Extended Metaphor Assignment Rational John Hickam, the father of the lead character Homer Hickam in the movie October Sky, possesses many personality traits and characteristics which are developed, changed, and evolved throughout the film. The three evident key traits that he seems to have which have been modified throughout the movie are his values, his personality type, and his expectations. The format that I chose to represent the values of John Hickam is a drawing, as his values are one thing or another, which a drawing and specifically my drawing is effective at doing so. The drawing is on a flat sheet of standard A4 paper, as I said, once again, John Hickam values one thing or another which is very two dimensional and does not require
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The picture is on a standard sheet of A4 paper, because paper is flat and has two sides, whereas John has two distinct expectations evident throughout the movie, which can be well shown by the sides of the flat sheet of paper. Color in the drawing is used for further expression of John Hickam’s expectations, as his dream for his son to be a miner is represented by the grey and black side of the picture, hence the color of coal and the idea of a dark lifestyle. On the contrary, the hue of the yellow subsidiary shows John Hickam’s acceptance of Homer’s dreams, thus being representative of sunlight, and the color the fire coming from the spacecraft during launch, which is partially incorporative of Homer’s aspiration. The “NO TRESPASSING” sign erected between the grey and yellow sides are symbolic of the fact that John Hickam wants to recruit his son Homer Hickam to the dark side of his life, mining, while keeping him away from the brighter aspects of life, such as family and freedom of expression. Therefore, John’s desire is to persuade Homer to share an interest in his aspiration, mining, however, so is not successfully done in the movie, and John quits trying to convince Homer to join him, therefore, both of them carry out their dreams without
The picture is on a standard sheet of A4 paper, because paper is flat and has two sides, whereas John has two distinct expectations evident throughout the movie, which can be well shown by the sides of the flat sheet of paper. Color in the drawing is used for further expression of John Hickam’s expectations, as his dream for his son to be a miner is represented by the grey and black side of the picture, hence the color of coal and the idea of a dark lifestyle. On the contrary, the hue of the yellow subsidiary shows John Hickam’s acceptance of Homer’s dreams, thus being representative of sunlight, and the color the fire coming from the spacecraft during launch, which is partially incorporative of Homer’s aspiration. The “NO TRESPASSING” sign erected between the grey and yellow sides are symbolic of the fact that John Hickam wants to recruit his son Homer Hickam to the dark side of his life, mining, while keeping him away from the brighter aspects of life, such as family and freedom of expression. Therefore, John’s desire is to persuade Homer to share an interest in his aspiration, mining, however, so is not successfully done in the movie, and John quits trying to convince Homer to join him, therefore, both of them carry out their dreams without