Pat Conroy's Fiction Life sucks. Humans get thrust into this chaotic thing of existence without any idea of how to act or what to do, and it shows in the way they act. Some people do not know how to accept praise; others cannot live without it; people everywhere have difficulty living with each other. If anyone claims that he or she has found the way to live, that same person is lying. If anyone one person says that he or she has found the best way for him or herself, that person is probably lying. With all the twists, jolts, and flips in life, it is impossible for anyone to successfully navigate the river without breaking bones and spirit. Conroy's works The Water is Wide, The Great Santini, and Beach Music are like an owner's manual for a human life, showing how Conroy thinks some of life's painful situations can be dealt with. The path his characters choose may or may not be the best one, and life will probably not unfold the way Conroy has shown, but his books prepare people for the backside of life. The themes of the three are intentionally universal so that people can relate and be comforted or prepared, as the case may be. The point is that Pat Conroy's books are out in the world, circulating through the arteries of this planet so that people might read them and be aided. Life does not always work out the way it should. Sometimes good loses, and the better man is the one begging. The Water is Wide is the story of injustice abounding. While the story may have been more appealing if Pat were able to stay on at Yamacraw Island, and I would certainly have enjoyed it more if the superintendent had been beaten, that story would have been a false picture of reality, worthy only of a children's bedtime collection. I... ... middle of paper ... ...sic. New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 1995. - - -. The Great Santini. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976. - - -. The Water is Wide. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. Secondary Sources Brigette Weeks. "Pat Conroy: Into the Heart of a family." The Washington Post 12 Oct. 1986: 1, 14. Burkholder, Robert E. "The Uses of Myth in Pat Conroy's 'The Great Santini.'" Critique: Studies in Modern Fiction, 21 (1979): 31-7. Burns, Landon C. Pat Conroy: A Critical Companion. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. The Great Santini. Dir. Lewis John Carlino. Perf. Robert Duvall and Blythe Danner. Warner Studios, 1979. Wick, Ted. "Another Likely Prospect for Hollywood." Alberta Report 15 Apr. 1996: 40-42. York, Lamar. "Pat Conroy's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Southerner." The Southern Literary Journal 19 (1987): 34-46.
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Interpersonal relationships are a potent entity that wildly flutter, like a liberated pigeon, through the miserable docks of Elia Kazan’s 1954 film ‘On the Waterfront,’ shaping the moral metamorphosis of protagonist Terry Malloy – from an analysts perspective, the ‘power’ source of the film. Terry’s voyage from an inarticulate and diminished “bum” to a gallant “contender,” is the pedestal that the film gyrates around, however, it is palpable that Terry – a man branded with his primitive mores - is not equipped of emancipating himself from the self-preservative cycle of “D and D” singlehandedly. Therefore, the catalytic, moral facilitation of inspirational outsiders - Edie Doyle and Father Barry – are essential to the rewiring of Terry’s conscience and his propulsion into “testifying what is right against what is wrong.” However, rapports do not simply remain ‘strong’ and stable for the entire duration of the film – they fluctuate. Terry shuffles closer to the side of morality each scene, portrayed by the simultaneous deterioration of Terry’s intertwinement with Johnny Friendly and “the mob” and intensification of his romantic involvement with Edie and confidence in Father Barry. Relationships fuel and glorify Terry’s powerful, audience-enthralling journey to morality.
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1980. Warner Bros. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Music by Wendy Carlos and Rcachel Elkind. Cinematography by John Alcott. Editing by Ray Lovejoy. With Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd.
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First on the path to Jim’s downfall is his everlasting desire to be a hero. From the time Jim was sent to a sea school, he knew the only place for him was the water. Because of his love for the sea, he very easily is able to progress through the ranks until he becomes a very high ranking officer on an important boat. Being raised on the sea, Jim hears many the story of seamen becoming heroes and d...
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