A Few Good Men Analysis

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find” is the story of a family’s vacation tragically ended by The Misfit and his gang. On the way to their vacation spot in Florida, the Grandmother remembers a plantation in Georgia she used to visit when she was a young lady and desperately wants to see it. She tells her son, Bailey, what road it is on and everyone is excited to see it. After a while, the grandmother realizes that she was wrong about where the plantation was and becomes so upset at herself that she knocks things over in the car which causes a car accident. A passing car stops to help the family but the Grandmother realizes that one of the men is a murderer, nicknamed, The Misfit. While one of

The film “No Country for Old Men” premiered in 2007 under the direction of Coen brothers. The film got inspiration from Cormac McCarthy’s novel “No Country for Old Men”. The film mainly focuses on three main characters the sheriff Ed Tom Bell, a psychopathic killer Anton Chigurh and a hunter Llewelyn Moss. The setting of the film is the 1980’s Texas (Ebert 1). Llyewelyn Moss one of the main characters in the film is a hunter as well as welder and during one of his hunting trips to the desert he comes across a drug deal gone wrong. He discovers several dead bodies in the scene, including a dog.

Sports Illustrated writer, Lee Jenkins, writes about the impact of a small-town football coach had on his community, before and after death in the article “A Good Man Down.” The author explains the life of Ed Thomas, the head coach for the Apilington-Parkersburg football team in Iowa. Ed Thomas was shot and killed while training his athletes by Mark Becker. Lee Jenkins begins by using very detail accounts to bring out the pathos of the town, bringing the audience to feel emotionally connected to the town of Parkersburg.

The following work aims to take a closer look at cultures, leadership and paradigms in Columbia Pictures’ (1992) film; A Few Good Men. This film provides many examples of differing cultures as well as illustrating examples of leadership, management, and followership. Many lessons can be learned; standing up for what is right and standing up for what you believe in are apparent, as well as leaders not always making the best decisions. At the end of the day, one must be at peace with the direction of their own moral compass and actions.

I’m proud of ‘Black Hawk Down’ because I think it told a provocative story and it was honest. It could have had more opportunity to tell both sides of the story, but I’m still proud of it.” (Josh Hartnett). This quote overall proves that Black Hawk Down is a valuable book for teens since, it provides the truth of what happens during war and if you are not prepared and it provides advanced vocabulary terms. In the book Black Hawk Down there is a lot of advanced vocabulary, certain styles of language and a ton of military terms. During this essay I will be talking about how Black Hawk Down is valuable for the teens of Morongo unified School District. This story ties into academic, social and patriotic.

As defined by the dictionary, honor is a high respect that is earned through deeds and reputation. But, what is honor, and how does one receive it? Honor is like many things that are hard to put into words. Along with that, honor can be totally different, depending on your perspective. In the play, A Few Good Men, there is a central theme based around honor, who is doing right and who is doing wrong.

In my analysis of A Few Good Men using the generative method of cluster analysis to recognize the major dominating and resistant ideologies, I will look at three scenes that explain the ideologies present in the film. Each of these scenes include an array of characters and therefore will be useful in understanding how the symbolic interactionism of the film champions the militarism through the three scenes. Before going through each scene it is important to know that symbolic interactionism is a theory that human interaction and communication is enabled by words, gestures, and other symbols that have developed conventionalized meanings ("Definition of Symbolic Interactionism"). Also as mentioned previously in the literature review, militarism is the idea that the country should maintain a strong military capacity and be able to aggressively defend the country. Working through each scene I will briefly explain the scene to sort of set the pace, and then I will look at clusters and explain the dominant and resistant ideologies.

An intricately written short story titled “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” explores the perspectives of various kinds of people because its author, Flannery O’Connor, believes that it is better to comprehend a story when it is experienced. Looking through the eyes of the characters is an effective way to know how they understand certain things. The settings, motif and characters of the story were the literary devices that helped to represent the theme of good versus evil.

