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Throughout both Love Finds Andy Hardy and Rebel Without a Cause, the role of a father figure influences the main characters develop. However, Judge Hardy and Frank Stark are nearly polar opposites. Judge Hardy is more of the stereotypical father from the 1930’s, stern, yet loving. Furthermore, Frank Stark is very submissive to his wife, and in turn not a very supporting father to Jim. To convey this, the directors use a variety of techniques. George Seitz, director of Love Finds Andy Hardy, uses motifs, and dialogue to show how important Judge Hardy is to Andy. A motif used throughout the film is the new car Andy desires. This car symbolizes the desire to be free and adult like. At first Andy is unable to buy the car due to his father’s disapproval …show more content…
Jim Stark is seen as a struggling teen during the 1950s, however it is not his fault. Jim’s father is very submissive to his wife, allowing the family to move homes constantly to keep Jim safe, however, Jim never stays safe. Jim’s father also constantly refers to him as “chicken,” which Jim does not like. This term causes Jim to get himself into trouble with a the local hotshot, this result in the death of the hotshot. From this point on Jim is different, he confronts his dad physically, and runs away with a girl. Jim then comforts a younger boy with a gun. It can be inferred that Jim does not want to become his dad, submissive, so he goes out and becomes dominant, talking down the boy, challenging the hotshot, and getting the girl, all while his dad is at home wearing a pink apron. In the end, his father realizes this and promises to be a better father. Additionally, Plato is raised without a father and is seen as an outcast, he is presumably gay in a time that homosexuality is frowned upon, also he goes on an angered induced rampage with a gun; the presence of a father may or may not have changed his sexuality, but it would have changed his mindset when he needs to fight back, nothing lethal, but something to make his
The Misfit is a complex character created by Flannery O’Connor. He is talked about first when the Grandmother reads his criminal background at the breakfast table. Right when the Misfit meets the family the Grandmother starts questioning his faith and past, and through the Grandmother’s persistent behavior that you find out the truth behind the Misfits hard exterior. The reader understands that the Misfit was brought up by parents who were the “finest people in the world” (O’Connor 1312). With this type of background, how can one expect the Misfit to be such a cold blooded killer? Because of his kind nature in the beginning of the story, it’s almost impossible to understand how he could just kill. Through deeper analysis one can characterize the Misfit with a heart of gold, but the mind of a villain. This characterization is true because somewhere along the line he was wrongly accused of murdering his father and was brutally punished and he was mistreated by the justice system. The Misfit knows he was innocent and neither Jesus nor the justice system could rid him of the punish he received. It’s not because he is an evil person, he says himself “I never was a bad boy that I remember of… but somewhere along the line I done something wrong and got sent to the penitentiary. I was buried alive” (1314). The Misfit states he was never the worst person, but he also says himself that he was never good either, so the reason behind the Misfit’s homicidal condition is not because he is an evil person but due to his distrust in Jesus Christ and the justice system.
Jim is a “man on the run” moving from school to school to avoid trouble and feels alienated from his family and peers. The film is stylistically noirish with Nicholas Ray’s use of low-key, garish lighting, the use of shadows cast on character’s faces, and the setting of a city street at night in the opening scene. The film also deconstructs film noir conventions by including a fatherly policeman, white heterosexual antagonists, and a female love interest that isn’t responsible for his troubles. Themes of the teen drama genre are also heavily present, such as Jim being the “new kid” in school, choosing the popular girl as a love interest, being late to the trip to the observatory, and a fight with a bully on the first day of
Two people with two completely different characteristics have something alike. Both Dally and Johnny are mentally tough because of their parents. Johnny and Dally’s parents both do not care for them and could care less about them. For example, during Dally’s childhood he went to jail, been in a gang, and has been in many fights and his dad still would not care for him even if he won the lottery. Dally also talks about his dad's disgrace towards him in the car with Johnny and Ponyboy, “‘ Shoot, my dad don’t give a hang whether I’m in jail or dead in a car wreck or drunk in a gutter...’”(88). Dally could easily live without his dad and he does for the most part. Dally just hangs around with his friends and stays at their place. Similarly, Johnny's parents use him like a rag doll to blow off steam, “his father always beating him up”(14). The gang knows what happenes in Johnny’s house. Once Ponyboy was witnessing, “Johnny take a whipping with a two-by-four from his old man”(33). Ponyboy talks about how loud and mean Johnny's mom is and,“you can...
Mark Twain, in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn describes two different “Jims:” one being Huckleberry Finn’s biological father, and the other the slave of Miss Watson. Each of the characters are developed throughout the context of the story leading the audience to determine which Jim serves as a better father figure to Huck. Through Twains narrative, Jim Finn or “Pap” becomes infamous for his abusiveness toward Huck. Jim the slave serves as Pap’s antithesis throughout the story however; he is a benevolent man and helps Huck change his morals that have been instilled in him by Pap. It is the compassionate man, Miss Watson’s slave, who obtains the qualities that allow him to be considered Huck’s “true father” over Pap.
In the novel The Great Gatsby and the play A Streetcar Named Desire, the main characters James Gatsby and Blanche Dubois have a lengthy search for love. Both characters go about their search in similar and different ways. The characters choose illusion over reality, but the way in which they go about it differs. Also, in an attempt to impress, both characters try and “buy” love by using material possessions to attract people to them. Although Gatsby and Blanche devote a lot of their lives to finding true love, their search leaves them unsuccessful.
