The Greatest Gift of a Wonderful Life
Have you ever gotten something really amazing for your birthday? Like that one toy that everyone else had on the playground that you wanted so badly? Or that clothing item or accessory you saw in your favorite magazine? Whatever it was, it probably wasn’t as great as the gift you got on your first birthday: the gift of your life. Written in 1943, Philip Van Doren Stern wrote the short story “The Greatest Gift” to send to his friends and family instead of Christmas cards. It was later lengthened and turned into the movie It’s a Wonderful Life in 1946. Both are about a man named George who is unhappy with his life, makes a wish that he was never born, and he’s then showed how important his life was. Even though they’re essentially the same story, the short-story “The Greatest Gift” and the movie It’s a Wonderful Life have many similarities and differences in various story elements. These works share similarities in the conflicts, climaxes, and resolutions. Both conflicts are that the main character, George, is unhappy with his life. This can be seen in the beginning of the story when George says, “Give me one good reason
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Both have parallel implied themes like One man truly can make a difference in the world, be careful what you wish for, you don’t realize what you have to appreciate until it’s gone, and other variations. In both cases, George gets his life back and realizes all of this, but most of the opposition is located in the stated theme. For example, in the movie, Clarence writes in the book he gave George, “No man is a failure who has friends.” This is different from the short-story’s stated theme of “You had the greatest gift of all conferred upon you - the gift of life, of being apart of this world and taking part in it. Yet you denied that gift.” Even though the implied themes are inherently the same, the stated themes are very
The underlying themes of the stories are l valid contrasts between the works. In some portions the themes are of the same facets, such as how in both books two men have a direct conflict between
George was motivated by the urge to do the right thing, and by helping everyone. When he was in depression he realized that his family, friends and town people were in dire in need of his help he wanted to live again.
Grapes of Wrath and It's a Wonderful Life Following the relatively prosperous era nicknamed the "Roaring Twenties" came the Great Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed and good times were hard to find. In the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" we see the transformation from stability to utter chaos. With World War I freshly over, there was joy and celebration to welcome American 'boys' back home.
But that is not just the only theme that is presented; there is love, heroes and inspiration in which all the characters encounter. Urrea has had other novel in where he
Life is a very valuable asset, but when lived on someone else’s terms its nothing but a compromise. The seemingly perfect image of Utopia which combines happiness and honesty with purity, very often leads in forming a dystopian environment. The shrewd discrepancy of Utopia is presented in both the novel ‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry and the film ‘The Truman Show’ directed by Peter Weir. Both stories depict a perfect community, perfect people, perfect life, perfect world, and a perfect lie. These perfect worlds may appear to shield its inhabitants from evil and on the other hand appear to give individuals no rights of their own. By comparing and contrasting the novel ‘The Giver’ and the film ‘The Truman Show’, it can be derived that both the main characters become anti-utopian to expose the seedy underbelly of their Utopian environment which constructs a delusional image of reality, seizes the pleasures in their lives and portrays a loss of freedom.
themes, however, this one stuck out the most to me. Throughout the entire time of the boys
A stated theme is a theme “that the other expresses directly in his work (protic.net); an implied theme is a theme “that is not directly stated in the work” (protic.net). As mentioned before, both of these stories have an implied theme, which now is revealed to mean that the author of the story insinuated it. Themes exist in all stories (verbal or written) and can be long, short, true or false.
Some people’s lives are going great until one bad thing happens they want to end it. George Bailey’s life was going great until $8,000 was lost. George did not feel the need to live anymore, but if he did not live he would not have any children, his brother Harry would not be alive, Harry would not be able to join the army and save people. “It’s a Wonderful Life” displays every single person’s life has a purpose.
... almost nothing alike from a superficial aspect. The stories have different historical contexts and they simply don’t have much in common to the average audience. It is easy to contrast the stories, but deep within certain elements, the stories can be linked in several ways.
The themes that are seen throughout the work are very effective in
The Sesame Street video and the Gift of the Magi have many similarities and differences. For Example they both fallow a similar plot line were two people who care about each other are excited to get each other a gift for Christmas. In The Gift of the Magi the two main characters care for each other which is the same for Bert and Ernie. Another thing that both stories have in common is that each character had to give up something that they treasured. These stories are also very different one example would be that Bert and Ernie were more reluctant to give up their gifts were as Della and Jim were very eager and quick to give away there valuables.
The theme is shaped more when IT is introduced to
...rtrayed differently in the movie. Lennie is shown as being very mentally challenged, whereas in the book he is just a little slow and has a mind of a young child. Although some changes are made in the movie to make it flow better, it is still based on the same story as the book. The movie has the same plot line and characters, and some of the scenes are told in the exact same way as they are in the novel. As well, the movie and the book give out the same themes. This story is about how all the people in the Great Depression were trying to escape their unhappy, lonely lives, but weren’t capable of doing so. The movie stays very true to the book even though some things are removed or added. Everything that is added or changed still works very well and captures the film perfectly.
there is no doubt that there are themes that allow one to create a comparison between the two books.