There Will Be Blood Sparknotes

Daniel’s character changes loads throughout the book, Daniel Half-Human, and his change makes him into a more wise person. He starts out at the beginning being very loyal to pretty much anyone and anything, and then towards the end of the book, is only loyal to those who truly earned it. His loyalty is first shown on pg. 21, when he doesn’t leave Armin in his time of need, shown when Armin says, “You could have run away,” Armin said. “I know a lot of ‘friends’ who would have.”. He stayed for Armin when he had gotten himself hurt, and when Armin was surely getting Daniel into heaps of trouble. His shallow loyalty continues on pg. 51 as it say, “I’ve decided to join the HJ. My parents can’t forbid it anymore.”. He pledges loyalty in his friend and a rebellion group leader, as they only offered him chance and chance again to get into

One thing that I may have added was some information about Daniel’s past. His parents don’t seem supportive or understanding of him. His father gets upset with him, and cuts off his funding when he doesn’t do well in classes. He then tells Daniel that it’s his mother’s turn to take care of him. To me, it seems like neither of his parents really want anything to do with him. I would think that this would cause Daniel more distress than he shows.

Although Daniel indicates some awareness of the need to accept responsibility for his problem behavior, he felt excited while engaged in it. Daniel reports he knows that some of the things he does is wrong, but they are things he want for the moment. He is indifferent to the effect on, and obligations toward, the victims of his behavior. He minimizes or denies the harm he has caused and is non-committal towards making amends.

Daniel Plainview, from “There will be Blood”, also illustrates the dangers of greed through his ruthlessness to get what he wants by abandoning his humanity and the inevitable outcome that accompanies it. In the beginning, we see Daniel as a prospector who discovers a large piece of silver. After damaging his leg and retrieving the silver, he drags himself out of the well and into town to cash in on what he had found. We see the tenacious determination of this man and the extreme lengths he is willing to go to become a success. However, his greed causes him to limp for the rest of his life because of how severely damaged his leg was. Two things that conflict within Daniel is his struggle for family and fortune. When one of the men in the oil well dies accidentally, Daniel adopts and cares for his that man’s child even though he doesn’t have to, showing his strong value for family. Another is example is young Mary, the daughter of Abel Sunday and the younger sister of Paul and Eli Sunday. Daniel is the one who stops the abuse Mary is getting from her father at home. He despises the abuse, making a mockery of Abel at the dinner table, emasculating him for being an abusive father. However, Daniel slips away from the choice of family, and towards selfish, lonely gain. Henry, Daniel’s fake brother, has a power over Daniel, knowing the things he 's said and what he 's like behind the mask, so he kills Henry, in order to prevent him from losing credibility that could lead to a

This is demonstrated with HW whom Daniel is loving and caring towards when he is a child, however towards the end of the text where HW is an adult and wants to start his own oil company, Daniel becomes hostile towards him and starts to threaten and insult him “you are a bastard from a basket”. Daniel “I hate most people” has a pessimistic, he sees the worst in people and “I want no one else to succeed”. Daniel is a narcissistic pessimist, he is all about himself and only himself “I have a competition in me”. As stated in the essay he ‘has’ to be the God of his surroundings and the people around him. The director characterises Daniel Plainview as a narcissist through selfish acts and statements that he makes “I see the worst in

I can understand why he is so outraged with him. Daniel is naturally a psychopath and constantly mocks and insults his son because Daniel lacks sympathy with others. Daniel feels betrayed that Harvard is the closest thing that he knows as a family and that Daniel only knows how to be an asshole to everyone. You have to understand that Daniel is in fact a psychopath,he is manipulative,lacks remorse or shame,anti-social behavior and more. HW (Harvard) was adopted so he does not carry the "psychotic" gene or traits. If you noticed like in the beginning during the quail hunt scene. HW knew that Daniel was cheating the farmers from paying a fair price for the oil on their land and felt bad about it while Daniel did not. It's a good thing HW left his father because he only took the good parts from Daniel and refused to become the horrible monster that he really is. He knows that it is simply better to walk away than to fight him and simply start his own life better than Daniel ever could have.

He tells Daniel everything from his rape by the people he believed were on his side, to the only reason he actually got out of prison was because of a black man. From that story, Daniel realizes that having the “white” mentality was not the

There Will be Blood was released in 2007. The director and the screenwriter was by Paul Thomas Anderson. Some of the tremendous actors in this movie are, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, and Dillon Freasier. I would say this movie really set the tone for the American dream, even though it wasn’t really thought of during the movie’s time period. It really shows hard work, greed, lust, and trickery. Overall this is a good movie, with a very slow start. It is filled with drama, mystery, and action. If you are for those kinds of films this movie is right up your alley.

One reason Daniel inspired me is that he is hardworking. For example, in the movie, you see how hard he is working for his family to have a better life. As you see in the movie Daniel has to work to all day, and all night, sacrificing time away from his family. Another example is, his job is not always easy as you see in the movie he deals with a few occasions he deals with racism. In other words, I see Daniel as a true inspiration, his character made me want to be a better mother and

In one of the first scenes where Anna, played by Roberts, is taking Dan’s picture, we see Dan as a distasteful character because of his disloyalty

The scene of the explosion Daniel’s colors really show. When he leaves his child to attend to the fire is acceptable, to a degree. Near the end of the scene Daniel is shown yelling at one of his employees, asking them what is there worry when there is a world of oil beneath their feet. Daniel is more worried about the oil than his son who has been hurt.

Damn Daniel, made by Josh Holz, was a video in which Holz would admire his friend Daniel’s shoes and yell “Damn, Daniel!” The February after the video went viral Holz’s family was attacked. An unknown party reported to the police that there was a shooting at Holz’s home and a SWAT team raided his home. Thankfully, no one was killed but it doesn’t make the threat that happened any less worse.

Daniel ultimately achieves freedom when he chooses to go after the paragon of his desires: butterflies, at which time he is freed from the confines of his previous life just as a butterfly is from its cocoon and the butterfly pictures are with the opening of his desk

It turns out that Daniel is exactly what the director wanted due to the symbolism in his eyes. Shortly after this there is a scene in which the water company locks a well that supplies water to the village, which is a very emotional scene where the women and children are screaming not to take their water away. In a later scene when the producer is trying to convince Daniel to be careful and not to involve himself too much he realizes that Daniel can speak English and realizes that he over heard a phone conversation he was having in which he talked down on the natives. There is a scene later in the movie in which the mothers who were hired for the film would not drown their “babies” because they couldn’t even think about doing it even though it was fake. Shortly after that a water war breaks out between the natives and the government in which the producer costa gives Daniel 10,000 cash to stay out of the riots for 3 weeks. Daniel takes the money and gets arrested anyway. The producer and the director then make a deal with the chief of police to let Daniel out of jail only if he returns once the movie is done being filmed. The director isn’t happy about sending him back to jail and says that once they are done filming they will tip him off so he can

I. Daniel appeared to be dealing with the adolescent stage. Daniel seems to have developed his sense of self worth by mimicking his older brother. Daniels significant relationships, since his brothers incarceration has been derricks old friends (the skin head group). The scene in the principle's office shows that Daniel is trying to live up to what he believes are his older brother's ideals, which he believes are following in the foot steps of Nazis. Hate anyone that is not white and