Gilmore Girls: On its Way to Becoming a Cult-Classic Oy with the Poodles! is an exclamation that captures the true essence of the hit TV show Gilmore Girls. With its endless supply of witty dialogue and characters, you will be forever hooked on the show. The series ran between 2000 and 2007 for seven seasons and follows the mother-daughter relationship between Lorelai—the mother and originator of the first quote—and her daughter Rory. Lorelai fell pregnant with Rory at 16 years old, and the show begins when Rory reaches that age. Additionally, the show navigates their complicated relationship with Lorelai’s wealthy parents, and the pair’s eccentric small town life. The peculiar thing about Gilmore Girls is that the masses still thoroughly enjoy …show more content…
When Rory goes off to college, we are met with the uncertainty of how their relationship will shift, but are comforted with the fact that Rory calls Lorelai back to school to stay the night in her dorm room because she didn’t want to be apart. In fact, in some instances Rory steps into the motherly role for Lorelai because of her estranged relationship with Emily Gilmore—Lorelai’s mother. In the early seasons Lorelai is engaged to a man named Max Medina, but when she calls the wedding off abruptly and wants to go on a road trip instead, Rory tries to reason with Lorelai and get the truth out of her. There is always something new going on between Lorelai and Rory, and the way that they don’t act like there is a hierarchical system is an entertaining dynamic. The dialogue throughout Gilmore Girls, especially between Lorelai and Rory, is extremely captivating to the audience. Each interaction between them is very back and forth, and watching the show can feel like watching a tennis match. The show even had to bring in a dialogue coach to get the actors to talk faster. These details make it so you are always entertained by what is going on in the scene, and can always pick up on new things every time you …show more content…
You become extremely attached to the characters and how their storylines play out throughout the series. At the end of season three, Rory graduates from her prestigious high school called Chilton as the valedictorian. During her speech, she paid tribute to her mom for how the person she wanted to be the most growing up was Lorelai. The sweet moment makes me cry every time I watch it, without fail, as Rory’s family, friends and grandparents are tearing up in the audience as well. Speaking of cry-worthy moments, when Lorelai and Luke, her close friend and owner of the diner she frequents, finally start their romantic arc, it is a wonderfully cute moment. Luke invites Lorelai to slow dance at his sister’s wedding, and their smiling faces as the song “Reflecting Light” plays in the background makes you genuinely happy. It’s hard not to immerse yourself in the people of Stars Hollow, and you find yourself overcome with emotion at their big moments too. The Gilmore Girls series showcases a comforting nature that others fail to replicate today. Even as we adore the show 24 years after its release, we are able to find a new appreciation for all of its
In the novel The Immoral Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the author tells the miraculous story of one woman’s amazing contribution to science. Henrietta Lacks unknowingly provides scientists with a biopsy capable of reproducing cells at a tremendusly fast pace. The story of Henrietta Lacks demonstrates how an individual’s rights can be effortlessly breached when it involves medical science and research. Although her cells have contributed to science in many miraculous ways, there is little known about the woman whose body they derived from. Skloot is a very gifted author whose essential writing technique divides the story into three parts so that she, Henrietta
Act 3 of the Crucible can only be described as crazy. Each character was fighting their own battle; Every one of them lost except for Reverend Parris. Revered Parris was struggling to keep his reputation and career alive. If the trials were to end fraudulently, Parris would be left with a lying daughter and niece. He is only trying to cover himself and make sure his social position is not lowered because of witchcraft in his house. I am not a fan of Reverend Parris.
There were many quotes throughout the book, In the Country We L1ove, that had an impact on me because I either learned something new about Diane Guerrero that I did not already know, I could relate to a few parts of her book, and my perspective of supporting undocumented immigrants grew stronger. The first quote that I decided to use is when Guerrero describes Colombia, the country where her parents are from. “The entire scene was chaotic. Colorful. Exotic. Wild. And, because of the straight-up poverty, it was also a bit unsettling… I was stuck with a realization: This could have been my life (Guerrero 111).” In making this comment, Guerrero is informing the reader that her parents grew up
Throughout the book, Freak the Mighty, author Rodman Philbrick creates a valuable lesson for three main characters; Freak, Max, and Loretta Lee, that one should not judge another person based on appearance; looks can be deceiving. For example, Loretta Lee at the beginning of her introduction in the book she was judged as the old beer drinking lady and possibly scary. But in reality she came through and saved Max from Killer Kane, Max’s Father, from Freak the Mighty. Another example is, people will judge Freak on his appearance because his body structure is smaller than most humans and looks very weird. In addition, Max is judge by the people around him because he is very large in size and looks like a giant but is kind on the inside. One's
Society can change people for the better or worse. In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the main character montag's wife mildred has been changed by society. Society has changed mildred to act self-centered, robotic, and unfeeling.
