The 2016 film The Choice, directed by Ross Katz, reveals that choices made in life can affect an individual for the rest of their life, whether they are big or small. The main characters Gabby and Travis, have an interesting connection and somehow resemble one another through many symbols to develop a strong love for each other. Through the use of repetition, context, and visual emphasis, Ross Katz, uses the seashell wind chime as a charged symbol in The Choice, because life can be so fragile and all depends on what choices an individual makes in life. When watching this film, feisty Gabby is ready to settle with her long-term boyfriend until she moves into a little lake home right beside Travis, who has always dreamed of having a long-term …show more content…
With Travis standing in the hospital we can foreshadow that one of the characters will end up in the hospital at some point throughout the movie. During the movie, many long shots are taken of the ocean where Travis and Gabby live by. With a gentle breeze and the sound of the windchimes clinging together and the ocean waves hitting the shore, most humans think it is a relaxing environment to be in. When we can first notice that the symbol would be the seashell windchime is when Gabby writes Travis a letter. Travis usually sits almost every night on a chair by himself with a table of seashells by him. She places the letter on the chair arm with a seashell over top so the letter does not fly away. If the wind was strong enough, the seashell would have been able to fall off of the chair and break into pieces. Just like in life, there is a positive to everything. It is always told by motivational speakers or people we look up, that we tend to look at the negatives first and do not realize the positives in some …show more content…
She passed away from breast cancer a few years ago. Even in life today, cancer can tear a family apart and or could have the opposite effect of bringing a family together. From watching the film, an individual can tell that it brought their family together because they are still celebrating her life here on earth even though she cannot be there with them. When a family member has cancer, whether it be serve and stage three cancer, fighters will hang on with all of their might. Speaking from my own experience, my father had prostate cancer while I was in ninth grade. He got it treated with a surgery and radiation, he then got the clear he was cancer free. In my senior year of high school, my dad kept having tests done and realized his cancer was coming back more rapidly then before. To treat the aggressive cancer, he had six treatments of chemotherapy and the twenty-six treatments of radiation at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. While he was doing radiation at Mayo five hours away from our family, he was separated from our family for five weeks and only came home on the weekends. If we did not keep in contact with my dad and go visit him, my family could have easily been torn apart just like the seashell wind chime could break
No matter how much he put her through, she kept fighting for her life. I was confused by this because, in my eyes her life was completely over. I did not see how she could ever live a functioning life after all of the things that she went through. I would have thought that this reality would have been a reason for her to give up and choose fiction. Fiction would have been the easy way out of the pain, loses, and suffering that she faces and would continue to face. Then I thought to myself that is what makes humans amazing. Being able to endure the challenges of life and keep going. Originally, I thought she was a fool to keep going then I realized that she was strong. If I was her I would have chosen my reality
In the short story “The Possibility of Evil,” Shirley Jackson uses several symbols to tell the story about Miss Strangeworth. One symbol she uses consist of the roses that Miss Strangeworth treasures. The roses represent the love and perfection of Miss Strangeworth. As we know, Miss Strangeworth believes that the world is horrible and unclean and that she is the only perfect person. She loves her roses dearly which emphasizes her needs for everything to be perfect just like her. She values her roses so much because only she takes care of them making them a symbol of perfection and becomes one of the items that Miss Strangeworth loves and sees as superior to other roses. Another symbol Jackson uses compose of Pleasant Street, the street that
Everything was great, every day was the same except that particular day when your life
A single tear was all she cried when she told her children about her mate, best friend and lover being killed. Now, that has to take a lot of strength.
After watching this movie, I believe I would have had the greatest empathic difficulty with the mother (Beth) if I were the counselor to this family. Beth presents as distant and withdrawn from her remaining family members as well as from her emotional self. Instead of acknowledging the death of her son, Beth appears to act as if the event never occurred. While I recognize and understand this is her way of coping, it is hard for me to connect empathically because of the emotional distance she has created. Additionally, Beth’s way of coping appears to be neglectful in that she seems to ignore the grieving needs of her living son and husband. To me, this action makes me believe Beth is selfish and does not care for the needs of others.
It has been sincerely obvious that our own experience of some source that we do leads in result of our own free choices. For example, we probably believe that we freely chose to do the tasks and thoughts that come to us making us doing the task. However, we may start to wonder if our choices that we chose are actually free. As we read further into the Fifty Readings in Philosophy by Donald C. Abel, all the readers would argue about the thought of free will. The first reading “The System of Human Freedom” by Baron D’Holbach, Holbach argues that “human being are wholly physical entities and therefore wholly subject to the law of nature. We have a will, but our will is not free because it necessarily seeks our well-being and self-preservation.” For example, if was extremely thirsty and came upon a fountain of water but you knew that the water was poisonous. If I refrain from drinking the water, that is because of the strength of my desire to avoid drinking the poisonous water. If I was too drink the water, it was because I presented my desire of the water by having the water overpowering me for overseeing the poison within the water. Whether I drink or refrain from the water, my action are the reason of the out coming and effect of the motion I take next. Holbach concludes that every human action that is take like everything occurring in nature, “is necessary consequences of cause, visible or concealed, that are forced to act according to their proper nature.” (pg. 269)
Before I go on to celebrate my mother and what she stood for I must share with you the reality of what life was like for my mother and the family since she was first diagnosed with cancer in October. Of course, nobody suffered more than my mother, but Dad you’re definitely second. We all shared my mother’s pain. It was like we were all on trial.
