Character Analysis of Giselle Levy The character of Giselle stood around all other characters in the movie Mona Lisa Smile, since she was bold and truthful to the cause of women’s liberation and all round prosperity. The movie was directed by Mike Newell and was released in 2003(Mona Lisa Smile). It showed the progress of feminine rights in the 1950s America. The main characters in the story were Katherine and her students Betty, Joan, Giselle, and Connie. The movie told of a beautiful and mature woman Katherine who taught “History of Art” at Wellesley College which was a conservative women’s school that wasn’t interested in spreading women’s freedom (Newell).
Micquelyn Montgomery Bri Kneisley 3-6-12 English 90 Loving U In the essay “I want to be a Miss America” by Julia Alvarez she talks about learning to love the inner you. Alvarez’s family came from Dominican Republic to America for a better life. Being a woman Alvarez’s struggled with America’s version of a woman. Alvarez and her three sisters would watch the Miss America Pageant’s each year admiring the young ladies. As a family they would watch the shows in their parent’s room.
Also, as her parents barley consider the idea of Anna getting into college, her teacher tells them that “Anna is a smart girl, she has a lot that she can contribute to this world.” As these messages help Anna find her identity, she begins to notice that her chances of going to Columbia University are within arms reach. The stereotype of Anna being a typical Mexican-American teen brings an uncomfortable feeling into her body image and for this she feels the need to change the footsteps in
Like for example Smiley talks about her older daughter, “Now she is planning to graduate school and law school and become an expert on woman’s health issues, perhaps adolescent health issues like anorexia and bulimia” (377). This shows how Barbie affected her child in to becoming a strong woman who cares about woman issues but then again cares about her
In Alter’s article, the girls all state where they buy clothes, what they wear and all have personal shoppers to help them find new trends. Michelle Serros talks in great detail about her rigid nose that ancestors passed on to her that she finds very unattractive. She pinches her nose everyday to hopefully make it look smaller or like her best friend Terri’s perfect nose. Living in California puts more tension on her to fit in and look like everyone else, the true Californian girl. “Today, when I take my graduation pictures, my nose will look just like Terri’s and then I’ll have the best picture in the year-book (Serros 33).” She sees that Terri is popular and has the perfect face and she wants that also to hopefully be popular like she is.
Growth and change often comes about when new stages of experience allow a transition ‘into the new world’. This is illustrated in Educating Rita as Rita grows with knowledge and changes as a result of moving into the world of education and middle-class society. The changes made in Rita’s life include her name, from Susan to Rita after her favourite author. We also see Rita leave her husband Denny and her social class pressures, slowly gain confidence in herself to associate with ‘proper’ students and her views on Frank, her tutor, as well as her attitudes towards her tutorials. Rita desires to ‘know’ and expects Frank to teach her ‘everything’ in order to have choice and direction in her life, ‘I wanna discover meself’.
Clueless, a 1995 film staring Alicia Silverstone is very similar to Jane Austen’s novel Emma that was transformed into a movie in 1996. Clueless is about a young, rich girl named Cher and her journey through being a matchmaker. After setting up her two teachers she went on to set up Tai with someone popular in order to boost Tai’s popularity. Cher falls in love with her ex-stepbrother Josh as she learns that she was misguided. Emma is about young girl in England who is a matchmaker who soon runs into complications when trying to match up her friend.
Ladybug got accepted to the New England School of Art and Design and decided to go to pursue her career. After reading the letter, her dad says to her, "we'll now that you got accepted, how's life? (23). Ladybug has a very unusual name and many people were curious to find out where it came from. explains that "they named me Ladybug, but they mostly called me L.B., which, through several misunderstandings early in my education, became Ellie (34)".
These three elements set the foundation for a sustainable culture.” Honesty is what brings Leaders together, but it’s the distance they are willing to go that sets them apart. IV. Martha Stwart A. Martha Stewart, was born Martha Kostyra on August 3, 1941 (age 72), in Jersey City, New Jersey. 1.Academy of Achievement (2010) “A straight-A student, she won a partial scholarship to Barnard College in New York City and worked as a model to help pay expenses. She began her college career intending to study chemistry, but later switched to art, European history and architectural history.” Although some like to remember Stewart because of the convictions in 2004 of Insider Trading, Martha shows that can she take responsibility for her own actions and she is willing to use it as a Learning experience.
How effectively does the director explore the issue of gender in the film “Mona Lisa Smile?” The film “Mona Lisa Smile” directed by Mike Newell, tells the story of Katherine Watson (played by Julia Roberts) who leaves her boyfriend in Los Angeles to teach “History of Art” at Wellesley College in 1953. The college is a conservative women’s private liberal arts college located in Massachusetts, United States. The director uses a range of effective film techniques such as dialogue, costumes and makeup, setting, character and camera angles that brilliantly execute the issue of gender. The use of dialogue in the scene “leaders not wives” clearly conveys the issue of gender. Katherine Watson said “I thought I was headed to a place that would turn out tomorrow’s leaders, not their wives.” This highlights the expectations of women in the 1950s.