Seahaven V Devoted Island's Top Town Summary

1. "The Best Place On Earth Seahaven Voted Island's Top Town" This is said to make Truman believe that he doesn't need to leave because Seahaven is the best place that he could possibly be.

"Who Needs Europe?" This was made to make it seem like Europe is useless, so there's no point for Truman, or anyone to go there.

"Crackdown On Homeless, Seahaven City Fathers Say "Enough Is Enough!" This was made to make it seem like homeless people don't need to be there, especially after Truman saw his dad.

2. Media might be causing someone to not know his or her true self because you might think that you know who you are, but seeing things on media might make you start to feel differently, causing you to not know who you really are. I believe

that media is a very powerful thing, and people are easily influenced by, because when you start acting a certain way on media, normally you start acting different when you aren't on media, causing you to no longer be the same person that you were before that influence.

3. Seahaven: this is a place where people feel safe, and since it's such a safe place, people don't feel like they have to leave. The name Truman symbolizes in a way, the fact that he is a "True man". Burbank refers to the place where Truman actually is, or where he is being filmed at. The name Christof stands for "Christ", where he is ruling, or watching over Truman. The Santa Maria symbolizes the boat that Truman was on when he was trying to leave Seahaven to find freedom and explore, the Santa Maria was one of the boats that Christopher Columbus used to explore other islands.

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There were many different camera angles used when we saw Truman, but some that stood out the most, or seemed unusual were when the cameras were pointing up on him, so he was looking down on us, and also, when the cameras would be pointed down, so we would be watching him like we were in the moon with Christof. When the cameras we looking up at him, we could see him looking down at the water, and we could tell by his facial expressions, that he was afraid. Also, when we saw him looking up, we could tell that he was starting to get curious what was actually going on, and how it was being controlled, you could tell that he was looking at the sky for answers. We also know that when Christof was filmed, he was always put closer up to the screen, I believe that this was because he was viewed as more important than Truman.

5. "Television, with insatiable hunger for materials, has made celebrities into content" (Roger Ebert 1998, Chicago Sun-Times) this relates to The Truman Show because just like other celebrities, Truman was just a normal everyday person, until people starting wanting more, and suddenly he isn't just a celebrity anymore, he is the product of what everyone wants, and that is what the part about celebrities being

content.

6. "We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented" (Christof). This relates to Plato's allegory of the cave because, they were prisoner's, and just because they can't perceive what's in the real world, doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. This also relates to Truman because he accepted the fact that he was in the "real world" because he didn't know any different, to him, he was in the "real" world, because this is the only world that he's ever known.
7. "I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be" (Christof). I personally believe that Christof is not correct when he says this because I believe that we need to have some kind of actual truth in our lives. However, some benefits of living in Seahaven instead of the real world are, you would be a lot safer, people are nicer, and I feel like people would be a lot happier because things wouldn't be as hard to deal with because you wouldn't have any real life problems.

8. I think that when Truman leaves Seahaven, he is expecting to feel freedom and be able to do what he has always wanted to since he was a little boy; explore. I believe that he is going to feel scared, and unsure of what to do, because everything will be completely different than when everything in Seahaven was controlled around him. I also think that Truman is going to like being in the world outside of Seahaven when he gets used to it, he will be scared until he finally learns and figures everything out.

9. All people have an innate voyeuristic desire to watch other people. What this means is everyone likes to watch other people and see what they are doing, some more than others. This relates to The Truman Show because Christof and everyone else that works with Christof like to watch Truman and they get to see what he does and how he acts everyday. By doing this, they know what to plan, and what to say or do to keep truman in Seahaven. Some examples are when they made his dad drown, this made Truman scared, and they hoped that this would make him stay, they also tried to make him afraid to get on an airplane by putting up posters and telling him about how dangerous it is to fly.

10. "This is different, everyone seems to be in on it" (Truman). What he is saying is, everyone seems to know something about what's going on except him. This is very important, because this is a part in the show, where he realizes that everyone is keeping something from him, and he is determined to figure out what it is, he tells Marlon that he feels like he has been set up, and that's why he got over his fear of water, because after some time, he finally realized that he has been living in a fake world his whole life, and nobody told him. "If he is absolutely determined to discover the truth, there's no way we could prevent him" (Christof). What this means is, Christof is telling everybody that no matter how much they try to hide it, and how many distractions they make, nothing will stop Truman from finding out, if he really wants to. "There's no more truth out there than there is in the world [that] I created for you" (Christof to Truman). Christof is telling him that there are always lies in both worlds, but it's important because he is trying to keep him in Seahaven.