To Sam and Bill’s amazement, Mr. Dorset calmly states that the demands exceed reasonability. He continues with a counter offer to take Johnny off their hands for two hundred and fifty dollars in cash. Most would scowl at this offer but Sam and Bill jump at the opportunity to escape from their so-called prisoner. One would think that a town would celebrate upon the child’s return, but Sam and Bill must bring him back at night or the neighbors might revolt on his reappearance. Poorer, wiser, and greatly relieved Sam and Bill barely escape with their sanity.
After he told his dad he wanted to become a shepherd to be able to travel his dad gave him some gold coins. Santiago thought that after he got “tired of the Andalusia fields he could sell his sheep and go to sea”(Coelho10) and by the time “he had enough of the sea” (Coelho 10) he would have meet places and people. His desire to go after his dream was so immense that he throws his life as a shepherd to go for his adventure joining a caravan that traveled through the desert. He had to stop in an oasis because of tribe wars. While in the oasis he was robbed, and finished with nothing more than his desire to pursue after his dream and began working with a crystal merchant in order to save money to continue his journey.
After Danny and Solomon meet in prison, the film depicts Archer’s search for the diamond and Vandy’s pursuit for his family. Thereafter, Blood Diamond paints the bloody portrait of Sierra Leone’s civil war of the 1990’s with the film’s most successful moments revolve around the pain undergoing there which the journalist, Maddy Bowen, attempts to enlighten America’s ignorant ways through an exposé in order to cause the ebb and flow of conflict diamonds. “the people back home wouldn’t buy a ring if they knew it cost someone else their hand,”[1] which Bowen highlights exemplifying the unknown sacrifice surrounding diamonds and the atrocity that America is yet to be informed upon. Nor one can ignore the greedy lust for diamonds fuelling Africa’s civil war, also providing the plot’s macguffin for the film. The film explores a meaningful theme, whether it’s the conflict diamonds affect on Africa, the hardship of a man’s desire to get his family back or just the painful lifestyle, one can be moved by such factual occurrences in Africa.
American History X was directed by Tony Kaye and released in 1998. Thru flashbacks and the eyes of Danny Vinyard he tells of the story of his neo-Nazi brother who was second in command of the skin head gang named D.O.C. Derek, a natural leader and brilliant orator, began rounding up scared suburban white kids for his new gang and telling them that there was nothing to be afraid of anymore. This new craze became so popular among the kids of Venice Beach that Derek soon became an icon. After serving 3 years in jail and having a close friendship with an African American male he is release and he no longer wants to be associated with the D.O.C.
How does this relate to human freedom? Andy gets redemption in many was in the movie. In the act of being redeemed Andy gives the warden a taste of his own medicine by taking all the money he got and putting it into a false identity (which he later claims as his new identity). Andy was delivered because he was wrongly convicted for murder and after 20 years in prison, Andy escaped and now is a free man. The state of being redeemed was when the warden killed tommy and at the end of the film the warden kills himself.
Being the brother-in-law of Kirby, there would have been a way to access and retrieve said statue from the mill. The area surrounding the mill being the place where a profound epiphany took place that changed Mitchell from “raised on the milk of the Word” (Davis 1718) and idly scoffing at Hugh’s pain, (Davis 1720) to leaving the mill and “touching his hat, as to an equal, with a quiet look of thorough recognition” (Davis 1720) at Hugh. Mitchell went to visit Hugh in jail even after having been the one robbed of a check of a significant amount, and talked to him
Too Mean to Die written by authors Nick Pirovolos and William Proctor was about a life being transformed. Nick the Greek was a rowdy gangster serving prison time when he found the lord. A sequel could easily be written to this book about what Nick did with his new found faith and prison experience after his release. Topics to write about would include his personal life, the Inside Out organization, and prison and school visitations. Upon his release from prison Nick’s first priority would be to prove that he had redeemed himself and became a changed man.
Shawshank Redemption is a movie about prisoners finding solace, redemption, and freedom. The main character Andy Dufresne is put in Shawshank prison for supposedly murdering his wife and through acts of decency he is able to devise a way out of prison. Along the way he meets another prisoner, Red, who undergoes trials and tribulations to receive parole. Finally when he receives parole he finds it hard to adapt in the real world without the institution of prison and violates his parole to find Andy in Mexico where he is happily reunited with his friend. Through the characters effort to find freedom and solace they experience a lot of significant themes of existentialism.
The second theme is the pitfalls of temptation. This is that the money got made a man ruin his two weeks until he was free, the lust to have Everett's wife penny, the mayor pardoning the boys so that he could get reelected, Tommy selling his soul to the
ECONOMIC THEORY IN THE MOVIES! BLOOD DIAMOND Blood diamond is a story about a fisherman, Solomon Vandy who is capture by the Rebels and forced to mine in the diamond fields under the control of Captian posion, while he son Dia is kidnapped and forced to join the rebels. At the Mine fields Solomon finds a diamond the size of a gold ball hides it and escape when the diamond fields were under attack. At the same time Danny Archer (a smuggler), is arrested to attempt to smuggle blood diamonds into Liberia. During this time together they discuss that they would have a trade the diamond Solomon found for Solomon’s family, which lead to an interesting ending.