From being separated from the love of her life so soon, all Allie was left with was hope that Noah would soon write to her everyday until they were back together again. I believe the intended audience for this movie are teenage girls and young women. In my opinion, I think this movie would be interesting for the audience because every girl has that fantasy of the "perfect guy". People go see a movie to escape from reality, they don't want to watch a movie that mirrors reality. Therefore, this is why the notebook will be so popular because it gives people what they want to see and even though death occurs in the movie it still portrays a fantasy every girl holds onto.
Hidden Message Never Been Kissed is a movie about a women, Josie Geller, who is smart but socially awkward. In high school she was the typical loser but she went on to be a copy editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. The editor-in-chief assigns her to report undercover at a high school to help parents become more aware of their children's lives. This sends the main character Josie back to high school, the place she hated most where she becomes the same unpopular girl she was in high school. Josie fights though the movie to be clear of her loser label and make it in with the cool crowd.
Additionally, the two poems are similar in that in Suicide Note, the college student is trying to please her family by getting perfect grades; she is working hard at school, and feels that she is not good enough, smart enough, or pretty enough (Mirikitani, 1417); the college student is under pressure to live up to her parent’s expectations. In Out, Out, the young boy is also hard at work, trying take care of the family. The poems are different in that in Suicide Note, the college girl has taken her life and writes her parents an apology note informing them why she is taking her life; in Out, Out, the child in the poem does not take his own life, but dies as a result of cutting his hand using a saw. In Out, Out, the young boy is cutting wood, and he becomes excited and cuts his hand on accident. The two poems are also different in that in Suicide Note, the young girl has time to think about and give reason as to why she is taking her life.
Rochelle continuously denies her heritage and desires to be the ideal “American Bride.” Throughout the story Lily tries to get Rochelle to acknowledge her Hispanic heritage but Rochelle doesn’t accept it. “You’re carrying your gringa kick too far.” This shows how Lily feels towards her sister’s attitude. In the end Rochelle’s denial of reality reaches it’s peak when she’s finds herself pregnant, married, and in high school. “He was beautiful too- the Mexican version of the blond grooms.” Rochelle finally realized what her sister was trying to tell her all her life; you can’t escape your
Victoria Guillermo Period 5 1/11/13 English 10P Book Review on Speak by Laurie Anderson In Speak by Laurie Anderson, Melinda Sordino begins her freshman year at Merryweather High School. The summer before her freshman year, a traumatizing event happened to her at a party her friends took her to, which caused Melinda to become the social reject of her town. Melinda constantly isolates herself from the cruel, harsh world. Speak gives you inspiration to those who need to speak up for themselves, those who need courage for any situation and for those who just need to know they’re not alone in what they’re going through in this judgmental society we live in today. The author, Laurie Anderson did an amazing job on capturing the true aura and essences of high school life for the untypical teenager.
Individuality - 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Things I Hate About You is a modernized version of Shakespeares The Taming of the Shrew, the movie tells the tale of two sisters and their journey through love. The movie is aimed towards a teenage audience and is based around highschool and whatever that may bring. Individualism is one of the main themes in this movie. The main character Kat shows us her thoughts and opinions on individuality and what it means to her. Kat is a very strong, independant and opinionated person who never lets her opinions go to waste, whether they are aimed at her teachers or her fellow peers.
The movie ‘Mean Girls’ provides insights into the concept of belonging because throughout the film the director Mark Waters shows the journey of Cady Herring (Lindsay Lohan) trying to find where she belongs in the social ranking at her new high school. Her predilection to belong with the ‘popular groups’, this desire puts some of her very few friendships she has on hold and they slowly start to crumble. The film discusses how trying to belong does not always have a positive outcome and isn’t always a positive thing to achieve. In today’s society almost everyone is superficial; people are judged on their appearance, the brands of clothing they wear, weather they have the latest phone, laptop, the type of house they live in the area in which they live and if they have a high paying job. And if you don’t have all of these or most of these you are generally considered an outcast.
Rita is trying to move up a class through doing this course. Education (another theme) brings about the changes in Rita, both good and bad, but eventually Rita achieves a happy balance in her life. Educating Rita is a play about a 26-year-old woman, Rita, and her desire to discover herself and change her social class status through education. Russell contrasts the character of Rita with her tutor, Frank who is educated but bored of his life. At the beginning of the play, Russell portrays Rita as a stereotypical working class woman.
This movie involves a new, excited and strong-willed white teacher, Erin Gruwell who took on a challenge of education a chaotic class of hardened inner city youths. Starring in this movie are Academy Award winner Hilary Swank, Scott Glenn, Imelda Staunton and Patrick Dempsey. Hilary Swank who plays the role of Erin Gruwell who in 1994 was a 23-year-old student teacher assigned to teach freshman English at Wilson High School in Long Beach, Calif. Her enthusiasm is rapidly challenged when she realizes that her class are all "at-risk" high school students. They are also known as "unteachables" and not the eager-for-college students she was expecting.
Alex Miller What does Freedom Writers say about education? In the movie Freedom Writers it follows Hilary Swanks’ character “Erin Gruwell” as a new teacher with hopes to bring an equal education to the less privileged. She is hired to Wilson High School, a school that had high achieving scores prior to the government issuing an integration program bringing in “bad” kids from the ghetto. The educators at this school do not look at these students the same, they believe they are just there because they have to and sooner or later they will drop out anyways. Erin tried to be the best teacher she could be by bringing them into her personal life as well, an example of this is when she brought them onto a field trip to the Holocaust Museum on the weekend then after bringing them to a restaurant which she worked at in a hotel.