Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire) is a U.S. Marine captain, about to embark on his fourth combat deployment. He is a steadfast family man married to his high school sweetheart, Grace (Natalie Portman), and he has two young daughters, Isabelle (Bailee Madison) and Maggie (Taylor Geare). Sam's brother Tommy (Jake Gyllenhaal) is being released from jail for an armed robbery, before Sam departs to Afghanistan in October 2007. Sam deploys and after a bit of time, news comes that Sam's Blackhawk helicopter has crashed during an operation in the Helmand Province, killing all of the Marines aboard. In reality, he and a hometown friend, Private Joe Willis (Patrick Flueger), have been taken prisoner in a mountain village by Taliban fighters. With Sam gone, Tommy attempts to redeem himself in the eyes of his family by wrangling old friends to help with kitchen repairs for Grace and the girls. Grace slowly sheds her previous resentment towards her brother-in-law. As months pass, Grace and Tommy bond over their mutual mourning, culminating in a passionate fireside kiss. They immediately regret it afterwards and do not take their attraction any further, though …show more content…
Once he returns home, Sam drifts through a cold, paranoid daze, showing signs of severe post-traumatic stress disorder, due to the traumatic events he experienced in Afghanistan. Refusing to explain to his family what happened while he was there, Sam also lies to Joe's widow that he does not know how Joe died. His paranoia also leads him to believe Tommy and Grace had a sexual relationship in his absence. During Maggie's birthday party at her grandparents' home, a resentful and jealous Isabelle claims that Sam's paranoid assumptions are true: That Tommy and Grace slept together. After the family returns home, Sam becomes enraged, destroying the newly remodeled kitchen with a crow bar and pulling a pistol on Tommy, who arrives and tries to calm his brother's violent
No permanent work is available, moreover, the money earned by picking crops is not enough to feed the family.
rising, from an average of 50, to 160 by 1750 and to 288 by 1815.
Although Sam got the gun the first time, when Tim hears that Sam has come to
Also in Sam’s manic state, he would engage in pleasurable activities that had a high potential for painful consequences. He would end up hurt and in the hospital after engaging in such activities. If Sam didn’t have this psychological disorder, he would most likely
...d few such as Anna, Stella, and Alice who broke free of the poison, lived their lives as Sam Toms’ did who rooted the family. They as he did lied, cheated, manipuled, and kept secrets to try to live a happy life which in actuality their lives were anything but.
The novel ends in explosion and uproar. Nick, knowing Gatsby’s passion for Daisy, gets the two together for tea. They rekindle their lost love for each other, and, for a long time, they concealed their love for each other from Tom, Daisy’s husband.
Sam Then leaves Redding to fight and things become harder, gradually separating the family. Sam occasionally returns, although when this happens, Tim is the only one who talks with him. Sam and his father are too obstinate to make a truce. Later on in the story (page 64) While Tim and his father are selling beef to British Loyalists in New York when Mr. Meeker gets kidnapped by a band of cowboys, Tim outsmarts them and gets away. Tim then has to carry all the goods home by himself. this helps him to mature a bit by having him take more responsibilties in their family owned tavern.
Instead, Nick Carraway invites Daisy and Gatsby to his house in hope that the old couple will connect again. Daisy and Gatsby finally fall in love again
is not like Caroline. By the end of the movie Sam learns a valuable lesson about being her own person and even gets the guy along the way.
Therefore through the use of journal entries, near climactic events, and the post traumatic experiences of Sam's family,
Mr. Tom is an elderly gentleman who lives in the country of England. He is quiet and keeps to himself. Throughout the novel Mr. Tom changes and becomes a new person. With the outbreak of war he is responsible for the care of a young evacuee, Will. He and Tom quickly grow to care for each other. Will is given into Tom's care with only the clothes on his back. Tom talks to Mrs. Henley, a local neighbor, and asks her if she would be kind enough to knit Will a jersey. She replied, "You ent gotta clothe em" but Mr. Tom was persistent and was able to get Will a new, thick jersey made (18). Tom takes real good care of William and does his best to look after the young child. While Will is around him, Mr. Tom isn't so deeply depressed about his wife and son, who have both departed. He is more social with the rest of the town and has a more happy expression. When the young evacuee is sent back home Tom worries, when he goes to check on him he finds him in startling health. He even breaks the law to get his frail body back into the country side with him. Mr. Tom is soon Will's adopted father, nearing the end of the novel Will notices something about Tom. "[He] noticed how old and vulnerable Tom looked" (317).
After Myrtle dies, Tom shows a side of him that is rarely seen. “And if you think I [don’t] have my share of suffering” (178). It almost seems as if Tom is trying to win Nick’s approval. Similarly, Gatsby makes up lies about himself to make seem more appealing to others. At Tom’s house, Daisy tells Nick about how she wishes her daughter would be “a beautiful little fool” (17) because women are not taken very seriously and are considered trophies that the men compete for.. After saying this, Daisy smirks as if “ she [has] asserted her membership in a rather distinguished secret society to which she and Tom [belong]” (17). Daisy allows Nick to have a glimpse into her glamorous, yet conflicted life. Even Jordan, the woman he has a crush on, reveals to Nick about Tom and Daisy’s complicated relationship. “Tom’s got some woman in New York” (15). Upon hearing this scandalous news, the reader can understand Tom from the way Nick sees
When Nick visits Daisy she tells him the story of how her daughter was born, “It’ll show you how I’ve gotten to feel about––things. Well, she was less than an hour old and Tom was God knows where. I woke up out of the ether with an utterly abandoned feeling.” By leaving Daisy behind at a time when she most needs him, Tom loses his value of companionship with Daisy. He no longer fits the three criteria that Daisy feels she needs in a man. Daisy knows that Tom no longer loves her and is having an affair with another woman, but despite all of this, Daisy has no intention of leaving him (20). This is because Tom, despite no longer fulfilling her emotionally, is still better for her financially and socially than if she left him to live alone. If Daisy wants to stay in her class, she has no option other than to stay with Tom. When Daisy finally sees Gatsby again, she suddenly has another option besides staying with Tom. Daisy knows that Gatsby has true feelings of love towards her, but leaving Tom would prove to be risky as it could tarnish her reputation and by extension her social stability. Daisy is now struggling between taking a risk for love and maintaining a safe, stable life she is ultimately unhappy
Daisy invites Nick over when he gets moved in, at Daisy's house he meets a girl named Jordan Baker who is a famous golfer but cheats at the game. Jordan asks Nick if he knows a man named Gatsby, Daisy frantically asks what Gatsby, for she knew him. Later on in the book Gatsby invites Nick to a party, he is the first person to ever receive an invitation to one of Gatsby's parties, everyone just went. When he gets to his party he starts asking for Gatsby, well to his disadvantage has ever seen Gatsby except for Jordan who finds nick at the party. Jordan takes nick to find Gatsby and Gatsby wishes to talk to Jordan alone. He explains everything to her, why he has the parties, why he is rich, how he knows Daisy and what he wants. The next day he asks Nick to invite Daisy to tea while Gatsby was over. When Nick agreed, Gatsby had his staff go to Nick's house and cut his grass to make it look better and to just say thank you to Nick. The evening Gatsby shows up for tea and Daisy does not show up till around four o'clock. When Nick sees how things are going, he decides to leave for a little while and let them catch up. Gatsby invites Nick and Daisy to his house to show off what he has to Daisy. Tom has a
When the dinner with the Buchanans comes to a close, Nick finds his cousin outside. Under an open sky and unhidden by a mask of calm grace, Daisy finally reveals how she feels. In regards to her future child, Daisy tells Nick, “I’m glad it’s a