The title The 400 blows doesn’t seem like a movie about a teenage boy. The 400 blows is an inspirational movie directed by François Truffaut about a schoolboy named Antoine Doinel. Antoine has only one friend who is his best friend, Rene. Antoine has a family even though he doesn’t embrace them because they are often seen fighting. His family consist of himself and his parents. The 400 Blows did a great job conveying the emotions the director was feeling throughout the movie because it seemed emotional in several areas. In the document Youth and Entrapment in the French New Wave, it shows the relationship between the French educational system compared to Antoine's imagination. It also discusses how Antoine lies several times in the film and …show more content…
The document Youth and Entrapment in the French New Wave discusses that the educational culture which has a very big influence in the movie. Truffaut also displays the educational system in the movie which perfectly correlates with each other. In the movie the educational system is being displayed in several areas. The young boy Antoine had a picture of a girl in a bathing suit which was being passed throughout the boy’s class. Yet, the teacher catches Antoine and punishes him by making him stand behind the easel. Another example of the teacher disciplining Antoine is when the boy started writing on the easel which was a sign of protest and the teacher finds the poem he wrote. The teacher makes Antoine clean the easel and then gives him homework to write “I deface the classroom walls, and I mistreat French verse” in several tenses. Yet, the young boy has no time to finish this homework at home so he doesn’t go to school the next day. Therefore, he comes back to school the next day and tells the teacher that his mother died so he had to miss school the previous day but in reality he didn’t have time to finish the homework. He is succumbing to lying to the teacher in order to not get in trouble for missing school for a day. An example where the French educational system contributes to the movie is when Antoine turns in a paper by Balzac, …show more content…
He is caught lying several times in this movie mostly by his parents and a few times by his teacher which again goes back to the educational system having an influence in this movie. According to the document Youth and Entrapment in the French New Wave it says “The The 400 Blows is a film demonstrably about youthful subjectivity, it is also haunted by notions of paternity and belonging that can be said to relate to a longer and richer sense of personal, social, and cinematic history.” As said in this document, the film has a young boy who has a brain that is still developing and therefore has no way of making the right choices when said to make them. He may make foolish choices but that is also the way that children grow up. This shows that a child doesn’t have the proper tools to make critical decisions. The child’s friends, in this case Antoine's friend which is Rene influences him several times in this film. Rene is the one who tells Doniel to ditch school with him which shows that friends make a difference in a child’s life. Society tells the boy what is wrong and what is right and even though Antoine knows it, he just wants to have fun because he would be getting in trouble by the teacher anyways. A child needs a balance of having fun and being focused or else they would either be too relaxed and not care or they would be
Every person stands for a single quality. It is then up to the human psyche to make-up what the individual stands for. The archetypes from Carl Jung are portrayed by the characters in “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hossieni. Through out the novel the archetypes begin to be revealed through the characters emotion, actions and ambition. Firstly, Mariam’s heroism is shown by her unusual circumstances of birth helping others, sacrificing her life and living through traumatic events; secondly Rasheed is portrayed as the shadow by reeling others into being fearful of what they believed was once right; finally, Rasheed’s self-centeredness and interest in only achieving his goals demonstrates that he is the trickster as well. These archetypes not only eventually evoke the deep emotion within the characters, they become apart of the human psyche bringing out the good and evil within all.
In 2012 the French President Francois Hollande proposed a ban on homework within French schools. In support of this a year 12 student and student representative council member from Gardendale Secondary College prepared a speech. Aimed at educators within her school, the student makes some steering comments and convincing facts to turn the heads of principles, teachers, parents and fellow students against the giving and completing of homework.
The more developed teaching methods there match the town’s urban society. The education is more formal and way more expensive. “One had to be fully and properly dressed, and speak French there”(51). José is aware that he is the only child who grew up on a plantation, “I was the only one of my kind”(128). All around him in school were kids who grew up in wealthy families. The children can afford to have lunch every day and have extravagant items José could only dream of having. “[. . .]Carrying leather schoolbags, pens with golden rings, and watches!”(128). The wealthy society of this town differed greatly from the poverty of José’s Black Shack Alley. Because the families were so wealthy in this area, schooling was not a privilege as it was in Petit-Bourg, so teachers did not encourage the students to do their best. “In Petit-Bourg the school masters saw to it that you learned your lessons and did your homework. [. . .]in this lycée, you did as little as you wanted”(129). The teachers in the lycée didn’t have a connection with José like Mr. Roc did. One of his teachers even said José was a “student of little interest”(129). José was isolated in the prestigious school of Fort-de-France, but thrived in his familiar environment in
“I viewed each of the films at least once…taking notes on the role of the teacher, peer relations, among students, relations between students and adults, student attitudes toward schoolwork, extracurricular activities, the role of the family, the resources of the school, the use of violence and drugs, exploitation of sexuality (4).”
Breathless is in many ways the antithesis of the classical Hollywood cinema; the changes have a direct effect on the relationship the film has with the viewer. Classical Hollywood cinema includes standards such as continuity editing, highly motivated, character-driven stories and a coherent narrative structure. Breathless defies these elements of traditional filmmaking, instead defining what we know as French New Wave.
“Between my straw mattress and the bed planks, I had actually found an old scrap of newspaper, yellow and transparent, half-stuck to the canvas. On it was a news story, the first part of which was missing, but which must have taken place in Czechoslovakia. A man had left a Czech village to seek his fortune. Twenty-five years later, and now rich, he had returned with a wife and a child. His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he’d been born. In order to surprise them, he had left his wife and child at another hotel and gone to see his mother, who didn’t recognize him when he walked in. As a joke he’d had the idea of taking a room. He had shown off his money. During the night his mother and his sister had beaten him to death with a hammer in order to rob him and had thrown his body in the river. The next morning the wife had come to the hotel and, without knowing it, gave away the traveler’s identity. The mother hanged herself. The sister threw herself down the well. I must have read that story a thousand times. On the one hand it wasn’t very likely. On the other, it was perfectly natural. Anyway, I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games.” (Camus 79-80.)
