The ‘Motorcycle Diaries’ transforms the concept of discovery through Che’s indefatigable nature, thus leading to a new profound dimension of discovery, that was once left hidden; revealing both threatening and polarizing ideas, leading to a provocative change of thought about our society. Che has revealed these new dimensions of discovery within the text’s vignettes. Che has revealed that the Ocean has a metaphorical connotation for infinite discoveries, enveloping Alberto and himself, leading to new ‘self discoveries’. He shows how the ‘conquerors’ have ‘defeated’ many of the Native South American Empires, referring to the Aymara people frequently has ‘defeated by history’. These ideas thus lead to Che’s final realization for his kismet, that …show more content…
These discoveries have given us renewed perceptions and brought forth the realization of what Imperialism has done to many cultures, resulting in them becoming permanently scared. Within the ‘Motorcycle Diaries’, Che explores the Native American cultures that have been ‘defeated by history’, thus shaping much of his and consequently our ideologies about the greed that has plagued humanity. Che specifically focuses on the Aymara people within the vignette “Tarata, the new world”. Che explores these ideas within the following extract from the text: “Their stares are tame, almost fearful, and completely indifferent to the outside world. Some give impression that they go on living because it a habit they cannot shake”. Che use of adjectives puts emphasizes on how these people have been stripped of everything that makes them human. This adds to the overall characterization of the Aymara people, portraying them as empty shells, defeated and in turn pillaged by Imperialism, specifically by the ‘Spanish Conquistadors’. This discovery reveals the devastating aspects of the human experience and challenges the values that the modern society holds. This in turn provokes inquisition within the responder, as we begin to question the fundamentals of our society, as our Capitalistic society was founded on these principles of ‘Imperialism’. This leads to an intensely meaningful discovery of emotion and commiseration for these unfortunate people who were unlucky enough to be the product of Imperialism. This discovery of their ‘dehumanization’ reflects much of Che’s later ideologies, and subsequently leads to him attempting to be their redeemer, fixing the wrongs done to them by
The movie Gangs of New York takes place in Lower Manhattan’s Five Points’ neighborhood. It begins in 1846. The main protagonist Amsterdam Fallon, Priest Fallon’s son, watches his father who is the leader of the Dead Rabbit gang prepare and die in battle. As his father is on his last breadths of life giving his son counsel, Billy “the Butcher” Cutting snaps the Priest Fallon’s head. Amsterdam runs away from Cuttings henchmen to hide his father’s knife before he is captured by the Natives gang. He is taken to Hellgate orphanage. In 1862 Amsterdam returns to Five Point’s neighborhood and finds his old friend Johnny Sirocco. Johnny works now for Billy “the Butcher” and introduces Amsterdam to Cutting. Amsterdam makes his way into Cutting’s inner circle of Natives. Amsterdam also meets Jenny Everdeane while hanging out with Johnny. She bumps into Johnny to pickpocket his watch. Amsterdam notices and lets Johnny know. Johnny claims he always lets her take things. As both Cutting and Jenny take a liking to Amsterdam Johnny becomes jealous. He notices young Vallon quickly making his way into Cutting’s gang’s high ranks and into Jenny’s heart. Out of jealousy, Johnny reveals Amsterdam’s true identity to Cutting. Cutting decides to make Vallon angry. He succeeds by playing a dangerous game that involves knives with Jenny at the annual celebration of Priests Vallon’s death. Amsterdam then attempts to assassinate Cutting but fails and is taught a lesson by Cutting. Amsterdam lives at the help of Jenny. To avenge his father he starts the outlawed Dead Rabbit gang up again. He proposes a challenge to Cutting after his friend “Monk” McGinn is killed by Cutting. The fight takes place at Five Points’ neighborhood on the day the ...
The story The Outsiders By S.E Hinton is said to be “timeless” because kids can relate to the characters and themes of the story. In my opinion the story The Outsiders is not timeless because kids these days can’t relate to the characters in the story The Outsiders. Kids today aren’t riding in rodeos, roll drunks, jump smaller kids, walk to a stranger's house, or get in a stranger’s car, also they get arrested at the age of 10. Saying the statement “The Outsiders is a “timeless” book “ is an invalid statement. So, Kids today often don’t relate to The Outsiders anymore in many ways.
Is it better to be an individual or conform to expectations just to fit in like others? This choice is faced by Ponyboy Curtis, the narrator, throughout S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. He belongs to the Greasers, a group of delinquent friends, who are viewed by many as poor and dangerous, while the rival Socs are viewed as rich, smart, and powerful causing the Greasers to envy them. Ponyboy learns from Randy Adderson, a Soc who is trapped by stereotype threat, that their lives are not as perfect as he expected it to be and they too face problems. In addition, Ponyboy tries to act tough and fit in with the rest of gang, but his Greaser companions, such as Two-Bit Matthews, teach him to embrace his own characteristics which sets him apart from
With assertive shouts and short tempers, the prominent character, Ricardo, is characterized as a feisty townsman, doing nothing except trying to protect his town and its members from the judgments of the western world. For example, the characterization of the “‘…quaint’” man is exemplified through the simplicity of his life and the fact that he is “‘…employed’” and is full of knowledge, not a “‘cow in the forest’” (55, 29, 32). Ricardo desperately wants to establish the notion that he is not a heartless, feebleminded man, only an indigent, simple man striving to protect his friends and family from the criticisms of callous cultures. Incessantly Ricardo attempts to make it clear to the photographer the irritation elicited by his prese...
