The movie I watched to "read" the movie like a professor was Forest Gump. Throughout the movie, I noticed several concepts from How to Read Literature Like a Professor within the movie. Those concepts were It's Never Just Heart Disease...And Rarely Just Illness, It's all Politcal, Flights of Fancy, Every Trip is a Quest (Except When It's not), Is That a Symbol?, Is He Serious? And Other Ironies, and It's More Than Just Rain or Snow. ⦁ It's Never Just Heart Disease...And Rarely Just Illness: Forest Gump has a crooked spine in the beginning of the movie, because his childhood is crooked, Lietenat Dan has lost his leg in war, which is him losing part of himself and becoming bitter and jealous of the success of others for some time, especially …show more content…
Forest begins the movie through talking about how different types of shoes describes different types of people and their experiences, and so Forest goes through the story describing each part of his life through the different types of shoes that he wore. Forest Gumps name symbolises how some people can do the worst things for no reason at all. The shrimp that Bubba keeps going on and on about symbolises Bubbas life, and so when Bubba says to forest on how they should start up a shrimp company together, Bubba is allowing Forest to completely entire his life, and become an adopted brother of types.Vietnam represents all the struggles that people have to go through in life. Forest Gump also says that some of the finest men were in the army, and so that may be a metaphor that bad things happen to good people. Forests letters to Jenny is his affection towards Jenny, and so all the letters forest sends to Jenny is his love, and when Jenny does nt reply to those letters, Jenny is basically rejecting Forests love and protection over her. Also when Forest gets shot in the bum, it basically mirrors the saying "bite you in the bum," it signifies how Forests decision to join the army had some serious consequences. Ping Pong in signifies....When Forrest is about to begin his speech about Vietnam in Washington, another …show more content…
Also Forest is living through all these important events and he is meeting all these important people, but he does not realize the sinificance of any of it. Forest then gets a pamphlet to join the army straight out of graduation, and so forest joins and he is considered a genius in the army, though all he does is do what is told to be done. Forest Gump is also given his name through his relation from the founder of the KKK, but Forest could not be more different from the leader, as Forest is portrayed as too stupid and innocent to hate anybody or anything. Forest Gump believes that Jenny's dream had come true by being a folk singer, but in reality Jenny was singing in a type of strip club. Forest Gump feels glad that Leitenant dan is his leader, even though his ancestors died in every single war. Forest goes through some serious irony through his experience in the army, because by the end of his experience, it is expcected that he is bitter and has lost his innocence, but Forest is still forest, meaning he is still helping people and he is still a symbol for good without even knowing it. When Lietenant Dan asks Forrest if he knows how it feels not to be able to walk with your legs, and Forrest says yes, Lietenant Dan was not expecting that answer because most people do not realize that most people have suffered quite a
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Throughout the course of his lifetime, Ah Cheng experienced major political and historical events that strongly influenced his literature. The Cultural Revolution and rule of Mao Zedong was widespread throughout China starting in the 1960s, and devastated millions of families. Cheng took a different approach to much of the literature ("scar literature") that emerged from the revolution, and instead of focusing on the detrimental effects, chose to use his literature as a way to point out the flaws of the revolution. These counter-revolutionary ideals are subtle but evident throughout The King of Trees, as the political chaos creates a backdrop in the novella, rather than the central focus. They can especially be seen through the use of abundant metaphorical elements. By showing the effects of the “down to the countryside movement”, a major reform under the rule of Mao Zedong, Cheng is able to provide a commentary on the Revolution through his characters and the setting as well. Throughout The King of Trees, Ah Cheng reveals his political views towards the Cultural Revolution through his use of symbolism, and his descriptions of the characters and the setting.
Symbolism is strongly represented through Kaplan’s short story. The symbols represented are the ocean, the killing of the doe and the woods. Visiting the ocean for the first time at the Jersey Shore was new for Andy. Since then she had been awfully frightened of the ocean. She believes the ocean to be a huge, vast that constantly moved, keeps shifting
message are Jonathan Culler and Stephen Greenblatt. Culler points out that we read literature differently than we read anything else. According to the intertextual theory of how people read literature, readers make assumptions (based on details) that they would not make in real life.
One event in the movie that really stands out to me as a good example of sociological imagination is Forrest’s stay at the Watergate Hotel. While recovering from a wound received in the Vietnam War, Forrest discovered and developed an outstanding talent for playing table tennis. Due to his exceptional table tennis skills, Forrest was called to Washington, D.C., and recognized as the “Player of the Year.” He went to the White House to receive this award. As President Nixon presented the award to him, he asked where Forrest was staying. Forrest commented, in his very innocent way, that the hotel was not very nice or well kept. Nixon apparently thought Forrest deserved much better accommodations and told Forrest he would arrange for a better place. In the next scene of the movie, Forrest is on the phone with hotel security and is looking across the way into another wing of the hotel. Forrest suggests to the man on the phone that the hotel needs to send a maintenance person “to the room across the way.” He explains that there are some men with flashlights in that room, and he (Forrest) thinks that they are trying to locate a fuse box. In actuality, instead of locating a fuse box, the scene he described was the infamous break-in at the Watergate Hotel. Had Forrest never been shot in the Vietnam War, a major occurrence in society during Forrest’s lifetime, Forrest would never have started playing table tennis nor received the prestigious award from President Nixon. The War was the event in society that shaped Forrest’s pe...
