West Side Story
Day 4: 2-page essay
The West Side Story portrays the lives of two different gangs living in America, as well as their beliefs and examples of living a good life. The expectations of what people consider the good life to be may vary on a person’s morals and their dreams of what life is truly about. In this movie, whether or not these characters were good people, lived a good life, or lived in a good society is a very controversial topic.
The characters of the West Side Story were not good people. The two gangs focused their lives on fighting with each other rather than attempting to get along and accept the differences between them. The gangs did not have any hopes or aspirations for their futures and cared about nothing more than being in a gang. Each gang made one mistake after another and never learned from any of them nor did they try to. Doc, an old and wise man, informed the boys with his knowledge and tried to open the eyes of both gangs to the hatred that engulfed them. Everything Doc had to say went through one ear and out the other, because the boys refused to see past their differences. The Jets, one of the gangs, accept what society believes of them and never make any effort to erase their bad history. They listen to what others tell them, agreeing to the excuses for their bad behavior. This is just one example of how the boys do not attempt to make a better life for themselves, or try t...
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how west side story portrays the lives of two different gangs living in america, as well as their beliefs and examples of living a good life.
- Analyzes how the characters of the west side story were not good people. they focused their lives on fighting with each other rather than attempting to get along and accept the differences between them.
- Analyzes how tony's character contradicts the beliefs of the jets, allowing viewers to see into the minds of gang members and their beliefs about the good life.
- Analyzes how the west side story did not demonstrate a good society. the gangs learned to be negative towards one another, because people of higher authority did the same.
- Explains that west side story does not show people an example of good people, the good life, or a good society, but it does provide viewers with an alternative lifestyle that so many people live.
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- Analyzes how estella's emotional detachment is due to her isolation in satis house where she is taught that "daylight [is] her enemy and destroyer" for miss havisham.
- Analyzes how estella's condescending and self-righteous attitude instigated pip to become a gentleman.
- Analyzes how estella treats pip "insolently" like a "dog in disgrace" and taunts him for being low and common. dogs, an animal universally adored by humans, are victims of her cruelty.
- Analyzes how estella's arrogance affects pip in feeling lowly and brash, and how she swells her self-righteousness when herbert is beaten.
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- Analyzes how jem and scout learn from boo radley's experiences in to kill a mockingbird.
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- Narrates how pip came into great expectations after being apprenticed to his brother-in-law. his benefactor was to remain a secret until the person revealed himself or herself. he moved to london where he befriended his new tutor's son.
- Narrates how pip was shocked when he found his benefactor to be not miss havisham, but rather the same man who helped him apprehend as a convict. his sister, who had raised him since his parents died, had died due to an attack.
- Narrates how pip discovered that his benefactor, named magwitch, was the real father of estella.
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- Analyzes how dickens used dialect to make the story more real to the reader. he spelled out single words by the way in which the character would pronounce them.
- Analyzes how dickens used the technique of dialect when the "commoners" spoke, such as when joe spoke and said particular as "partickler." this juxtaposition of the commoners' speech and the wealthy persons' articulated speech allows the reader to understand the education difference between people of both classes.
- Analyzes how dickens repeats and stresses certain things that are said and felt by the characters. he stresses pip's misery and disgust when he learns who his benefactor truly is.
- Analyzes how dickens' use of analogies adds to the realness of the story and the reader's understanding of it.
- Explains that charles dickens novel is enjoyable because of the techniques that he used to make it more real to the reader.
- Analyzes how dickens used a dialect for the common people to speak in, which contrasted the differences in the education of the classes.
- Analyzes how dickens' ability to make the reader fully understand and relate to the feelings of his characters makes it a good literary work.
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- Analyzes how dickens has characters that are supposed to be good and evil except the reader can't always tell which is which.
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- Analyzes how the contrast between good and evil in a tale of two cities has been reenacted throughout our history.
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