Ten percent of Ghana’s population is made up of disabled people that is over two million people in Ghana that are disabled. Emmanuel’s Gift, directed by Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern, follows Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah as he overcomes his leg disability. Emmanuel was born without one of the bones in his right leg causing his leg to be deformed. Emmanuel fights through his disability and constant social rejection to strive for something more. This story abridges Emmanuel’s great accomplishments and demonstrate Emmanuel’s caring heart. The directors employ different editing techniques to capture the hopefulness of Emmanuel’s story. Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah’s greatest accomplishment was not letting his poverty and social class command him or others.
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Emmanuel, as a disabled person, is not supposed to work at a job. Emmanuel is supposed to either be dead or begging on the streets, homeless. When the directors present several different shots of the homeless of Ghana begging on the streets, the directors are using pathos to display what Emmanuel could have become and the life he chose to avoid. The directors are using pathos to evoke a feeling of pity for the disabled people of Ghana. Emmanuel could have easily made ten dollars a day begging and lost hope; instead of desponding he chose to shine shoes for two dollars a day. The directors emphasizes Emmanuel overcoming the poverty by listing facts such as “ten percent of Ghana’s population is disabled,” and “If you are disabled in Ghana you are a second class citizen,”. The directors also applies constant shots of poor villages and homes to represent the poverty Emmanuel found himself in and to explain to the viewer what kind of lifestyle Emmanuel once lived. Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern, the directors, utilize shots of disabled people begging on the streets to exploit the vast number of handicapped people in …show more content…
One of the most important parts of his return is that Emmanuel has brought one hundred wheelchairs to give to the poor people of his hometown of Ghana. The directors apply ethos by revealing the ecstatic faces of the handicapped people. The directors also present camera shots of children cheering and crowding around Emmanuel to demonstrate how Emmanuel has become a symbol of hope to the impoverished village. The directors also display Emmanuel on his bike perched at the apex of a hill to symbolise how Emmanuel has conquered a major obstacle for the impoverished. Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern exhibit Emmanuel’s rise from poverty when the Prime Minister, who once shunned him, holds an important ceremony honoring Emmanuel; this is supposed to invoke a feeling of pride from the viewer. The directors then reveal the disabled people, who were once beggars, almost at the point of tears out of their gratefulness to Emmanuel. During these emotional moments, the music is swelling and picking up to indicate the feelings of joyful
In the …show more content…
Emmanuel, as a disabled person, is not supposed to work at a job. Emmanuel is supposed to either be dead or begging on the streets, homeless. When the directors present several different shots of the homeless of Ghana begging on the streets, the directors are using pathos to display what Emmanuel could have become and the life he chose to avoid. The directors are using pathos to evoke a feeling of pity for the disabled people of Ghana. Emmanuel could have easily made ten dollars a day begging and lost hope; instead of desponding he chose to shine shoes for two dollars a day. The directors emphasizes Emmanuel overcoming the poverty by listing facts such as “ten percent of Ghana’s population is disabled,” and “If you are disabled in Ghana you are a second class citizen,”. The directors also applies constant shots of poor villages and homes to represent the poverty Emmanuel found himself in and to explain to the viewer what kind of lifestyle Emmanuel once lived. Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern, the directors, utilize shots of disabled people begging on the streets to exploit the vast number of handicapped people in …show more content…
One of the most important parts of his return is that Emmanuel has brought one hundred wheelchairs to give to the poor people of his hometown of Ghana. The directors apply ethos by revealing the ecstatic faces of the handicapped people. The directors also present camera shots of children cheering and crowding around Emmanuel to demonstrate how Emmanuel has become a symbol of hope to the impoverished village. The directors also display Emmanuel on his bike perched at the apex of a hill to symbolise how Emmanuel has conquered a major obstacle for the impoverished. Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern exhibit Emmanuel’s rise from poverty when the Prime Minister, who once shunned him, holds an important ceremony honoring Emmanuel; this is supposed to invoke a feeling of pride from the viewer. The directors then reveal the disabled people, who were once beggars, almost at the point of tears out of their gratefulness to Emmanuel. During these emotional moments, the music is swelling and picking up to indicate the feelings of joyful