Essay On The Movie Hope

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Graham has to believe in his faith again, there were many signs throughout the movie. Graham and his 2 kids, Morgan and Bo live in rural house in the middle of nowhere. They live with Merrill Graham’s younger brother. They all have been in a lot of pain the past 6 months because Graham’s wife Colleen has been killed by a car. She was walking down the street and Ray fell asleep at the wheel and hit Colleen. At that time Graham has lost all his faith in God and believed God was trying to punish him for doing wrong. There are 4 major characters in the movie, Graham is the father of Morgan and Bo. Then there is Merrill the younger brother of Graham who has come to live with Graham and help with the kids after Colleen had passed. Graham was a priest for the town. He was a good priest. After Colleen’s accident, he thought that god was trying to punish him or tell him he is not doing the right …show more content…

In the beginning of the movie the kids find a huge circle in the crops and Graham and Merrill thinks it’s a prank but after watching the news they realize that it’s happening all around the world. Graham doesn’t want to believe that it’s happing, that it’s going to be the end of the world. The whole family goes into town to get away from all that is happening. Morgan and Bo go into a book store to look for and alien book and there is one book that isn’t supposed to be there. They go back to the house and about a week later Graham goes to give their dog food outside and he hears things in the crops. He goes in and follows and he sees a leg and he freaks out. Graham starts to believe in the alien attack now. All that is happening with the aliens is testing graham to see if he still believes in god. Graham also goes to talk to Ray. He is the person that killed Colleen. Ray hasn’t put an alien in his cabinet, Graham goes in there to see it and the alien sticks its hand out and Graham cuts his fingers

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