Dolores’s part in all of this is not totally innocent. She too has made morally questionable choices. She chooses to knowingly sleep with and then continue to be in a relationship with a married man. When it looks like Judah might leave her, she threatens to commit suicide. At anytime she could have chosen to cut her loses and walk away, but instead she choose to cling to the fantasy that she and Judah can be together. As she becomes increasingly desperate and perhaps unstable, she decides to threaten Judah with blackmail. Dolores does not think this is wrong. She justifies her actions by believing she is fighting for what is rightfully hers. Judah can not longer handle the situation on his own and seeks out Ben for advice. Ben is a rabbi,
n the short story, Tunnel by Sarah Ellis, humour is used to reflect the struggles of adolescence and the overall theme of change, maturity and growth overtime. The first use of humour as a form of criticism of adolescents is when the protagonist realizes that he is not properly trained to babysit his new child, Elizabeth or lb. He is shocked at the drastic different styles of play from his previous child. “In my babysitting course at the community centre they taught us about first aid, diapering, nutritious snacks and how to jump your jollies out. They did not teach Barbies.” The author uses juxtaposition and humour to criticizes the inherent pride that the youth carry with them about their knowledge. For example, the protagonist is prideful
Dolores' first realization is a sub-conscious one. Right before she tries to commit suicide she telephones her mother's childhood friend Geneva (Lamb 249). This is a cry for help and is her first step towards recovery.
The function of family is a key role surrounding Dolores's obesity. Family cohesion, family adaptability and family boundaries play vital roles in Dolores's health problems. Dolores has difficulty taking responsibility with her own health, and refuses to see a doctor for a physical required for college entrance. It ultimately takes a forceful act of her mother with "a steak knife in one hand, the hacked off television plug in the other" who will only repair Dolores's beloved television "when and if [you] have a physical" (121). Although Dolores insists that her mother must really hate her for demanding that she get a physical, she is unaware of her mother's and grandmother's function in the family as the once to encourage and provide medical services. The clash between...
Perspective allows people to see another person’s point of view. In the essay “The Cabdriver’s Daughter” by Waheeda Samady, she addresses her perception versus society’s opinion of her father. In her eyes, her father is a person capable of displaying kindness and expressing his profound knowledge while for some Americans, he is their preconceived notion of what a terrorist might look like. She challenges people to look past his scars and the color of skin, and “look at what the bombs did not destroy” (19). To her, he is the man that has lived through the Soviet-Afghan War, persevered through poverty, and denied these experiences the power of changing him into a cantankerous person. Samady feels prideful of her father’s grit through his past experiences yet feels sorrowful thinking about the life he could have lived if the war had never happened.
In the film “Crimes and Misdemeanors” Judah Rosenthal, the protagonist, is a successful wealthy and affluent man that works as an ophthalmologist in New York City. In his perfect life, there are also inescapable problems that came across throughout his splendid life such as his past dark secret that he carried with his affair named Dolores Paley, a flight attendant who is uncontrollably in love and obsessed with him that threated him by telling his wife and the whole world about their secret relationship. Nonetheless, The only way for his hidden secret not to be exposed is by getting rid of her. Once Judah meditated it very well, he decides to hire his mobster brother Jack to disappear her from his way. After the dirty work is done, Judah gets a phone call from Jack saying, “It’s done. You don’t have to worry about this anymore.” Judah is still in shocked and doesn’t know how to act to the murder of his affair Dolores. At the same time he feels some type of release but in order to make it less suspicious he goes back to her apartment to recover letters and other items that he gave Dolores throughout their secret relationship to cover his tracks. However, his obscure and malevolent actions are still in his conscious. Judah starts to act strange and distant around his family, friends, and relatives because the guilt is eating him alive. Indeed, as the movie continues on, Judah return back to h...
