I have chosen to write about the actor Jensen Ackles on his performance in the TV show Supernatural as the character Dean Winchester. One of the most powerful scenes in Series 2 is found in the last episode, (Episode 22), called All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2. Dean’s brother, Sam, has died, his corpse lying now on a mattress, with Dean sitting next to him. Dean is talking to Sam, reminiscing about when they were kids and how he knew he was supposed to look out for Sam, without their father even telling him. Jensen sits on a chair, back slightly slouched, looking down towards the bed. This helps portray his sadness as it makes him look defeated and smaller. His voice starts off slow as if it was hard to speak. Once he starts telling Sam about their childhood and how he didn’t want Sam to grow up to fast, …show more content…
Jensen half smiles. This shows us that Dean is remembering a happier time, but still adds another layer of trauma for the watcher as this reminds us that there will no longer be any happier times. Dean continues, this time blaming himself for Sam’s death, saying that it was his job to look after Sam. Jensen’s jaw tightening when he pauses, this portrays that Dean is angry at himself for letting this happen to Sam as well as trying to hold back tears. In next line “And I screwed it up,” Jensen leans forward, resting his arms on the legs, meaning he is now closer to Sam.
During this line, his voice wavers, rising in pitch, showing that Dean is very close to tears. There is a long pause and Jensen looks away, as if he was trying to stop himself from crying. This stays true to the character of Dean as he isn’t one to openly show his emotions. Jensen’s next line is “I blew it,” which he delivers, quite quickly in a matter-of-fact type of way, but ends it with a quick half smile. As if to say, “I’m sorry. That’s what I seem to do”. Once that line ends, Jensen’s jaw starts to quiver and he apologises to Sam as tears start to fall down his face. Immediately Jensen wipes away the tears, rest his head on his hand. This give us the impression that Dean is over come with sadness. His next line he delivers with a smile as if to make a joke and hide the fact that he is sad. This creatures a picture that, although Sam is dead, Dean is still trying to stay strong for him and brush away his sadness. Jensen’s voice for the next lines lowers in pitch as he starts talking about living without Sam, almost as if he were
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anywhere else in his life, he even felt a little like crying himself.". Soon enough, Jeff discovers
In the end of chapter ten, Krakauer explains how Sam McCandless is given the misfortune of telling his father and Billie that Chris is dead, but does not further explain their reactions to the news, giving an opportunity to infer their reactions. The first reaction Chris’s parents must have felt was shock and disbelief.
Andy goes back to school and talks to his basketball coach about how he feels about Rob's death and how his fiends and family feel about the accident. In addition, they discuss Andy's sentence because Andy keeps punishing himself for Rob's death. Everybody at school was crying during Rob's memorial service. Grief Counselors from downtown come to the school to try to get the kids to share their feelings.
Junior always loved his sister, but he felt like she has thrown her life away since all she does is sit in the basement. One day, Mary decides to leave home with a guy she met and move in with him in a trailer. Junior feels like it is his fault she left. So, he also thinks it is his fault she died. Mary has a party and is so drunk she passes out with her boyfriend in the trailer. The trailer catches on fire and they are too drunk to wake up, so they burn to death. Junior’s dad picks Junior up from school and later goes home to be with his family. Junior’s emotions are all jumbled up and he starts to laugh uncontrollably. He did not want to accept his loss so he doesn’t. He tries to stay strong and avoid his emotions for his mother. Junior has so much death around him and he doesn’t know how to react, “I was in this weird fog” (Alexie 209). All of the sadness and death turn Junior’s life upside down and he is heartbroken.
Fear, resulting in chaos, and overturned lives affected the personal decisions of John Proctor, thus creating inner conflicts, as well as desperation in the story. In Arthur Miller's The Crucible, John Proctor's stand in a society where opinion drove fate created ignominy towards him and his beliefs. At first he hid his horrible sin inside, fearing the consequences. When he finally did, he was placed in a tangled labyrinth of feelings as to what his next action should be. Lastly, it's Proctor's defiance and integrity in his own self that proved him stronger than the entire community of Salem. Proctor's tremulous feelings and general unease of the situation built up to his defining point of confession. Theocracy came together to take coerce control Salem and it's actions. Proctor saw this and feared, for diabolism was a practice unheard of. Danforth states, "You must understand, sir, a person is either with the church or against it, there be no road between. We live no longer in the dusky afternoon and evil mixed itself with good and befuddled world. Now by God's grace the good folk and evil entirely separate"(63).
