The Last Man

He heard shouting outside his office, he glanced over to see a man with long, greasy hair that hung in front of his eyes. The man looked like he hadn’t bathed in weeks, his clothes were torn and covered dirt. The officers dragged the man behind them as he struggled to break free from their grip. Boston walked out of his office to find out what was going on. The officers brought the man into the interrogation room and cuffed him to a chair. Boston walked up to the head policeman…

only part of The Last Samurai I found myself turning my nose up at was the ridiculous aspect of romance between Captain Algren and Taka, which truly was just unnecessary. While I love a good empowering female character (Zootopia is my favorite movie, partly because it’s adorable and partly because Judy Hopps is a strong and independent lead female character), Taka’s involvement in this unneeded romance almost ruins her character for me. As the only prominent female character in The Last Samurai,…

The man being viewed as a well-respected individual in his town earned himself the reputation of someone with high prestige. Although the town was of high importance to him, as was he to the town, he didn't feel obligated to inform the town of his decision to get married. The man obviously feels that he has some leeway with his actions and demonstrates his "masculinity", which in those times was associated with freedom, by choosing not to consult the town with his marriage. Although the man…

When The man finds some hot chocolate powder, he gives it all to The Boy to make sure that he lives. “You promised not to do that, the boy said.” (McCarthy, p. 2006, 44) In reality, they both were starving, surviving off hope and fear. If The Boy said nothing, he…

was struggling with many internal and external conflicts. He meets many new friends along his journey. To me, his internal feelings were wanting to be free and do whatever he wanted, to just go. But the main conflict throughout the entire book was man vs. nature because he had to look for food in the wild. He had to live off of plants which lead to his death. There is a lot of foreshadowing in this book. One example is when Alex, also known as Chris McCandless sends postcards to Burres and…

the emails were about finding a husband for her because she had reached the age of 30 and had not been married yet. The woman called it the “unmarriageable threshold for an Indian woman, 30.” In our culture it is considered normal for a woman or man to grow up, get married and start a family of his or her own. That is not always the path that the individual wants and some people can be very judgement about that. It seems that gender roles affect almost everyone; because people are used to…

protective and controlling towards their daughters. They would rather give their sons more freedom than their daughters. Not only were the fathers of the 1800s controlling towards their daughter but them also controlling towards to wife or spouse. In “My Last Duchess”, the main character showed a more controlling and jealously side toward his wife while talking about the painting. “My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name/ With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame/ This sort of trifling? Even…

What makes a man a man, and how does a man keep his alpha role? A male’s masculinity is elusive as it is undefinable throughout the changing ages of society and the cultures within. It is a tedious societal process that is taught to boys from a young age that to be a man, they need to act the part of one. Whether it be through the way how they dress to the toys they play with as children, men have been placed into a role that separates them not only from their female counterparts but from…

men, twelve long rectangular sheets of color paper transitioning from light green, blue, purple, orange, and yellow and a painting of the man facing towards the audience while standing on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean during the time of a sunset. As I continue to look my eyes caught a quote on a mustard color wall. A particular section of the quote sparked my curiosity. It stated, “As a cradle of humanity, Africa is a part of everyone’s heritage.” What strikes me as odd, is the fact that…

healing, the gorilla Ohana was none for he magical abilities to heal the wounded. It took him 3 day before he arose and was able to get back to his duties. Then on the 7th day of his return there was an instance that would change the jungle forever, a man child was found lost in the jungle. Harambe was the first one to race to the scene, as everyone else began to crowd around they all wondered what they would do with it. Some said to kill it, some said to just leave it, but Harambe stood up and…