Symbolism In Deliverance

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The movie Deliverance has many symbols due to its location and its wicked nature of the scenes. Its originating around Georgia in the sixties to the seventies. In these times in the united states that already represents are country trying to find our place in the world and what truly a country we are. You can compare this to the men learning who they truly were on this journey because they all came to learn their strengths and weaknesses from all of the hardships that they faced on their canoe trip. Most of the time in the movie you can see that the men are on the “Cahulawassee” River which is really the Chattooga river, but the river represents that there is only one way forward and there may be many unknown obstacles that will come your way. When they were going down the river after the rape scene Drew got shot when they didn’t even expect it. They didn’t even know what had happened until Lewis got shot in the leg. You never know what could happen going one way down …show more content…

He is a natural leader and this all gets turned around when he is shot in the leg going down the river. He realizes that he is not always in control, nature is. Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team agrees with my assumption by stating ‘After Lewis broke his leg, he learned that nature was always in control, not him. Before the journey, Lewis always believed he was in control.’ (Para. 4, Sent. 2)After this incident everything gets depended on Ed. He is not a natural leader and he has to man up and take the role of Lewis. This is hard on him because it is difficult for him to harm nature or man. He has to scale up the side of a cliff to take out one of the mountain men. One can tell by Ed’s face that he wanted to give up but he never gives up. While this is happening Ed is going against himself and stepping out of his comfort zone. He is rewarded justice and an amazing view of

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