The film The Way Way Back is a classic coming of age film centered on a young boy, Duncan. The film starts with Duncan's family going on vacation. Duncan, the awkward teen trying to find his place in the world. Sheryl, his mom, who is trying too hard to make everything work out between her and her boyfriend Trent. Trent, who teases and belittles Duncan at every opportunity. Who cheats on his wife, who is, in my opinion, the antagonist of the story. Last, and certainly least, Trent’s daughter, whom I can't even remember the name of, who fits into the stereotypical pretty girl category so much at times it was hysterical. ‘I want to go in the water’ Trent’s daughter The trip started out on a bad note for Duncan, with Trent calling him a three …show more content…
He takes the old, pink bike from the garage and rides directly to Owens place of employment, Water Wizz. By the end of the day, Duncan has a job at Water Wizz and a place of escape from the dysfunction of his family. A place where he doesn't have to deal with his real problems. A place where he has friends, even if he doesn’t know it yet. The character I most identify with would probably have to be Susanna. We're both quiet and reserved people, and she represents that a girl can be in a movie without needing to fall in love. She shatters the archetype we set for her as becoming Duncan’s boyfriend when she tells him that’s not what she’s looking for, and I love that. I love how she is her own person, and how she completely ignores the pretty girls and their attempts to convert her throughout the movie. Awkward-boy-gets-the-girl is not the only archetype shattered in this movie. The vacation in which we thought everything would get resolved instead had the opposite effect causing the family to fall apart. The ending was still on a good note, however, for while he didn't get the girl, Duncan did gain his confidence thanks to mentor-Owen and working at Water Wizz for the Summer. Fulfilling the classic coming-of-age archetype. The last scene showing that even though the illusion of a perfect family had long since fallen, Duncan did have one ally, his Mother. Who moves to the way, way back of the car to
The characters are relatable. Carmen is the most thoughtful of the four friends, and recognizes the importance of friendship more than others do. Carmen is half Puerto Rican and half White, she lives with her single Latina mom. Throughout the book she has to deal with feeling replaced when she finds out that her dad is engaged to a white woman who already has two teenagers. Bridget is an athlete, she spends her summer at a soccer camp in Mexico. She is impulsive and reckless, but her high spirits help her make friends quickly. Lena is the shy one. She travels to Greece to spend the summer with her grandparents. She is quiet and happiest when she can just be alone. She's not much into boys, because through experience she's learned that they usually only like her for her looks. Finally there's Tibby, the rebel. The only one of the 4 girls stuck at home, she views it as plain and boring.
For example Kate and Kat were similar as their both independent and intelligent individuals who go by their own morals and don't care what anyone else thinks of them. Bianca in both texts is seen as the object of desire' as of her submissive manner and good looks. I used similarities like these ones all throughout 10 things' with only making minor changes.
Tracy has a bubbly personally that makes you immediately like her. She refuses to let anyone or thing come between her and her dream. Tracy is not what many would consider a typical teen. She is a plump girl and doesn’t let what others think of her get her down.
That first night at the school, Miles is taken from his bed, duct-taped, and thrown in the lake near the school by a group of weekday warriors. Weekday warriors are what they all call the rich kids at Culver Creek. Miles gets out of the lake drenched and in just his box...
An Analysis on the lives of the Upper, Middle, and Lower classes during the Industrial Revolution
In the story “Where are you going, Where have you been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, the main character, Connie, experiences life not having an actively participating mother or father. Most adolescents struggle with the transition from teen-age years to adulthood. For many, this is where the parents step in. Parents are meant to support and help an adolescent when needed, especially during this difficult transition; however, this is not always true. In Connie’s case, her parents allowed her to make the change alone and endure hard times. As a result, she lacked the values needed to survive. Such values are used to equip a young person for the real world and the tragedies that come with it. As seen in “Where are you going, Where have you been?”, Connie was a victim of poor guidance and empty judgment. The dysfunctional family’s behavior was reflected in Connie. Her mother envied her, and her father was not an active figure in her life. Connie 's
The first character that I am going to talk about is Belle. Her physical appearance after she ended Her and Ebenezer's engagement was painful. She walked away looking like she had left her heart with Ebenezer and was hoping that he would come after her. I think that the actress did a very good job expressing the depression, pain, and heartbreak that she felt towards her and Ebenezer's break-up. In the movie, she made her character come to life by making the audience feel what she was going through. She expresses this by coastally looking back at Ebenezer and through her facial, and body expressions.
