The theme of this film is high concept. There are three main messages to the audience. They are about appearance, compassion, and family love.
Firstly, “Home Alone 2” teaches us to not “judge a book by its cover”. When Kevin first meets the bird lady, he has the feeling that she is a scary woman because of her “no smiling” face and how she dresses. At their second meet, when Kevin’s leg is stuck in a bunch of rocks, the lady comes closer to him. It makes him so scared that he has to close his eyes when he sees her hand is approaching him. Yet it turns out that she just wants to help extricate him from those rocks. After that, Kevin runs away, then stops, and comes back to the woman. He figures out that the lady is actually a good person. It is just because she is once heart-broken, she can hardly open her friendly side and generous heart to anyone. Kevin then has some encouraging words for her, which bridges their relationship distance. The bird lady, later on, helps Kevin escape from the robbers, and is the one to whom Kevin gives the turtledove as a symbol of their friendship.
Secondly, human kindness is generously spread in
In the police office, Kevin’s parents show how they are upset and worried when they lost their son. While in New York, Mrs. McCallister even desperately looks for Kevin by showing the pedestrians his photo and continually asks whether they have seen him somewhere. Contrasting to his parents’ prediction, Kevin does not feel scared when he is left alone in the city that never sleeps. At first, he finds that this is an opportunity to do anything he likes, and wastes all money he wants. Afterwards, however, he feels lonely. Under the Christmas tree, he does not wish for any present, but his family, including Buzz – the elder brother who has made fun of him. Like any kid, he now realizes that in this special moment of the year, family members are the one he wants to be with
When Kevin sees his father dying in the woods and is overcome with grief, he begins to forget a...
Traditionally Kevin, his Father, Gary Hazen, and his brother, Gary David, all go out on the first hunt together at two in the morning after a breakfast of homemade pancakes, but this year is different. Kevin wants to break free from the life of his family and doesn't want to go on the hunt with his father and brother. He can't comprehend why his father is so set in his ways and Kevin doesn’t want to live his father's life. Gary is a forester and finds it important to work hard to most provide for his family and to conserve nature. Kevin, like most kids, doesn’t understand his fathers way of thinking, and wants to live his own life. A life away from Lost Lake. Kevin attempts to break free of his fathers lifestyle by attending a nearby college, in hopes to eventually become teacher. Gary isn't happy with his son's decision to go to school and Kevin can't understand his fathers views, which causes the two to butt heads throughout the novel. But a tragic accident suddenly leaves Kevin fighting for his and his fathers lives. Having to use the knowledge and skills that his father had taught Kevin suddenly suddenly realizes his dad was right after all.
She states that Rufus’s life seems much more real than her life back home. At one point she says that Kevin is the only one that is connecting her to her time. Butler suggests that Kevin is a “safe house” from time travel and social slavery. Kevin assumes this role when he goes back in time with Dana. He then assumes the role of Dana’s slaveholder, which proves to be conflicting and confronting for Dana. She says that he is a “safe house” for her; he protects her from the other slaveholders in the plantation as well as other slaves in the plantation. Also, his room works as a sort of sanctuary from the nightmare that they are both living. Likewise, Kevin works as a reassurance of the time Dana comes from. Dana says “He had become my anchor, suddenly, my tie to my own world. He couldn’t have known how much I needed him firmly on my side” (p.47). He helps her remember where home really is. He is the anchor to their reality. He not only helps Dana escape, but he acts as a safe house for slaves when Dana is gone. He tells Dana that he spent the time while she was gone helping slaves escape to freedom. He becomes a rebel to the
This personality is the one who assists with the kidnapping of the girls. However, Dennis suffers from a disorder that makes it easier to identify him. He has OCD, (obsessive-compulsive disorder), an anxiety disorder that produces repeated and unwanted feelings, images, sensations, and thoughts. Kevins personality was created to protect Kevin from his abusive mother. His cleanliness and OCD was a way to cope from his abusive mother who would constantly punish him for any mis placement and uncleanliness around their home. “The one way to avoid her attention was to keep everything spotless” (Split). These behaviors are shown when he walks into the girls bunkers, and tells the girls that the uncleanliness of the bathroom is unacceptable. Although he may appear to be the dominant of the personalities he was completely hidden until Hedwig overcame
Margaret Laurence 's novel A Bird in the House is a collection of independent and intertwined short stories written from Vanessa MacLeod 's point of view. As an adult looking back on her childhood, the protagonist examines how she, and essentially everyone in her life, experiences a sense of entrapment and a need to escape. Because the author begins and concludes the novel with the Brick House, the major theme of escape is shown to have developed in Vanessa as she matures through childhood and adolescence and becomes an adult.
