False protagonist

“Fight Club” (directed by David Fincher) is a 1999 American film based on the novel of the same name written by Chuck Palahniuk. It stars Edward Norton, Brad Pitt and Helena Bonham Carter, all of whom were praised on their performances in the film. Edward Norton plays the unnamed lead role but it referred to as the Narrator in the credits. He works at a dehumanizing office job as he explains that all you have to do is follow a formula which a computer could do. The sequence I looked at starts…

_____ (thesis) immediately, the notion of fate plays a central role in the film’s linear narrative structure as the protagonist must maintain the idea of justice within the crime-filled paradigm of Gotham city. Constantly throught the film, various visual motifs challenge the notion of fate. Like the ‘casino chip’ in Run Lola Run, Harvey’s ‘lucky coin’ is a symbolic motif…

In chapter seven of the book “Seedfolks”, the author Paul Fleischman presented two new characters: Virgil and his father. Virgil - a fifth-grade boy who was excited about his summer vacation. His father was a daydreamer person who always had some plans about the way how to become a rich man. The author described both characters as hopeful people who strived to make some changes in their life. Virgil father wanted a big farm, and Virgil wished about an eighteen-speed bike. After moving to the US,…

Whether literature turns out to be a bestseller or a paper weight is decided by two very critical elements. Together, setting and character work to build the foundation and plot to a story. Setting often drives the characters to act in very specific manners and can illustrate and exemplify critical changes and plot points. Characters not only create the very basis of the novel itself, but also help to establish conflict and can change how we view other characters through their actions and…

in many ways. Well, both books were based as a dystopian society. In the book Anthem, it might have been more obvious that it was a dystopian society, They are dystopian societies in different ways.In Anthem, the main character had lived with the false truth his whole life. He knows that what he has grown up with is not right. On the other hand, in the Mortal Instruments, the main character realizes how bad the situation is because they grew up in the truth and knew that what was going on was…

From the beginning Manischevitz is presented as a character who has lost his self-identity and has morphed into a hopeless human being after his entire world has collapsed. Manischevitz’s life crumbled and disintegrated after the tragic closure of his business, the unexpected lost of his son and daughter, and the deterioration of his wife’s, Fanny, and his own health. Abraham Maslow, psychologist, created a psychological theory, known as “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,” in which describes the…

The story “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” by ZZ Packer tells a story about an African American lady called Dina, who was born in a low income family, facing challenges from her families, friendship, neighborhood and personal identity. Dina was a Yale student, and she was a talented girl who had earned academic success. Story began at the day of orientation, and Dina refused to play the Trust game, also, telling that she would like to be a revolver if she had to be an object. She was requested to…

In the three texts “Where Worlds Collide”, “Everyday use”, and House on Mango Street the reader gets to see how people live and perceive America from a different perspective rather than a white person’s. Usually one would be looking through a white person’s eyes because everyone seems to think that white people’s opinions are the only one’s in America that matter. Throughout these texts the reader gets to know what it’s like to see what America is like not through a rich and healthy white…

In the short story Orientation by Daniel Orozco, a new employee is introduced to his office and the workspace which he is going to working in. However, while the story is told from the perspective of the main character, throughout the story there is almost no focus on the main character, but instead on the people who he will be working around and interacting with in the future with in the office. The narrative in this story is from the person who is giving the new employee a tour of the office,…

As people live on to be 70 to 80 years old they carry memories from their childhood days till they die. Many memories can shape them in a high-minded way or in an inadequate way. “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Flannery O 'Connor, Granny Weatherall faced multiple hardships in her lifetime up that she cannot forget. The results she received made Granny Weatherall not rely on anybody to help her out because she took control over her life. While in “A good man is hard to find” nameless…