Biff returns from the west to visit his family although he doesn’t know how long he’s going to stay. Happy is glad to see him, but Willy seems strangely irritated. He talks to old friends he imagines to the chagrin of his family, but no one has the heart to confront him about it. Willy has a flashback of a time when Biff and Happy were promising high school students. In the flashback, Willy gives his sons a punching bag.
“Forest Gump” The scene starts as Forest Gump (Tom Hanks) discusses his story with a stranger while waiting for waiting for the bus. “Stupid as a stupid does,” he says as he talks about his level of intelligence. Despite of his Intelligence Level less than 75, Gump leads a charming life, with his presence in many of the most memorable events of the 20th century, without trying. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America, he meets Elvis Presley and teaches him to dance, becomes a football star, meets John F. Kennedy, fights in Vietnam and serves with medal of honor, meets John Lennon on “The Dick Cavett Show”, speaks at an anti-war rally at the Washington Monument, hangs out with the Yippies, becomes a table tennis sensation and defeats the Chinese national team in China, meets Richard Nixon and discovers the break-in at the Watergate. In Vietnam, he and his friend Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue (Mykelti Williamson), agrees to go into the shrimp business together.
All covered in blood Benito still smiles to his commanders as a demonstration of strength and satisfaction to the “Mara’s” admission. His name is then changed into “Smiley.” Casper’s and Smiley’s journey in the Mara starts off very soon, they were sent by their commanders in search of opposing gang members and ordered to get rid of them. In the other hand, Sayra, the young protagonist from Honduras, encounters her estranged father and uncle to engage on a life-changing journey to the United States as illegal immigrants. The story’s excitement begins when both protagonists meet as Casper tries to escape his doomed fate while Sayra tries to reach her fate, the “American dream.” The movie emphasizes aspects not yet discussed in our course, but still deals with immigration, poverty, and gangs as important concerns to governments and citizens of third world countries. "Sin Nombre" is one of the most powerful foreign films that I’ve seen lately.
Identify some of the humorous scenes in the film. Why might a Native audience find them funny? 8.What does being an Indian mean to Victor and Thomas? (Recall especially their conversation on the bus when Victor ridicules Thomas for watching Dances with Wolves so many times). Where do you think that Victor has gotten his ideas about how an Indian should act?
Early on in the semester Pudge is kicked out of his World Religion class for daydreaming and is admonished by his teacher, Dr. Hyde, for not being present in the moment. Pudge grows closer to his new friends as the Colonel is kicked out of every basketball game for jeering too much, Alaska tutors Pudge in pre-calculus, and the group is caught smoking by the dean of students, Mr. Starnes (known as the Eagle), at their favourite hangout spot, the Smoking Hole. An important element to their friendship is trust. Although Takumi reveals Alaska was the one who ratted out her roommate the year before and Pudge is unsure about trusting Alaska, he agrees to stay on campus with her for the Thanksgiving break. The two spend their time snooping through other students’ rooms, watching porn together, and eating Thanksgiving at the Colonel’s house with his mother.
Walt often calls Thao "Toad." With no father in the family, he is expected to be the man of the house, but he lacks direction and initially does chores at the direction of his sister Sue. Thao is soon coerced into joining the Hmong gang by his gangster cousins. After Thao clumsily attempts to steal Walt's car as part of his forced gang initiation, he returns home instead of fleeing with the gang. After confessing the attempted crime to his family, Thao's mother and sister bring him to Walt to apologize and make amends to the community as Walt's servant.
Willy and Biff fight a lot because Willy doesn’t like the fact his son cant hold a job down. Willy has a flashback to when the boys were in high school; he remembers them washing his car and how popular they were. He goes back to the time Biff had a “borrowed” football, being the football star Willy laughs and tells him to return it. Willy on a trip out of town reveals a new character. He brings stocking to a lady and we learn he is cheating on Linda.
The white children on the bus seem to have found it quite entertaining with “laughing with faces” to see the black children running away. Another example of racism portrayed in Roll of thunder, Hear my cry is the incident which involves Cassie and her trip to Strawberry market. Whilst at the market, she is forced to apologize to Lillian Jean Simms (a white girl) for accidently pushing her. Cassie is not the type to let people walk over her and let people think they are from a higher status than her so she stands up for herself. She says “I aint nasty, and if you’re so afraid of getting bumped, walk down there yourself.” This example tells us how whites can tell the blacks to do whatever they want and act as if there under control.
He also admits to feeling responsible for his mother’s death. Since Baba likes soccer, Amir tries to like it as well, albeit unsuccessfully. In chapter 4 The story jumps back in time to 1933, the year Baba is born and Zahir Shah becomes king of Afghanistan. Around the same time, two young men who are driving while drunk and high hit and kill Ali’s parents. Amir’s grandfather takes the young Ali in, and Ali and Baba grow up togetherDuring one reading session under their favorite pomegranate tree, Amir begins to make up his own story while he is reading to Hassan.
During the World Cup competition, he was booed by an National Congress crowd when he wore a Springboks cap. " The movie correctly shows that when he walked out on to the pitch before the World Cup final in the green Springbok jersey, mostly the White African audience was won over, and cheered for Mandela. Through some digging I found out that the final versus the All Blacks was electrifying. In the movie, the game itself felt boring and lacking the fiery spirit of the players. The movie only shows players running around tackling each other in slow motion and with glum music and loses