Elizabeth Lavenza (later Elizabeth Frankenstein) is one of the main characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She is a beautiful young girl; fragile and perfect in the eyes of all. Her father was a nobleman from Milan, while her mother was of German descent. Before she was adopted by the wealthy Frankenstein family, she lived with a poor family. After Alphonose and Caroline Frankenstein adopt Elizabeth, they lovingly raise her alongside their biological son, Victor Frankenstein, in hopes that the two will eventually get married. When Victor goes off to Ingolstadt college, Elizabeth writes letters to him that later become a crucial part of the story. It weaves together every piece of the story, holding together each individual
There is no doubt that Miss. Strangeworth is not an easy person to deal with, let alone live with, and although her character is fictional, there are many people with the same personality. We can tell quite easily that she is a very meticulous woman, with a lot of perfectionist tendencies, a few of which are to nitpick people’s lives and make sure that even the most minute detail is up to her standards. I know of someone with these attributes and as difficult as they are to deal with, with their list of requirements to be met and their eagle-eye for detail in even the smallest things, they mean the best, and are always trying to help, despite the possible repercussions.
In Great Expectations, Pip is set up for heartbreak and failure by a woman he trusts, identical to Hamlet and Gertrude, but Pip is rescued by joe who pushes Pip to win the love of his life. Similar to Gertrude in Hamlet Miss Havisham becomes a bystander in Pip’s life as she initiates the play that leads to heartbreak several times and she watches Pip’s life crumble due to her teachings. The next quote shows Miss Havisham explaining to Pip the way she manipulated his love Estella to break his heart every time. “‘but as she grew, and promised to be very beautiful, I gradually did worse, and with my praises, and with my jewels, and with my teachings… I stole her heart away and put ice in its place’” (Dickens, 457). This quote makes it clear the Miss Havisham set Hamlet up for failure by making him fall for a woman he could never have.
The awakening is plenty of characters that describe in a very loyal way the society of the nineteenth century in America. Among the most important ones there are Edna Pontellier, Léonce Pontellier, Madame Lebrun, Robert Lebrun, Victor Lebrun, Alcée Arobin, Adéle Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz.
Madame Defarge tries to kill and hurt everyone who opposes her in Tale of Two Cities. Her only hobby is knitting, and she knits as a way to show anger and bring fear to her enemies. She knits a list of people who die in the revolution. The essay shows how Madame Defarge has motives for her killings, her allies, and if the behavior is justified.
People always say never judged a person by their cover, yet some of us still do it without even trying sometimes. I have done this on multiple occasions without really trying to judge a person. I once had an experience where I was trying out for a new club team and I saw this girl who looked really mean and scary because of the expression on her face. I always thought if I ever talk to her she would be mean, but one practice we started to talk and she wasn’t at all the person I thought she ways. It turns out that she is a nice person who just takes soccer very seriously. This just shows that we can have a certain opinion on someone by their looks, but they may be completely opposite from the way they appear.There’s this book call “Freak the Mighty” which has a good way of showing the theme of not judging a person
Miss Strangeworth’s character can be analyzed by considering what she does, narrator says about her, and how the characters interact with her. In the story “Possibility of Evil” the example is how people act in front of someone and how they act when they are not around others. People think Miss Strangeworth is a nice lady, but people don’t know the true side of her.
While the women in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird come in a variety of personalities and backgrounds, all of their lives are led by one constricting factor; their gender. Scout's upbringing as a young woman greatly contrasts that of her brother Jem. Jem is educated as a young boy growing into a man while Scout’s journey is taken as a woman. The manacle of womanhood is but a concept if one does not consider the harsh faults and inhibiting limits of men or rather the struggle for “masculinity” that men are similarly constrained. Though she is repeatedly told to have ladylike manners and to dress in more feminine way, Scout mostly denies this norm but is still able to become a young
The creator of Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino, thought mother-daughter relationships would make a compelling television series. She had always been fascinated by the “everyone knows each other’s business” characteristic of small towns. When she decided to combine the two, Gilmore Girls was born. On the surface, it is a simple show about a self-absorbed single mom trying to raise a daughter while coping with her own overbearing mother. By more closely analyzing each character’s witty banter, one can see the philosophical aspects of the show. One of Sherman’s main goals was to create unique characters. As a result, she gave them all extreme personalities. Lorelai, the single mother, usually only thinks of herself. Her daughter, Rory, exhibits the voice of reason. She employs logic in her every day life and uses it to counteract Lorelai’s impulsiveness. Emily, Lorelai’s people-pleasing mother, engrosses herself with society’s views and rarely considers her own or anyone else’s happiness. When examining these characters, one can see that they closely relate to conflicts that arise in our own mind on a day-to-day basis. The main characters in Gilmore Girls parallel Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis of the mind.
Amy Sherman-Palladino, the creator of Gilmore Girls, essentially wrote the show about nothing. After not having a job for years, Sherman had writer’s block. On television, everything she saw seemed the same, identical characters and paralleling plots, she desired to create something different. Once, she had visited the small town of Washington, Connecticut and loved the “everyone knows everything” idea. So she thought, “Why not make a show about it?” After tweaks by the production company, Gilmore Girls was born. Although it is a show about a single mom, by nitpicking through character’s witty banter, one can see the philosophical aspects of the show. One of Sherman’s main goals was to create no analogous characters. In this attempt, she made them all have extreme personalities. Lorelai, the single mother, usually only thinks of herself. Her daughter, Rory, is what keeps her in check. Rory is logical and uses reason to contradict Lorelai’s carelessness. Emily, Lorelai’s people-pleasing mother, is engrossed with society’s views and hardly thinks of her or anyone else’s happiness. When examining these characters, one can see that they closely relate to conflicts that arise in our own mind on a day-to-day basis. The main characters in Gilmore Girls parallel Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis of the mind.