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Chris is very determined throughout the whole movie. Some examples were when he ran in front of moving cars on a busy street so he could get his bone density scanner back because it was stolen. For instance when he interviewed for the Dan Witter job he got it, but he had to do an internship with 19 other people and only 1 person got the job. Chris was so determined to get the job, he went out of his way and went to Walter Ribbons house to apologize for missing his meeting with Walter Ribbon. This trait goes with “Only Daughter” because Ciserno’s was really determined to please her father with her writings and she finally got her father’s recognition she had finally gotten to her goal just like Chris did and they both had to work super hard for it. …show more content…
When Chris’s wife left him and took Christopher with her he took him back and didn’t let her take Christopher to New York City with her. Chris always lightened the mood with Christopher if things were going really bad. For example when he told Christopher that the Bone Density Scanner was a time machine and told his son to press the button and when christopher hit the button Chris acted like there was dinasoars and they were just playing in the subway station instead of Chris getting upset and making his son worried. This goes with the american dream article because the article said americans are funny caring people. Another thing is most of us will lighten the mood even when we are going through bad situations and that we work hard to achieve our

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