In “Show Me The Way”, the documentary style film, we see the story of an educational institute in a small village of Rwanda ran by teachers that are servants of the cross compelled to work with the blind. In the Rwandan culture, blindness is associated with being a curse and the children are unwanted by the families. They see God as a form of light and positivity for the village of rain, darkness and sadness. As a form of looking within, these are values given by the Bible and God. The use of religion is a form of building a locality; they have daily mass, sunday mass choir school for the blind and serve their local community by singing songs and praying together for goodness to come upon them. Even the low vision students from the blind school …show more content…
In the heart of the Church, the woman wanted to be a vocation in Rwanda and believed it “felt liberating to give and take, teach and learn, to follow the blind students and be their disciple by participating in their mission.” For example, a boy taught her songs in Rwanda and she taught him Christian praise and worship songs in English in return. Even in the Zumba classes, the dance portrayed the concept of the others support and touch through God. God was the root of their ability to inspire each other and witness each other’s creativity, motivation, action and knowledge .Their missionary discipline is seen in their small community where everyone has a small part to fulfill as simple as getting a bucket of water or walking someone to the bathroom. The identity she captured in the context of their missionary service to each other and their community is not about their differences in appearance, but their creative, active, curious, eagerness to learn, talented and opinionated qualities which are all values learnt, believed and upheld by their religious …show more content…
The opening images are glorifying and romanticising the church of christ, the cross, virgin mary baby jesus and beautiful evocative music in the church and the altar. The camera portrays the man from behind on a low angle making the later feel grandiose and powerful compared to his infantasamally smaller presence. More so, he is praying and kneeling down in front of the altar to juxtapose the idea of his smallness in the presence of God. We begin by seeing him confront his sins in the church unknowingly of his prior actions. Yet, when his sin in form of a woman as well as her demons is directly confronting him we see him symbolically and physically running away from them. However, instead of succeeding we are brought into a realm of dark sin without God and flashbacks which ultimately led to his demise. Essentially, his sins are following him no matter what. This coming of age story clearly articulates the loss of innocence as the boy both metaphorically and physically killed himself through his actions. The scenes of the naked women dancing around him walking through his sins is a form of temptation as they finally suffocate him which is a metaphor of him being suffocated in his sins.He was confronted with his sins of lust which can be interpreted as the desire for money, power or influence but in this case sexuality. The filmmaker
At the top of the artwork the upper part of the cross extends beyond the altarpiece. The edge of John the Evangelist’s red robe on the left of the altarpiece and the edge of Mary Magdalene’s pale blue skirt on the right are cut off when the panel ends, giving the viewer the feeling that, rather than looking in on the scene, the viewer is actually taking part in the scene. This, added to the empathy invoked through the delicate, heart-wrenching rendering of the figures in the artwork, let the observer directly interact with the painting and places him/her within the narrative.
The piece was chosen primarily because of the magnificent presence that is felt as one enters the room, or cathedral, where the piece may be located. The viewer's eye is drawn immediately to the central figure of Saint Peter who was seated as pope at the time. Giving the main focus of the work to the pope is representative of the importance that was placed on the papal seat. This importance was exemplified, during the time of this altarpiece's creation, by the crisis of the Great Schism. Furthermore, a scene of Christ's crucifixion can be seen directly above the panel of Saint Peter further emphasizing the importance of Christ in the painting, and in the medieval time period as well. Overall, the piece depicts four images from the life of Saint Peter, which surround the center panel on the left and the right sides. In addition, scenes from the lives of the Virgin Mary and St. Blaise, a fourth century martyr, are also present. All the characters in the panels more or less have halos and therefore are holy figures. The twelve apostles line the bottom of the panels, perhaps suggesting that they were the foundation of the Catholic religion. Basically, the painting is designed for a church altar, it has religious figures in it, and it is filled with Bibles and images of Christ's crucifixion. All of this relays a strong message to the viewer that this is what is important in life; one should pay close attention to religion and have respect for it.
Hughes writing in this story is very visual and enriched with figurative language. “And the whole building rocked with prayer and song”(Hughes 229). Hughes personifies the building and depicts an overwhelming amount of prayer and song. Another example of figurative language is found when he pretends he has seen Jesus. “Suddenly the whole room broke into a sea of shouting as they saw me rise” (Hughes 232). This metaphor sheds light on the intensity of the church at that moment. Comparing the room to a sea, an immense untameable body, exaggerates the situation he was in and portrays him as almost drowning in his
This painting with the background and middle ground being mono-chromatic and the foreground and focal point being Christ in the two primary colors of red and blue. Mei is basically informing the viewer where he wanted them to look first. In this painting Christ is looking more aggressive, confronting an elderly women. With Christ right hand seems to be threatening as if it is to discipline her with the whip and the left hand restraining her rather than punishing the women. Dividing the composition diagonally with the strong inference of red. Bringing the doves to the bottom right corner. Looking closely you can see there is many hands within the left corner. Amongst them there is hands counting money and protecting their wares in the middle ground. Moving back to the focal point of Christ you can see that the face-to-face confrontation between Christ and the elderly women. Carefully you can see the realism within the facial features. Detail within the faces such as line and wrinkles suggest the age and creates’ tension between the two people evoking
The persona of the short story includes a young boy that lies to his church about feeling god through his soul. Hughes feels that betrayal of his family and the church itself and is a very scared boy of the actions that might be waiting for him.
