Analyzing Lorraine Hansberry's 'Licking The Window'

Important has a different meaning to everyone, because everyone has different important things in their life. For some people, it is their family, or their friends, or something they love to do. For LaVaughn in Make Lemonade, by Virginia Euwer Wolff, the thing most important to her is her education. LaVaughn is a 14 year old girl who babysits for college money because her mom does not have any. Her main babysitting job in this book is for Jolly, a teen mom who is struggling to work and take care of her kids. LaVaughn goes through ups and downs with Jolly and tries to help her -- but one thing sticks with her the whole time: throughout Make Lemonade,

The surprizing thing that I recognized when I studied at college is the way people greet each other around the world. After asking someone about name, we usually inquire about where he or she is from. I believe that we ask, not just to indentify the location of where our acquaintances live, but because we realize that their answers tell more about them. My answer for the question “where are you from?” is always Vietnam, my home country. For every Vietnamese like me, home is an important and meaningful part of our life. It becomes a vital part in our culture. The more I live far away from my house, the more I know how it is important to me. Moreover, I acknowledge that not only our homes define who we are but we also define our homes.

It is just as easy to fall into the trap of our voyeuristic society today as it was for the people of the 1950’s. In Alfred Hitchcock’s, “Rear Window” voyeurism is a major theme conveyed throughout the movie. J.B. Jefferies, Lisa, and Stella prove that human fascination with voyeurism is not only addicting, but over time becomes contagious and emotionally detrimental.

What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / Like a raisin in the sun?

Overall throughout the course of the class we have read, watched, and analyzed many different films. From the way the characters speak, act, and even their personalities have impacted their roles in the films. As well as scrutinizing films to find out the main points in which the movie/film is rather underlined through messaging or subliminals. Along with discovering the exact movements throughout the films from camera angles, settings, non- diegetic and diegetic sounds, along with cinematography. While watched films from so many different views to help relate with real life situations in a social and technical way, we have been able to pinpoint aspect of film studies that the average individual wouldn 't have a clue about. Each film that

Natasha Preston, the author of The Cellar, was born January 5,1988 in England. She discovered her love for writing when she posted a short story online that everyone fell in love with. Natasha writes romance, thrillers, gritty YA, and serial killer novels.

Reflection: I think it is sad for what Diane grew up in. She did not get to see her father often and she did not have it easy. It was good that she knew that her family will always help her in difficult situations. She learned that no matter how hard life gets that she will always have a family by her side.

Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window” is a short story about a bored voyeuristic man who idealizes a woman who is under appreciated by her husband. As the story continues, you’ll see how this man goes from voyeur and knight in shining armor to investigator.

I really enjoyed the movie A Raisin in the Sun. It follows a black family's struggle to reach their long anticipated dreams. These dreams, and the struggles necessary to attain them, is one of the main focuses of the movie. The movie began with a husband, Walter, and wife, Ruth, fighting over Walter's dream to make it in the business world by using an insurance check as a down payment on opening a liquor store. He believes that if someone in the family would just listen to him and put forth their trust, his dreams would become a success. This episode illustrates a major conflict throughout the story. As Walter dreams bigger and bigger he seems to leave the “smaller”' things, such as his family behind. This movement away from the family

Mind Over Material Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin In the Sun, is an award winning work of literature that almost perfectly captures the situation of African Americans in the mid-1900s. Many, like the Youngers, were disappointed with their life, and decided to take matters into their own hands. After Mama receives a 10,000-dollar check, she decides to put the money away for a house, and give the remainder to her son, Walter. When Ruth becomes drowsy, she visits a doctor, and finds out she’s pregnant. Not knowing what to do or whom to turn to, Ruth decides to pay money for an abortion.

People like to watch other people and are often quick to make judgments from what they see. This is what L.B. “Jeff” Jeffries does Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”. Jeff is a wheelchair-bound photographer who is used to an active lifestyle. Because of his boredom, Jeff spends his time looking out his window and watching his neighbors go about their life. However, Jeff does more than watch, because he at the same time he is also making judgments about who his neighbors are and what they must be like. This leads to Jeff becoming obsessed with the disappearance of the wife of his neighbor Mr. Thorwald, because he believed that he murdered her.

Rear Window directed by Alfred Hitchcock, tells a story of a cripple middle-aged man practically stalking his neighbors from the rear of his apartment. This man is a professional photographer referred to as Jeff. He is so dedicated to his career he breaks his leg while attempting to get an action shot at an auto race. This film came out in the fifties therefore; Jeff didn’t have much technology to play around with. He spent all his time observing his neighbors; he would even fall asleep in his wheel chair some nights.

“Remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (Lee 119). In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, this is the quote that Atticus, one of the main characters, says to his kids. Atticus is a lawyer who takes on a tough case in his town, Maycomb. His kids are Scout, and Jem. Throughout the book, they grow and mature. They don’t mess around with their neighbor, Boo, as much as they used to. But, luckily because of him, they live to see the next day. In To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows that because of prejudice, innocent people can be harmed. This is shown through Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Jem.

Ichigo Kurosaki aka “The Soul Reaper” is in an anime called “Bleach”, if you look at a photo of Ichigo in one of his various forms many assume that he is evil, unless you see him in human or “Stage 1/Form 1”. Without knowledge of Ichigo’s story, the result was that people made assumptions just based off of what was knowledge was present at that time. In Elizabeth Daley’s essay “Expanding The Concept Of Literacy”, she talks about how multimedia is the vernacular of today’s society and she expands the idea of literacy. Daley says, “The multimedia language has become the current vernacular… [and it] is capable of constructing complex meanings independent of text” (34). What Daley is trying to say is, that multimedia in its many forms has the capability

What is most intriguing about the family dynamics that occur is that time does not heal everything. Madeline had been divorced for many years and yet she still spitefully rejects the new wife. What Madeleine expresses is a real aspect of life. Her reaction to the failed marriage and absence of her teenage daughter is relatable. This vulnerability makes the viewer want to help her, to let her know it will all work out.