The Hero’s Journey Of Travis Bickle the Taxi Driver A retrospective As the audience meets Travis Bickle, the stage is set for a dark journey for the ”hero” of the film. Snap shots of rainy, dark streets in New York City’s steamy section, allows the viewer to see that this hero is going to be motivated by his own pessimistic view of the world. Travis Bickle is an ex- marine with honorable discharge, and the film is timed just after the Vietnam War. Although Travis never talks about how the war affected him, or why he was discharged, it is obvious that he is haunted by memories from his time overseas. Travis is single and alone, living in a shabby one room apartment, somewhere in or near Manhattan.
The boy is no longer young and naive; he has grown up and become disillusioned with life. Question 2 The description of the sound in the streets when the young man is walking by thinking of the girl he loves. He hears the "curses of laborers," the "shrill litanies of shop boys," and "nasal chartings of street singers." All of these images, besides just making the street seem busy, also make it seem like an unpleasant and intruding scene, almost like you would want to cover your ears and hurry through as fast as possible. This compliments perfectly the boy's imagination that he is "carrying his chalice safely through a throng of foes."
However, this is immediately undermined by the juxtaposition of the following image of “her face overshadowed by clouds”. The poet's inability to see her face symbolises his uncertainty for the future. The poet then continues to evocatively describe through a series of images,the routine of his 8 years of schooling of walking “Strathfield's paths and streets” and playing “chasings up and down/ the station's ten ramps”. This imagery reflects the familiar pattern which should entail a sense of belonging. Yet, the use of the simile “caught the 414 bus/ like a foreign tourist” undercuts any sense of comfort and creates a sense of alienation in this setting good!
Edward Scissorhands Creates Romance In Tim Burton’s somewhat dramatic film Edward Scissorhands is the story of a bashful yet ignorant man "created" with scissors for hands trying to live in the suburbs with people he doesn’t fit well with (after being discovered in a mansion's attic by a woman named Peg). Clearly this story creates a certain mood of acceptance and romance. Edward goes through his life in the suburbs without a care in the world about how people think about him. He always kept to himself and believes that he is just like everyone else. Later on in the film he discovers a girl that he likes and tries to make himself known.
This monotonous, serenely boring life gave the man an excuse to break away from the mundane, going out on an outing; unshaven, uncharacteristic of himself. His slow and uncertain pace indicative of the adventure he was to undertake, he ends up into the stereotypical ‘bad part of town’. The author provides literary illustrations that embed this scene into the reader’s mind. ‘Three boys threw stones at pigeons. Paper clogs the fences like drifted snow.’ The sentences in these sickly paragraphs are shorter and to the point: defining the setting in stark, brief sentences; contrasting to the beginning sentences – the ones used on the basis of introducing the rather monotone character.
"The Pedestrian" is a short story by Ray Bradbury, an author known for deeply philosophical and poetic prose that is often set in a time of space travel. Occurring in the year 2053, "The Pedestrian" tells the story of Leonard Mead, a man who walks alone at night, seemingly for the pure joy of it. This appears to upset the neighbors, who, when they are not criticizing the habits of others, are thoroughly engrossed in their televisions.In 2053, people do not walk outside -- even the sidewalks are succumbing to the endless growth of grass. At some point during his walk, Leonard Mead is accosted by the one remaining police car in the city of three million (there is apparently no need for a police force when no one goes outside and they are instead
I believe this poem has a very optimistic attitude. The mood is blissful and carefree. I find him inspirational. Everyone needs to be reminded to smile sometimes. Reading this poem lifts the weight of the world off of the readers shoulders by making him think about what make him happy.
The shadows along the building tell the audience that the men inside are trapped and aren’t free. Throughout the scene, the lack of bright light shows how Andy might be feeling as he approaches Shawshank prison. This shows the lack of hope in this scene. In contrast, there is a scene where the character, Red is on the bus leaving the prison. The lighting in this scene is bright and there us a yellow filter being used to show how the idea of hope has helped Red through his journey in Shawshank.
Glad To Be Alive You are driving down the street and you stop at a stop light. There is a homeless man standing there and his sign says “homeless, blinded in terrible accident.” Automatically you feel pity for the poor man, but this is exactly what the main character in Mackinlay Kantor’s short story “A Man Who Had No Eyes.” Kantor shows us two examples of men who have the same “handicap” one decides to use it to his advantage and one decides that this will not hider him, hence the title A Man Who HAD No eyes. Kantor uses plot, symbolism and most of all diction to show us that we cannot rely on other people’s pity, and mostly we cannot rely on our own pity. Kantor uses plot to show us that we cannot rely on others, and our own pity by giving us a negative example in Markwardt and a positive example, Mr. Parsons. Throughout the whole story, Kantor is comparing the two men.
Such contrasts are fascinating as the worst part of the City, underneath all its grotesque dressing, is a thing of beauty. We read that Stephen took walks around the city, missing English lectures but not caring but identifying that the birds were flying from ‘left to right, circling about a temple of air’. Within these walks Stephen mentally finds himself freer, thinking of various topics such as Aristotle. Though he is able to place himself out of the