them. The actors really carry the film, making the characters seem like real people we've known for years. The reality of the movie is so heartbreaking and so real that you feel every emotion and understand the characters feelings, whether you liked them or not. Growing up in America, the film rings many a truth to the insights of what people perceive as a "normal family".
When the Tutor enters the scene, he expresses a much more cynical view regarding Jason's decision to leave his wife. He asks the nurse, 'Have you only just discovered / That everyone loves himself more than his neighbor? / Some have good reason, others get something out of it. / So Jason neglects his children for the new bride'; (85-88). The Tutor feels that Jason's leaving Medea is only a part of life, as 'Old ties give place to new ones';. Jason "No longer has a feeling'; for his family with Medea, so he leaves her to marry the princess who will bring him greater power (76-77).
One can connect these two characters because they both became very depressed and suicidal because someone started rumors about them that changed their whole perspective on life: “ ‘Not like a conspiracy or anything. But it feels like I never know when something’s going to pop out of the woodwork,’ ‘And get you?’ ‘I know, it sounds silly.’ ‘Then explain.’ ‘Its hard to explain unless you’ve heard some of the rumors about me,’ “ (Asher 274). Hannah has some pretty harsh rumors about her spread around school and that leads her to the state that she’s in, and similarly in the movie Cyberbully Taylor gets bullied online which starts some nasty rumors about her that leads her ultimately to her suicide attempt.
Not only does this movie deal with the issues of society, but it points to biblical scriptures that help lead us in the right direction. The biggest lesson that this film taught me was that if I put my complete faith in God, then no matter what happens, he will provide, watch over, and take care of me. I learned that expressing belief in God is not enough. I have to live everyday believing and trusting him and I have to show my trust and faith through my actions and my words.