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He has the desire to attain materialistic goals, but leaving home was his alternative deviant route of achieving such. After he felt he had gotten as much as he could from the experience of living on his own, he moved back home to live with his family. He was in no hurry to devote himself to the church even as his parents and community played the part of his external social control by constantly asking when he would be joining the church. From parties consisting of hundreds of kids participating in physical activity, smoking, dressing English and driving cars to underage drinking and the use of illegal drugs, the Devil's Playground was full of deviant behavior and crime. It was interesting to witness the different repercussions each character had because of their own deviance, and to see what I learned in class portrayed in real situations.
The reader then loses that sympathy as he fails at his fight to come clean. He begins as a nice, polite boy wh... ... middle of paper ... ... different abusive situations. Each story has a general message to teenagers that it seems to get across well; life is rough.
...tism. The dove which has been tactfully placed above the Christ’s head, symbolizes the Holy Spirit. The other characters are angels who believed to be witnessing the baptism. The nakedness of the Christ on the other hand symbolizes humility. The general landscape in this picture displays an extraordinary naturalism. The Francesca’s work also marked the era of excessive antiquarian style of sculpturing and tactful use of oil in painting (Prescott, 2005).
Our story begins like many other stories with a setting, main character, and a catchy introduction. Like many other stories it attracts the reader’s attention with something vague, making the person reading the story want to continue on further into the piece. This reading is like many other’s which portray real life situations, and show a different culture coming from a first person point of view. In the story, the main character, Langston, is a young boy who seems to be going through a common religious ritual that is normally bestowed upon young people when they reach a certain age in what seems to be a different sort of society. At this age, young people are asked, or maybe better yet, told to believe in God, and only then will these children be able to achieve pure "salvation." This is highly evident within the first paragraph where the author writes, "Then just before the revival ended, they held a special meeting for children, "to bring the young lambs to the fold"" (Hughes 1). It is during these ceremonies that Langston feels that he has almost committed a crime for which his sins will never be forgiven.
... pure that there still existed good. As soon as he realized that he lost his faith to sin, it is almost as if he lost himself to sin as well. In turn, he loses his connection with God, and gains a new belief in the Devil. This symbolism of the devil in this tale is related to the dark side of any man. There are moments in life where we are faced with obstacles that can easily break us down. However, it is up to us to find the strength to power through.
The theme can be generally recognized in this piece through color, space, and especially through use of light. The colors used in this piece are mostly calm toned, whereas the robes and shawls worn are pale blues, corals, and beiges. There are however, some harsh colored objects such as Mary’s navy blue shaul and deep coral gown, as well as Christ’s coral necklace that stand out from the rest of the colors. Mary’s veil and the angel on the lefts’ hair are translucent in certain streams of light coming from the windows throughout the room. The artists suggests that the light is dedicated not to represent the divine but to rather represent a more natural juxtaposition on the piece. The space that the characters stand in is fully used by the subjects but also has a very interesting doorway with heightened perspecti...
The immediate background consists of natural mounds of dirt and a brick wall that enclose the Virgin, Child, and St. John, amplifying the protective effect that Mary’s figure has. The dirt mounds roll inward with a brick wall bordering them on the right, drawing the viewer’s attention towards the three figures. The background is painted in broad terms, with a simple, uniform depiction of tree leaves and smooth rock faces on the horizon. This contrasts with the fine-lined detail and texture of Mary’s hair, facial features, and veil, which further contribute to her elegance and highlight her
The ability to create a picture of The Annunciation in one’s mind is a key factor in understanding the analysis of the work. Francisco de Zurbaran approaches the painting with a naturalistic style. The painting features a room in which a woman – like angel is seen at the left kneeling on the ground before the Virgin Mary. The figure of Mary is placed between a chair and a small wooden table draped with a green cloth. Mary disregards an open Bible on the table, as she appears solemn while staring at the floor. Floating above the two main figures in the upper left side of the painting are cherubs resting on a bed of clouds. They happily gaze down at Mary with eyes from Heaven.
The story opens with the boy, whom to this point had ignored his mothers coughs, drops everything to rush to her aid as she “collapsed into a little wicker armchair, holding her side”. (O’Connor 206) As he watched his mother struggle trying to light the fire he told her, “Go back to bed and Ill light the fire”. (206) Now to this point, as the reader, I am unsure of the age of the boy, but I get the impression that he is a young boy. My idea of this boy is that he tries to take on too much throughout the day and eventually it was the demise of the opposite sex that eventually caused the meltdown of the “awesome” little boy. This is certainly something that will happen again to this young lad but he has definitely learned his lesson this time.