“Then weakness will be your plea./I am different. I love my brother/and I’m going to bury him, now.”
Although a strict society composed of high morality and disciplinary laws may be necessary for safety, it causes internal conflicts within the individuals. In The Crucible, by Arthur Miller a theocracy in Salem rules and guides the citizens into doing what is “right”, but eventually backfires due to issues of reputation and jealousy. Society has a lot of influence on the citizens, and with a bad reputation, it is nearly impossible to live in a Puritan society. Salem’s strict Puritanical social structure causes personal struggles for the individuals involved in the events of The Crucible, and then eventually these personal struggles affect the society overall.
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often" (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_change.html), this quote by Winston Churchill is something I can connect with as I often feel the need to improve myself which can only be done with change. It also relates to the protagonist, Sanger Rainsford, of the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connell. Sanger Rainsford changes his views on some matters after being trapped on an island with a madman with no method of escape. He undergoes a major change in his character due to an awful experience in isolation with the psychopath, General
Having hit rock bottom, Wilson wakes in a holding cell. Back at home, Scott overhears Sam’s reaction to Wilson’s arrest and calls Lizzy to bail Wilson out of jail. Scott tells Wilson that he’s taking the work he found in Wilson’s room as proof to show his bosses that Wilson’s working on a new novel. Lizzy drives Wilson to the funeral and reveals Jeff was with her the night he died and she blames herself. As he gets out the car, he tells her not to blame herself. At the funeral, Wilson delivers an inspiring, heartfelt eulogy that allows his family to come to terms with what they have lost and recognize they must cherish what they still have.
Chapter five provides important information on Ekwefi’s past and a tradition (the yam festival) that has been going on for decades. The chapter begins with it being three days before the Feast of the New Yam in which basically means everyone is excited. Okonkwo and his family are preparing for the holiday feast, and Okonkwo is going to invite the families of his three wives. He doesn’t feel excited, he wants to be working on his farm, this is saying he is a workaholic.
Mike and Dana had a nice relationship which came to a brink as they started to disagree about the future of their only robot son. They did not take their time to logically think and investigate Cole’s issue and were influenced by outside people to come to a split decision. Even though Mike did his part best supporting Cole mentally, he failed to consider Cole’s future and did not foresee that he might lose him forever. Dana lacked the sympathy toward Cole’s present condition which did nothing more than worsening Cole’s condition by making him depress and feel guilty. Thus, the parents’ indecisive and rushing manner toward their son covered both their relationship and their son’s future with darkness.
the play if I hadn't watch the film and I am very lucky to have
Consider the Aristotelian tragedy. It has yet to go the way of Eddie Bauer. In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe devised a tragic African hero in Okonkwo, consistent with the classic stipulations of the figure. Thus, the novel--to its greatest practicable extent—inherently existed as a tragedy on all levels to accommodate Okonkwo. To illustrate this, I will dissect and analyze the many factors that make Things Fall Apart an exemplary model of Greek tragedy by Aristotle’s own towering ideals.
When 12 years old came around, nothing could’ve primed me for the amount of devastation that was to submerge my happy little world. Two months after my birthday, I received word that my renowned and dearly loved, Uncle Dean, had been killed in an unfortunate automobile accident. Crushed, yet filled with a strange numbness, I became withdrawn and dwindled in disbelief. “How could this be?” I would repeat those words of this question over and over to myself, as if it were some magical mantra that could resurrect my deceased best ally. I began taking in the gravity of what this all meant: no more “piggy-back” rides, no more wrestling matches, no more late-night video game contests, ultimately no more fun with Uncle Dean, ever. I never got a opportunity to say good-bye.