The story " The Secret Life of Walter Mitty " by James Thurber has been used for generations and turned into a movie later on. These two mediums are about a man, whose name is Walter Mitty. Walter Mitty daydreams a lot to escape reality and live in his dreams in the moment. Both plots go through several experiences of his daydreams wrapped around the reality of life. Between the short story and movie, the movie is more appealing because it's setting is around modern time and it's easier to comprehend and interpret.…
Imagine yourself on an island alone. What would you do to survive? How would you do it? In the story, “The Most Dangerous Game”, by Richard Connell, who captivates the reader into the terrifying story of an innocent man being hunted. The author uses diction and symbolism to show readers an interesting storyline.…
The stories of Chris McCandless and Timothy Treadwell’s journeys to Alaska, provokes the common person to ask at the end of it all: Are they men that people should look up to, or are they just individuals who bit off a little more than they could chew? The author of Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer, reveals Chris McCandless to be an introvert who feels the need to remove himself from a typical life in society and begin his own adventures to figure out who he really is. In an effort to show the issues of living in the wilderness on your own, director Werner Herzog introduces Timothy Treadwell and his disturbing transformation during his 13 summers in the wilderness. McCandless and Treadwell both had different motives for venturing into the wild.…
Dinner With Walter Mitty From what we’ve read in James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” Walter Mitty has an ebullient and wandering imagination. There are multiple occasions in the short story in which Mitty is distracted by a daydream that is somehow tied to what’s happening in reality, causing him to lose sight of what he’s doing at the time. Absent-mindedness can cause some trouble if one finds themselves in a daydream while driving, or perhaps in the middle of a conversation. On the other hand, daydreams can be beneficial for coming up with ways to problem-solve, and for improving mood and brain function. With this in mind, I imagine a dinner with Walter Mitty as being an interesting-or at least, amusing- experience…
An example of Steinbeck using names to stereotype minorities can be seen through Curley’s wife. When Of Mice and Men was published in 1937, women were not seen as independent nor were they respected. “‘Whyn't you tell her to stay the hell home where she belongs?’ said Carlson”(Steinbeck 62). In this quote, Carlson suggests that Curley should leave his wife at home. He implies that she is inferior compared to the men and that she should stay at home, the only place where she is useful.…
The mise en scène elements of acting, lighting, and color in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight (1998) correlate closely with the moods of different parts of the film, contributing significantly to the film’s storytelling process. In the analyzed shot, many of these elements work in tandem to suggest to viewers a turning point in the storyline. As argued below, the mise en scène elements of acting, lighting and color in the shot of Jack Foley and Buddy packing to leave Miami function to emphasize a major transition in both the location and tone of the plot. This shot lasts for about 25 seconds (52:31-52:56) and takes place at Buddy’s place, a setting with a warm, yellow hue.…
In “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, Mitty, the main character, doesn’t connect with the people around him. One might say he doesn’t belong. Due to his disappointing life he isolates himself from the world and escapes to his daydreams where he is always a respected, brave, and smart man. To quote one of his fantasies, ““The Old Man’ll get us through,” they said to one another.…
Greatest Movie Movement The Breakfast club. The Breakfast club is a story of five teenagers who were sentenced to Saturday detention in school. Each of them having their own identity knew nothing about each other before this day. They all came from different social economical groups. We have the jock, wrestling star Andrew Clark, Claire Standish the most popular girl in school, Brian Johnson the brains, john bender the catalyst the group with his rebellious nature, and last but not least Allison Reynolds the eccentric but yet the basket case of the group.…
We all wear “masks” in front of society, however, we let them see the burdens and judgements we want them to see. Hester Prynne is a of the “victim” I read about in “The Scarlet Letter”. ‘The Scarlet Letter” is a romance from the time period of the 1850s, before the salem witch trial occurred. The book was written by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He wrote the book in 1996 and the book is considered to be his “master piece” or “masterwork”.…
The Spotlight on Cultural Detriments Due to Society’s Benefits in Huckleberry Finn INTRODUCTION All around the world, cultures evolve and possess different traits. However, society likes to condemn cultures, ethnicities, and races that are different from it’s own, and place them on a lower level. Racism exists throughout the world, and is not classified merely as whites against blacks. In the recent Ferguson shooting, a white cop shot a black man, and the whole community bonded over the death of the man and called it a racial issue.…
In this film, Laura (1944) we are introduced to a group of corrupt and fittingly shady upper-class social order types. The focus is on particular conventions of content, like themes or settings and/or form, including structure and style (Goodykoontz & Jacobs 2014). This film will be critiqued by the author through the lens of the genre theory (AMC, n.d.). The genre theory allows critics to take a short cut to categorize films. The director woks with the time-period and has a vision and that includes the audience he wishes to engage.…
The mistreatment of African Americans by American Society motivated John Steinbeck to write the novella, Of Mice and Men. As shown in the novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, he writes many cultural references to African Americans in the 1930's. There is one character called Crooks who is an African American. In the book Crooks is referred to as a Nigger, in the 1930's this word was considered to be not offensive but in modern times this word is very offensive. In this book, John Steinbeck tries to portray what is said throughout a migrant working farm.…
Walter Lee Younger, one of the main characters from A Raisin in the Sun is a desperate dreamer that strives to be able to take care of his family. Walter experiences the most change out of all the characters throughout the the play. The play tells the story of Walter and his family as they struggle to survive the abounding hardships that a black family faces in the 1950s in Chicago. Throughout the play, he makes countless decisions that hurt the members of his family and himself, but by the end of the play, he is able to regain their respect and change his ways. Walter has a great deal of self-hatred which is also changed by the end of the play.…
Constitutional Conflagration How often one would wonder what a world without their constitutional rights would be like? Today many people take their rights for granted and sometimes people do not realize how much of a necessity something is until it is lost. What if the Constitution had been burned, and otherwise destroyed? There would be controlled chaos. This is a portrayal of a dystopian world, one example in particular is the futuristic version of the world called Fahrenheit 451.…
Many stories are told through the perspective of one omnipresent narrator, the perspective one character, or even an unreliable narrator. These styles emphasize the views and opinion of one character, one side of the story being told. In Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion, Ondaatje uses an unconventional style of narration to tell the untold stories of the working class and immigrants who built the country, to give immigrants a voice they do not have in the past, and to recreate how certain memories have a major impact while some do not. Through this style, Ondaatje emphasizes the main topic of the novel, the perspective of immigrants and working class in the nineteen- thirties.…