I’m Not Scared is a film directed by Gabriele Salvatores that takes place in the countryside of southern Italy in the 1970’s. The script of the film is based off of a novel with the same name. The setting of the film is during the Years of Lead, where southern Italy was rampant with terrorism and kidnapping. The film starts with Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) and his friends racing each other across a wheat field to reach an old barnyard. After his sister trips and falls, Michele goes back to help his sister and consequentially looses the race. But Skull, the ring leader of the group, decides that one of the other girls in the group is the real looser of the race. As punishment, skull demands that the girl expose herself to the group. But, right before she does Michele decides that he will take the blame and …show more content…
In the middle of the night Michele sneaks out to the farm, but instead finds a hidden manhole under the barn. In the hole, he sees a human leg and returns back to his home. The next day he starts to throw rocks at the leg, and to his surprise, he discovers that this leg is actually the leg of a young boy that is alive in the hole. Michele understandably gets scared and scurries home on his bike, but on the way gets thrown off. He returns again the next day and gives the boy food and water while he is down in the hole. This happens again, and the boy thinks that he is dead. The boy in the hole thinks that Michele is his guardian angel, and this seems to upset Michele. That night when Michele returns home to his family he sees the boy on the TV. It turns out that the boy has been kidnapped from his family in Milan and his name is Filippo. He also hears later that night his parents and family friends talking about the boy’s situation. He has the shocking realization that his parents and family friends are responsible for the kidnapping of this
he learns of the lies and deceit of his father, as he discovers his mother never died of a heart attack and his father
He arrived with the mexicans however, he did not leave with them as he was offered a full time job for the rest of the summer. He accepted the job mainly because he could not stop thinking about the farmer's daughter, Lynette. It was then that he had a steady job and fell in love for the first time. This is where he worked from sun up to sun down.. This went on for weeks. Alice, Bill’s wife would always bring him food and Bill would always pick him up. Until one night, Alice came and got the boy. She told him that Bill was in town and would be home later, however, Alice work the boy up at two in the morning and sent him to town to retrieve her husband. The boy found him in the bar in a huge poker game with lots of money. A huge fight broke out and the boy was told to grab the money off the bar and when the fight finished outside they left. Bill gave the boy almost two hundred dollars of the money. The next night there a sheriff’s car in the driveway. The sheriff was there looking for the boy. He said there was a poster of him in town. Bill told him “he busts his balls for me” that he was a good kid. Again,another life lesson, that working hard had paid off for him. The sheriff told him that if it all checked out he would bring him back. However, the Sheriff took all his money and threw him in a jail cell. It was there that he broke out and ran. He hitched a ride to Oregon. He was pissed and mad. He fell asleep in the man's car on the way to Oregon. When he awoken he was offered some coffee and doughnuts. However, before eating them a peasant came through the windshield and killed the man. The car was wrecked and the boy was scared. He got out of the car and headed down the road. He then picked up by Hazel. She took him to her farm, fed him and cleaned him up and he was grateful for that. Hazel took the boy to the county fair. This is where is ran in to the sheriff that had took all
He continually shows his inability to accept blame and fully believes his problems are a result of another person’s actions, with the first person possibly being the one who gave him his name. He was very rebellious and would not listen or cooperate with anyone. An example of this was his mother's concern over what was becoming of him and her decision to take him to church. “When he saw the big lighted church, he jerked out of his grasp and ran”. It was clear his mother had lost all control of him at this time.
Tom walker meets the devil in the swamp, the devil offers him wealth and fortune. He declines the offer because he doesn’t want to share it with his horrible wife. Tom and his wife’s feelings are not loving, one thing they have common is greediness. She goes back to the swamp try to make a deal with the devil, but she never returns, Tom waited a couple days until he went to the forest to look for her. Tom finds her apron in a tree, it had a heart and a kidney in it.
