Tom and Huck

friends with critics, presidents, and artist from all around the world. His humorist personality and love for mischief seeped throughout his writing. Most known for his young adult novels including, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, his boyish nature made Americans all around the nation fall in love. Mark Twain used his writing as a bridge between what society saw and what was really going on, although many adored him, there was a considerable amount of…

Discussion Questions for “Run, Lola, Run” 1. Why do you think Tom Tykwer’s film was so extraordinarily popular, not only in Germany but throughout the world? I think the film was popular because it was a fusion of the fast-paced nature of American films with the artistic elements of German film. That makes it appreciable to several markets, worldwide. 2. The film tells the same story three times. Which elements are exactly the same each time? Which elements change? Are there any elements which…

the way to school or work, by using prior knowledge and background experiences, ideas start forming. Visual messages are also conveyed in traditional forms such as films, novels, picture books and more. This is displayed in the film ‘Run Lola Run’ by Tom Tykwer and the picture book “The red tree” by Shaun Tan, which represent similar ideas and themes throughout these visual texts. This is evident through the use of visual techniques. There are many themes conveyed in the both texts, such as the…

When it comes to war, there seems to be the same subject that always comes up. The women’s role and where do they belong. Men have traditionally always been the ones who fought in the wars while the women were excluded. Being seen as the weaker sex would make war tougher for the men to fight, since they would have to look out for the women who are weaker by nature. While some women may be as tough as men there are still factors that can be distracting. The women who would fight in the war could…

Tom Regan, a philosophy professor at North Carolina State University, lectures that "Animals have a basic moral right to respectful treatment. . . .This inherent value is not respected when animals are reduced to being mere tools in a scientific experiment…

Who Am I ? “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” Dr. Seuss once wrote this poem which was music to my ears growing up. It fascinated me to think that in this gigantic world filled with 7 billion people that I was the only Amanda A Laryea to ever walk its surface. Until about 8 years later on a random Facebook search, I found about four other individuals who share my name. However, our similar names do not connote similar personality…

The film adaptation of the novel Perfume: The Story of a Murderer directed by Tom Tykwer did a great job in resembling the novel. I felt that the film followed the novel closely, which really helped me understand the story better. Reading the novel is helpful to understand the film because the novel is the original story/script. When novels are adapted into screenplays, the writer has to do what is best for the film, which can result in the writer cutting out or changing certain things like:…

I can remember loading up a cooler with beer, grabbing the latest Tom Clancy novel, and a beach chair and being set for the day. When lunch time rolled around, we would head up to the pool bar and grab a quick sandwich and it was back to the beach for the rest of the afternoon. Now, I like to use the term “pack mule”…

their child. However, Huck described an occurrence in which Pap always thought that borrowing things wasn't a bad idea, just as long as you get around to pay them back. The widow thinks "borrowing" is just another name for stealing, and no boy raised right would do it (49). From the text, the reader can clearly see that this man does no good in Huck’s life. Huck is raised by two other parental figures in his life, an old woman, Widow Douglas, who tries her best to teach Huck and make him become…

Joseph Cambell’s hero's journey, was based on his idea of a monomyth. Which sparked the idea of a young boy starting a journey at a very young age, by the well known Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card was inspired by this in order to create the award winning novel, Ender’s Game. This novel is about a boy named Ender and how he began his hero’s journey at the age of six to later on in his training to be tricked into doing something so immense, which he did not anticipate would have happened so…