In many works of literature a character conquers great obstacles to achieve a worthy goal. Sometimes the obstacles are personal impediment, at other times it consists of the attitude and beliefs of others. In the book The Stranger by Albert Camus, shows the character Meursault who is an emotionless character that let’s other people show their opinions and emotions into him giving him a type of feeling even if Meursault doesn’t care. Meursault contains occasion of his emotional indifference between his friends and social indifference. This essay will be about the character’s struggle contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole.
This essay “me talk pretty one day “by David Sedaris was about a forty year old men moves to Paris from new York and returning to school to learn French. This all about him telling his audience his struggles he had with the class in was in and his horrible teacher he had. During the class David feels less of person and embarrassed and feels the other students were getting the same treatment. When he first attended the class he was lost and confused , he could hear the conversations and thought they was talking weird and couldn't keep up with them. The first day in the classp people had to get up and tell something about themselves and the teacher began talking and he understanding what she saying to them and once he found out he was scared
He is able to achieve his explicit purpose of telling the story of his experience learning the French language by using first person point of view, as well as by appealing heavily to ethos in doing this. By writing the essay as a first person narrative, Sedaris effectively tells his story as truth, and is also able to achieve his implicit purpose because he himself has overcome challenges in learning something new. Sedaris’s appeals to ethos work in the same way, in that they make him a credible speaker, which makes him effective in achieving his purposes. By using hyperbole and informal language, Sedaris creates a casual tone, which allows him to connect with his audience. This makes the essay more personal to each reader, and allows for a larger scope of readers, as it lacks academic vernacular. This is especially helpful in achieving the implicit purpose. Since Sedaris intends to convey that learning something new is filled with obstacles which must be overcome, one can infer that the text itself is directed at those who are likely to be learning new things; while this can be anyone in the world, the essay is most relatable to students. By using an informal tone, young people will find the essay more engaging, as well as easier to understand, which will allow them to derive a clear message from the
The book that I read was called The Stranger written by Albert Camus. The book is globally famous and was translated to many different languages and texts. The original was called L’Étranger which was written in French in 1942. The plot of this story involved a man in his late twenties or early thirties. The man's name is Meursault. In the beginning of the novel, Meursault is notified that his mother had passed away in the nursing home that he occupied her to. Meursault’s income could not afford to take care of his mother any longer; therefore, he put her in a nursing home. Meursault took off of work and went to the nursing home where she passed away to pay his respects and attend the funeral ceremonies. When he arrived at the nursing home, the funeral director brought Meursault to his mother’s coffin. The director asked if he wanted to see her and he quickly replied to keep the coffin shut. Meursault sat in the room and nearly went through an entire pack of cigarettes while blankly watching his mother’s coffin. At the actual funeral, Meursault shows no signs of normal emotion which would normally be induced at such an event.
After a reader first notices the title of Firoozeh Dumas’ essay, “The F Word”, it may be hard to believe her writing is not about curse words. Her writing is about her experience moving to America and living in a society that is unwilling to accept outsiders. Immigrants face hardship when they come to the United States and she knew that before she moved. But she never thought living with a foreign name would be so challenging. Dumas brings light to those difficulties and how she dealt with them through sentence structure, excellent word choice, and well-written metaphors and similes.
Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant I think that Guy de Maupassant is "one of the greatest masters of the short story in world literature." He was born in 1850 and died in 1893. The. He has written more than two hundred stories in thirteen years. I will be writing about the structure, narrative, voice, the scene and the story.
The novel The Stranger was written by Albert Camus in 1942. The story is an example of how Camus perceives the world with his views. Camus’s views are that moral actions do not have any justification. Camus is considered an existentialist which means that he didn’t believe life had a specific meaning. Many of his beliefs are seen in this novel, as well as his other works. His beliefs began to form during his experience of World War II and after the terrors of the war; many other people believed that the human existence had no meaning. The Stranger could be classified as an existentialist novel because the protagonist of the story, Meursault, also seems to have existentialist beliefs. Meursault is a character that is very out of touch with the world. His attitude and morals were not accepted by the people of the society in the story, which leads to his death sentence.
Simone de Beauvoir, the author of the novel The Second Sex, was a writer and a philosopher as well as a political activist and feminist. She was born in 1908 in Paris, France to an upper-middle class family. Although as a child Beauvoir was extremely religious, mostly due to training from her mother as well as from her education, at the age of fourteen she decided that there was no God, and remained an atheist until she died. While attending her postgraduate school she met Jean Paul Sartre who encouraged her to write a book. In 1949 she wrote her most popular book, The Second Sex. This book would become a powerful guide for modern feminism. Before writing this book de Beauvoir did not believe herself to be a feminist. Originally she believed that “women were largely responsible for much of their own situation”. Eventually her views changed and she began to believe that people were in fact products of their upbringing. Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris in 1986 at the age of 78.
Simone de Beauvoir, in her 1949 text The Second Sex, examines the problems faced by women in Western society. She argues that women are subjugated, oppressed, and made to be inferior to males – simply by virtue of the fact that they are women. She notes that men define their own world, and women are merely meant to live in it. She sees women as unable to change the world like men can, unable to live their lives freely as men can, and, tragically, mostly unaware of their own oppression. In The Second Sex, de Beauvoir describes the subjugation of woman, defines a method for her liberation, and recommends strategies for this liberation that still have not been implemented today.