American films

America has always been the country everyone looked to with eyes of lust for freedom and dreams, especially Latin Americans. Growing up in Latin American country one may experience everything for violence to issues within the household. However, the main threats come when decides take initiative and leave his/her home for their own purposes. Many Latin Americans who decide to leave their home leave knowing they could die in the desert, be deported, killed by on-going violence throughout…

“Django Unchained” is a Western-American film that was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The film was released in 2012. The film takes place throughout the western United States and the Antebellum South. The film follows a slave—through a series of odd events—turned freeman who is played by Jamie Foxx and his partner Dr. King Shultz who is played by Christopher Waltz. Other notable actors include: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and even Quentin Tarantino explodes into the cast.…

Jeannette Walls, the author of “ The Glass Castle”, developed a story based on earlier memories of her sad life. The Walls family has been moving around the US for years, not being in most houses for more than a few months. Each new location being different from the last. An “adventure” is what the family would call it every time they skedaddled out of their current home. The one responsible, it seems, for all these sudden moves in location is Rex Walls. He is the father of 4 children, including…

In the same first experience, she would see this as one of the greatest opportunities to have. She believed that you could be anything you wanted to be in America. Unlike Jing-Mei, her mother felt like this was the prodigy that Jing-Mei should live up to. She would have done anything to make sure Jing-Mei would become a piano genius. In the second experience, she expected her daughter to play astonishing, which was quite the opposite of what it really was. It was obvious that Jing-Mei’s mother…

howling laughter. She was not the rebound everyone thought her out to be: she was his everything. I nodded slowly, pretending I am only hearing this story for the first time. Fossie’s memories were alive and breathing in the heart of this little American-Vietnamese girl he carried in his arms. When she peacefully rested in her father’s arms, Fossie and I both knew that this specific memory of his was…

The Two Faces of War Since we were young we all have heard and learned from our parents and grandparents that every story, including a fiction or non-fiction story, has a hero and heroine. The hero is usually a male who always fights against the evil villains and tries to conquer him. While the heroine is a female who supports the hero and helps him achieve his goals by sticking to his side while still having her own personal goal, which she is trying to obtain throughout the story. The hero and…

Summary: The dad left the family so they brought in a crazy man from the mental hospital to work on their fields it was suggested by the neighbours but they didn’t think the mom would actually go do that. After a few weeks Emaline and her mom enjoyed the crazy man’s company. Introduction: The family lives on a farm that has been around for generations. The father of Emaline owns it, for his father passed it on to him. Emaline’s dad never wanted to be a farmer; he wanted to work on the…

Isn’t it always considerate and supportive when someone is looking out and sticking up for you like a family? Trust is an important aspect to loyalty. You won’t get help from them unless they trust you. Trust is earned by showing loyalty, which is why loyalty is very important. To the Greasers, loyalty is a principle to a successful gang; without loyalty, the gang isn’t a gang anymore. In the Outsiders, they had experienced how things would be if they lost loyalty for each other, for example,…

Larry Watson and Kate Chopin both identify a conflict an individual experiences with the norms of society, whether it be the family reputation against society or sexism, In Montana 1948 , Wesley Hayden experiences multiple circumstances where he has conflict with his family and society. An example is his wife Gail. Gail wanted Wesley not to live in Montana and be sheriff (Watson 7). Wesley grew up in Montana where his family has been known as Sheriffs of Mercer County. The Hayden Sheriff…

They were like any other family. The Miller Family had just bought a new 1.5 million dollar home in New Jersey; it was their dream home. David Miller was a surgeon at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center, his wife Mindy was a stay at home mom and they had one twelve-year-old boy named Thomas. Every day the Millers had the same routine: David woke up early and prepared breakfast for the family, eggs and ham for Thomas and oatmeal for his beloved wife. They discussed family matters over breakfast…