For example, in the short story the Indians view Thomas as being strange, such as telling he tells Victor, “I'm sorry to hear about your dad (Alexie 61).” When asked how he heard of it, he replied that the wind was talking of it, and the birds told him about it, and how the fact of it shined so bright in the sunlight, and oh yeah, your mom was just in here (61). Although in the film, two Indian girl acquaintances stop to pick up Thomas and Victor, agreeing to give them a ride to the reservation bus depot, if Thomas will in exchange humor them with one of his stories. Thomas tells a tale of Victor's dad Arnold, and his days as a hippie protestor, waging war with the National Guard. The two girls laugh excitedly awed as they express their amazement at the realness of the story and his incredibly talented storytelling skills. Another example of the short story shows Thomas as a skinny, crooked toothed, unkempt young man.
What does it mean to be an Indian man? Lastly, what does it mena to live on an Indian Reservation?” • Protagonists in his work show a constant struggle with themselves and their own powerlessness among white American society. • Influences: evoke sadness, while using humor and pop culture • Film: Created the first all-Indian movie “Smoke Signals” and based the screen play off two of his short stories. This movie took top honors at the Sundance Film Festival • Awards: ’92 National Endowment of the Arts Poetry Fellowship • ’93 PEN/Hemingway award • ’94 Lila Wallace-Readers digest writers
The cowboys taking Victor and Thomas’ seats on the bus is analogous to the whites taking American Indian land; once taken over by the whites, it is too bad for the Indians, because they have to go find somewhere else to sit or call home. Subjective Power is when the subject is gaining their voice. This film is different than any other American Indian film because it is focused on relationships between two American Indian characters; Victor’s relationship to his father and his own internal problems. Smoke Signals is based on American Indian’s own stories. They treat a salmon like a king by honoring and praising it.
However, it seems to me that this view does not take into account what F. Scott Fitzgerald is trying to tell us about human beings, that we may have many faults but that most of us are just trying to do the right thing. The Great Gatsby is a sordid tale of deception. Nick is left in the dark by Daisy when they choose to leave at the end of the novel. Daisy and Tom lied to everyone when
Women as castrators, society’s destruction of natural impulses, and false diagnoses of insanity are some of the themes which are reinforced by the Chief’s madness and hallucinations in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The main weaknesses of using Chief Bromden as the narrator of the novel are due to the fact that the Chief continuously describes his hallucinations as if they were present and constantly has flashbacks of his past which can be confusing. Additionally, his opinions on the events and characters that take place at the ward can be a biased opinion of the Chief. This particularly interferes with our knowledge and understanding about what is actually happening at the ward. In One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, one very confusing thing that interferes with our understanding of reality and fantasy is Chief
Jenna Giammalva English 3 per.2 February 1, 2010 Ms. Lindroth Thesis: In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain exposes how ignorance causes violence, and how personal gain overrides moral deeds through the use of satire. Mark Twain’s Notice and Pap’s ongoing diatribe reveals how ignorance undercuts one’s credibility. For example, In Mark Twain’s Notice he cites, “Persons attempting to find a plot will be shot” (2). Twain is exposing the truth in satire throughout the novel and people who don’t understand that are ignorant. In more simple terms, if you only go away from the book with only the plot then you are stupid.
Vertigo Film Essay Many directors use little details in movies to describe what is happening. In the film Vertigo, director Alfred Hitchcock used the colors red, yellow, and green to symbolize what was going on in the movie. Each color symbolized its own thing: red was deception, yellow was sanity, and green was obsession. Often in the film when Hitchcock used the color red, he was suggesting to the viewer that John Scotty was being misled. This is where it is evident that the color red symbolized deception.
Abstract This essay seeks to overturn Kyle Baker’s claim that he represented the “true” character and “true” story of Nat Turner in his graphic novel Nat Baker. This essay first briefly examines the famous novel The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, that is based on the same source as Baker’s graphic novel. This essay explores the techniques that made this novel controversial, and questions why this novel was more highly criticized than Baker’s graphic novel. Through a general explanation of the difficulties of interpreting history, one learns that it is truly impossible to depict history in a full, unbiased, honest form. Daniel S. Fabricant explains in “Thomas R. Gray and William Styron: Finally, A Critical look at the 1831 Confessions of Nat Turner” the various reasons as to why many, such as Baker, have trusted Gray’s document as well as why Gray’s document needs to be questioned.
So how are a tale and the truth distinguished? In “How to Tell a True War Story,” Tim O’Brien gives a certain criteria to a true war story that allows the reader to determine whether the story is true or not, based on morality, exaggeration, difficulty, meaning, and more. “It doesn’t suggest proper human behavior,” states O’Brien. In “Sweetheart of the Song of Tra Bong,” Mary Anne displays strange behavior. From the story Rat Kiley is telling, she goes from a beautiful sweetheart, to an ugly land loving creature.
The truth about lying To be honest, I am a liar. Do you think Im telling the truth? The answer my fellow toastmasters and friends, lies in the statement itself. I am an honest liar. Since I still feel like most of you here are confused whether I was lying or not, tonight I will tell you the truth about lying.