Genres

Themes show the subject or main thought of a story. In the book, Welcome to the Monkey House, the author, Kurt Vonnegut uses many themes that show the most important ideas in the short stories. For example, the author uses the themes of humanity, technology, friendship, warfare, money, and more. From these many themes, the two major ones I chose are fate and technology, because the author shows them more than just a few times and mentions them many times throughout the book, which makes me think…

Memories can help one go back into the past, maybe as a child, a rebellious teenager, or as a maturing adult. The two texts “Once More to the Lake” by E.B. White, and “Forgetfulness” by Billy Collins explores this topic in their writing, developing a common theme that memories are an important part of every person. For instance, Collins writes about how people tend to forget many memories over time without realizing it, such as books they had once read, or math that they haven’t used in a while.…

Over this course I have found some common themes. One of the most common themes is the focus on American ideologies mainly patriotism and what it means to be an American. It is what is to be expected from American Literature, where the focus is on individualism and patriotism. Rarely do the authors depict a group of people. It is always concentrated on one being. I believe individualism comes from American ideologies because of our national history. We as Americans have a sense of the “American…

Affirming Strengths Essay On strengthsquest.com, I completed the StrengthsQuest assessment and discovered my five themes: Restorative, Input, Developer, Futuristic and Empathy. At first, I was unsure if the results of the assessment would encompass me, but I do feel that I embody a large portion of my themes. In “My Signature Themes”, a downlodable PDF description of my themes, Restorative describes a problem solver- someone who enjoys fixing or reviving things. Initially, I did not see myself…

Kingsman the secret service is a very poupular movie that stands out amongst modern serious spy movies. Such as Jason bourn or Daniel Craig James bond, by parodying classic James bond. The film is over the top with its gadgets, villain’s, and action, as well as forcing more on comedy. This essay will start with a brief summery of the film and than examine three examples of the hero’s journey. Firstly, the elderly mentor, after that the allies and enemies, and lastly the heroes return. Kingsman…

What do movies like The Wizard Of Oz, The Godfather, and Star Wars have in common? These movies aren’t just good, they aren’t just great. They’re classics. But what makes these movies a masterpiece? Most would say the actors or the script, which is true. But these are not what leaves you walking out of the theatre with a smile on your face. Every movie is like a puzzle, and each element is a puzzle piece. All of these pieces come together to create the film, and if any of the pieces are missing…

Books are often made into movies with the same titles and relatively the same plots, but it is rare to find a novel and a movie with completely different plots with so many similarities. Wall-E, an animated film about a robot, and The Handmaid’s Tale, a novel about a society where women are going sterile, can both be classified as having dystopian societies. In fact, they have many characteristics of a dystopian society in common. A few of these similarities include living in a dehumanized state…

“The Mighty Ducks”: A Sport’s Psychology View To practice implementing sport psychology concepts, I chose the 1992 film, The Mighty Ducks to be my example situation. Being that it was the only movie on the given list that was readily available to watch on Netflix, my decision was easy. Having only seen bits and pieces of the movie, I was now able to watch it in its entirety. The Mighty Ducks is a sport drama starring Emilio Estevez. Estevez plays Gordon Bombay, a high powered lawyer who will do…

Archetypes are universal patterns in all literatures regardless of culture and historical period. This pattern can be seen in characters, settings, events, symbols and themes. In poem Who Am I?, the speaker looks for his own identity as he does not see himself the way others recognize him. Although he cannot find answer to the question “Who am I?”(1), he accepts himself as a child of God in the end. There are archetypal themes, symbols, and Frye’s Literary Modes and Archetypes in the poem…

In the movie Pan's Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro uses many significant scenes to highlight the important themes and ideas portrayed throughout the film. The scene i will be analysing is the pale man scene. Del Toro uses many film techniques to help highlight the important themes and ideas such as rebellion and disobedience, power and control and choices. Del Toro uses film techniques such as mid shots,diegetic sound, mise en scene and non diegetic sound. An important film technique…