For the action he asks his parent for help, he feels ashamed and sorry. When his father is giving the cheque to him, he “looking at the check as if it was very hard for him to take it”. Jim change his perception and starts feeling ashamed about what he has done up to this point because he feels sorry to face to his parents for helping. He finally realizes his responsibility and hopes his parents would believe and trust him. His father chooses to trust him and makes him “so grave it that make him looks years older”. After all those thing happens, they make Jim Sloane became more mature and his point of view is changing. It is never too late to realize and take actions to show respect to yourself and take responsibility for anything you have decided and chosen.
He looks for a father because his own father is not a factor in his life. He dies when Jim is a young child and does not seem to have a significant effect on Jim’s life. Ben Gunn, Dr. Livesey, and John Silver provide Jim with examples and characteristics he incorporates into the person he becomes. Jim, like many others, finds father figures to identify with and pattern their own lives, whether it is a blood relative or a person they choose from their surroundings. Ben Gunn is the character in the book that shows Jim Hawkins how to survive, provide spiritual guidance, and be proud of who he is.
In the play “True West” by Sam Shepard, there are two main characters Austin and Lee that are so different and similar due to their family culture of dysfunction. A dysfunctional family is one in which that shows conflict, hostile environments, inappropriate behaviors to not only upon them, but to those around them. In most dysfunctional families you will find children that have been neglected or abused by parents, to which most of these children tend to think that these such behaviors are normal. Shepard shows this relationship of dysfunction of a family between two brothers that shows one brother who thinks he has escaped the dysfunction, and one that has carried out the dysfunctional family culture.
For example, the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons represent a class higher than Jim 's because of their skin tone. However, they appear to be more irresponsible and less compassionate than him in their senseless war with one another. The Duke and the King also are considered better than Jim in both classism and racism ideologies, and yet are two of the least trustworthy and ethical characters in the entire book. After stealing, deceiving, and manipulating entire towns, the Duke and the King establish themselves as villainous people, as opposed to the respectable men they ought to
being the man he wants and Jim from everything that could make him a human being rather than
His mother frequently mentions how he cannot quit the job he despises because he is making the money for the house. She also laments about Lauren does not have heaps of “gentlemen callers” throughout the story. Amanda enlists Tom to search for men at his work that would be nice and suitable suitors for Laura. Tom, in response, invites Jim over. Jim was the high school crush of Laura, and he was excellent in many high school things- basketball, singing, and debate. It sounds like a perfect fit, and it was meant to. While Tom of the future is narrating in the very beginning of the play, he outright claims that Jim is a symbol of “the long-delayed but always expected something that we live for” (922). [PP4] Jim is the way Tom can leave, a way to get Amanda to stop hounding about gentlemen callers, and a way to get Laura away from her bleak, husbandless future. Jim was the key to the happiness of the Wingfields. HE talks with Laura and gets her out of her shell, and it all seems so perfect. Life, however, is not perfect. Jim was going out and even engaged to another woman, and he could not be the Wingfield’s saving grace. Amanda was angry at Tom, saying, “what a wonderful joke you played on us” (970) in a tone that could be nothing other than drenched in outraged sarcasm. She blames the horrible ending of the night on Tom and his lack of knowledge of Jim’s romantic life. This outrages Tom in turn, and he
However, he somehow felt lost and had a longing to search to fulfill his father’s legacy of the fictional planet they always talked about, treasure planet. Hawkins constantly gets into numerous delinquent acts and in trouble with authority because of the fact that his mother never had the time to nurture him growing up after she became a single parent. Not only did this neglected act his father created hurt Jim, it upset his development behavior causing him to lash out at the law, unable to share his true feelings of neglect. In relation towards Jim’s situation, my mother raised me as a single parent while going back to school to become a registered nurse. At first, I did not realize how unusual my situation was until I got old enough to understand that another human who should be a part of my life, neglect me because he couldn’t be bothered with a child in his
Children who are fatherless are at a greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse (Consequences of Fatherlessness 3). If it was not bad enough, Tom was already at risk of becoming an alcoholic since the day his dad walked out the house. In the film, Tom is seen coming home late at night drunk. He leaves for long periods of times and comes back home really late and drunk. Amada notices and she asks him where he has been and he replies that he was out in the movies (Numen). When asked why, he says that the movies give him adventure which is something that he does not get to experience at the shoe warehouse. “The movies are a temporary escape from his boring daily routine at the Continental Shoemakers” (Pleasant Disguise 50). Amanda does not believe him and becomes afraid that Tom is becoming more like his father. Tom actually admits to being like his father when he is having a conversation with Jim the night he went over to their apartment. “I’m like my father. The bastard son of a bastard!” (Numen). He says this after he discusses with Jim his plans to leave his family in search for adventure like the people in the movies. Tom finally decides to leave them after Amanda yells at him for Jim’s engagement. This makes Tom furious because he was unaware that Jim was engaged. As he leaves he tells them that he is leaving to the movies, but this time is a lie because he never comes back
The change for Tom is less evident. He is classified as a "dreamer." In this new industrial world, there is little room for those who are not hard working and practical. Jim calls him Shakespeare, although he secretly laughs at him for being so whimsical as wanting to be a poet. Jim, on the other hand is a practical and loyal man.
Man will always seek redemption. No matter what mistakes are made, redemption can always be found, and Jim’s search for redemption is no different. Despite being born a coward, Jim makes the right choices and takes the honorable path to alter his reputation. Jim proves through the pursuit and sacrifice of his romantic dream that although man may be born a coward, he can attain redemption.