Keenan Mr. T History Block 5 5/14/2017 Repeating the Cycle: The Inability of Characters in The Wire to Create Lasting Change Throughout the first season of The Wire every episode seems to be moving the series closer to an exciting finish. One that will result in a winner, either the cops or the gangsters. Avon will either be arrested, or the cops will lose out in court. A resolved ending seems inevitable until the last episode is over and no one has won. Neither the cops nor gangsters emerge victorious. Despite everything the cops did to try and imprison Avon and Stringer, the wire taps, the camera in the office, even giving one of Avon's girls (Shardene) a wire to wear, the pawns are the ones within the ranks that take the fall. Avon does …show more content…
Although his goals have changed slightly. He started the season just trying to finish up a case by doing a few drug searches in the projects, and by the end he is challenging chain of command, telling commissioner Burrell "the court orders give me a total of 90 days on five phones I'm doing the full 90." (Ep. 12) From being called a company man earlier in the season to now challenging the prized chain of command, Daniels starts to put so much into the case. It seems to boost his chances of being promoted, but in the end, all of the police work he does amounts to nothing, and his opportunity for a promotion disappears. Bubble's character arc is the most futile in the first season. He starts out as a junkie, just trying to get money for his next high by providing the cops with information on Avon's gang. He seems to make a concerted effort to get clean later in the season, but by the final episode he is back to his old self. Living from one high to the next. His futility acts as a metaphor that in the game change is hard to come by. As the man he met at the meeting said "Gettin' clean's the easy part now comes life" (Ep. 10). Starting to control the game is easy, but fixing it is the hard …show more content…
It is seen early on in the projects, and then it appears again throughout the rest of the show. It is a constant presence in the show and it is always present, however the deeper meaning of the couch isn't evident until episode 12 when the couch is shown empty. It acts as a representation that no matter what the police do, no matter how many people try and get out of the game there will always be someone to take the place of the pawn. Just because some of the players leave doesn't mean the game will stop being played. Even if Stringer and Avon really do go away forever there will be others to take their place. As long as there is money to be made and drugs to sell, the game will continue to be played. The couch will be there waiting until the next player comes along to control the courtyard. The game doesn't care about who wins and who loses it will always be there. As Omar said "the game is out there and it's either play or get played." (Ep. 8) This is representative of how hard it is to escape from the game, either you keep playing it, or the game ends up playing
“The thing I hate about space is that you can feel how big and empty it is… ”
In the prologue of Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissinger, football team, Panther, has players who have fears/problems to overcome before a important game with their biggest rival the Midland Lee. The main characters include Boobie Miles who had dealt with a tragic accident on his knee the last game he played causing him to get surgery leading him to not play as well as he did before, Jerrod McDougal who knows he can’t make a collage team because of his height, Mike Winchell who lives in poverty with his mother, Ivory Christian who has a love/hate relationship with football, and Brian Chavez who is a gifted football player and student being on top in every class.
People have goals everyday, believe it or not some people think that dreams aren't worth it. I believe that it is worth it to dream because it gives a person a goal, it makes them feel good, and it makes them stronger. I know this from The Pearl, A Cubs video, the Susan Boyle video, and We Beat the streets.
In Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the reader has the experience to understand what it was like to live in an insane asylum during the 1960’s. Kesey shows the reader the world within the asylum of Portland Oregon and all the relationships and social standings that happen within it. The three major characters’ groups, Nurse Ratched, the Black Boys, and McMurphy show how their level of power effects how they are treated in the asylum. Nurse Ratched is the head of the ward and controls everything that goes on in it, as she has the highest authority in the ward and sabotages the patients with her daily rules and rituals. These rituals include her servants, the Black Boys, doing anything she tells them to do with the patients.
The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are considered a representation of each other in some ways and prove more similar than it is commonly thought. Although the overall persona of each portrayal is quite different, it still illustrates the same message. A good lesson to be learned from this comparison is to contemplate your actions to prevent bleak situations from occurring. The characters in these tales had to understand the consequences by experiencing it themselves. Acknowledging the time period that these voyages took place in, they didn't have anybody to teach them proper ways to go about situations.
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
Defining the American character is quite difficult because American identity is vaguely founded on shared values and ideologies, more so than a particular creed, race, or culture. In order to describe the American character, we will consider the dominate and distinctive qualities of Americans as interpreted by J. Hector St. Jon De Crèvecoeur and Thomas Paine. First, we will examine how Crèvecoeur illustrates Americans as industrious, prideful, and political in “Letters from an American Farmer.” Then, we will analyze from Thomas Paine's “Common Sense” how he depicts the prevalent qualities of Americans to be driven by justice, liberty, emotions, and individualism. Also, because both authors consider the American character and culture different
In the play A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (1959), the author depicts an African American family whom struggles with the agonizing inferiority present during the 1950s. Hansberry illustrates the constant discrimination that colored people, as a whole, endured in communities across the nation. Mama, who is the family’s foundation, is the driving force behind the family on the search for a better life. With the family living in extreme poverty, their family bond is crucial in order to withstand the repression. Hansberry effectively portrays the racism within society, and how it reinforced unity amongst the family members.
During the confrontation during the poker game, which immediately ends it, readers are exposed to the reality of Stella and Stanley’s
Nick Earl successfully uses a range of different techniques throughout his novel Zigzag Street to engage with the audience such as characterisation, theme and style. Nick Earls’ use of characterisation has the most important role in engaging with the readers. His use of the theme reaches out to the audience as it is something as what is happening in Richard’s life is something many people can connect with. Earl has an individual and uncommon writing style of the use of italics instead of quotations when someone other than Richard is talking, which catches the attention of the readers.
In the story My Favorite Chaperone, by Jean Davies Okimoto, I believe the theme is how working together makes life's struggles easier. The characters show this theme throughout the story. As children immigrants, the main characters struggle with combining a new culture with their family culture to find a new identity without bringing shame to their family. In the story, Maya, the main character, faces issues in how to fit in with a new world in America. In this new world there are different rules and expectations while she still has to respect and follow her family's traditions and rules. This conflict is shown when Maya wants to go to a school dance, but knows her parents would never let her go especially after she gets in trouble for
In the saying of “Character is what you are in the dark” by Dwight Lyman Moody, can meaning many different things. One being, “you are most yourself when no one is watching”, another one also being, “dark and troubled times bring out a person's true nature”, and “your true nature is on the inside”. This quote can or cannot apply to the play of “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare.
The premise that show runner Vince Gilligan pitched was simple, “We’re going to turn Mr. Chips into Scarface.” It was a bold claim at the time that most television executives dismissed as a bad idea. You would take the show’s main character and slowly but surely turn him into the antagonist. This was unlike most shows at the time who dealt with antiheroes, they had almost always padded them out with sympathetic qualities or redeeming actions throughout their respective seasons like Tony Soprano or Vic Mackey of The Shield. No show had ever fully committed to the idea that its lead character could truly be a villain. Yet Walter White’s transformation from a down on his luck, cancer ridden teacher to a depraved drug kingpin named Heisenberg has
As this short drama goes on the reader can witness how they change the room and furniture around trying to get it arranged perfectly to keep their guests visiting as long as possible.
Noah is the one of the main characters of The Notebook. He is the hero of this novel. Noah represents true love and true loyalty. In a way, The Notebook is similar to every modern day romance movie, and Noah represents the “dream man” that all the girls always imagine of having. The characters in movies are used to symbolize ideas, and in this novel, Noah represents true, faithful, committed love. Noah remains loyal to Allie even in the situation where he is unsure whether they will ever meet again or not.