Gone

Drowning i should have known I should have been alerted… I should have known. I regret it and I am reminded of the mistakes I have made every second of my “life”. My life is over and only at 13 years old, I am dead, done, fried. Now all I have to do is wait and sit, all day. Today was just a normal day where you miss the bus because I hit snooze about five times, and then hope that time will come to a halt in order for the idea of getting out of bed to be an illusion. So, I did exactly…

Symbolism in A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier Malcom X once said: “Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression” (izquotes) Freedom is fundamental to the growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood…

Gone Baby Gone During the film Gone Baby Gone directed by Ben Affleck there are many issues which arise. The issues are generated around the ideas of protect children in lower income areas. These children grow up around druggies, career criminals, and irresponsible parents. These areas are created due to the way most cities are laid out with some sort of ghetto or lower class neighborhood surrounded by richer suburbs. With rampant drug use, and people willing to do anything for a quick buck,…

Ask most people what movie captures the classic Southern Belle, and most would answer, “Gone with the Wind”. Which is not surprising considering Hollywood’s role in perpetuating an idealized image of Southern white womanhood. However, while Gone with the Wind captures some aspects of the Southern Belle amid romanticized views of the Civil War South, filmgoers have a greater understanding of Southern womanhood when their repertoire is balanced out with the harsher aspects of Southern culture…

messengers), and even political advantages ( human shields and propaganda). This is the cruel reality that these children face everyday. During their time in an environment like this the children are indoctrinated by many different tactics. In A Long Way Gone Memoirs Of a Boy Soldiers by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael describe the use of drugs, violent movies, the use of vengance and the label of “winner” in competitions of killing quickest to fuel their minds to become killers. These categories of…

Scarlett O’Hara Many scholars argue that Scarlett O’Hara, the main character of Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone with the Wind, is a true representation of a feminist character. At the beginning of the novel, Scarlett marries a man on a whim to make another man jealous. On their first night together as husband and wife, she refuses to share the same bed as him. J.M. Spanbauer explains that this is a feminist way of thinking. Spanbauer states, “throughout the novel, Scarlett contemptuously…

The film Gone Baby Gone is about a little girl who has been abducted. One of the moral dilemmas that happens during the content of the film are the issues associated with duty and reason. According to the book Ethical Choices by Richard Burner and Yvonne Raley, Immanuel Kant’s theory “maintains that reason generates moral principles, his theory reflects the assumptions of rationalism” (Burner and Raley, 156). In this motion picture, Patrick Kenzie is one of the criminologists that gets hired…

Baby Gone” The film "Gone Baby Gone" is an American mystery movie released in 2007 and marked the directional debut of Ben Affleck. The film rotates around the tale of a hijacked young lady (Amanda), and what the police, private examiners, the ruffians, and family do to ensure that she is discovered (not found). The film requires the watcher to utilize moral philosophy with a specific end goal to decide if the activities of the gatherings included are moral or not as per their own particular…

What if everything that one believed to be true turns out to be false? What if something one thought that always is existed never actually existed? The movie A Beautiful Mind tries to answer those questions through a great mathematician’s experience with fantasy world and real world. Although the movie A Beautiful Mind focuses on the symptoms of schizophrenia and glosses over a schizophrenic mathematician’s life, it is an excellent movie because of the awards it received, the powerful deep…

“Gone Baby Gone” “Gone Baby Gone” is a mystery film masterfully directed by Ben Affleck, an actor and a screenwriter. The kidnapping story set in the criminal districts of Boston depicts the characters and their neighborhoods as backward and appalling. At the very beginning of the film, we find out that Amanda McCready, a little girl, has gone. Thus, her aunt and uncle decide to involve two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, into the police investigation of the girl missing.…