Dynasty was the most frustratingly long, pointless show that I have ever watched. The theme song itself seemed to endlessly prolong for like fifteen minutes. The program consisted of three elements- an overly pretentious cast, an ostentatious display of wealth, and excessively dramatized minor conflicts. I have no idea why the show was so popular because it had no substance. Not a single character in their entire ensemble of a cast was likeable. Krystal, the outsider in the Carrington family, epitomized the stereotypical gold digger that just marries for money and has a secret affair with her actual lover, Matthew Blaisdel. Oil tycoon, Blake Carrington, shows no affection for his new wife, except for showering her with gifts like diamond earrings,
or his children, and has no concern for others well beings as he operates exploitative business practices in the Middle East. In addition to these two primary lack-luster characters, the Carrington children are equally as shallow and uphold the rich kid stereotype. Steven embodies privilege as he shows off how cultured he is when planning the music for the wedding and gets wasted on a plane with no repercussions; the only interesting part of his character is his sexuality, but even that gets sorted into a rich problem as it causes friction with his father and his inheritance of the family business. Similarly, Fallon becomes defined by her daddy’s little princess act in which she acts one way in front of her father to secure his attention, as well as his finances to travel abroad and ride horses into the sunset, but rebels in her father’s absence in which she has an affair with the chauffeur driver. Dynasty only highlights superficial people with materialistic interests, making the show exclusively appealing to viewers that covet the high life.
Kek, the main character in Katherine Applegate’s Home of The Brave, struggles to find belonging as a Sudanese refugee living in Minnesota. Kek tries to help hope win the battle between fear, and successfully, during Part Two of the story, Kek begins to make some forward progress. But Keks cycle of belonging has not ended, and I am sad to say that Kek is still alienated from America as much as he belongs in America.
Jeannette and her father Rex have a hopeful beginning to their relationship which consists of its own heroic moments filled with many learning experiences, moments of trust, and source of comfort, which letter on took a disappointing end filled with, hypocrisy, lack of trust, lack of protection, alcohol addictions, and death.
I chose to analyze the The Family, 1941 portray and The Family, 1975 portray, both from Romare Bearden, for this essay because they are very similar paintings but at the same time very different. To write a critical analyzes it was necessary to choose two different paintings that had similar characteristics. The text about critical comparison said that to compare things they have to be similar, yet different, and that’s what these paintings look to me. As I had already written an analysis of The Family, 1941 portray I chose to analyze and compare The Family, 1975 this time. Both works have a lot of color in it and through the people’s faces in the pictures we can feel the different emotions that the paintings are conveying.
I feel as though the novel The outsiders has many themes, but the most important one is belonging. The greasers are a group of poor, low class youth that don’t have much and live on the wrong side of town. They are always held accountable for their actions. On the other hand, the Socs are a bunch of high class youth that are very privileged and aren’t held accountable for their immature actions.
The legendary quote “Stay gold, Ponyboy. Stay gold” from the renowned novel “The Outsiders” is something that I hope my children and grandchildren will have the privilege to know and understand. The Outsiders has a strong value of family and friendship. Throughout the book there are many satellite themes and issues. The book is known as a coming of age for adolescence. When I first read this book it was in my 8th grade Language Arts class. The first thing that came to my mind was “hey, isn’t that the movie with that Cruise guy”. I had no clue that the story of Ponyboy Curtis would touch my heart in such a way. I had been going through so much that year, I felt as if I was Ponyboy. Middle school starts were kids finally come to a realization of
This community is not a usual everyday community. Here people don’t have to worry about poverty, crime, starvation and basically any typical world problems. Although, this community still has many problems. People still think this is a wonderful place to live but this community is a dystopia. In Mrs. Lowry’s book “The Giver” she explains how families function here as well as the both negative and positive point of views for family.
