The film ‘Witness’ directed by Peter Weir remains a classic after 25 years of time, it is a visually impressive film enhanced by evocative cinematography and haunting soundtrack. The values, themes and issues of the Amish and the ‘English’ worlds discussed in the film has an enduring appeal to the audience so that we can relate these ideas to our own society generation after generation. In showing the audience a world we would usually be shut out from, ‘Witness’ have the power to inspire and uplift us, where we respond positively to the strong work ethic and spirit of cooperation displayed by the Amish. Weir conveys these ideas by contrasting the two cultures through the highly effective use of juxtaposition, mise-en-scene and various camera techniques. He presents the traditional, wholesome and non-violent values of the Amish in stark contrast to the selfish, consumer driven materialism of the ‘English’ society and the violent associated with it.
The use of the words ‘green’, ‘pastels’ and ‘first kittens, first love’ also portrays new life that is created through the process of haymaking and the pleasant memories that can bring from working. The use of positive imagery and a subsequent sense of enjoyment in work is also explored in A.B. Paterson’s poem ‘Shearing at Castlereagh’ through the use of words such as ‘merry’ and ‘golden’, revealing that work can be a happy experience if the worker has a sense of pride in their job. These two poems differ greatly to William Blake’s poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, which looks upon work in a much more negative approach. The poem as a whole explores how work exploits and oppresses the innocence of the chimney sweepers.
After being hit by his own father, Sarty thinks to him self: “If I had said they wanted only the truth, justice, he would have hit me again.” (189). It is obvious that Sarty is afraid and aware the consequences if he acts out against his family. Throughout the story Abner displays an abusive, heartless character that is loyal only to him and struggles with class warfare and pyromania. After being sentenced to leave the country the family arrives at their next house, He never shows any emotion to his family, never once an apology for putting them through so much for his actions. He demands his two daughters to “get out of them chairs and help your Ma unload” (189).
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Comprehension Questions 1. The author includes the "Notice" to help set a serious yet comic tone while demonstrating some of the themes the novel will explore. 2. Throughout the story, there is an ongoing pattern of Huckleberry Finn being presented with a conflict, having to find a solution, and once again encountering another conflict. For example, there are a few chapters about Huckleberry realizing that it is not safe to live with his father, followed by another group of chapters pertaining to how he managed to escape.
Also when Buddy, Zirko and Zirko’s crew catch the boy who punched Buddy, he begs Zirko: “Please don’t hurt him”. This shows that Buddy cannot express his feelings at the right time and holds everything inside him until the last moment. Throughout the story Buddy is changed and by the end losses his innocence. When standing in front of Chuckie’s house, Zirko was in the process of destroying the snowman; Buddy was trying to stop him but in the end gave him the crowbar to completely take out the dog shrine. “ Jesus, Andy.
Bolo believes that being a man entails that he should be strong, brawny, and use brute force to solve his problems. This can be seen in Chapter 3 when he suggests that they kill Prince and also when the police lock up the church and his mother is caught in it. After the Americans come to Bonasse stick fighting was banned and Bolo became gloomy and dull since they took away a big part of his life. Bolo begins to lose it more in Chapter 2 and after Clem leaves Bonasse to sing n Port-of-Spain. Bolo tries to keep his composure and the true meaning of being a
'The Story of Tom Brennan' follows the lives of the Brennan family after the events of a fatal car accident, which shows how Tom the protagonist struggles to cope with his past. Similarly the song 'Father and Son' is a representation of an escape, as a man seeking to flee a life he finds suffocating, and the film 'Dead Poets Society' also explores two protagonists faced by challenges of moving into the world and dealing with issues of fear, growing up and following their dreams. All these texts reflect the experiences, ideas, knowledge and beliefs that are evident in society,and reflected throughout these texts. J.C Burke emphases many themes through out 'The Story of Tom Brennan' such as fear, relationships and growing up. These thematic concerns are echoed in the related texts therefore linking the texts and reflecting how texts may represent society.
‘To what extent is The Kite Runner a story of redemption?’ Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner is largely about the life of Amir, an Afghan man who is troubled by his past. Through the experiences of Amir and also those of his father Baba, and his wife Soraya, Hosseini’s main concern is to explore that atonement for our sins is only possible when we confront those events in our lives. It is known from the very beginning of Hosseini’s novel that Amir is troubled by his “past of unatoned sins”. He is a man who cannot escape his past and needs to be accountable for his actions “the winter of 1975”. The event that is at the centre of his story and provides this anguish for Amir, is his act of cowardice against his childhood friend, Hassan, who “never denied” him of anything and had a strong “kinship” with him from a young age.
Red explains “inside his and important man, an educated man, outside his nothing”. Brooks hands on the bus seat is symbolic of his lack of experience in the real world. The shot of him trying to cross the road shows how fast the real world is, in the end he feels that the intitution has gotten the better of him and decides to hang himself is shown through “ I doubt they’ll kick up any fuss, not for an old crook like me” where as Brett becomes compliance after his return from escaping the farm. Brett realises his wrong actions, mistakes and attitudes, admits this to Josh “you know how you told me I was hurting my friends, I didn’t know I was until you told me” From this we see a dramatic change in Brett as he comes to full discovery, thus josh plays an important rule in Bretts compliance as well as his own self discovery. Compliance is also shown in “shawshank redemption” through the first dialogue Andy has with Red “to smuggle Rita Hayworth into the prison” Red explains “I liked Andy from the start” shows friendship between the two cons.
After this meeting, the usual house seems to be a cold, impervious gloom. Room looks more like a grave, which is not reachable by any sound of a big city. Montag finally sees his wife: "hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, the reddened pouting lips, and her flesh like white bacon” and realizes, that their marriage has turned into an empty fiction. Clarisse’s absurd death aggravates the situation: he rethinks the world in which they live, learns to think, secretly taking books to the house. A new spiritual mentor appears in Guy’s life- Faber, an old-fashioned man, who completes the initiated by Clarisse and opens main character’s eyes, forcing to notice what is going on around them.