The Walk

Deep in the roaming hills of Pennsylvania, miles from any old dusty road lays the most beautiful scenery imaginable hidden from any hiking or motor trail. a) The journey starts at a small quant trailer park on the side of a hill. b) In the gully below sandwiched between the hill of the park and the naked hill across lays a tiny stream which slowly grows for miles. c) The streams turns into a small creek with shallow water but lays deep in the earth as washed out hill sides ambush and retreat…

character that has achieved a lot in life and stand for a specific cause to be their new role model. Films that have been viewed in class that have good strong female role models are: alone yet not alone, gone with the wind, places in the heart, the long walk home, the Harvey girls, and iron jawed angles. Alone yet not alone is the first movie that shows a strong female role model characteristics. Through the movie’s main character Barbara Leininger it shows viewers…

When The Dead Walk, You Run. Day 1 2:50 pm Mom told me I should write a journal, I beg to differ but I love my mom so I couldn’t have said no. Today was a beautiful day, the sun was never brighter than ever before. I didn’t do much today, it was just like any other day Day 2 4:25 pm I’m actually really enjoying the journal writing thing. I guess the saying is true, “Moms are always right.” I was thinking to myself : Is the zombie apocalypse actually possible? To my parents they think it’s…

person can be conditioned to do a certain behavior, either by their own actions or influences from others, sometimes without realizing it. In two different novels that share a similar theme of racism, A Walk in The Night by Alex La Guma, and Maru by Bessie Head, the act of conditioning is explored. A Walk in The Night follows many different characters throughout the novel but mostly centers around the actions of Michael Adonis. Michael is a person of color in a coastal city of South Africa at a…

To Walk Alone or Walk Among Others? "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." - Helen Keller In John Steinbeck's Of Mice & Men, a story is told of George & Lennie's ambition of owning a ranch of their own. Lennie's character suffers from a mental disorder that presents itself in Lennie's childish behaviors. George dedicates much of his time towards looking after Lennie, making sure his actions do not get them into trouble. They have just started a job at a new…

Just like Terrence Howard takes his last walk to the electric chair, Hank and Leticia take a “last walk” and end major phases in their lives; Hank’s work as a prison guard and Leticia’s role as a mother. Hank’s last walk starts as a far shot and he steadily approaches the camera; however, the diegetic sound is already articulating the context of the conversation/scene to follow (Hank resigning from his job). Similarly, Leticia’s walk down the hospital hallway begins as a far shot and she…

A Long Walk to Water Theme: Perseverance Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water. The first example of perseverance is when Nya had to persevere on her walk to the pond to collect water. On her trip that she took twice a day, she had to face a lot of thorns and extreme heat. If Nya did not persevere, she would not be able to collect water for her family. Without water, Nya’s family and herself would die within days. But because Nya had persevered on her daily journeys, she…

brother taught him how to walk because he wanted his brother to be a normal kid. He was ashamed of his brother who was five and couldn’t walk, but he wouldn’t tell his brother it in person. “When Doodle was five years old, I was embarrassed at having a brother of that age who couldn’t walk, so I set out to teach him. We were down in Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song. ‘I’m going to teach you to walk, Doodle,’ I said.”…

Slut Walks On August 12 , 2012, a 16 year old girl, incapacitated by alcohol, was sexually assaulted and unknowingly photographed by two of high school football players, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond. Following the attack, the boys posted videos and pictures of the victim on social media boasting about their actions and further humiliating the victim. Several school officials attempted to conceal and destroy evidence to avoid an investigation. However, ten days later charges were pressed…

they share premise. Set in the 1970s, The Walk (2015), a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, is based on the legendary true story of tightrope walker Phillippe Petit and his plan to wire walk without a safety harness between the twin towers with the help of his team. The documentary Man on Wire (2008), directed by James Marsh, contains the same storyline as the film, however, it differs from it as the two are different types of texts. Man on Wire and The Walk make use of their characters in…