Emilio Estavez The Way Sparknotes

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Emilio Estevez is the director of the movie called “The Way”. This movies can be compared with the book the “Great Divorce” written by C.S Lewis, who respond to a poem by William Blake by saying that heaven and hell, good and evil, they need to be separated from each other to claim justice.
First, the main character on the movie is Tom, in France he meets an officer who takes him to recognize his son’s body. Tom tells to the officer that he will finish his son’s journal. The officer says back to him that the “El Camino de Santiago” is a personal journal, that he should do it for himself. This part can be compared with the ghosts when they meet the solid spirits who advise the ghosts how to get to the top of the mountain, which is heaven.
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Tom can be compared with the female Ghost, Pam, who does not accept her son’s death, Michael. She was for ten years in a ritual grief by keeping his room as it was after his death and keeping his anniversaries. Tom in a similarly way is doing the same with his son by finishing his son’s journal and imagining his son at every place along the way. Pam refuses to accept the death of her son, and for that reason she will never see him again and will never understand the true love. In contrast with Tom, he finished “El camino de Santiago” by scatters the ashes of his son into the ocean. This can mean to accept and let his son rest in peace, after this action he seems free and happy. Tom understood the true of …show more content…
However, along the way he always stop to eat something, which won’t help him to loss weight.
At the end of his journal he accepts and loves his body and is ready to come back to see his wife.

The smoker and angry women, Sarah. He wants to quit smoking, and believes that she will at the end of the way. However, the real reason for what she is doing the way is to find self-forgiveness. She tells to Tom that she got divorce from a man who bit her, and she also, aborted her daughter, in that way she would not be beaten by her father or another man. She mentions that she can hear her voices of her daughter, and she has not been able to forgive herself for that.
At the end she did not quite to smoke because of course it was not her purpose, however, she found internal peace and

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