Tom o' Bedlam

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:…

book, we see Huck grow and mature as a character. In the end of the book, Tom Sawyer comes in and basically takes over. Huck does not interfere, still feeling as if Tom is the leader between the two. Huck probably feels inferior to Tom because he’s been educated, went to church, and overall just looks up to Tom. We’d thought maybe Huck had grown away from being Tom’s follower. Huck avoids an argument with Tom and lets Tom have his way, knowing that there could be consequences. In the end, we see…

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”…

When Tom, Huck, and the rest of the boys made a gang, they didn’t just talk about what they would do, they did it. They robbed multiple people. Although, they didn’t murder people like they planned to do. There was also a drive in people to learn things that…

than Tom Sawyer is, but is still a boy at heart. Huck shows maturity when Tom wants to “tie Jim to the tree for fun,” and Huck stops him from playing this prank on him (9). Huck also goes to school and “can spell, and read, and write just a little” (17). Huck’s maturity could partly be due to the fact that as a child he was beaten by his father, and he has experienced hardship in life, but he is still a normal kid who joins the band of “robbers,” and raids the Sunday school picnic. 2. Tom…

wants freedom as well, but he wants a different kind of freedom. He hates having to be civilized because he prefers to be independent. He also hates getting abused by his dad, so he fakes his death by killing a pig with an axe and jumps in the river. Tom Sawyer is Huck’s civilized friend. He enjoys crazy stories and schemes. He finds Huck at his Aunt Sally’s on his way to freedom, so he plays…

Everyone retains a specific “human” nature; however, it is left up to the individual how they choose to interpret various aspects of human nature in their everyday personalities. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain incorporates various characters to capitalize on the flawed aspects of human nature. In the novel, it is evident that Twain is showing his disapproval towards the way humans behave. Each character: Pap, Grangerfords and Shepherdsons, and the King and Duke are able to…

Twain uses the duke and the king to portray characters that are selfish and inconsiderate. Huck dishonestly sneaks out of the house with Tom to warn the conmen. Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally are very innocent and loving people, they treat Tom and Huck with such kind hearts. Tom and Huck risk ruining their trusting relationship with Sally and Silas in order to save the duke and king from being tarred and feathered. Huck contemplates, “I didn’t believe anybody…

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…