In “A Long Way Gone”, we follow a twelve-year-old African boy, Ishmael Beah, who was in the midst, let alone survived a civil war in Sierra Leone, that turned his world upside down. Ishmael was a kind and innocent boy, who lived in a village where everybody knew each other and happiness was clearly vibrant amongst all the villagers. Throughout the novel, he describes the horrific scenes he encounters that would seem unreal and traumatizing to any reader. The main key to his survival is family, who swap out from being related to becoming non-blood related people who he journeys with and meets along his journey by chance.
Have you ever been so focused on achieving your dreams that you become unaware of your current situation? When we focus on the goals ahead of us, we fail to see the obstacles and dangers that are in front of us. In order to achieve our goals we involuntarily put ourselves in an unwanted situation. Connie, herself, struggles to achieve her goal of being a desirable girl that turns heads when she walks into the room. She becomes so set on being this girl that she doesn’t realize the danger of the situation. In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Oates utilizes metaphors, diction, and imagery to show how Connie is in a constant tug between her reality and her dreams, and how this confines her freedoms in a world that is surrounded with malevolence.
Everyone has expectations to uphold and often it can feel overwhelming to comply with them all. When one chooses not to comply to the expectations set by oneself or from others, it can be seen as an act of rebellion, foolish-thinking, or a failure to see what the future holds. Similarly, expectations that are too elevated towards others can result in a harsh confrontation with reality. In the novel, The Other Side of the Bridge, by Mary Lawson, the author develops the idea that one bearing too many expectations of others and of oneself can lead to developing distress and feelings of betrayal if the expectations are not met. The theme of expectations is developed using the character Ian, through the social expectations he encounters, familial
even thought of killing Duncan, if it were not for the influence of the witches
Cynthia Rylant, William Stafford, and Joni Mitchell all convey a similar message in their literature works.The story “Checkouts”, the poem “Fifteen”, and the song “Both Sides Now” all express the idea of romanticizing realities. In “Checkouts” the girl has “that moment” when she immediately falls in love with the bag boy after he breaks a jar of mayonnaise. This conveys the cliche of instant love, or seeing someone and immediately falling for them. The bag boy falls for her the same way at the same time. In “Fifteen”, the young teenage boy finds a motorcycle, engine running, laying on the ground. At that moment he imagines jumping on the motorcycle and riding away, over the hills and all the way to the end of the road. In “Both Sides Now”,
In the story “The Far and the Near” by Thomas Wolfe, the point of view in which the story is told is third person limited. From this standpoint we can understand the conductor’s feelings, thoughts, and memories. Through a majority of the story he tells us of his feelings and imaginative life of the woman and her daughter in the pretty little cottage. Once the man gets to meet the ladies, we are given a whole new perspective of the women compared to before he met them. If the point of view were to be changed from the conductor, then the significant points of the story would drastically change and, in turn, change the whole story.
The movie is by far the most famous work of Sergio Leone's and probably his best movie. Not only because it has become a part of our culture, but it also created its own sub-genre the spaghetti western. Despite the film’s western roots, the movie is free of any western clichés as any western themes are given either a unique twist or are removed by Leone's unique way of storytelling. The movie is constantly taking the cowboy hero approach that most westerns take and twisting it in new ways. For example, making the main hero morally grey, almost a scumbag anti-hero of sorts. He forgoes making the main hero an Everyman heroic cowboy who saves everyone gets the girl and ride off into the sunset like most westerns. Instead Leone goes for a more