Many of the film’s ideas and problems are common of westerns, but Brooks puts a switch in Blazing Saddles. Brooks’ writes Blazing Saddles to parody the western through, caricature, satire of racism and stereotype reversal. Caricature throughout Blazing Saddles is very prominent. The most known and looked upon is the black sheriff, Bart. This is a very unique characteristic of a western.
Haymitch is for the most part the drunk of the town, it never really tells the reader how he managed to win his games, but he must have been crafty because from a physical standpoint he would not be able to defeat a career. “He was drunk,” says Peeta. “He’s drunk every year” (Collins 46). This shows that he is not drunk just during the reaping he is drunk all the time, which foreshadows some underlying problems. No one really cared about him, so he built up walls with drinking and now Katniss and Peeta break them down and help him.
The Characterization of Jack Potter In Stephen Crane’s “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky”, Jack Potter, seems to be a quite simple man. Jack Potter is the marshal of the small Texas town of Yellow Sky to which he is also very dutiful to his town when trouble arises he is always there to save the day. An example of this which shows another of his traits is when the town drunkard starts a shooting frenzy in the street; Jack is always there to make him back down showing that he is very firm to Scratchy. Thematically, I think that this story says take advantage of the little things in life. Throughout the story Jack Potter showed that he is indeed a very simple living man.
For example a waiter asks his age because that Holden ordered for a scotch and soda Holden says “Do I look like I’m under twenty-one?” but then the waiter asks for verification and Holden gives up and orders a coke. He also talks about sexual stuff which he didn’t do any of them and fails because the adults don’t care about his sex life. Holden thinks that a lot of people are phonies including adults and peers. He acts like he is mature around everyone. But when he is alone he doesn’t care about his actions.
Crazy Horse’s forces didn’t have advanced arms, but he had better wisdom and tactics of war. He defeated extremely arrogant Custer. While at the end of the poem, Custer said that he would be reborn whenever dictators need him or whenever movie-goers want to watch him. This is an ironic and humor ending. Through this ending, Alexie indicates his view on Custer: he was standing on the side of dictators; he was a bad guy.
The characters in No Country for Old Men, Anton Chigurh, Llewellyn Moss, the Mexicans, are all bad in some sense. They are thieves, liars, and murderers, and in the story there are few heroes, but many villains. The title No Country for Old Men is accurate because the old men, the ones who are used to good defeating evil, are now in a new age in which there are few heroes, but mostly villains, and the heroes do not always win. Llewellyn Moss, the quasi-hero of the story is actually an
This story is told in retrospect, from the perspective of a man looking back on his childhood. Telling the story from this perspective makes the story even more humorous because even from a mature vantage point, the effects of the alcohol were still conveyed as accurately as when Larry was actually drunk. Being told from a mature vantage point, this story receives more credibility, and is more effective because it functions as a funny story from childhood. 8. I believe that Larry’s father did actually give up his liquor temporarily because he was very diligent in calculating the money he saved from not drinking.
In Capote, Perry is seen as a soft-spoken gentleman the whole movie. The way that Perry is viewed changes the story completely. In the movie Capote Perry never quite musters the rage of a killer; he lacks the twitches of self-loathing that Perry had in the book. There are repeated references to ‘‘bubbles in his blood’’ when he is nervous, angry, or apprehensive. I believe that Capote makes Perry Edward Smith look like the good guy instead of the killer he is described as in the book.
"The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" and the Shift in Society “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky” by Stephen Crane is a highly intriguing story due to its mystery and many hidden meanings. One thing that I believe is greatly encouraged by this story is the fact that there’s a metanoia happening in the “wild west”. This is greatly demonstrated with the use of four important characters Jack Potter, the bartender, the “drummer”, and scratchy. Jack potter and the bartender I believe represent the west converting to the ways of the east going from a wild civilization to a more civilized one. For example when Crane describes the bartender as “moving like a ghost” he might be referring to the west slowly becoming the new civilized west.
Here, Kingshaw’s mother is trying to treat both the boys with equal respect.“I shall not make a favourite of my own child”, which is conveyed to the reader constantly as throughout the novel as her respect for her own child declines as her feelings for Mr Hooper increases . Hooper’s hatred for his own Mother peaks when he thinks to himself “He wished she were dead instead of his father” The phrase, “wish she were dead” conveys the fact that Kingshaw’s hatred for her is an extreme one, this is because he feels that he has been forgotten in place of Mr Hooper and Hooper . Also, the fact that he wants her to be replaced by his father, a person who he has never thoroughly met emphasises that he hates his mother who is suppose to be loving and caring more than anyone he has known. A point that is later made when in his mind Kingshaw exclaims, “he hated her more than Hooper now”. This exaggerates his hate for his mother even more as Hooper is Kingshaw’s worst enemy, this suggests that Kingshaw’s worst relationship is with his mother, potentially implying she is the reason for his death.