Analysis Of The Movie ' Shiloh '

U.S. Navy SEAL ,Chris Kyle was just the average die hard Texan. He aspired to become a cowboy, but it wasn’t working out in his favor. After seeing the horrors of terrorism on 9/11 he was ready to fight for his country and enlisted into the military. He goes on to fight in four tours and becomes the deadliest sniper in American history. After each tour, he felt that he had to go back. He had two goals that he couldn’t give up on; protecting his team and taking out the deadliest enemy sniper, Mustafa. Chris would not stop until he achieved his goals, when he finally did, he faced a new battle. He struggled with normal daily life, but even then he persevered and found a new passion to aid him. Throughout this film, Clint Eastwood portrays the theme of perseverance through the use of setting, camera angles, and the main character Chris Kyle.

Disney has faced a large amount of criticism from critics over the tropes and stereotypes that it portrays in its animated films. This is not a recent event however. One of Disney’s most notorious and controversial films, Song of The South, was released in 1946. Song of the South, set during the Reconstruction Era, focuses on a young boy named Johnny who learns that his parents will being living apart for an unknown amount of time, moves to a plantation in Georgia, while his father continues to live in Atlanta. Depressed and confused over the recent events Johnny decides to run away to Atlanta, but is drawn to the voices of Uncle Remus, an ex-slave living on the plantation, telling stories of Br’er Rabbit. Although it is implied that the African American workers are no longer Johnny’s family property, the black characters are still wholly subservient and are happy to be so. James Baskett plays Uncle Remus as a blissfully, happy companion ready to please. Due to this “magical negro” trope, the characters’ ridiculously stereotypical voices, and the unrealistic happy and joyful relationship between the white landowners and their black help, Song of The South, is one of Disney’s most offensive, racist, and fictitious film. Disney’s portrayal of Uncle Remus is his veiled justification of the mistreatment that minorities received before and after the Reconstruction Era.

Norma Jean is presented as a dynamic character due to the fact that her attitude and outlook starts changing towards her husband Leroy and her marriage. She went from spending time with her husband to being an introvert. She begins enjoying her time alone and becomes very selfish. She was strong at one point and the past just ate her up inside letting it get the best of her. All the attention is drawn to herself and she does not take the time to see how Leroy is feeling or reacting to this sudden behavior. In paragraph fifty four it states how Norma Jean changes into this selfish creature that Leroy does not even know anymore after sixteen years of marriage. "Before his accident, when Leroy came home he used to stay in the house with Norma Jean, watching TV in bed and playing cards. She would cook fried chicken, picnic ham, chocolate pie-all his favorites. Now he is home alone much of the time. In the mornings, Norma Jean disappears, leaving a cooling place in the bed" (Mason paragraph 54). Norma Jean loses her father and son and now she is just letting herself slowly drift away out of her husband's life. Norma Jean's appearance does not change much in Leroy's eyes. She keeps up with her physical and outer appearance but its her inner self that need massive work. Her attitude with her mother and husband starts coming off aggressive and careless. In paragraph 110, Norma Jean's repsonse is spoken without proper mannerism.

Leroy and Norma Jean are both victims of rapid social change. Norma Jean was the most affected by her surroundings comparing to Leroy. Norma Jean had to marry at the age of eighteen to the man who got her pregnant, and in a cruel twist of fate, the child dies of sudden infant death syndrome. This event from her life prevents her to look towards the

Another reason I feel that Norma Jean resents or has these bad feelings for Leroy is after the death they never really talked about having another baby. Now that he is back she might feel that the time is past to have more children. That could be another reason she has started talking classes, she is trying to move past what she has wanted for all this time. Now she knows with Leroy back and lack of him dealing with anything that, that boat has sailed and she needs to find something else that can fill that void. If they talked about it they might have decided that it was not right for them to have another child, but at least they both were thinking about the other ones feelings.