In this sense, the film tests the resiliency of good human nature. The modern world is becoming increasingly set in its extremes, as the lifestyle of the poor vastly contrasts that of the wealthy. The implementation of NAFTA reflects this movement toward separation, despite the fact that it was intended to boost trade between regions and create more prosperity on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. The Mexican elites saw it as their salvation. Others saw it as “ a death sentence.” The Chiapas region itself exemplifies this gap, as well. The region was split between the relatively prosperous west, which was fertile and characterized by commercial development, and the poor, subsistence-oriented east. It was not by accident that the Zapatista movement began in Chiapas as the struggle between ranchers, landowners, and subsistence farmers was intensified by NAFTA.
The book “The Outsiders” talks about two gangs and how they interact. “The Outsiders” is a book about Socs and Greasers. The story was written by S.E. Hinton, a person who hid her name because of gender. Further more, Hinton wrote the story about her person experience being between two gangs like the Greasers and Socs. Lastly, “The Outsiders” is told by Ponyboy Curtis, a Greaser, the main character of the story. There are two main themes in the story, “The Outsiders” which focus on the Greasers and the Socs and their differences in appearance and how they use violence to settle disagreements.
For my final essay, I have chosen the movie “Fatal Attraction”, and I will focus on Alex Forrest and her mental disorder. Borderline Personality was displayed in the movie and Alex had almost every symptom of this disorder. Throughout this essay, I will be discussing Alex’s characteristics, intelligence, motivation, stress, social influences and/ or personality theories, treatment, and if the depiction of the disorder and treatment is consistent with what was discussed and read in the course.
The film The Motorcycle Diaries begins in Buenos Aires in the year 1952. Ernesto Guevara, a young medical student, and his friend, Alberto Granado, a biochemistry graduate, set out on a journey across Latin America with their handy old motorbike,
Louise Erdrich’s short story “American horse” is a literary piece written by an author whose works emphasize the American experience for a multitude of different people from a plethora of various ethnic backgrounds. While Erdrich utilizes a full arsenal of literary elements to better convey this particular story to the reader, perhaps the two most prominent are theme and point of view. At first glance this story seems to portray the struggle of a mother who has her son ripped from her arms by government authorities; however, if the reader simply steps back to analyze the larger picture, the theme becomes clear. It is important to understand the backgrounds of both the protagonist and antagonists when analyzing theme of this short story. Albetrine, who is the short story’s protagonist, is a Native American woman who characterizes her son Buddy as “the best thing that has ever happened to me”. The antagonist, are westerners who work on behalf of the United States Government. Given this dynamic, the stage is set for a clash between the two forces. The struggle between these two can be viewed as a microcosm for what has occurred throughout history between Native Americans and Caucasians. With all this in mind, the reader can see that the theme of this piece is the battle of Native Americans to maintain their culture and way of life as their homeland is invaded by Caucasians. In addition to the theme, Erdrich’s usage of the third person limited point of view helps the reader understand the short story from several different perspectives while allowing the story to maintain the ambiguity and mysteriousness that was felt by many Natives Americans as they endured similar struggles. These two literary elements help set an underlying atmos...
Forrest Gump and the Blind Side both have strong characters, inspirational moments, and incredible hardships. The movies show two very smart people who are misunderstood by many.
Although I have watched the movie, Crash, many times, I had never looked at it through a sociological perspective. It blew my mind how much you can relate this movie to sociology, but also the more I got to thinking about it, the more it seemed to make sense. Everywhere I looked I found someway to connect this movie to some sort of sociological term, which I thought was pretty cool.
A genre is a type or category of film (or other work of art) that can be easily identified by specific elements of its plot, setting, mise en scène, character types, or style. (Goodykoontz, 2014) The gangster film is a sub-genre of the broader genre of crime film. A genre main objective is to classify the depiction of entertainment. The genre of my movie is a gangster film. My movie I chose was Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma.An update of the 1932 film, Scarface (1983) follows gangster Tony Montana and his close friend Manny Ray from their trip on the Cuban Boat Lift for refugees to their arrival in Miami. (Scarface, 1983a)
Roger Donaldson’s film, Thirteen Days dramatizes the Kennedy administration reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The film discusses a time when the United States had come close to a nuclear war with other nations. The film mainly focuses on showing the audience the United States perspective of the crisis. The Cuban Missile crisis was a thirteen-day long confrontation between the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. This crisis started out when both the United States and the Soviet Union wanted to be seen as the most superior nation in the world. Therefore, both nations decided to use the technology they had in order to produce nuclear missiles and other weapons to show the globe how powerful they were as nations. The United States and
Anderson’s Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life is both a perceptive and definitive biography on the life of Che Guevara. Anderson has written a very thorough and engaging book, separating the myth from the man. Anderson has talked directly with many important people in Guevara's life, including his wives and the wife of the man who executed him. Even after his death Che’s life continues to illuminate in history as a symbol of revolutionary communism.
In 1952(The Motorcycle Diaries), a semester before he would receive his doctorate, Ernesto decided to go on a cross continent motorcycle trip with a long time friend and biochemist, Alberto Granado. Che's trip was life changing. His trip was very rough- they lost their tent early in the trip, and had to ask complete strangers for places to sleep. In his travels he saw the poor and oppressed, in particular a day or two spent with a homeless communist couple, who's land was repossesed by a land speculator and had to leave their son behind and go on the run looking for work(The Motorcycle Diaries).