One Night the Moon Essay

that the Shepard was capable of turning himself into the wind. The shepard has no faith in himself, telling the Alchemist that he doesn't know how to turn himself into the wind. While the Alchemist continues to tell him that he does, "There is only one thing that make a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.". The symbolism in this scene was the Alchemist willingly giving up the entirety of the Shepards savings. To me, this was telling the Shepard that the treasure was the Master's…

Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights is a compilation of Middle-Eastern folklore and contains great cinematic potential in terms of Mise-En-Scene. Though the story primarily takes place in the Middle East, various tales from all over the Eastern hemisphere are told throughout the play. Creating a film that contains so many different cultures requires an emphasis on costume design, makeup and setting to ensure each diverse location is represented and each culture is portrayed respectively. In…

conspires to help that person to realize his dream” (114). What the alchemist means is that whenever a person has that strong desire and that highly anticipated motivation, nothing can stop that person from realizing and achieving his dream. This was one of the lessons that Santiago learned throughout his journey. This helped me realize that in order for me to achieve my goal which is succeeding in my academics at San Jose State University, I must have some motivation and desire. Nothing can…

Alchemist. The Alchemist reveals that one must have the courage to follow their destiny, for otherwise, they will hold themselves back from happiness. Coelho uses foil, symbolism, and personification to further develop this theme. Today’s readers can apply Santiago’s story to their own life, as a lesson to follow their calling. Throughout The Alchemist, Coelho uses foil characters to represent how Santiago’s life could be if he does not follow his personal legend. One foil is the crystal…

mission to find his personal legend. In this book, there are two themes that mainly stand out, personal legend and Faith/positive thinking. In The Alchemist, Santiago follows his personal legend. It starts with a dream that keeps recurring every night. This then leads to a curiosity to find out what it means. He learns that his personal legend was to travel to the Egyptian Pyramids and find his treasure. “It’s a force that appears to be negative, but actually shows you how to realize your…

We all have that point in our life when we know things are about to change. That one memory that always reminds you of where your path changed. Sometimes for the best and sometime for the worse. What we do with the path is up to us and the choices we make. I am reminded of mine daily and the choices I made to continue the path to where I am now. It was the summer of my 11th birthday. About to be a preteen, the time when you are growing and learning. SO many things changing emotionally and…

offered a source of relief in the Depression-era to the audiences throughout the 1930s and 40s; especially relieved them after the Hays Code was put into effect. The screwball comedy was a mixture of sarcasm, comedic relief, and a social satire all in one, making it wacky but highly sophisticated. Rather than focusing on the romantic relations of people, screwball comedies focused on the upper-class. The focus was a hero’s life being somehow disrupted by a heroine. The hero and the heroine were…

the upkeep of morality according to those in favor of censorship. In Capra’s film ideal America cracks with screwball humor, pointing out the absurdity of grown adults behaving in such a restrained manner. It Happened One Night is a classic screwball comedy; however, Capra goes one step further with a film that acknowledges the ongoing state of the nation with the presence of the Great Depression in the film. The two main characters behave differently, usually based on their different social…

One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

anyone in the land. Then came the Seven Warriors. Seven humans born with extraordinary powers over the elements. Fire was born first. Then came Earth, Sky, Water, Industry, Nature, and finally Ice. The Warriors saved the human race, and peace spread across the land. The seven Warriors then lived out the rest of their days as peace keepers keeping a healthy balance between the elements. As each of the Warriors neared the end of their days a replacement was born. Generations of Warriors continued,…