John Gardner’s Grendel portrays a monster searching for his purpose in life. The characters know the meaning of their lives, but Grendel tries to discover his role and what life has to offer him. Grendel discovers his identity through other characters’ actions and beliefs. In Grendel, John Gardner illustrates the contrasting views of each character to show their view of society and the influence they have on Grendel.
applied to vampire stories. When you study the literature extensively, you identify that the story
The central element of this novella is its symbolism. This novella has plenty of symbolical forms, such as people, creed, and some of the animals. Candy has several terms of symbolism, for example his disability is a symbol of the migrant workers who are just literally forgotten about, they are forgotten when they are no use to the owners. Candy’s dog is a symbol of a life only for advantage to others Lennie also for shadows this, he is belittled of his mind but enormously commented for his strength. Also he is compelled to lie about the fight he had with Curley, this is a symbol of typical male society in the, “Depression era”.
The forest represents freedom. There is no one in the forest to watch for misconduct, so people can do as they please. The wilderness calls to independent spirits such as Hester and Pearl.
The character Jenny Curran from the movie Forrest Gump, had a tough life from the very beginning of the movie throughout to the end. During the movie, most parts were assumed and not actually said. For example, as a child she was physically abused as well as sexually abuse, however, it isn’t said, a scene of her with dirty ripped clothes and older Forrest narrating says “her father was always touching and kissing her and her sister” that implies that her father was sexually abusing her. Jenny’s father was not only abusive but an alcoholic and neglected the care of Jenny. Throughout the rest of the movie, Forrest is always there to support and love her, and the detrimental decisions she makes and the different paths she endeavors, inevitably catch up with her in the end. In this essay, one of the main points we see by Jenny’s character are all of the metaphors between what she says and the advice she gives to Forrest, for example, to run from danger and her own constant behavior to fun away from whatever she is afraid of. Jenny Curran will be the focus observation and personality study. Although the main character in this film is Forrest Gump, we are able to see the trials Jenny’s incurs and how it develops her personality. The main idea of this essay is to look at Jenny’s life and find the foundation for what her personality was build on and all of the influences of change throughout her life. Her various personality and life changes will be examined as well as the environmental and social influences.
It is a great example of how persevering through life’s obstacles can make life even better than before. Being different creates many challenges for Forrest, however, he shows inner strength as he fights through these challenges. Along with this, Forrest Gump shows how having support while trying to escape a dark path will make success easier. Therefore, the movie reveals that life will not always be perfect, but it is important to persevere through the adversity that it is filled with. Ultimately, no matter the circumstances, any obstacle can be
Mack, the leader of a reckless and erratic gang, through collaboration, brings the boys together into a sense of friendship and community; in The Bean Trees, Kingsolver's strong willed, group of women, develop into a similar relationship. Throughout Cannery Row, the group’s individual responsibilities, for example, Eddie’s part-time job, Gay’s “magic” in mechanics, and Mack’s innovative personality, helps them survive by the help of one another, and adds success to their ambitions, like giving Doc a party. They independently work toward one goal, but in unison. The devotion, as well as teamwork to “give him (Doc) one hell of a party,” becomes the numbe...
One example is that both in the reading and the movies students couldn't visit the hospital into the third year. In the reading Smith and Kleinman argue that “By competing for years for the highest grades, these students have learned to separate their feelings from the substance of their classes and to concentrate on the impersonal facts of the subject matter” (Smith & Kleinsman, 1979,p.61). This idea is exactly the same for the students in the movie. The students in the movie think that getting higher grades will help patients and think that Petch's way of dealing with patients is a joke (shadyac,
The forest additionally symbolizes the relationship in which native serves as a place of empowerment for individuals. This also adds to those the themes. The forest is a symbol of Prynne and Dimmesdale’s empowerment in the truth, hope and love. Upon their meeting in the forest, both feel positively changed as qu...
...nd genuine kindness extend further than just treating the President of the United States like a normal person, even though Forrest Gump is ignorant of the ‘issues’ of different people. At the University of Alabama, two African American students are granted acceptance after an enormous ordeal on blacks going to colleges with whites because of the insane amount of racism the United States of America had. As the two African American students made their way up the staircase, one dropped a book and Forrest rushed through police officers and rioters to pick up the book and hand the book to the colored student who dropped it. Forrest’s ignorance definitely contributes to his selflessness and generosity towards people who are different (during the time period in American history the movie was based on), however, it is one of his traits that makes him a true unexpected hero.