Before our hero’s journey can begin,she first learned her martial arts from her mentor Pai Mai. Pai Mei is a legendary martial arts master. Pai Mei ridiculed Beatrix non-stop for being a Caucasian American woman and for also not being able to use chopsticks. Once she gained his respect he taught her numerous martial art techniques including: punching through thick panels, close up and the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. This technique is one that Pai Mei had not taught any other student in his day. Now knowing this the hero’s journey may begin.
Kill Bill starts off at our hero, Beatrix Kiddo, is attending her wedding rehearsal in El Paso, Texas. Before this Beatrix was in an assassin group, known as the Deadly Viper Assassin Squad (DVAS) that consisted of six members. These five members are highly elite and some of the deadliest assassins: the lead Bill (Snake Charmer), Beatrix Kiddo (Black Mamba), O-Ren Ishii (Cottonmouth), Vernita Green (Copperhead), Elle Driver (California Mountain Snake), and Budd (Sidewinder). Kiddo left the DVAS to start life over and have a child. While she is at the little chapel in El Paso Bill arrives with the DVAS and performs an all out massacre upon everyone that resides within the chapel, they even kill the pianist. At the end of the massacre the assassination squad hovers around Beatrix and send a bullet into her head, thinking that she will be killed. This is where our hero’s journey begins.
After being shot in the head by her fellow ex-assassins she is not able to take her sweet, sweet revenge upon all of them since she is in a coma. This her Beatrix Kiddo’s refusal of the call. While she is in her coma one-eyed Elle Driver is sent in to put the final end to Black Mamba, but she is i...
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...as taken two of the members of the DVAS leaving three left.
Bill warns his brother Budd or Sidewinder that he will be Beatrix’s next target. Knowing this he prepares for her arrival. Beatrix scopes out the area up on a rock mountain overviewing Budd’s trailer out in the middle of the desert. Beatrix then slips up from beneath his trailer. Trying to ambush him she bursts through the trailer door and gets a double-barreled shotgun black of rock salt to the chest. After this Budd call up old DVAS member Elle Driver to sell her Beatrix’s Hattori Hanzo sword for a million dollars. Afterwards he seals Beatrix within a coffin and buried her alive. To escape this inevitable death she must use the technique she learned at Pai Mei’s temple. Beatrix after numerous times of punching the top of the coffin to finally break through and escape her death and pass one of her tests.
Mark Salzman was perfecting his calligraphy skills and as weeks had passed he began to make progress. He was getting tired of the models and wanted to try something new. When he told Hai Bin,(his teacher), he frowned and said,”Some people spend their entire lives researching a single model. You should be willing to spend a year on this one.” This is an example of the dedication and perseverance these men have towards their chosen artform or skill. Another example of this theme, was Mark’s Wushu teacher, Pan, who punched a fifty pound plate of steel up to ten thousand times a day. Mark’s relentless practicing of the many forms of Wushu was influenced by Pan.
Enzo’s beloved owner, Denny, is a very talented racecar driver and works at a high-end car garage. Halfway through Enzo’s life, Denny marries a woman named Eve. Denny and Eve have a child named Zoe. Just when life seems to be perfect, Enzo senses that there is something wrong with Eve. As it turns out, she has brain cancer. After six months, Eve passes away.
she uses her brains to mastermind a plan to cleverly sneak her way behind enemy lines and
The main image that Petry gives of the black mother is Lutie, though there are other images that are crucial in explaining this image. Lutie is a single black mother living on “the street.” Her world revolves around providing for her son, and trying to make sure that they ar...
Father of the little girl in The Ring, as he too knows more than he is
mother and her husband after her mother’s death. But Eudora Welty deliberately includes a selfish character of Fay in the family to shows the important of the memories they have. Laurel discovers the significant meaning of the memories and past to her, yet she could not survive in staying fully attached to it.
In a crucial scene in Jaws, chief Martin Brody must use his mistake as guide for to him complete his goal of saving the town from the antagonistic shark. After catching a tiger shark, the local town fishermen all celebrate their victory together with Brody and the mayor believing they have solved Amity Island’s problem. Soon the mother of the deceased child who was killed by the great shark appears on the boardwalk. Her costume, a solid black dress appropriate for a funeral, contrasts with the bright sunny day on the beach that is represented with high-key lighting. The dress also symbolizes the mother’s multiple feelings of mourning for her child and her anger towards Brody, which again juxtaposes the feelings of success among Brody and the fishermen. Her conversation with the police chief is executed through a shot-reverse shot sequence but she catches Brody’s attention with a smack to his face. She goes on how Brod...
no help to Electra and refuses to help in the murder of her mother and
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
Introduced by the Duke of Ferrara, the late duchess herself is denied the chance to present herself to the agent herself. However she cannot do this since she has passed away, for reasons unknown to the agent. The late duchess’s voice is silent now forever. The runaway slave is also silenced. There is no say in whether or not she was allowed to be with the man she loves, nor does she have a say in the matter about her rape, or giving birth to a lighter skinned baby. Neither have a choice with the ways men dictate their lives and suffer as a result of it, but their voices resist the oppression forced down upon them.
She now wants to carry a candle with her at all times, to have the light with her always. She is now trying to get the stench of blood off her hands, but is unsuccessful. The guilt of murdering Duncan eats away at her.
...In her death-throes, she lands on her brother, causing him to die of fright. The narrator escapes only to see the entire
In the novel Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a character named Beatrice also known as Mama, has many dynamic traits. Mama is a religious woman who respects and highly prioritizes her family. Mama’s husband Eugene becomes more abusive toward her children and herself which causes her to lose her unborn baby. In Mama’s mind and heart, she knows she has to protect her children so she makes the decision to poison Eugene. Mama’s character changes throughout the book, as she first starts as a very quiet and caring character but as Eugene’s abusiveness increases, it develops her into becoming a perpetrator that caused her to be very depressed.
Mazvita becomes mentally unstable as she continues to repress her memories. She subsequently continues to live as though it...