The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
Desperate to make his father proud Chris dropped everything to move back home to Michigan. He restablished the reputation and cliental of Crownline Glass and turned it into the most successful glasss distributors in the country. Christophers father despite coming back to work, was reluctant of the changes chris made and didn’t seem proud of his son. Chris took some time off to find his only love in life, Nicole. Even though she was engaged the reuniting of them was
Therefore, Hing-Wun’s struggle against his hard work for his family is in vain. Moreover, Hing-Wun stuggles against loneliness; he does not have a friend except his business partner, Uncle Yat; but Uncle Yat leaves Irvine to live with his son. Since Hing-Wun’s only friend leaves, he becomes
The Pursuit of Happyness: An Analysis of Emotions and Stress Introduction Stress, mood disorders, and psychological disorders can be found in this true story about a man named Christopher Gardner. The movie starts with Chris, his wife and young son investing all their savings on bone-density scanners. After some time he had little luck selling them putting a lot of stress on the family and as a result his wife leaves him, he loses his house, all his money, and his car. He is forced to be homeless and to provide for his son. He is desperate to find a job and determined to conquer his problem.
This shows how selfish Tom is because he decides to spend time working on research for a promotion rather than spending quality time with his wife. He becomes so obsessed with trying to make himself look better and receive a promotion at work that he loses sight of what is most important in his life. Tom has been working for months on the research for the promotion and has recorded the information on a yellow piece of paper. After his wife leaves to go to the movies alone, the piece of
Chris sticks up for Gordie and risks being beaten by the two older boys. The director uses Low angle shots of Chris trying to get the cap back off him, this makes him seem inferior and helpless in his efforts as the two older boy’s tower over him. This incident helps us understand the strength of the two boy’s friendship. The strength of the Chris and Gordie’s is especially noticeable when mid shots display two boys in convocation about life and the problems they are both facing. Gordie is faced with the neglect of his parents and feels like the “invisible boy at home” after the death of his older brother Dennie.
Wesley lives under the shadow of his brother Frank and as the story progresses he is slowly escaping it. However, despite Wesley’s wilted physique and lack of superiority in the Hayden family hierarchy, he possesses a great deal of moral virtue and mental strengths. First of all, Wesley’s leg injury leads to other factors to develop Wesley as a better and stronger man. In his life he goes through many obstacles, such as his failure to go to war, and thus becoming the underdog of the Hayden family. This is discovered when the patriarch, Julian Hayden, says to his son Wesley “Ever since the war…Ever since Frank came home in a uniform and you stayed home, you’ve been jealous” (118).
He is always comparing him to other boys and criticizing him for his shortcomings. Amir spends most of his childhood trying to please his father which is one of the reasons he did not help Hassan when he was getting raped after winning the kite flying competition. Amir was too concerned with making sure his father was proud of him. But Baba redeems himself by making a new life for him and Amir in America. He is proud of his son after he graduates from college and gives all the money he had for Amir’s wedding with Soraya.
For example, when Biff stole a basketball from the locker room to practice with he knew it was wrong but he did it anyway. Then, when his father, Willy, found out he laughed at the theft and went on to say “he’s gotta practice with a regulation ball, doesn’t he? (To Biff) Coach’ll probably congratulate you on your initiative!” (Miller). This type of nonchalant reaction to something that is a serious offense makes Biff feel as though he had the right to take the ball; because he was the
Concept of adjustment = throughout the movie as he overcomes various obstacles. Lack of sales, wife leaving him, homelessness, internship. Characteristics that make him a winner = scene where him and his wife are in the bathroom and he's talking about filling out a job application to become a Stock Broker and her reactions is "why not an astronaut?" - he did it anyway and succeeded! Interdependence and lifelong learning Openness -He was curious enough to pick up the Rubik Cube and try to solve it.