The film "It Happened One Night" is a landmark in the history of cinema because it became the first film that won the Academy Awards in the five most prestigious nominations. Since then, only two movies were able to repeat his success, namely "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "Silence of the Lambs." In contrast to those dramatic genre films, the movie "It Happened One Night" is a romantic comedy in 1934 with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable in the lead roles. As well as in any other love story, the main characters are constantly hampered by many obstacles on the way to the happiness. The film "It Happened One Night" not an exception; mutual hostility, marriage, and misunderstandings hinder Peter and Ellie from getting together.
One of the major barriers between protagonists is the mutual dislike that arose from the first minutes of their acquaintance. Harassing Ellie in place, Peter Worn shows himself rude, discourteous, and sufficiently brash individual. In turn, Ellie prefers to reject his help to throw suitcase on the top shelf and shows her arrogance when Peter trying to take away her suitcase from a thief. It is obvious that attempting to hide the fact who she really is, Ellie is forced be a tough and taciturn, and therefore Peter had an impression of Ellie as "ungrateful brat". Moreover, Warne blackmails daughter of a millionaire, that he would tell her about the location of her father if she does not give him an exclusive interview, which naturally cannot cause sympathy of Ellie. Such hostility to one another primarily relates to the significantly difference between the protagonists in social status, upbringing, and behavior. Unlikely that under ordinary circumstances, people who are so opposed would have the chance t...
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...de that the reporter just wants to receive his reward of ten thousand dollars. However, they have made premature conclusions about Peter's covetousness because he has made the bill for just thirty-nine dollars and sixty cents. Such misunderstanding would never has happened if the protagonists did not hide the feelings and expressed their thoughts and assumptions to each other.
All barriers and obstacles, such as mutual dislike, marriage and misunderstandings are were symbolized in a sufficiently tangible improvised "Walls of Jericho" between the protagonists of the film "It Happened One Night." Having overcome all these challenges, Peter and Ellie finally found their love and ruined this "wall" in the final scene. The moral of this film is that if two people are really meant for each other, there is nothing impossible that would to prevent them from being together.
Although they seem to be arguing about something trivial like lemons, there are much bigger issues that begin to surface. Throughout this paper, I will show how this scene is a perfect display of how a combination of passive aggressive behavior, disconfirming messages, and a defensive and unsupportive communication climate led to a complete breakdown of this couple’s relationship. They both throw in all different types of issues and past arguments that have never been resolved. Brooke attacks Gary for never taking her to the ballet, for playing too many video games, and for the lack of novelty in their relationship.
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...
...rdon people from their sins. Then he tells a story about greed. Next the pardoner asks the audience for money for their sins. He is greedy because he wants their money. The pardoner in the is hypocritical because he tells a story about greed over money then tells people to give him money for their greed for money because he is greedy, and wants their money he could care less if they could afford it or not.
...e on her part. Throughout the story, the Mother is portrayed as the dominant figure, which resembled the amount of say that the father and children had on matters. Together, the Father, James, and David strived to maintain equality by helping with the chickens and taking care of Scott; however, despite the effort that they had put in, the Mother refused to be persuaded that Scott was of any value and therefore she felt that selling him would be most beneficial. The Mother’s persona is unsympathetic as she lacks respect and a heart towards her family members. Since the Mother never showed equality, her character had unraveled into the creation of a negative atmosphere in which her family is now cemented in. For the Father, David and James, it is only now the memories of Scott that will hold their bond together.
In ‘unreliable narration’ the narrator’s account is at odds with the implied reader's surmises about the story’s real intentions. The story und...
It was a result of Ned and Emily Meriwether and Tom Bascomb’s seemingly harmless prank on the Dorsets. Ned and Emily Meriwether are two children of high social standing in the Mero community, as understood by their invitation to the Dorsets’ party. Tom Bascomb, on the other hand, is the paperboy for West Vesey Place. As such, he was not invited to the party. However, the three children contrive a plan to trick Alfred and Louisa. Tom is going to attend the party with Emily in Ned’s place, and Ned will sneak in as if he is Tom, an outsider. As noted above, the Dorsets take pride in only inviting the “best” children to their party; Tom is not such an individual. Tom lives on Division Boulevard, an aptly named street. Tom takes this prank as “an opportunity to mock the group from which he has been excluded,” or more precisely, to mock the “social pretensions” of the Dorsets’ (Robinson 287-88). As stated above, Alfred and Louisa are thoroughly convinced that they can recognize a quality child when they see one. Consequently, it is devastating for the Dorsets to find out that they have been tricked: “‘Why, we know nice children when we see them’…a pleading quality in her voice” (Taylor 166). They are reluctant to admit that they have confused Tom, an outsider, with Ned. They continue to insist that “it isn’t just the money,” but ironically, the presumption of money is
It Happened One Night. Dir. Frank Capra. Perf. Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable. Columbia Pictures. 1999. DVD.