t was a sunny Friday morning when the news arrived. The perfect weather was an ironic slap to the face as we endured one of the worst days of our lives. A shrill ring from the phone grabbed the attention of all of us. The image of my mother’s face is burned into my memory forever. As she hung up the phone, I already knew the news was not what we had expected. She burst into tears as my father held her, tears falling from his own eyes. That day she was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, a form of breast cancer. That day was her 50th birthday.
While the majority of the people in this world may seem so sweet, in some there is evil that lives amongst them. The story “The Possibility of Evil” by Shirley Jackson is able to display the features of evil doings that humans have the potential to do through everyday life and through her own little twist. Miss Adela Strangeworth is known in her town for her kind heart and friendliness, though behind the scenes her ironic true colours are revealed. Next, the roses in which she plants symbolizes the presence of evil in Miss Strangeworth herself. Lastly, the peaceful atmosphere of the story is used to hide the focus of evil that is within. Jackson uses the literary devices of irony, symbolism and atmosphere to thoroughly exhibit the traits of
Throughout history, authors have incorporated figurative language into their novels to create an even more interesting experience for the reader. For example, “Trino’s Choice”, by Diane Gonzales Bertrand. This story features a teenager who faces small issues like social awkwardness, and bigger issues too like hiding from a gang. At the beginning of this story, Trino finds himself hiding from a gang because he witnessed them committing a crime. While telling Trino’s story, the author uses figurative language to create mood, and the voice of the narrator, and distinct character.
In 1967 Pearl Berkowitz died of breast cancer. This was the second mother that he'd lost. He was 14 at the time and devastated by her death. When asked how he felt about her death years later he replied “both happy and sad. It was freedom. She was a pest sometimes ...
I, of course, knew my mother as a mother. As I have reached adulthood and become a mother myself, I have also known her as a friend. My mom shared much of herself with me, and I saw sides of my mother as she struggled with her cancer that I had never seen before, especially her strong belief in positive thinking and the importance of quality of life. I was privileged to know so many facets of my mother, but certainly I did not know all. There were parts of her life that I didn’t see, relationships that I didn’t know about. Last night, at the wake, so many stories were told to me about my mom’s strength, courage, humor, kindness, her quietness, her loyalty as a friend. It was so special to hear of these things that my mom said and did, to know some of these other parts of her life. I hope that her friends and family will continue to share these stories with me and with each other so we can continue to know and remember my mom.
Although, there is no evidence that the radiation caused the cancer, that is the most likely cause. I was also surprised by how having a mother exposed to the radiation and is breastfeeding, it can affect the health of the child. It is heartbreaking to think that they were trying to do the best thing for their child, and while doing so, exposed them to deadly chemicals. Then she begins to discuss how her mother told her to “Just let it go” The author felt as if she could not let it go, as she saw this as terribly unjust. She describes how she would see these beautiful woman, become bald and sick. I felt like I could see this woman she was describing, and it was painful to think about. This story was difficult to read, as there was so solution to the problem. I was expecting for the end to include what was going to be done about this problem, but there was not. There was no way to prove that the nuclear bomb is what caused her family to die. This story, makes me want the United States to take responsibility for the pain that have
There is always a reasoning behind every choice made, consciously or subconsciously even for something as mundane as whether to put a spread or jam on a sandwich. These decisions even ones that seem minute have a ripple effect in your life, for an hour, day or even years. This idea of choice and its repercussions is demonstrated throughout the texts “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and Edmund Spencer’s “First Booke of the Faerie Queene” from The Faerie Queene. In both of these texts the choices made by the protagonists of Chauntecleer and Red Cross Knight in addition to the cast of characters they meet along their journey have a large impact on the direction the story takes.
I now see what she saw in the lyrics of "Unwritten". I know how important each and everyday is. It is very easy to take things for granted. Her love for this song is something that I will carry with me through my whole life. It really is a motto to live by, and I strongly believe that everyone should hear this song and really analyze it and appreciate it. We never know what our future holds. As a woman living with breast cancer, my mother knew that it could spread and end her life quickly, but she never let it hold her back. She was motivated to write her own future, her own story. Throughout her life that was cut short, she really did make the most of it. She raised awareness about breast cancer, and any cancer in general. She raised so much money for the Susan G. Komen Women 's Breast Cancer Research Fund. She even held her own events and donated all of the money to cancer research. She did so many amazing things when she could, however, it was not all happy times when she was alive. She got very sick at times and would just lay in bed, and she hated that. Looking back now, I see how driven she was. She would put on Natasha Bedingfield, sit up, and eventually get up and move around. No matter how sick she was, if I needed something she would get up and do it. She loved me more than anything, and I am so grateful for