Antagonist

People are like Lotus Flowers. Lotus Flowers blossom into something beautiful, even if they only grow in mud. Our mud is the obstacles and constant challenges that we face in life. In order to grow and gain wisdom, we must have mud first. Recently, I read a book by John Updike called "A&P" and a book by Francisco Jimenez called "Inside Out". The book "A&P" was about a young man named Sammy who worked in a grocery store. He was a character who was very observing and opinionated. The other story,…

Westerns have come a long way since the silent film days and the original western, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Today, modern technology has allowed westerns to become more thrilling, more daring, and more action packed than ever before, and none of this is more true than for Django Unchained(2012) directed by Quentin Tarantino and the TV show Firefly(2002), created by Joss Whedon. While both embrace new and interesting twists to the genre, both still feature many of the classic themes…

In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, involves a poor family where each member of the family has their own problem like for Lena, it was moving into a new house, for Ruth what to do with the baby that still hasn’t be borned, and Walter to open a liquor shop. It is hard to define one as the protagonist since every character is really influential and contributed a great amount in it. In fact, you could say all of them are protagonists or none of them. There are many traits that…

Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her is filled with intricate and complicated tale of love, lust and longings. The part that may be the most intriguing is about the characters being realize by Junot Diaz’s from the viewpoint of an immigrant, charming the readers with their side of the story living in the same community as us. A tale that tells us about their life including their struggles and yearning for their home country when life is harsh towards them, as well as the story about their love and…

In every Disney movie there is some sort of underlying meaning or theme. In Disney’s new movie Frozen, critics saw an enormous amount of reasons why it is a negative influence to the audience especially children. Because the audience is looking at it through an entertainment focus and not looking at it through an analysis point of view, not all are aware of the wrong doings exposed to their children or themselves. A large theme portrayed in the movie Frozen is the difference between the physical…

“Social Criticism in Marriage” In the novel, e.g. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen used social criticism to portray how she felt about women and marriage. Austen used the two characters Elizabeth Bennet and Charlotte Lucas to show two totally different perspectives on marriage in this work. Social criticism during that time was more pressed on women back then rather than now for several reasons. Some women can feel like Elizabeth who felt as though marriage should be based on love. Other women…

Monstrosity isn’t always what is perceived on the outside. Becoming one with an animal, having animalistic tendencies, or an alter ego of a beast can be considered monstrous to society. In the poem “Why do you keep putting animals in your poems”, the man depicted in the poem is learning from the animals in the poem. He also realizes that the animalistic way of life is much simpler than the life of a human. In “Now You’re An Animal” by Mark Doty the professor goes into a studio to get his picture…

In one iconic and powerful exchange in the movie The Dark Knight, Two-Face, a heroic district attorney turned villain said to one of the protagonists, Jim Gordon, “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” This quote eloquently describes the ideology of characters who are neither a hero nor truly a villain, but fall somewhere between. For many, morally grey characters are fascinatingly terrifying since their actions are understandable, but also condemnable.…

Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, General Sanger Rainsford was the main character. In the story the main idea is that there are two types of people in the world, “The hunter and the huntees”. There is a conflict when General Sanger Rainsford meets a cossack named General Zaroff. General Zaroff claims that he is the best hunter in the world and ended up getting bored hunting big game. General Zaroff is also a bit confidence…

Spiral Concept To me, the concept works very well. I like the fact that the main character is more that what she seems to be, and since she is going to move to new places, I can see it going for multiple seasons. Characters I like the twist that Carrie turns out to be a murder. Her violent past is what makes her interesting. I am not sure how do the Javier and Twitch’s characters affect the plot of the stalker. Are the audience going to suspect them as the stalkers at one point? The World…