What is the difference between an orphan and a foster kid? In the film “Annie (2014)”, the main character, Annie, a foster kid living in the suburb of New York City, faces her problem with a smile on her face. Her lives changes when she met Will Stacks, one out of two candidate for the upcoming mayor election and owner of the billion-dollar company, Stacks. Stacks, at first, uses Annie to catch up with the polls, but somehow Annie made him rethink his life style. After all conflicts that Annie and Will Stacks face, Will Stacks drop out of the election and devote his life to take care of Annie. These challenges that changes Annie and Will Stacks to be a better person for each other. In fact, these conflicts are the thing that made the movie …show more content…
Living with Will Stacks has made Annie very popular. She has become an overnight sensation. Even with all the fame and glory, she remains humble. She always remember her friends when she is under Miss Agatha Hannigan care. With all the popularity she had, people would think that she would change into a snobby girl, but Annie remains modest. Next, Annie is portrayed as an optimistic girl. Annie was abandon by her parents when she was still a baby. Even so, she always have a smile on her face. Annie has put her trust in the notes that her parents left to her that is they will come and take back Annie someday. So, every week she would wait outside the restaurant and wait for her parents to come. Annie overcome the feeling of betrayal when her parents left her, with hopeful thoughts that her parents would come for her someday. This is the very definition of optimistic. Her hope has keep her going through her life. In the movie, Will Starks is a person that do not care about others until he met Annie. Before Will Stacks met Annie, he does not care about anyone or their feelings. With Annie in his life, he changes from an emotionless person to a kind, child-loving person. Spending time with Annie made Will Stacks realize that Annie is much more important than some
...age and the crisis of integrity versus despair however, the two characters had different characteristics that categorize them in different ends of the crisis. Throughout the movie, the audience is able to visualize what types of issues are dealt with as well as what type of problems the characters had to go through to resolve their crisis. Chelsea also had different issues than Billy due to the fact; each were facing a different stage as well as crisis. Personally this movie provide me a great understanding in human development; I was able to understand why each person does a certain action: for instance my sister is disrespectful and immature because she is facing the adolescence stage as well as the identity versus role confusion stage. I also learned that a crisis can truly affect a person in a negative; if the person is not able to fully deal with their crisis.
The film reflects the class difference from beginning through the end, especially between Annie and Helen. Annie is a single woman in her late 30s without saving or boyfriend. She had a terrible failure in her bakery shop, which leads her to work as a sale clerk in a jewelry store. When Annie arrived Lillian’s engagement party,
When she reaches the Happiness House, she realizes that she has been sold into prostitution. At the happiness house, she would hope about the scent of Nepal and her family. She aspired to make her money and return home. Hope was an active element that drove them through the pain and sorrow.
Mama is a good example of an extremely optimistic character in the play. She always sees the best of every situation. At times the situation may seem completely hopeless to the audience. Yet, she never gives up. Mama has always dreamed of owning a house, she has always wanted to move her family out of the “ghetto”. Finally, she gets the chance to do so; she gets an important amount of money from the insurance company. She decides to use that money to make a down payment on a house. But her dreams are rapidly crushed; her son, Walter, has lost all of the money in an investment. Although she is extremely angry at first she does not give up. She decides that perhaps they can clean up the place they currently live in. They can add new furniture and perhaps even new curtains. The following quote perfectly illustrative Mama’s optimism: “I sees things differently now. Been thinking ‘bout some things we could do to fix this place up some. […] Why this place be looking fine. Cheer us all up so that we forget trouble ever come… […] Sometimes you just got to know when to give up some things… and hold on to what you got …” (p140) Mama is a really strong and important character in the play. Due to her hopefulness she is able to hold her family together till the end.
Miss Hancock is a strange yet charming character, who is classified as both round and dynamic. Miss Hancock is flashy, bizarre, with “too much enthusiasm.” But she is more than simply that. After a discussion on “The Metaphor”, she asks Charlotte talk about her own metaphor on her mother. Here, a different side of her is shown. “She
Imagine waking up everyday in a home where there is nobody you can call mom or dad. Foster care is a system in which a minor has been placed into a ward, group home, or private home of a state-certified caregiver referred to as a "foster parent". The placement of the child is usually arranged through the government or a social-service agency. The institution, group home or foster parent is compensated for expenses. The state will inform through the family court and child protection agency stand in loco parentis to the minor, making all legal decisions while the foster parent is responsible for the day-to-day care of the minor throughout the time the child is in the system.
