The true intention of life has been a mystery, with many ideas and interpretations. The concept of life never staying stagnant is one to remember. Tangerine, a novel written by Edward Bloor, revolves around Paul Fisher. Paul is a handicapped 7th grader who has experienced a plethora of changes. For instance, the motif of brotherhood running throughout the novel has changed Paul.…
According to Kinan Valdez the characters also used the concepts of actos by activating the spine, cultivating the heart, teaching to learn, opening the mind and serving social justice within the play. “Zoot Suit” brings together the unforgettable characters such as the mocking El Pachuco and the charismatic Henry Reyna, a gullible gang leader who finds himself caught in the middle of the racially raging events that astounded Los Angeles during the early 1940s. For example, “Zoot Suit” used the actos technique to illuminate specific points about social problems that were happening in the era of the “Sleepy Lagoon Murder” and the “Zoot Suit Riots”. This expressed how Chicanos were portrayed and treated since they were looked upon as zoot suiters. “Zoot Suit” inspired people to…
On an asphalt baseball field in Brooklyn, two teams from local Yeshivah schools meet. At first, it just seems like a baseball game between two Jewish high school teams. But the game quickly turns into a holy war when the caftan and ear lock wearing Hasidic team begins to taunt and bully the less conservative “hell-bound sinners” on the other team. Hate boils as Danny Saunders, the leader of the Hasidic team, purposely hits a pitch right back at the pitcher, crushing his glasses and landing him in the hospital for a week. This is how Chaim Potok 's book The Chosen begins.…
Whatever choice you make there is always a consequence. Like in Edward Bloor's book “Tangerine” Erik, Pauls older brother made many choices that affected Paul or somebody else, most of the time in a bad way. Although Paul goes through all of these bad choices, his brother makes he still seems to get over the challenges and changes. Erik has done many things that affected Paul, The biggest ones were when Erik spray painted paul in the eyes when he was five years old causing Paul to be legally blind (page 263) or when Erik told Arthur Bauer, Eriks friend to hit Luis across the face with the black jack later resulting in his death (page 211). Erik had the most effect on Paul in this novel the most being when Erik spray painted Paul in the eyes…
Have all the choices you have made been all your own, for only yourself. Or were some, if not all impacted by others? How did those choices affect you and your life? Choices made by numerous characters in the book, Tangerine, impacted Paul in an abundant of different ways. “How did I actually become blind?”…
the themes and ideas of melodrama are quite simple the…
In the "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Crucible," both authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Arthur Miller argues that one 's individual conscience should take precedence over the rules of one 's religion. For short, a person should follow their own beliefs and conscience thoughts before following their religious virtues. Both authors show evidence that supports their claim in their novels by using Pathos. By using pathos, both authors ' were even able to convince me into agreeing with their statement.…
What’s in a Tragic Hero? In most dramas the very core of the story revolves around the tragic event or the tragedy itself and the tragic hero that is the cause of the tragedy. In Sopehecle’s “Antigone” Creon is identified as the tragic hero due to his tragic flaws, his power, and his actions that lead to his downfall and that of others. Many works of drama have an essential plot and contain a protagonist and an antagonist and usually have unhappy endings; these would be refereed to as tragedies.…
According to the critic the movie is “a big, brash, splatteringly violent mob opera…” (Bradshaw, 2006). He later describes the film with the following sentence: “This is an unapologetic, unironised crime-family drama…” (Bradshaw, 2006) thus putting it in the genre of a crime-family drama film. The movie revolves around loyalty, betrayal; corrupt police officers and scheming gangsters so it follows most of the conventions of crime dramas.…
Just what is it that creates so much suspense in literature? Irony is used numerous times throughout The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Irony is when a character's words or actions contrast with what happens or what is expected to happen, and is often what makes a story so riveting. Verbal, situational, and dramatic are the three types of irony used during this play. Irony is included in The Crucible many times to enhance the reader's experience.…
Which means that in the case of Méliès’s film the transformation of the fan into women serves as the visual pleasure and this concept was therefore born in the minds of the audience that cinema could be used for acting out male fantasies as such. His film is displaying the overwhelming control that men possess in the not only artistic industry, but the…
Most interactions between the characters are negative ones because their prejudice beliefs lead them to take discriminatory actions. A series of events ties the characters together, which allows the audience to witness the complexities…
The witch trials of Salem is an infamous period of hysteria and paranoia, in which people chose fear over rationality. While many of the accusations were absurd, many are still victims of hysterical accusations, which occurs even today. The play, The Crucible, takes place in Salem, during the 1600 's, as the town is engulfed in the hysteria of witch hunts, which forces the audience to acknowledge the tendencies humans display, in similar situations. Arthur Miller uses his play, The Crucible, to criticize society, during the McCarthy era, of its irrational behaviour, by creating parallels of vengeful tendencies, hysteria and hypocrisy, both present in his society and within the play. The Salem witch trials and the McCarthy era is sometimes referred to as "the time of general-revenge", as people accused others for selfish purposes and out of vengeance.…
The plots are typically about families who all have difference of opinions. Their differences concern race, religion, personality types. The faults in some of these characters usually end up creating a huge conflict or problem that everyone has to face. I think the plots are also about boundaries and how people cross them.…
The film genre is drama; the main character faces conviction, the film forces the audience to think about socioeconomic issues during the 1940s, and the main character…