Patrick Kenzie is the main character of the film and along with his partner Angie is tasked to find Amanda. Throughout the film Patrick uses unorthodox techniques to try to help in his mission to find Amanda. Unfortunately in his quest to find Amanda, Patrick commits many crimes. In the film, Patrick’s attitude was rebellious. To achieve his goals Patrick does hesitate to employ drastic measures to find information and to get out of serious situations. For example when Patrick was in the bar trying to find information on Helene, he was got involved in a situation with the bar owner and a couple of the bar customers. It seemed as if a scuffle was going to happen until Patrick threatened the individuals with a gun. Patrick didn’t hesitate to kill a person as well. During the film he shot and killed Corwin Earle, the suspected pedophile. He found the murdered body of a child Corwin Earle molested, w...
On the surface the message is don’t be afraid to be different . The story is told from the perspective of Joy Harjo , which allows the reader to know that the memoir was written with real life experiances .
“There once was a time in this business when I had the eyes of the whole world! But that wasn't good enough for them, oh no! They had to have the ears of the whole world too. So they opened their big mouths and out came talk. Talk! TALK!” (Sunset Boulevard). The film Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder focuses on a struggling screen writer who is hired to rewrite a silent film star’s script leading to a dysfunctional and fatal relationship. Sunset Boulevard is heavily influenced by the history of cinema starting from the 1930s to 1950 when the film was released.
Bird usually portrays an image of bad luck that follows afterwards and in this novel, that is. the beginning of all the bad events that occur in the rest of the novel. It all started when Margaret Laurence introduced the life of Vanessa MacLeod. protagonist of the story, also known as the granddaughter of a calm and intelligent woman. I am a woman.
The first theme uncovered in the movie is isolation, this theme is present throughout the entire movie. The viewer is introduced to the main character and narrator of the movie, whose name we are never told. By not providing his name this gives us the idea that he represents the average working class male. He never speaks of any family members,
There are many themes that occur and can be interpreted differently throughout the novel. The three main themes that stand out most are healing, communication, and relationships.
The birdcage represents how Mrs. Wright was trapped in her marriage, and could not escape it. The birdcage door is broken which represents her broken marriage to Mr. Wright. It also represents Mrs. Wright escaping her marriage from Mr. Wright. When the door is open it allows Mrs. Wright to became a free woman. At one point in time the cage door use to have a lock that locked the bird inside the cage. This represents how Mr. Wright kept Mrs. Wright locked up from society. Mr. Wright knew that by keeping Mrs. Wright locked up, she would never be able to tell anyone how he really acted. Mr. Wright was very cruel to his wife.
In 1971 on June 17, President Richard Nixon delivered a special message to the Congress on drug abuse prevention and control. During the presentation, Nixon made it clear that the United States was at war with this idea of drug abuse. What baffled Americans then, and still baffles Americans today, is that we are at war with our own nation with drugs; it is not some foreign affair like the media tends to focus on with Mexico. Nixon stated that at the time of his speech, what was implemented to control drug abuse was not working…“The problem has assumed the dimensions of a national emergency. I intend to take every step necessary to deal with this emergency, including asking the Congress for an amendment to my 1972 budget to provide an additional $155 million to carry out these steps. This will provide a total of $371 million for programs to control drug abuse in America.”(Wolleey and Peters) Since the publicizing of the term “War on Drugs” in 1971, it has been used by many political candidates in elections over the years. In the movie, it was stated, “ every war begins with propaganda …[and] the war on drugs has never been actually on drugs… [Additionally] drug laws are shaped less by scientific facts, but more by political [reasoning].” (Jarecki) The movie, The House I Live In, directly relates to certain themes and terminology that were discussed in Martin and Nakayama’s Intercultural Communication in Contexts book, that have been used in class. Through the analyzing and comparing of The House I Live In and Intercultural Communication in Contexts an individual can begin to localize the ideals behind this everlasting war on drugs; some ideals focus on terms from the text like ethnocentrism, diversity training, and culture while ...
...the predominant theme of disorientation and lack of understanding throughout the film. The audience is never clear of if the scene happening is authentic or if there is a false reality.
The main subject that is in the film is racism. The one of the two concepts I learned was within a busy city people’s lives collide with one another. Another concept is that everyone has different amounts of racism in them ranging from prejudice to full out racism. I felt much emotion while watching the movie as struggle added up for all the characters. I mostly