Del is the main protagonist in the movie, 'I, Robot'. Del Spooner is an old-fashioned stereotype detective and lives in Chicago, 2035. Considering the theme of the movie, futuristic, the music that Del was listening to and the costume he wears at the beginning of the movie gave his character a notable vintage stereotype. Del's approach to Robots is hateful and detestable. Before walking outside, Del encounters a postal 'Fedex' robot who is carrying Spooner's packages. The first thing that Del Spooner says to the postal robot is, "Get the hell out of my face." This quote suggests that from his interactions, his tone and attitude towards robots is unpleasant and rude. When he visits Del's grandmother, Gigi, she was talking about entering for the robot …show more content…
Del becomes more wary of the robots thinking that the robots broke the three laws given to robots, especially when he witnessed robots breaking the three laws. As Del explains his recurring dream to Susan, it was the event of a car accident. A truck smashed into two cars, Del's car and a twelve-year-old girl, named Sarah, with her father and pushed them into the river. When the truck crashed the cars together, Sarah's father was fatally killed before the cars were shoved into the river. As the cars begin to sink and water entering inside the cars, losing control and hope, Sarah and Del attempted to escape the car. A robot climbed on Del's car and smashed through the window, saving Del. Del gave orders to the robot to save Sarah. The robot refused to save Sarah and grabbed Del out of danger. The robot violated the three laws. Due to the action of the robot, Spooner lost his confidence to robots. This positions the viewer to accept Del's point of view on androids. We learn that Del Spooner is a human who worked as a detective, a retro enthusiast and his disagreeable perspective towards modern technology, mainly
Jim is a dynamic character because he is a runaway slave. Also at first he didn’t really want to risk anythings, no adventures for Jim. I feel that Huck has been influencing Jim with taking risk and starting new adventures.
“The thing I hate about space is that you can feel how big and empty it is… ”
The Other Wes Moore is a novel that shows the different paths of two different men, one successful and the other not so fortunate. We discovered their different identities and how their choices and role models effect their lives. Wes 1 was led by his brave, hard working mother and the great military men. He didn't make incredibly great decisions but the people in his life helped him turn into the successful man he is today.However, Wes 2 had a brother who dealt drugs. The novel guides you through the 8 crazy years that led to Wes Moore 1's success and Wes Moore 2's life sentence for prison.
This story has many characters with various personalities that keep the story interesting. It gives the book a couple of different things to think about at once. The main character is Duff Pringle, a twenty-ish-year-old computer genius who lives in Virginia and is set on his way to get a computer programming job opening in Los Angeles. He knows a lot about computers and claims to always think like one. But his knowledge of cars is minimal. This is really what gets Duff stuck in “Car Trouble”.
In The Other Wes Moore, the author and a neighbor have the same name, Wes Moore, and they both begin their lives in similar ways. However, as their lives progress, they begin to part. For example, both “lost” their fathers when they were young. Because of the way their mothers respond to this loss, the boys’ lives begin to separate. Both mothers have different responses to challenges in general, which eventually leads them to respond to their child’s actions in contrasting ways. Throughout this novel, readers learn that depending on how a mother decides to react to the negative actions of their child’s actions, the child can either lead a successful life or lead a life of failure.
The new phases of life and social context is predicated through the sum of feats and experiences as crises and adversity are usually the greatest motivator which propel individuals to become better than they were before. J.C. Burke’s ‘The Story of Tom Brennan’ (TSTB) is an example of the transitional process through entering a new, unknown area which acts as a catalyst for beneficial change. Obstructed by turmoil both mentally and physically, the protagonist Tom Brennan relieves his severe life in the town of Coghill achieving new standards in conjunction to Lisa Forrest’s article ‘Testing new waters after leaving the swimming pool’ (TNWALTS) is another type towards transitional change that explores the personal crisis and career changes over
“The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his” (Moore, 2011). This quote perfectly describes the book The Other Wes Moore. This book was a story about two people who have the same name and grew up in similar environments, but had very different lives. The author of the book, Mr. Moore, became successful and was given the opportunity to receive “one of the most prestigious academic awards for students in the world” (Moore, 2011). On the other side of the spectrum, the other Wes Moore “will spend every day until his death behind bars for an armed robbery that left a police officer and a father of five dead” (Moore, 2011). Mr. Moore decided to contact the
The play “A Raisin in the Sun” by Lorraine Hansberry has many interesting characters. In my opinion, the most fascinating character is Ruth because of her many emotions and captivating personality. She goes through extreme emotions in the play such as happiness, sadness, anger, stress, and confusion. Ruth is very independent, firm, kind, witty, and loving.