While reading the story “Good Will Hunting”, I couldn’t help but think of something that my parents had instilled upon me growing up. Growing up my parents always taught me to always give the same amount of respect to the janitor, as you would the CEO. This statement did, and still does hold true for me today. Unfortunately though, I’m not certain that this statement holds true for the rest of our society. I think that we often overlook the things that don’t really seem to affect us. The things that are done behind the scenes. Not only do we overlook what is done, we also overlook the person that took the time to do them. Even more importantly, I think that we often overlook the talents that those people possess. Mainly because we look at

Justice prevails – a common motif throughout media of all kinds, where the antagonists fail and the protagonists prevail. Everything is wrapped up into a neat little bow with no loose ends and everybody where they should be. It is an easy ideal to believe in and serves no ill consequences, which is why writers do chose to portray it – that false sense of security where justice does always come through in the end without an issue. Reality though, is much less forgiving. Justice is certainly not always served. People slip through the cracks and those who should, rightfully, be taken before a judge may not and those who do not deserve it are convicted of a crime they may have not committed. The justice system is flawed, alarmingly so, and as a

Thankfully, for almost the entire planet, the Nazis and Japan lost World War II. However, the literature I've read is on the exact opposite. It's an interpretation on what America might be like if the Nazis and Japan had won World War II. To gain a better view on this, I read The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick. After reading the book, the main theme is false realities. There are other smaller themes but the main one is above. Throughout the book, several characters seem to be living/providing a false reality to the public for their own benefit.

Philip G. Zimbardo, Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton, and Crispin Sartwell directly or implicitly discuss the power of situation. Stanford professor Zimbardo’s “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” analyzes and explains his experiment, in which twenty-one male Stanford students were assigned roles as guards and prisoners in a simulated prison. He summarizes the extreme behavior and reactions that resulted in early termination of the experiment, and discusses the power of situational factors in altering the subject’s expected behavior (Zimbardo 116-117). Similarly, in “The My Lai Massacre,” Herbert C. Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton summarize this atrocious crime committed by the U.S. military; furthermore, they

Humanity can be defined as quality of being human; the peculiar nature of man, by which he is distinguished from other beings. Being human does not mean that an individual possesses humanity. Humans can be set apart from other living beings by, their ability to reason out whether a decision is either wrong or right using their conscience, their ability to create relationships that can hold a similar value to that of biological relationships, and despite having a capacity for sin, humans are still good. In the film A Few Good Men, three lawyers are left with a case, where two Marines on Guantanamo Bay have been convicted of murdering a fellow comrade. This film clearly showed as to what it means to be human. Through the film, the audience

By April of 1945, the second World War was drawing to a close. Nazi Germany was unraveling as the allies were closing in on Berlin. However, the battle for the Pacific was still raging. The movie Hacksaw Ridge by Mel Gibson encapsulates the vicious fighting between the Americans and Japanese during the battle of Okinawa. The movie depicts the struggle Private Desmond Doss (played by Andrew Garfield) during boot camp, and battle, faced from his fellow soldiers because of his extreme religious practices. In the middle of the film, during boot camp, we can see that the platoon bully Doss in the barracks, especially Private Smitty. In this scene, through camera angle and camera zoom, Mel Gibson encapsulates the discrimination and group mentality of the platoon against Doss. After the initial assault however, and after Doss single handedly saves seventy or more soldiers, the platoon waits for Doss to finish his prayer before assaulting Hacksaw Ridge the second time. By showing this scene, Mel Gibson destroys the connotation that a man is only judged by his physicality and toughness. By showing that Desmond is the most courageous man in the platoon without being violent, it shows that religion and self-belief is what a man is truly judged on.

These three are similar to those ‘road trip’ frat boys that you see in movies. The typical lads that prank around, laugh, tease, but they’re also really close. They’ve know each other for years, maybe through school or university, which explains the dynamic between them, a ‘bromance’ if you like. Again they’re sporty, play football and like nothing better than passing through the drive thru on their way home for a well deserved McDonalds meal deal.