In the dramatic film, Pieces of April, by Peter Hedges, April, oldest daughter of three, decides to invite her estranged family over to her apartment, in New York, for possibly the last Thanksgiving dinner they will have together as a family. At a young age, April moved out/left her family because of their problems. These so call problems of April’s were her drug use, drug dealing boyfriends, and issues between her siblings and her. These family problems consist of lack of understanding towards April and so she is an outcast. Joy, April’s mother, has always had a terrible relationship with April than with Beth, April’s younger sister. With
In the stories “The Boarding House” by James Joyce and “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, it’s ironic how different these two stories plots are, yet they are dealing with the same problem. The protagonists let their social status and the opinions of others come between their relationships instead of basing their decisions on modesty and love. In “The Boarding House,” Mr. Doran is one of the boarders and he is having an affair with a young woman named Polly, the owner of the boarding house’ daughter. He has to decide whether or not to marry Polly in order to save this perception people have of him. In “Desiree’s Baby” Armand marries an orphan woman, “She was nameless… What did it matter about a name when he could give her one of the oldest and proudest in Louisiana?”
The Great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, was first published in 1925. It is a tale of love, loss, and betrayal set in New York in the mid 1920’s. It follows Nick Carraway, the narrator, who moves to Long Island where he spends time with his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, and meets his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Nick can be viewed as the voice of reason in this novel. He is a static character that readers can rely on to tell the truth, as he sees it. But not only the readers rely on him. Daisy, Gatsby, Tom, and Jordan all confide in him and trust that he will do the right thing. Nick Carraway is the backbone of the book and its main characters.
The Fight for Family After everything else has gone to waste, what would happen if you turned to your family but they have been taken away? The novel The Outsiders is a novel by the author S.E. Hinton tells the story of 5 boys that have come together to form a small family. After the Curtis parents died, the fight for family has risen higher than ever. The Curtis and Matthew boys are like brothers, as conflicts arise, there are more that just keep on coming at them. The Greasers and the Socs go back and forth between fighting over women and men.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the character Nick Carraway is one of the main characters in this novel. Nick isn’t only a character, he is a great narrator also for this novel. In The Great Gatsby the narrator, Nick, is the only one to seem to be know the real Gatsby and to be on Gatsby's side. He wants the readers to know who Gatsby really is and why he has become who is. Nick also talks about how he feels and his character is conflicted internally and externally.
The character I find intriguing is the oldest son of the Bundren family. Cash seems to be a person who is very thoughtful of others, almost in a way of self-sacrifice. In the novel Cash seems not to be aware of the fact that his mother is dying. His fully preoccupied with making is mothers coffin which could come across as heartless or not being touched by this tragedy. However is seem to believe that each family member had a different way of showing his affection to his mother. By making the neatest coffin and thinking about every plank and screw it shows his love for Addie. Especially if you consider the coffin as her final resting place. It Cash is being a caring son by making his mother a coffin which she approves. A counter argument about
Jane does not experience a typical family life throughout the novel. Her various living arrangements led her through different households, yet none were a representation of the norm of family life in the nineteenth century. Through research of families in the nineteenth century, it is clear that Jane’s life does not follow with the stereotypical family made up of a patriarchal father and nurturing mother, both whose primary focus was in raising their children. Jane’s life was void of this true family experience so common during the nineteenth century. Yet, Jane is surrounded by men, who in giving an accurate portrayal of fathers and masculinity in the nineteenth century, fulfill on one hand the father role that had never been present in her life, and on the other hand the husband portrait that Jane seeks out throughout the novel.
There are several economic issues that I see, first, I understand economic justice to be the fairness governed by laws to ensure all people are treated equal (Business Dictionary /definition/economic-justice.html, 2015) Economic justice determines how each person makes a living to provide for their family. “The ultimate purpose of economic justice is to free each person to take part in the work beyond economics, which is that of the mind and the spirit.” (Center for Economic and Social Justice, 2015) The problems that I see are unemployment, alcohol addiction, no driver’s license, DUI and problems with authority. Since Carol and Joseph are both unemployed, and having a DUI on her driving record will
Jack Gladney does try to show all the aspects of a good father. I think sometimes he may fail, but he has the best interest in mind. For example, he even named his own son Heinrich because he felt the same referenced authority, strength and power. He wanted to shield his son and make him unafraid of the world. Jack even likes to watch the kids at the dropped off at school. This makes the readers believe that he has a soft spot for children. Jack and his wife even make time to spend with their children. They eat dinner together often and watch television on Fridays. However, Jack and Heinrich sometimes do not get along. For example, they begin to argue in the car over the weather outside. Heinrich says it will rain today, Jack insists to look