Meanwhile, Norma Jean’s activities have her expanding and growing in broader ways that let her see the bigger picture. For a while, she is content with playing familiar music on the organ, but as she further educates herself, she does not want to play it anymore (309). She is enthralled with her college class and building muscle with her weight lifting class. She is constantly improving and strengthening her mind and body while Leroy is just observing, and content to stay the same, and when he does go out of his comfort zone, it is not in leaps and bounds like Norma Jean’s activities. All of her

As opposed to the traditional housewife who is stereotyped to stay at home taking care of the home and family, Norma Jean grabs that burden like a barbell and adds the weight of being a successful person on top of the dead weight that is Leroy post-accident and handles it with ease. Another way that Norma Jean demolishes the traditional woman is through her prioritizing and above average knowledge of finances. In a “traditional marriage” the male would be the breadwinner and handle all the finances and the wife must ask for permission on what to buy, however in the Moffitt household Norma Jean is the one bringing in the cash as well as the one who knows of financial issues.An example of Norma Jean taking charge in financial issues is when Norma Jean hears of Leroy’s plans to build a log cabin and responds

Finally, it becomes evident that Norma Jean is less than pleased with Leroy's return from trucking, which is something that Leroy picks up on early in the story. Leroy realizes that Norma Jean does not seem to celebrate his homecoming, and she seems disappointed each time she finds him at home. Norma Jean herself, when breaking up with Leroy, says, "In some ways, a woman prefers a man who wanders." (paragraph 144). This reflects the side of Norma Jean's character that would rather be left alone.

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Norma Jean was a responsible and mature character in the story as Mason stated: “Norma Jean works at the Rexall drug store, and she has acquired an amazing amount of information about cosmetics” (Mason, 706). In addition, she stated that “Norma Jean is going to night school. she graduated from her six-week bodybuilding course, and now she is taking an adult education course in composition at Paducah Community College.” (Mason 711) These actions are an indication of a responsibility and maturity of an adult, whereas, Leroy was just sitting at home and planning to build a log house instead of joining any of the jobs his wife proposed for him. The bias personality of Leroy was a contradiction that he wanted to save their marriage “Leroy knows he ‘must create a new marriage, start afresh,’ but he ‘is not sure what to do next’. He first plans to build a full-scale log house for them, but Norma Jean resists his scheme. As a result, ‘He knows he is going to lose her’” (Blythe and Sweet 224). The elite controversy about the personality is to know what may future hold, but, not to act accordingly is what Leroy lacks in the story. The maturity in the personality which entirely make a person’s life full of amazing traits of forgiveness, respect, communication, involving in healthy argument, and keeping silence when needed. At this very moment, Leroy did nothing of his useful time and space

Leroy Moffitt is a truck driver who is almost fully recovered from his leg injury but is traumatized from his wreck in Missouri three months earlier. He now spends his free time crafting and casually driving around town. Leroy’s character in “Shiloh” can be described as a loving and sympathetic man but he is very passive when it comes to his wife. He thought that his constant presence with Norma Jean would strengthen their relationship, but with Norma Jean’s

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Based on a true story, the movie ‘Lone Survivor’ features four Navy SEALs that set out on a mission to Afghanistan with orders to capture and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. The Navy SEALS are detected by villagers and the mission was compromised. Ultimately, the mission had been discovered and the men found themselves surrounded by dozens of Taliban soldiers. One of the Navy SEAL soldiers managed to dispatch to base and retrieve assistance but the Taliban shoot down the helicopter. During battle, three of the Navy SEAL soldiers were killed leaving one still alive.

When I hear the word Shiloh, I automatically think of the Battle of Shiloh along with the children’s novel Shiloh; either a full-blown war or an abused beagle. However, Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh” took an interesting twist to the name. I feel, in a way, Mason was able to incorporate both the war aspect and a form of abuse, neglect, and intertwine it into making a beautiful short story. The way Mason could withhold important information until the very end is remarkable. “Shiloh” keeps the reader invested in the story by having the person who reads the piece of literature guess what is really going on between the characters and wondering the ‘what if’s’ of the story.

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