In ‘Paul’s Case’ Paul has created a fantasy world in which he becomes entranced, even to the point of lying to classmates about the tales of grandeur and close friendships that he had made with the members of the stock company. This fantasy falls apart around him as “the principle went to Paul’s father, and Paul was taken out of school and put to work. The manager at Carnegie Hall was told to get another usher in his stead; the doorkeeper at the theater was warned not to admit him to the house” (Cather 8). The fantasy fell apart further when the stories he had told his classmates reached the ears of the women of the stock company, who unlike their lavish descriptions from Paul were actually hardworking women supporting their families. Unable to cope with the reality of working for Denny & Carson, he stole the money he was supposed to deposit in the bank to live the life of luxury in New York. Only a person who felt backed into a corner would attempt something so unsound. After his eight days in paradise, he is again backed into a corner by the reality of his middle class upbringing, and the dwindling time he has before his father reaches New York to find him. The final way out for Paul is his suicide, for which an explanation would be “In the end, he fails to find his security, for it was his grandiose “picture making mechanism” that made his life so deardful.” (Saari). With all the securities of his fantasy life finally gone, his mental instability fully comes to light as he jumps in front of the train to end his
In order to understand what changes happen to twist the views of the 2 main characters in both novels, it is important to see the outlook of the two at the beginning of the novels in comparison ...
...k from semester in New York, Sheff asks a question about how one can explain a child that his older and beloved brother steals money from him.
...e this unfair life for Donald to come out ahead in the end." Donald had invested the one hundred dollars the Pete gave him on what Pete thought was extremely outrageous then got worried when he felt Donald would do something to out smart him.
Wilson, M. & Clark, R. (n.d.). Analyzing the Short Story. [online] Retrieved from: https://www.limcollege.edu/Analyzing_the_Short_Story.pdf [Accessed: 12 Apr 2014].
The narrator wrestles with conflicting feelings of responsibility to the old man and feelings of ridding his life of the man's "Evil Eye" (34). Although afflicted with overriding fear and derangement, the narrator still acts with quasi-allegiance toward the old man; however, his kindness may stem more from protecting himself from suspicion of watching the old man every night than from genuine compassion for the old man.
By stating how other people behave or interact, the author offers a great chance for readers to interpret fairly for themselves what the reason for any conflict may be, or the nature of any essential contrast between the narrator and other adults in the story. In the story, there are many self-righteous opinions from people, which seem to be ironic to the readers; For example, her mother’s aggressive attitude of showing off her daughter, her piano teacher’s self-praise claiming him as “Beethoven.” All of the narrations including conversation clearly depict a different characteristic between the narrator and other people. For instance, a conversation occurs between the narrator and her mother when the mother criticizing a girl who seems similar to the author on TV which reveals dissimilar understanding for both of them to each other’s behavior. At first, the daughter speaks out for the girl by questioning her mother by saying “why picking on her […] She’s pretty good. Maybe she’s not the best, but she’s trying hard.” The daughter actually is defending for herself and reflecting that she feels uncomfortable with her mother’s disregard of her hard work. She wants to get her mother’s compliments instead of her criticisms. However, her mother response of, “just like you,” and, “not the best. Because you not trying.” Here, her mother doesn’t really answer her question, instead wants her put more effort on trying, neglecting how much she has tried before. However, in her mother’s perspective, she has never tried hard enough. By narratively stating the conversations she has encountered, readers perceive a strong implication of the reason for a future conflict between her and her mother.
The short story Girl written by Jamaica Kincaid is a mother’s compilation of advice, skills, and life experience to her daughter. The mother believes that her offer of practical and helpful guidance will assist her daughter in becoming a proper woman, and gaining a fulfilling life and respectable status in the community. Posed against the mother’s sincere concern for her daughter’s future is Sir Walter’s superficial affection to his daughters in the novel Persuasion written by Jane Austen. Due to his detailed attention for appearance and social rank, Sir Walter has been negligent to his daughters’ interests and fails to fulfill his responsibility as a father. Throughout both literary works, the use of language and tone towards persuasive endeavors reveals the difference in family dynamics and the success of persuasion on the character’s transformation.