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.” Joey Costello, the main character's best friend, he is an example of bad sportsmanship. This is because Joey thinks that if he doesn’t make an amazing first impression on the Tangerine Middle School's soccer team, then he would just quit the team altogether. He decides that he shouldn’t play at all if he is teased. He could just keep played and show them how well he played soccer. He didn’t even try to become friend with Victor and his buddies, he, instead, just played once and quit soccer all together, at every school!!! He still can be a good friend, he is to Paul. In the novel, Tangerine, characters (like Joey) demonstrate both good and bad sportsmanship on and
It was a warm afternoon with a slight breeze in Meridian when Dill agitatedly ran into his room stammering “he promised… he promised he would build a boat with me on the weekend” where the only words escaping his mouth with hot tears burning down his skin. Dill paused and stood stationary in the middle of the room remembering when every time Scout his
The character I chose to analyze is Bonnie Grape from What's Eating Gilbert Grape, an American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström. Bonnie Grape is a Caucasian woman who is, approximately, in her mid 50’s and lives in a small town of Endora, Iowa with her four children, and has lost her husband seven years ago. Bonnie who is suppose to be the immediate care taker of all of her kids is shown to have abandoned all of her parental duties after her husbands passing and she hasn’t left the house for seven years. She has become completely housebound she sleeps, eats, and stays on the couch all day. Her day starts out with eating breakfast with the family, and then she watches TV all day. Even though she loves her children a lot, but she does not take any part in raising them. She also has become an object of ridicule or amusement many times children sneak on to the yard to catch a glimpse of her through the window. However, Bonnie sees no problem with her weight or her lifestyle, until one day when she has to make a trip to the town for her son. When Bonnie is leaving the town a crowd comes together around the police station to get a glimpse of Bonnie, and many also begin taking pictures of her. At this point, Bonnie realizes that she has become something that she never intended to be. In one particular scene Bonnie tells her oldest son Gilbert “I know what a burden I am. I know that you are ashamed of me. I never meant to be like this. I never wanted to be a joke” (Hallström, 1993). From Bonnie’s background information we can conclude that she is clearly facing some psychological problems, and in order to gain more information we would have to conduct more assessments.
In the story My Favorite Chaperone, by Jean Davies Okimoto, I believe the theme is how working together makes life's struggles easier. The characters show this theme throughout the story. As children immigrants, the main characters struggle with combining a new culture with their family culture to find a new identity without bringing shame to their family. In the story, Maya, the main character, faces issues in how to fit in with a new world in America. In this new world there are different rules and expectations while she still has to respect and follow her family's traditions and rules. This conflict is shown when Maya wants to go to a school dance, but knows her parents would never let her go especially after she gets in trouble for
The contemporary values and attitudes established by a society is a malleable topic that evolves throughout history. Created by Matthew Weiner, the critically acclaimed period drama, Mad Men, follows the personal and professional life of New York advertising executive Don Draper, as he experiences the changing social mores of the United States during the 1960’s. Mad Men presents bygone values and attitudes that were once thought as commonplace during the 1960’s. The African and Jewish American characters are not held to the same standards as the majority of white characters. The value of the traditional, nuclear family and the harrowing attitude towards the life of a housewife is expressed in the show. The promiscuous and deceitful attitude
People are always looking for companionship; in the modern society, sociable robots help people eliminate loneliness, but also result in new problems. People at times feel lonely, so sociable robots were invented to take care of them. People gradually get used to robots because they get companionship easily instead of spending much time building friendship with others for companionship. Although accompanied by robots, people are still alone. Turkle illustrates it as “illusion of companionship”. People always talk to social robots when they feel lonely, because they can get answers very quickly that makes them feel comfort. However, robots do not have emotions that used for understanding others, but programmed to answer several words once as response. For example, Miriam is abandoned by her son. Since living in the nursing home, the therapeutic robot, Paro, is the only partner that stays with Miriam and comforts her when she was alone. In fact, Miriam still alone because Paro cannot understand her. Situation become worse when increasing amounts of people regard the relationship with robots as intimacy. They
Noah is the one of the main characters of The Notebook. He is the hero of this novel. Noah represents true love and true loyalty. In a way, The Notebook is similar to every modern day romance movie, and Noah represents the “dream man” that all the girls always imagine of having. The characters in movies are used to symbolize ideas, and in this novel, Noah represents true, faithful, committed love. Noah remains loyal to Allie even in the situation where he is unsure whether they will ever meet again or not.