The novel "I'm Not Scared" explores the playful and interesting world of childhood through the eyes of a nine year old kid. In the hot, dry summer of 1978, Michele, the main character, and his friends have nothing better to do than play new games and dares. Their small town Aqua Treverse only occupies four houses. Michele and his friends usually ride on their bikes across the deserted countryside, while the adults stay indoors shielding from the enormous heat. This gives the children the freedom to do anything they want.
On the first week at Grandma’s, a man named Shotgun Cheatman died. Everyone in the town went to the funeral because he was the well known assistant to the Mayor. The funeral was held in Grandma’s house and a creepy thing happened that night when Tom the cat crawled inside the casket. The next day, Joey, Mary Alice and Grandma left the house and walked across fields of tall grass and “cow pies aplenty” to Salt Creek to go fishing. They found an old wooden boat and Grandma rowed the boat out into the creek. While on their fishing adventure, they encountered a cottonmouth snake that fell into the boat and a party of drunken men on land dancing in their underwear.
demands that his uncle and his family leave his home. This is when his uncle reveals that he
Michele's compassion is his most prominent characteristic that makes him appealing to the reader. Throughout the novel, he exhibits empathy well beyond his years, often making readers forget that he is just nine. This can be seen clearly in three main instances. First, when he goes after his sister when she has fallen over (pg. 4) despite his own fears. Secondly, offering to complete the forfeit in place of Barbra when Skull forces her to complete an embarrassing forfeit. Finally, and most evidently, when he takes care of Filippo. This makes for a positive contrast with the rest of Acqua Traverse who seem to lack any compassion. When describing places and characters he reveals his unique way of viewing things that demonstrates his childlike imagination and innocence. He often combines reality and fantasy, such as when describing the Wicked Witch' (pg. 89) to Maria.
On his uncle to make him feel the vulnerability his father felt when he was murdered and taken
finally telling his friends about his life in the lab, he realized that he should to free his family and devised a plan.
Other people in Bruno’s class were scared of him and though being scared they respected him. Because he had this kind of scared respect for him he was voted class president and was left alone. People stopped seeing him at school for a while and soon found out that his dad died. He was killed in the mafia, which affected him strongly. When he came back no one said anything and at this time he really need some one to talk too. But no one did because they were scare of him. The only person that came was the narrator was the only person who even came up to him and he did not even let her say it. But she could tell that he really enjoy her even coming up to him to attempt to talk to him.
He tells his father, and wants to tell everyone else, but his father tells him it will be hard to tell the people the truth.
At the end of this story, Dade thinks he knows who he is, but it is not his mother or his
Nothing hurts more than being betrayed by a loved one, Christopher’s father has no trust in Christopher and tells him that his “Mother died 2 years ago”(22) and Christopher thinks his mother died of a heart attack. When Christopher finds out his father lied, he runs away to live with his mother and his father despritally looks for him and while looking for him realizes the importance of telling the truth. When someone betrays one’s trust, they can feel morally violated. Once Christopher finds his mother, she begins to realize how unfit her living conditions are for Christopher and brings him back to his father, bring him “[..] home in Swindon”(207) Christopher feels incredibly hurt and distressed he does not want to see his father. Whether a relationship can be repaired depends entirely on whether trust can or cannot be restored. Christopher’s father works very hard to regain his trust, he tells his son “[..] I don’t know about you, but this...this just hurts too much”, Christopher’s father is dealing with the result of being dishonest with his son and himself.
After getting in a fight with his mom the night before the trip, he is sent to sleep in the attic, where he makes the wish that he could just get rid of his family. When he wakes up in the morning, he realizes that no one is home, and he has the house to himself. He is shocked, surprised but thrilled that his wish came true. Rather than being frightened like the typical child, he looks at the situation as more of a celebration, and does nothing but take advantage. He runs around the house yelling, jumps on his parents bed, eats junk food, watches movies he isn’t typically allowed to watch, goes through his older brothers room, and uses his father’s shower products.