Being and Nothingness

Friendship in The Perks of Being a Wallflower “Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower displays Charlie’s various encounters with remarkable people who accept him for who he is and through his interactions with them, he discovers his true identity and abilities. Charlie is a shy freshman who encounters the same struggles that teenagers nowadays are facing, including the…

Honky takes the serious issue of racism and shines a light on certain aspects by using comedy and satire as tools to support and help illustrate topics discussed on stage. My focus of this paper will be on two actors that I believe personify comedy and seriousness the most in this production, Sam Richardson as Dr. Driscoll and Judd Johnson as Thomas Hodge. Richardson and Johnson both focused heavily in these two categories in Mikell Pinkley’s production of Honky, but Richardson’s comedic take on…

Individuality in The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest takes place in the Victorian Era in Europe, showcasing the strict societal rules and the pressure they cause to attempt to remove individuality from the society by having characters follow the proper upper class stereotypes (being rude to lower class, choosing marriages for money, etc.) By showing the upper class standards and stereotypical snobby behavior through multiple characters, Wilde highlights…

reactions to the thought of being earnest to spin a story of Victorian Era upper class practices to challenge the world he lived in. Through his play The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde uses the notion of being earnest to display the absurdity that is deeply rooted in upper class Victorian Era beliefs and the hypocrisy that is easily accepted, and because of how the characters react to being trivial Wilde is able to reveal the shocking morality that comes through being openly immoral. …

The girl in this story represents a daughter being instructed on how to live a fulfilling life. The practical advice given to her helps set up the idea of how her mother wants her to behave in different situations. The girl represents more than just herself, but a girl, her family wants her to be.…

Hollywood Goes to School Qiana M Fleming SOW412 SPRING 2018 INTRODUCTION This is a movie review based on a high school student named "Lucas" that had a nit for learning. He was an honor student and overachiever. However, Lucas was dealing with grave emotional disturbances and thoughts. During his academic tenure he developed a few different relationships including one with a young lady named "Becca". He envied his teachers and traumatized his mentor because he did not receive an A…

Also comedy have a several types Farce, Romantic Comedy, Satirical Comedy, Sentimental comedy, Black comedy, Comedy of humours and Comedy of manners. The Farce is a form of low comedy, whose intention is to provoke simple mirth in the form of roars of laughter (and not smiles); it uses exaggerated physical action, character and absurd situation, with improbable events, a complex plot, with events rapidly succeeding one another, pushing character and dialogue into the background. The origins of…

The “I-Hate-Book-Reports” Book Report: Part 1 The Perks of Being a Wallflower is more of a life story. In this book, Charlie writes journals, he talks about his day and tells us how he feels. How this book is written is very similar to what we teenagers would experience in everyday life, it’s very realistic. Charlie experiences drugs, sex, romance, and the typical things you would expect for a 16 year old kid; he was mostly excited to get his license. At points Charlies’ life is tragic; he’s…

Themes of Abuse in The Perks of Being a Wallflower In both the novel and the movie, the theme of abuse in The Perks of Being a Wallflower is very prevalent in the story. Both mediums follow Charlie who is entering his freshman year of high school. Charlie attends a football game alone and finds Patrick, a señor in his shop class, who invites him to sit with him. The two of them are joined by Sam, Patrick’s stepsister and Charlie is immediately drawn to her. When Charlie gets home that night, he…

Authors of texts implement many techniques within their work to captivate their audiences, as well as allow the audience to experience life through another perspective besides their own. The 2012 film, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, directed by Stephen Chbosky, is a coming of age film that follows the life of 15-year-old protagonist, Charlie. Charlie is a shy, observant teen who is struggling with his first year of high school, alongside coping with the suicide of his best friend Michael, his…