You might believe that Soul Surfer and Rise Above have totally different themes based on how the stories are written and told. But the truth of the matter is that Soul Surfer and Rise Above both have a theme of overcoming challenges. In Soul Surfer the theme is mostly about never giving up helps you conquer your challenges. She shows that you can't give up on yourself because you will never get anywhere. In Rise Above the theme is that believing in God and keeping the faith in him help you overcome challenges. The author is explaining that if you just have faith in yourself and God, you will get through it. Both texts have the same theme, and the author used Inner thinking, flashbacks and first person to show this in both texts. Bethany Hamilton showed a similar theme throughout Soul Surfer and Rise Above. One way she showed this through both texts is through flashbacks. On pages three and four in Soul Surfer, Bethany said,¨It came literally out of the blue. I had no warning at all. The water was crystal clear and calm...then suddenly there was a flash of …show more content…
Others may claim that Bethany Hamilton is not an inspirational character just because she lost her arm to a shark. In Rise Above it also shows that you can't always count on God with every little problem, you have to try harder in order to be successful. So this proves that just by never giving up on herself and believing in her faith and God she became a professional surfer just like she was planning to before her shark attack. She kept going after her dream and she conquered what she wanted without anything taking away that from her. In Soul Surfer Bethany never gave up and she kept trying even though she had to retrain herself how to surf. Overall, it is definitely true that you can't give up on yourself because you always need to keep trying and that's just what Bethany did, she kept
Bethany is resilient because she was one of the amateur surfers of Hawaii. If you don't know what resilient means , Well it means that you are a hard worker. That is one of the reasons that I think Bethany Hamilton is resilient .I mean the girl was an amateur at the age of 13 ,so don't you think that it took a lot of work to get there.
The strength to persevere and keep going are traits that are something everyone should learn to have. No matter what you are going through if you have that mentality or mind state I feel like you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. Mattie had her mind set on avenging her fathers death and wanted to do it at any cost and she wouldn’t stop until she’s had her justice. That was her motivation, maybe something can motivate you to keep persevering through the many obstacles in your life.
Everyone has a friend and deserves one. A friendship is to be with someone that trusts and believes in one. Everyone has a friend--except for Freak and Max. To begin, Freak and Max were two kids who have no friends. The reason being is that they both have disabilities. Freak has Morquio Syndrome which made him very small, and Max has Learning Disabilities and “was the size of a giant” which made people never open themselves up to Freak and Max. Those two didn’t really achieve anything until they became friends. In the realistic fiction novel, Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick he told a compelling story about Friendship, determination, and imagination. I believe the theme of this novel of the book is if you put your mind into it, you can
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao focuses on gender and the role gender has on the characters lives. The characters of this book are also one way or another impacted by the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. The major themes of this book were topics we have focused in class. The themes of machismo and the effects of Rafael Trujillo affected the latino population even in the United States.
Tim O’Brien intended audience was the future generations and other veterans.He used shame, guilt and morality in his story the things they carried. ‘‘On occasion the war was like a ping pong ball.You could put a fancy spin on it, you could make it dance’’(O’Brien 32). In The novel the things they carried by Tim O'Brien the themes shame and guilt and morality are present by when he talks about all the different stories and things that happened to him through the years.How he has the guilt of surviving in war and his morality of learning to accept it.
Giving up shows a lack of self-respect and self-worth. Each time we push through adversity, we become stronger and more capable of dealing with the next adverse situation. Adversity in life is an inevitability and as such, pushing through those hardships build our soul’s armor and our ability to overcome. Never give up!
Throughout the book Watership Down there are many themes spanning the entire book, but three main themes stand out. These themes are home, leadership, and nature. The idea of home comes up again and again as the rabbits are trying to find a new home going place to place running from danger as well as finding what appeared to be a home only to find out its true horrors. Leadership is also another big theme as it shifts between the rabbits in the group as well as being stressed in the different warren they come across with varying levels of how it's enforced. Finally, there is a theme of nature. Throughout the book there is a constant battle of natural verses unnatural, the battle of prey and predator, and how rabbits should be in the
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... not have a nametag. Her recovery helps to relate to the audience and show them that they can turn previously vague goals into vivid realities. Bethany may have suffered the loss of an arm, but surely, she overcame and has inspired numerous people today to fulfill their dreams. Standing full, whole, and restored Bethany Hamilton is an inspirational person who surfs because she is drawn from the soul.
