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protagonist’s inner thought and feelings, but still allows for the protagonist to express themselves fully on the screen. Such is the case of the film, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. The majority of the music in this film, specifically the opening of the film, is the antithesis of what Gilbert is actually feeling personally. Background and Synopsis What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993). Distributed by Paramount Pictures. Produced by executive producers Alan C. Blomquist and Lasse Hallstrom.…

Fried Green Tomatoes is about a woman named Ninny Threadgoode telling Evelyn Couch about the past.Evelyn is a woman who doesn’t have self confidence and she gets pushed around. Evelyn and her husband going to the retirement home.Ed goes and sees his relative, while Evelyn goes and sits on a couch. That is when Evelyn meets Ninny. Ninny tells a story about her friend Idgie's past. It starts with Idgie when she was a child refusing to go a wedding, her brother Buddy convinces her to go. After the…

Movie Analysis The movie Fried Green Tomatoes centers on an unhappy housewife in her forties named Evelyn Couch who meets elderly Ninny Threadgoode in a nursing home while visiting her husband’s sick aunt. Ninny, over several encounters with Evelyn, tells her the story of the young tomboy Imogene "Idgie" Threadgoode, the youngest of the Threadgoode children. After Idgie's older sister’s wedding her older brother Buddy is hit by a train and killed. Devastated, Idgie recedes from her family and…

people take up the whole sidewalk, like why can’t people walk straight instead of moving throughout the whole sidewalk. Like I’m here walking, trying to get by you and you move to the side of where I was going. Now it makes me look like I’m going to rob you or I’m following you. Now you are going to look at me funny, thinking I’m up to something. It’s simple, just move to the other side of the sidewalk, keep in mind that you aren’t the only one on the street! Honestly they should just make the…

I agree with ethical relativism because we already have it and if we reject ethical relativism then who will have to power to say what's right and wrong for all societies. If we reject ethical relativism then history will repeat itself with a person who will get the power to implement what's right and wrong without any say from…

world today. The media and society nowadays always like to change up stories and news happening around the world either to cover up certain things or to simply make some headlines seem more interesting. Today's society relies on the media to know what's happening around the world and they have a tendency to believe whatever they see. We…

Hey, what’s wrong, don’t want to be pretty?; hey, don’t eat that you’ll gain weight- but still, you don’t want to look like a stick, right?; hey, what’s wrong, why are you women so emotional?; but you have to be less than men on every level- shorter, thinner, less intelligent; hey, what’s wrong?; you should be smiling, you may have been groped, but that means you’re good enough!; but I’m only nine; hey stop crying, you look ugly when you cry, y’know!; hey, what’s wrong, why won’t you put out?;…

Oftentimes when a person experiences a loss or a loved one going through a fatal illness or disease, they go through what is called through the five stages of grief. In the novel Drums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan Sonnenblick, the main character Steven Alper goes through the five stages of grief. Because Steven’s little brother, Jeffrey Alper is found to have leukemia Steven starts to suffer the symptoms of the stages of grief. The five stages of grief being denial, anger, bargaining,…

We're going to be talking about 2 stories about life and misunderstanding disabilities . One of the stories is about Culture about how a Korean cultured girl gets bullied for her culture. Another boy was bullied for his disabilities he just wanted to be just like the other kids in his classroom . Being bullied is something you don’t realize until you're older and understand. Angela was bullied when she got to her new school because there were no other Korean cultured kids there. As she started…

In the short story, “First Day of School” by R.V. Cassill, it is about a boy named John who is going to start a school year at an all-white high school for the first time and for the end of segregation of schools. In the historical dramatization, “The Fight for What’s Right” by Spencer Kayden, a girl named Sylvia Mendez is not allowed to go to an all-white school, so they make a law case for desegregation for schools. The 2 different texts support the topic of desegregation with similarities and…