Allegory In The Movie

To start, the film seems like your basic run-on-the mill coming of age tale with a group of teenagers growing up to desire more after they graduate high school. However, there are various more themes discreetly displayed throughout the runtime of the film. For example, one central sociological overtone of this film is Marxism. With this overtone, it becomes possible to view this light-hearted and comedic movie in a

As we were watching this film I could tell that there were many messages that the director wanted the audience to gain from this movie. One of the messages I got from this movie is that every single person is extremely similar however racial issues hold us back from discovering that. I believe the director wanted viewers to realize that stereotypes and discrimination keeps us from learning about one another. With the way things came

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

• Describe the film in general terms. What subjects does it cover? Describe the plot and setting. What issues does it raise? What do you see as the main purpose of the film?

The rest of the film is about the obstacles that main character has to face because of racist remarks against black people and stereotypes. I like the way the director exposed common stereotypes, represented in the movie as the

Allegory is defined as a story in which the characters and events are symbols that stand for ideas about human life or for a political or historical situation. The historical fiction novel, The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963, by Christopher Paul Curtis is about a family who is exposed to racism after traveling from Michigan to Alabama for the first time. It shows a political and societal mess that molds them into new personalities, both dejected and aware of the racial discrimination in America. The Watsons is an excellent example of an allegory, because the events in the story often seem symbolic to events involving the civil rights movement happening at that same time in the United States. In the beginning of the Watsons, they were fun

Allegory: A story in which events are symbolic to a political and/or historical situation. The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963, a historical fiction novel by Christopher Paul Curtis is about a family of five living a regular life, but then they go to Alabama to try to correct Byron, the eldest and a troublemaker, and the Watsons have to deal with the issue of racial discrimination. It’s told from the innocent and naive middle child, Kenny’s perspective. Watsons is a good example of an allegory because the events in the story often seem symbolic to the events involving civil rights in the U.S. The Watsons begins with the characters being mostly unaware of how much of a problem segregation is, but then they encounter an act of racial discrimination and began to change, similar to America’s exposure to the disastrous effects of racism.

In stories there will be objects that will constantly be mentioned within the story. This is what is known as Symbolism. Symbolism is the use of object, name, or person to represent an idea. If a name is being use, a name such as autumn can represent the adulthood of a human. Creatures such as an Eagle, represents ‘Freedom’ and ‘America’. Even inanimate objects can represent ideas; the light bulb represents ideas that just sparked into a character’s head.

The well-known novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, written by Robert Louis Stevenson, describes a monster created by science. Dr. Jekyll concocts a potion in attempt to isolate the good and evil sides of human nature. When he drinks the concoction, he is transformed into a human with a beastly nature. He becomes all that we can imagine as evil and physically appears just as misshapen. In the narrative we find the ghastly appearance a symbol for something more.

     This film presents an individual that chooses not to conform to modern society, and the consequences of that choice. The main character

Give a little background on who produced the film including how this affects the film’s goal. Analyze the movie. What was the film's purpose? Did it achieve that? Why or why not?

Although this film is disadvantaging to many people, it is also very beneficial. I think people that come from the lower class or an abusive household can really benefit from this film. The main point of this film is to show people that you can achieve anything you want to do no matter what background you come from, and although it might be hard because of economical/ personal issues you are not less of a person than anyone and you can still be successful. I love the idea of success because it doesn’t really have a set definition. You don’t necessarily need money to be/feel successful. You can work at Subway and still be successful while a twelve time Oscar winning actor can be successful. You sort of carve out your own success and make your own definition for it. This movie will also teach people that they are not on their own. Although you might think nobody is there for you, when you enter a room you don’t know what everyone is thinking or how everyone feels; you might now even know everyone. It is kind of like when you’re putting together a puzzle, you put certain pieces together and you get closer to finishing and you just need to keep trying to solve the puzzle because if you give up you just wasted your money on a puzzle

In the movie Christof says “ We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that”. This quote relates to Plato’s Allegory with the prisoners chained to the wall and only seeing what is in front of them. The prisoners were only exposed to the shadows they saw on the wall, that was their world, for they knew nothing else.this is just like Truman in the dome, he lived there as if it were real and not a set, for that’s all he ever knew. When one of the prisoners was let out he was enlightened with the new world he has seen. Yet when he went to tell his friends, they could not comprehend what he was saying. They won’t know until they experience it themselves. It is like when Sylvia tried telling telling Truman about

The main issue that the movie raises is the idea that being subjected to peer pressure and malicious parenting

Steven Spielberg directed the film and the main motivation of the author was showing that every single person, not depending on the color of skin has the right to be free. In other words each person is born free and nobody can take this freedom away from him. According to