By using her optimism she is able to try and see the good in any situation, and her hopefulness encourages her to keep going, that one day things will get better. After Fourth Brother tries to send three heavy books on to Ye Ye’s head, Adeline’s hopefulness is obvious. “It’s bound to get better. One day things will be different. Life won’t go on like this forever. I don’t know when, how or what but I’ll come back and rescue you from this. I promise.” Just by thinking these words Adeline was able to comfort herself, a new feeling of optimism for her and Ye Ye. Adeline’s hopefulness also shows at boarding school in Hong Kong, where she is first in the mail line, waiting and hoping for letters that never come. “Never gets any letters either, although she’s always first in line when the mail gets delivered.” Another example of her optimism and hopefulness is when she and her friends are talking on the balcony at the end of term. “More than anything, I yearn to grow up, get out of here and see the world. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the three of us could sail away on one those big boats...?” Adeline shows very clearly that she has a hopeful and optimistic attittude to help get her through the hard
Branching from that, Stella has an inner conflict because she does not know whether to side with her husband or her sister in each situation. Blanche and Mitch have a conflict because their original plans of getting married are destroyed when Stanley reveals her past.... ... middle of paper ... ... Blanche came to town on a streetcar because she was ostracized in her old home as a result of her desires.
Annie [played by Aileen Quinn] is a story written by Martin Charnin about a little girl who was left for the doorstep of an orphanage when she was extremely little and goes on to live a miserable life of working at the orphanage. Until one day a person named Grace Farrel [played by Ann Reinking] came along and invited one orphan to stay with her and Oliver Warbucks [played by Albert Finney]. During Annie’s stay Mr. Warbucks realizes how much he likes Annie and wants her to stay. In a way to tell her he gives her a new locket. Without knowing, Annie doesn't accept the locket in result of her own was given to her by her parents before she had been given up. With this knowledge a search is sent out with a reward of $50,000. With
With the help of Ruby, she was given an opportunity to make it on her own it in life. America is a land of opportunity. People come to the United States of America to start a new life and that is exactly what Ada did. Although she was a little fed up with all the work she had to do, she cooperated with Ruby and decided it was time for a change for the better. Ada was able to develop and prosper through the farm. She plowed the fields, built a fence, and harvested crops. The knowledge that she gained through this opportunity was immense. She never gave up, never gave in, and remained unbroken. Like in America, she was given an opportunity to succeed. Ada took this opportunity to a new height as she never lost faith in herself. She knew that she could achieve success as an individual. Similarly, in the Odyssey, Penelope never lost faith in the return of her husband. She kept her faith when no else did. She knew that he would return despite the fact she has not seen Odysseus in twenty years. Both characters use an instance of faith, however, Frazier is able to make Ada's faith similar to that of an American’s. Ada
First, the author uses conflict to show what the characters have to overcome throughout the course of the story, such as Mrs. Baker forcing Holling to do chores at school and
Emelie's childhood had an affect on her sense of happiness. "I had a dear mother who had multiple sclerosis, but that never got me down. I also had three brothers. There were difficulties in my childhood, but I was fortunate to h...
From the beginning of the film until the end Annie is struggling to find her own self, often she is experiencing the negative cycle of the self-concept. Contributors to the self-concept include; self-esteem, reflected appraisal and social comparison, and all of this can be subjective, flexible and resistant to change. In the first parts of the movie it really showcases that
In the end of the story, the narrator accepts Annie as a friend and the theme is revealed through the narrator. The author starts to reveal the theme by showing that the narrator isn’t accepting. In the text, it states that “Mrs. Walters led me to a girl sitting in the living room. I stood there, staring in shock.”. After this, Mrs. Walters explains that Annie was mute.
Through emigrant letters such as these we can see clearly the emotional journey emigration is. Annie expresses loneliness in her letter to Jim. Phases such as “I choose my friends” and recalling her school days