In most families, the role of a parent depends solely upon the relationship that they have with their children. In Alan McMonagle short story entitled Liar Liar, the author portrays the main character of the story—the father— as the epitome of a great man, in the eyes of his naive son. The main theme of Alan McMonagle’s short story Liar Liar is relationships. In the story, the father uses the gangster western films to communicate with his son in order to fulfill the desires of escaping his worrisome life, not being aware of the repercussions that may exist. This is portrayed in the story through the use of characterization of the father figure, incorporating American Gangster Film values and morals in juxtaposing the father’s actions and the first person narrative by the son helps the reader all demonstrate the importance of family, identity, and one’s underlying desire to escape. In Alan McMonagle’s Liar Liar, the father’s approachable state becomes solely dependent on his alcohol addiction, which renders more difficult the relationship between the son and his father. According the son’s perspective, the father is seen as an exemplary character due to the boy’s immature brain’s inability to see the underlying flaws of adults—his old man in this case— as he is simply a child. Consequently, this emotional blindness causes the son to see his father as a joyous man as he is described to always be happier when he walks home with a brown paper bag in his hands late at night…
Imagine that the town is all talking about a man that was just shot dead. No one knows who it was or who shot the man. Your dad left the night before to go get food a few towns over. He is traveling by horse and he will be back in a few hours. You think to yourself, “The man can’t be my dad. He is just getting our surplus of food for the season. Hours pass and he still hasn’t returned. They have identified the body of the victim and it is your dad. This same thing happened to Mattie Ross, the…
Miss Nelson is Missing! Miss Nelson is missing was located at the Campus Life Center on campus at USC Upstate. This play premiered on June 23rd, 2016 at 6:30pm. The directors of the play were Anthony Gregory and Emily Robinson. Miss Nelson is Missing displayed a class that is full of horrible children who will not listen to their teacher when she is trying to teach her lessons. Even with all of her kindness and compassion the children would just not listen. One day the children’s lives changed…
It is a dark, and stormy day. You are in your favorite class with your favorite teacher. Your favorite teacher then claims he/she smells flesh, and devours one of the students. You can’t believe it. The zombie apocalypse has hit your school. You decide to run away from the school. As you are running away, you see a stranger in trouble, about to be mauled by zombies. Do you go with option A, and try to save the stranger you don’t know, or do you go with option B, and run away from the guy, and…
study medicine, but then became involved in a nationally known Christian group for college students. He told Lennon that is was God’s calling for him. Tomlin then went on to tell Lennon that since God gave him to gift to sing and play music, and he then now gives all of his success back to Him. Tomlin says to Lennon, “When I write songs, I try to write in a way to reach as many people as I can, to be a lighthouse versus a flashlight.” Tomlin uses the gift that God gave him to witness to millions…
Django sat in his dressing room, combing his abnormally large afro. He knew people were onto him. You see, Django was a secret member of a band, not just any band though, The Beatles. Django was the real guitarist of the group, but due to race issues the band members decided to keep it a secret and have John Lennon pretend to be the one on the guitar. Tonight shouldn’t be any different, except it was. There was this reporter, John Didion, who has been on Django’s case for months now, determined…
The question is, would you forgive? Imagine it’s your family member who didn’t come home from one day, you’re sitting there waiting for them to walk in that door whether it’s your mother, father, brother, or sister but they just never return. Imagine that it was your fault that they didn’t come home. If knowing it was my fault in a way, I would forgive. In the short story “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami, there are two young boys who are best friends,inseparable, always together doing…
controlled by technology that it is hard to imagine our lives without its convenience. However, one has to wonder if the entertainment factor has overtaken the convenience and helpfulness factor that drives technology innovation and makes it so appealing. These are the types of questions that co-producers Sander van Dijk and Max Stossel, who also appears as the lead actor and writer, ask in their short film This Panda is Dancing. The questions about technology and how we use it are what drive…
What would you do if you were the only person in your class who was not allowed to wear overalls? You’re the odd ball and the classic bandwagon argument of “everyone else is wearing them!” does not work, and your mother just does not seem like she’s going to change her mind anytime soon. Then your mother comes back with the famous “You’re not everyone else” or “I’m raising you to a higher standard”. You say “why not?” she says, “because I said so” and that’s yet again another argument you have…
Imagine only having three main ways of entertainment. This is how it was during the 1930s. The Great Depression was going on during the ‘30s. A lot of people had wanted to be entertained as the Library of Congress states, “Even during “hard times” and war time, people needed to be entertained. The Americans in the 1930s and 1940s were no exception. They enjoyed many forms of entertainment, particularly if they could do so inexpensively” ( “Art and Entertainment in the 1930s and 1940s” 1). The…