Connelly uses a reflective tone to indicate that one must learn through experience. We learn through confronting what scares us and leaving our comfort zones. While struggling in a situation, the person involved usually realizes “[they] are a fool / come this far” (l. 10-11). Most people will attempt to find an escape, but often to no avail. Therefore, they must confront what they fear in order to move past it. Panicking what some people will resort to as “[their] heart / dissolves like a holy tablet / of salt” (l. 14-16). Swallowing salt water compares to accepting the various defeats everyone experiences on a daily basis. Hyperbole is used in these lines, because sometimes an individual may exaggerate by saying the burdens in their life are “killing” them. The third stanza exerts a calming mood, by describing that the object the swimmer was afraid of was “only a drifting body / of wood. Or a dolphin” (l. 17-19). This symbolizes that the obstacles in life are sometimes nothing to even spend a second worrying about. Depending on the circumstances, sometimes all that needs to be done is to take a step back and obtain a different point of view. In retrospect, fears are sometimes irrational because humans are wired to fear the
The novel Nukkin Ya is a compelling book, written in the perspective of the character Gary Black, the author of the text is Phillip Gwynne. The novel is set in rural South Australia for Australian readers. The novel conveys a number of themes and messages including racial difference, love verse hate and the ability and choice to move on. These are depicted by the literally techniques of imagery, literary allusions and intertextuality.
“ It’s crazy, all that blood and violence. I thought you were supposed to be the love generation”. Conservative mother, Estelle Collingwood says to her daughter Mari in the beginning of Wes Craven’s cult classic The Last House on the Left (1972). With the war in Vietnam in full swing and the long term effects of the Manson family murders, the peace and love counter culture was at the end of an era. American society had become more violent and corrupt, as were the films Hollywood was starting to release. And with the new generation’s style of filmmaking and recent MPAA rating system, filmmakers were pushing the boundaries of their films and shocking audiences and critics to the core. With new filmmakers kicking down the door of Hollywood every year, it’s no surprise that soon-to-be horror icon Wes Craven would fit perfectly into the new generation of Hollywood. Craven’s early films fall into the exploitation category. They were severely gruesome, repulsive, appalling, and ended up being banned in several countries. Craven would go on to make films that reflect on contemporary society by using a number of recurring themes and formal filmmaking aesthetics that included:
After the terrorist attacks on September 11th 2001, there has been a reemergence of comparisons between the events of Pearl Harbor and the terrorist attacks in New York. Although the timing of when Band of Brother’s was released on HBO was a poorly planned to the attacks in New York, it could be argued that the United States government was able to use the images found within Band of Brothers for their own agenda to push for a War on Terror. Band of Brothers has representations of brotherhood and an image of a masculine American soldier, which could be used by the government to push for going to war in the Middle East. In order to display a masculine American soldier, it could be argued that there needs to be a representation of an ethnic America
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, by Gregory Maguire, takes place in the Land of Oz. It actually takes place forty years before The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum, and it tells the story of how Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, became so wicked (Fiction Book Review). This book was written in 1995. Maguire wrote this book in the early 1900’s when he was living in London. At this time, the Gulf War was just starting. Maguire was intrigued by the headline in the British Newspaper, the Times of London, that said, “Sadaam Hussein: The New Hitler?” Months later, there was an incident where several young schoolboys kidnapped and killed a toddler. While the British press was paying attention to the crime,
Bethany Hamilton is an example of dealing with change in an optimistic way. In October 2003, Bethany was attacked by a shark while out surfing in Tunnels beach, Hawaii. Without warning, a Tiger shark attacked her surfboard, dragging her back and forth and then disappearing into the ocean. Bethany was able to compose herself to use her right arm to swim back to the shore. She was later taken to hospital with severe injuries, where her left arm was amputated. She came through her recovery with things that were important to her, such as her family and her Christian faith. Despite the trauma of the incident, Hamilton was determined to return to surfing. Just 10 weeks after the accident, she returned to the ocean and went surfing again. She adjusted to the change by using a custom made surfboard and changing her surfing style. Bethany taught herself to surf with only one arm and she also began surfing competitively in competitions again. Hamilton claims that the loss of her arm was a blessing in disguise.