In the film, “Slumdog Millionaire” showed the world how India is a society that is filled with violence and abuse. Slumdog Millionaire exposes the tragic effects of poverty in many different cities of India. The film talks about a Mumbai boy, Jamal, who grew up in the slums that became a contestant on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” During the contest, Jamal were arrested under suspicion of cheating. Jamal was being interrogated by the police, and revealed events from his life history to explain why he knew the answers on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” The film started off with Jamal being interrogated by the police by using hanging torture. Jamal was hanging with his hands tied to a rope. A Sergeant asked the person who was interrogating if he got anything out of him. The interrogator says no, and the inspector had decided to try harder by torturing Jamal more. The inspector hooks Jamal up to a battery car and threatens him to give him electric shock. He asked him how he cheated on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Jamal refused to talk because he felt very uncomfortable telling his life story to explain why he knew the answers. He had gone through tremendous obstacles that …show more content…
Eventually, victims of domestic violence and abuse would reveal of what had happened to them. Victims talking about their situation can help them to cope with it after bottling it up for their whole life. Jamal’s whole life was flashed to specific scenes where the answers were available to the contest show. The inspector brought Jamal back to the police station and showed him clips of Jamal’s answers on “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Each of the clips, Jamal explained how he knew the answers from his life history. On one of the clips, the game show host asked, “Which poet wrote the song Darshan Do
The film starts with an uprising after a white storeowner kills a black teenager. This incident Highlights Prejudices. The teenager was labeled a thief because of the color of his skin and the unjustifiable murder causes racial tensions that exist as a result of the integration of the high schools.
...things in life are not money, fame, or even basketball, but really finding out who you are meant to be in life and following your heart. Toward the end of the film, Jamal’s full potential is seen in a public reading performed by the recluse himself. William leaves his apartment and saves Jamal’s academic integrity.
Old Man Warner, an important person in society, advocates villagers continue to participate in the dated tradition of the lottery. The result of this was an innocent citizen in the village getting hurt. While the drawing and calling of names for the lottery is occurring,
Race is a huge issue in the film and many stereotypes are made. Jamal Wallace is introduced in the film as a typical black teenage male who goes to a low class school in the Bronx and really excels on the court as a basketball player. He always plays basketball with his friends in a parking lot. Jamal is dared to go into the apartment of a recluse who watches them play through binoculars. Jamal is caught and, running away in fright
In the article, written by Cesar Chavez, an argument of whether people should react with violence or nonviolence is displayed. Chavez argues that violence is never the answer and will eventually lead to more violence. Examples of how to protest peacefully are shown to prove that it is the better solution. Chavez’s sophisticated use of juxtaposition, anecdote, and imagery appeals to the reader by showing them that nonviolence is far more powerful than violence.
Western culture, full of contradictions and uncomfortable compromises, is slowly slipping out of balance influencing many people. The increasing social inequality expressed in the increasing gap between the rich and the poor, in people’s obsession by the external signs of success, and not in real development can see this. False images and fake characters leaves you to make the right decision out of the wrong on how you are going to live your life.
Let's talk about absolutely ridiculous pronouncements people make that either ignore simple fact or border on insanity. How about this one: Violence is no way to settle anything! Evidence suggests that violence is a very effective way of settling things. How about a few examples? In 1776, violence settled whether the thirteen colonies would be independent or remain under King George's thumb. In 1865, violence settled whether there'd be a Confederacy and a Union or just a Union. Between 1941 and 1945, violence settled whether Japan would control the Far East and whether Germany would control Europe. Violence settled whether American Indians owned and controlled the land now call United States or whether it would be European settlers and their progeny. In fact, violence has settled the question of land use-rights virtually everywhere.
La Haine is a French film from the 1990s. The film is in black and white camera effect and sets a serious mood and tone. The movie starts off with clips of people rioting and cars being overturned. Right away, you can tell one of the themes in this film will be related with violence. The movie’s main characters are three young men; Said, Hubert, and Vinz. They all were from the projects. Although the three of them were ethnically diverse from one another. They derived from the same background and experienced similar conflicts within the French society. La Haine greatly exhibited how harsh life was for the people living in the projects. The movie revolved around themes such as violence, racism, and the struggle of coming from a relatively poor
Jamal suffer through a lot of sadness caused by his brother when in reality if you think about it
Does entertainment influence society's attitude towards violent behavior? In order to fully answer this question we must first understand what violence is. Violence is the use of one's powers to inflict mental or physical injury upon another; examples of this would be rape or murder. Violence in entertainment reaches the public by way of television, movies, plays, music, and novels. Through the course of this essay it will be proven that violence in entertainment is a major factor in the escalation of violence in society, once this is proven we will take all of the evidence that has been shown throughout this paper and come to a conclusion as to whether or not violence in entertainment is justified and whether or not it should be censored.
When reading The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, written by Junot Diaz, the constant element of violence and its impact on the characters is impossible to overlook. As Diaz writes, he explains that a portion of the novel takes place in the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, and how the violence that is seen in the other parts of the novel, which take place at a different time, can be viewed as a lingering effect of the mass amount of violence that procured during his reign. Although majority of the novel takes place in America and many years after Trujillo’s dictatorship, the effects of violence that were orchestrated throughout his reign continued to affect those of Dominican descent, which is depicted through the mother-daughter relationship of Beli and Lola and the sexual assertiveness of the male characters, such as Oscar and Yunior.
The story Q & A, written by Vikas Swarup, illustrates the lives of those in the slums of India and how those living there experience life. The novel recites the unimaginable journey of a slum dog who becomes a billionaire. Throughout the rags to riches story of Ram Mohammed Thomas, he is presented with several catalysts which change his life.
Poverty on social conditions affects everyone in every part of the world, no matter if they are rich or poor. First of all, everyone is divided into some sort of social class. The most known classes are the economic classes- the lower class, the middle class, and the higher class. The lower class goes through arduous labor all day and night to earn decent amounts of money to provide for themselves and their families. Most likely, they are the only source of income for the entire family. The higher class works hard to keep up or raise their high social status. They also work hard so they don’t loss their social rank, which permits them to hold a higher power over the middle and lower classes. Similarities of decisions made by characters in these two literary works will analyzed to understand the meaning behind the actions and influences of the social classes on each other.
Aravind Adiga’s debut novel The White Tiger highlights his views of the injustice and poverty present in India’s class system. He does this through the perspective of Balram Halwai, a fictional village boy from Laxmangarh. In this epistolary novel, Balram narrates his life in the form of a seven-part letter addressed to Wen Jiabao, the premier of China. He describes how he escaped his caste, which was thought to be impossible, and became a successful entrepreneur after killing his own master. The inequality between rich and poor is an important motive of the story. This paper will go in depth into the representation of the poor, the motivation for it and the effects it has on the interpretation of the story.
Violence. Just mentioning the word conjures up many images of assault, abuse, and even murder. Violence is a broad subject with many categories. Some types of violence are terrorist violence and domestic violence. Violence can arise from many different sources; these sources whether biological, cultural, and social all can evoke violent behavior. All cultures experience some sort of violence, and this paper considers violence as a cultural phenomenon across a range of various settings. Violence plays a part in both Islamic and Indian cultures according to the articles “Understanding Islam” and “Rising Dowry Deaths” by Kenneth Jost and Amanda Hitchcock, respectively. From an anthropological perspective, violence emphasizes concerns of meaning, representation and symbolism.