The film “A Bronx Tale” was set in the Bronx during the early 1960’s. There was alot of racial discrimination and mob interactions that manifested themselves on the streets of New York. This made the 1960’s a particularly dangerous time period to live in New York. Calogero, a nine year old Italian boy, and his family were caught in the middle of these interactions. Calogero’s family lived two feet from a bar that the mob conducted their business in. Sonny was the head of the Italian mob. He was portrayed as a Machiavellian leader of the Bronx. Sonny shot a man just outside Calogero 's stoop. Detectives questioned Calogero because he was the only eyewitness to the crime. Calogero lied when the detectives asked if the gunman was in the lineup of suspects. Calogero’s father, Lorenzo, told him that he did a good thing for a bad man, but he did not understand what his father meant. Calogero only understood that
In the story The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, one big conflict being developed is man vs. unknown. In the story, Charlotte goes down to top steerage to get some things from her luggage. When she’s down there she sees a mysterious face staring at her. She went up to it and realizes it’s fake. After that she sees another face peeking up from the Brig (the ship's jail) and realizes that the face is alive. It wasn’t any of the crew or the captain. The captain and Zachariah told her that she needed to keep the dirk for protection just in case because of the crew and because of Cranick. I think a good theme for The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is, being brave is sometimes the only choice. I think this is a good theme because
We all experience losses as we grow older in life. These losses are usually about our physical or inner self. However, sometimes these losses could be about how our relationships with others have been lost or changed due to growing up. For example, in the story How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez, four sisters suffer or experience losses as a result of growing up into older young women. All this started when the four sisters moved to the United States from the Dominican Republic at a young age. This affects the four sisters because they encounter problems or obstacles as they age into young adults. For instance, Julia Alvarez shows that growing up is a process of losing respect, sanity, and a loving friend.
Mary Maloney is a very intriguing character who surprises the reader by appearing to be a calm and collected character in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter.”(Wordy?) Her character conveys a wide variety of emotions and thoughts as the story slowly unveils itself. She is elaborate when she gets away with the murder and two-faced when her personality constantly changes. Both leading to her being the most intriguing character in “Lamb to the Slaughter.”
F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu was a powerful commentary on disease and lust for its time. The character of Count Orlok himself was a metaphor for most evils such as disease, lust, and death. Towards the end of the film, people began to get sick from a disease that originated from Transylvania. What also causes widespread epidemics is that people unknowingly carry them into their home countries. Paranoia of the disease is also a crucial element of the film. The film’s innovative use of shadows and lighting also add more depth and suspense to the film and adds on to the commentary and social themes of the film. The iconic scene where Orlok went up the staircase and you saw nothing but his shadow stuck out to audiences all around for good reason.
The Lost Heiress, by Catherine Fisher, is the second book in The Relic Master tetralogy. A young man named Raffael who is training to become a Relic Master under Galen Harn. With the help of Carys, a member of The Watch, Galen and Raffael are able to overcome multiple impediments. The Watch is attempting to eliminate all of those left of The Order, also known as Relic Masters; however, Carys determined The Watch is a corrupt organization and uses her status to her advantage. Continually, through Galen’s unwavering fate in the Makers, those who created the world, they are able to begin rebuilding The Order and character development demonstrates the evolution of Carys. Also, an abundance of themes and quotes adequately explains the plot and grips the readers attention.
Using the murder of Dee Ann’s mother as a means to intertwine the lives of the characters together, Steve Yarbrough examines the nature of relationships in “The Rest of Her Life.” The relationships in the story take a turn after Dee Ann’s mother is killed, with characters seeking to act more on their own, creating distance between many relationships throughout the story. Independent lifestyles prevent emotional bonds that hold relationships together from forming, thus preventing the characters from maintaining healthy relationships. The dysfunctional relationship present between Dee Ann and Chuckie in “The Rest of Her Life” is the result of the characters ' desire for self-gratification.
Have you ever imagined what it is like to see the world, a single person or an event with different lenses? When two or more people have a different opinion about the same person or event, it is like they are seeing a certain situation through the different lenses, with different points of view. For example, Rachel thought that Megan was a model or a fashion designer based on how she looked, and Anna thought that Megan was a very bad person and had killed her own baby, while Megan in reality, did not kill anyone. Tom also thought that Scott, Megan’s husband, was a bad person because he had been drinking enormous amounts of beer recently while Scott has had problems at home. The theme “People have different opinions about the same people and
Julie of the Wolves is a realistic fiction novel by Jean Craighead George. This novel is about a thirteen year old eskimo girl that is lost in the wilderness and is fighting to survive. She runs away because she was married off by her father to a boy named Daniel and she doesn’t want to marry him so she runs away and she tries to reach Point Hope in San Francisco. She communicates with wolves and finds her long lost father. Julie of the Wolves is about a girl named Miyax who never gives up.
The classic tale of Cinderella is well known for the fight of overcoming great obstacles despite great odds. However, there are always a few ill-hearted people who go out of their way to cease any competition that they might face, as seen with Cinderella’s step-sisters. Samuel Jackson says is his distinguished quote, “The hunger of imagination…lures us to…the phantoms of hope,” to help develop a more defined view of a fairytale. The story of Cinderella fully embodies the ideals of a true fairytale by encompassing magic, hope, and struggle between good and evil throughout the duration of the plot.