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    What’s Eating Gilbert Grape was an emotional tale that both filled and broke my heart. Countertransference effects my view of the family. The relationship between Gilbert and Arnie is too similar to mine with my son. Additionally, Bonnie flooded me with emotions because she was reminiscent of a family member I was the primary care provider for. Enmeshment was the first words that come to mind when describing the Grape family. Gilbert is a hero, but I also see some hero qualities in the older…

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    In What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Gilbert and his brother, Arnie are living in Endora. Arnie is a kid with special problems and needs special care. They leave a “ordinary” life with their two sisters and their gigantic mom. Gilbert is in love with a lady but then Becky comes to town because their car broke down and they stay until it gets repaired. In the whole movie they also plan Arnie’s 18th birthday and that day their mom dies. They burn the house and leave town after a while. Friendship is…

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    The Profit: Amazing Grapes

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    Summary Plot In this episode of The Profit, Marcus Lemonis visits Amazing Grapes in April 2014. Greg and Bill are wine connoisseurs in Orange Country that turned their passion of collecting fine wines into a business. However, their business Amazing Grapes has unfortunately never been profitable. The business is months away from closing down due to mismanaged inventory and absentee of owners. Marcus Lemonis comes in and convinces staff and the owners to take ownership of their business and stop…

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    others. In What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, it a powerful and meaningful story about a big family in a small town called Endora in Iowa. Throughout the story the family faces a lot of problems having A sibling with a disability and having to take care of them there whole life without any help of the parents after the father had passed away and a mother who suffered depression after the father passed away causing the mother to stay inside for 7 years and getting over weight. Gilbert grape is a young…

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    thought and feelings, but still allows for the protagonist to express themselves fully on the screen. Such is the case of the film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The majority of the music in this film, specifically the opening of the film, is the antithesis of what Gilbert is actually feeling personally. Background and Synopsis What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Distributed by Paramount Pictures. Produced by executive producers Alan C. Blomquist and Lasse Hallstrom. Produced by producers…

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    What’s eating Gilbert Grape is a very simple yet meaningful movie. There is no clear cut message that points out the faults of society and it may be hard to interpret a message because the movie is set around everyday life. However the one thing that is clear, is what Gilbert realizes throughout the movie. His life is going nowhere and he must break the everyday routine. Gilbert sees through the people he calls his friends, and notices their subtle influences and impacts within his decisions of…

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    Fried Green Tomatoes is about a woman named Ninny Threadgoode telling Evelyn Couch about the past.Evelyn is a woman who doesn’t have self confidence and she gets pushed around. Evelyn and her husband going to the retirement home.Ed goes and sees his relative, while Evelyn goes and sits on a couch. That is when Evelyn meets Ninny. Ninny tells a story about her friend Idgie's past. It starts with Idgie when she was a child refusing to go a wedding, her brother Buddy convinces her to go. After the…

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    Movie Analysis The movie Fried Green Tomatoes centers on an unhappy housewife in her forties named Evelyn Couch who meets elderly Ninny Threadgoode in a nursing home while visiting her husband’s sick aunt. Ninny, over several encounters with Evelyn, tells her the story of the young tomboy Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode, the youngest of the Threadgoode children. After Idgie's older sister’s wedding her older brother Buddy is hit by a train and killed. Devastated, Idgie recedes from her family and…

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    If I had the opportunity to go shopping with an unlimited amount of money to spend, I would want to go to Minnesota. In Minnesota they have the Mall of America, but they also have other malls that I could shop at. I would want to travel with my mom and my sister in law, Kelsey. Even though I would have unlimited money, that is not what this trip should be all about. I should focus on the good times that I have with my family. The first place in the Mall of America that I would approach would be…

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    The life of Marquis De Lafayette Tanner Sheldon Honors History November 19, 2015 Mr.Miraya The life of Marquis De Lafayette Marquis De Lafayette was a huge reason why the American Colonies won the Revolutionary War. Lafayette used influence to persuade King Louis XVI; the king of France at the time of the war; to assist the American Colonies to relinquish Great Britain’s control over the colonies. At one point, Washington may have lost his position as the military commander of the colonial…

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