In the movie The Village, M. Night Shyamalan depicts simplicity, peace and welfare within the people in a small isolated community in olde Pennsylvania. M. Night Shyamalan instills readers that working together as a community is the ideal of simplicity and an easy lifestyle. Likewise, in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey strives to teach young readers the importance in healthy habits that will further benefit in their foreseeable future. When comparing the two sources, there are overlapping themes in being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and putting first things first.
In the movie The Village, the habit of being proactive is displayed multiple times throughout the story’s plot. This means that the person or persons are taking responsibility for their actions.One of the crucial characters Lucius Hunt, enters the forbidden woods to seek medicines from towns beyond the woods. He fails due to fear that “The ones we don't speak of” will kill him. Later on his actions lead to disastrous effects. “The ones we don't speak of” enter the simple village and create havoc and damage to the people's houses by painting the forbidden color red on their doors. Lucius then takes upon being proactive by writing a letter to the townspeople confessing his crime. …show more content…
This emerges numerous times throughout M. Night Shyamalan's film. Ivy and her sisters goals within the village were to marry and have a family. Kitty Walker goes to Lucius asking for marriage. Lucius refuses marriage because he is in love with Ivy. Kitty is devastated but later on marries another man. The elders goal in the village is to press upon the people to stay in the village and to never go to the towns beyond the woods. They do this by provoking the people to believe in “The ones we don't speak of”. They then dress up as “The ones we don’t speak of” and scare the people to create false fear toward the
In the movie The Village, the habit of being proactive is displayed multiple times throughout the story’s plot. This means that the person or persons are taking responsibility for their actions.One of the crucial characters Lucius Hunt, enters the forbidden woods to seek medicines from towns beyond the woods. He fails due to fear that “The ones we don't speak of” will kill him. Later on his actions lead to disastrous effects. “The ones we don't speak of” enter the simple village and create havoc and damage to the people's houses by painting the forbidden color red on their doors. Lucius then takes upon being proactive by writing a letter to the townspeople confessing his crime. …show more content…
This emerges numerous times throughout M. Night Shyamalan's film. Ivy and her sisters goals within the village were to marry and have a family. Kitty Walker goes to Lucius asking for marriage. Lucius refuses marriage because he is in love with Ivy. Kitty is devastated but later on marries another man. The elders goal in the village is to press upon the people to stay in the village and to never go to the towns beyond the woods. They do this by provoking the people to believe in “The ones we don't speak of”. They then dress up as “The ones we don’t speak of” and scare the people to create false fear toward the