War Of The Buttons Analysis

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War Of The Buttons You are not born with pride, show how on earth does someone have pride? Pride is something that you spend a long time trying to gain but it can easily be ripped away. Pride can be shown is several ways, whether is in yourself or in something you own. Pride symbolizes how proud someone can be over something or someone, as they say with respect it's like a whole “”what comes around goes around.” For example, since the word pride and the word proud are so similar, if somebody took someones pride away by doing something harsh to them, that persons pride would also go down considering they wouldn't be proud of what they have done. The theme of the movie “War Of The Buttons” directed by John Roberts, is pride and the message in the movie is pride is easy to gain but easy to lose. The movie “The War Of The Buttons” shows that pride in yourself is hard to get but easy to lose. In the film Fergus gains pride by telling his parents to “shut up and punish him already.” So his father whips him because he was late and his clothes were destroyed. He also gains pride by being aware of his punishment and facing it. Toward the end of the film, the final battle between the Ballys and the Carriks occurs. Gorilla from the Carriks was so confident that his team would win but after seeing how equipped the Ballys were, he got scared and hid behind a large hill acting scared while he was avoiding to fight. This shoes that Gorilla has no pride in himself. Seconds later Geronimo was fighting then he got trapped by the Ballys. As they were about to take his buttons…show more content…
Pride can simply be taken away in an instant were as it can take an extremely long time to gain. The movie displays the exact actions of pride and clarifies that the theme is pride and that the message is pride is hard to gain but easy to

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