Archetypal Criticism of Blood Diamond

Deep in the Alps lies a small town called Clay. The sun was rising over a frosty blue mountain, and drops of dew dripped down from the leaves in the valley. Arthur awoke to find his bedroom filled with light. He went downstairs and drank a glass of water, not hungry enough for food. Arthur went outside into the chilly morning and started walking down the road. The road was lined with hundreds of huge alpine trees. A large flock of birds flew over Arthur’s head in the sky.

Claireece “Precious” Jones is a black teen living in the ghetto of Harlem, New York in 1987. In this movie, Precious encounters immense challenges. Precious is a victim to various traumas, including mental and visible abuse, domestic violence, incest, and rape. Precious encounters anxiousness, depression, eating challenges, and at times is violent in nature. Despite these challenges, Precious is expected to run her home and embrace a [limited] maternal role.

All of us would find this topic in a way of inspirational because no matter what may be taking place, there can be an instant where the painful story that's taking place would be told and because of this story being told, changes will be made. For instance, Campbell speaks of Ismail Dalramy who lost his hands in 1996 by way of an ax. Amputation was one of many brutal tactics, as well as torture, mass rapes and looting done by the Revolutionary United Front or the (RUF). This is only just a little taste of what the African had to undergo because of the sick diamond trade. But, even so this helped bring light to what was wrong and helped more right to come out of. This book continued shedding light on the overworked but underpaid Africans in the mines. A tourist once mentioned, "The pit looked more like a slave colony". "On all sides, rib-skinny men stripped to their shorts were covered in mud and slime, the inevitable results of their jobs digging for diamonds". "Even though it was barely 10 a.m., they all looked exhausted”. This is needless to say extremely sad because there were Africans that were worked like crazy but barely getting paid, rest, or rewards. Instead there is nothing but turmoil agony and pain.

Although a hero seems like a faraway distant character who possesses a unique ability that saves humanity, an everyday citizen in society holds the ability to impact the lives of others can become a hero. In the novel, The Alchemist, the protagonist, Santiago, travels as a shepherd but ultimately, follows The Hero’s Journey Archetype. As Santiago pursues a journey for treasure and self-knowledge, Santiago faces several difficult challenges and character-defining moments that assess his ability to succeed. Coelho depicts Santiago as following the stages of the Hero’s Journey Archetype such as The Mentor, The Abyss, and the Return to the World. Thus, Coelho employs The Hero’s Journey Archetype to demonstrate the

The movie Precious, is drama-based film that tells the story of a 16-year-old girl named Claireece Jones (Precious). Unfortunately, she is struggling with her family, the school system and with her own internal emotions. Her mother despises her due to Precious having two kids from her father. She was kicked out of her high school had to go to an alternative school to get her GED. Precious also is struggling with her internal emotions and capabilities, she has been raped, verbally and physically abused. Some of the main characters that influenced Precious’s life are Miss. Rain, her English teacher at the alternative school and her mother Mary.

The film, Precious, is a powerfully charged story that delves into the family dynamics of a 16-year-old girl and her struggles to survive an onslaught of treacherous experiences. Throughout the film, the viewer is enveloped in a dramatic web of extreme situations, experienced by the main character, and those to whom she is close. The themes of domestic violence, rape, incest, drug addiction, gambling, poverty, social justice, social services, housing and education are laced together throughout the story. Particularly poignant attention is paid to various systems that help shape the experiences of the characters. The social services industry, and its associated workers, educators and administrators, set the foundation for the social themes that are highlighted by this film.

Solomon becomes determined that he cannot lose his son, so he does everything he can to find him on the path to the diamond. Solomon opens up to Danny and tells him that his son loves to learn and will one day become a doctor. Danny tells Maddy, “You know Solomon thinks his son will be a doctor someday? Maybe his baby dies in that camp, maybe his daughter gets raped. Who knows, maybe both. Do you realize that that diamond is his only chance of getting his family out of here.” Danny realizes how much Solomon needs to find his family, and it is his first time understanding this because he never had a family for himself. Danny’s objective shifts little by little and he becomes increasingly protective of Solomon because he wants him to find his son. Throughout their mission to find the diamond, Danny watches Solomon risk his life everyday just to see his son, and risk his life to save other people, like the little boy who is injured on the side of the road due to a shooting. Danny’s complete change of heart comes from watching Solomon reunite with his family, and seeing how determined Solomon is to get his son back from the R.U.F, and becoming close to

In “Guns, Germs, and Steel,” by Jared Diamond, Diamond starts to question why Europeans generally are so ahead than other countries and civilizations. Diamond wonders if any of this has to do because of race. Throughout his book, Diamond tries to answer Yali’s question, “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (Diamond 14). This question can be answered by numerous factors that had affected many civilizations that put Europe on the top. One key factor was diseases. Diseases had either helped or hurt civilizations and it had impacted the fate of human society. Diseases have caused many civilizations to either become stronger or weaker. The most

Some odd stuff been happening with ona she stay out all night and lying to jurgis and to the family about where she been and ect. Well she came to her senses of reality she told him everything that he needs to know and he went back to jail and he seen jack there again they talk a little more and jack gave jurgis information about a plan that helps him gets out of jail faster and getting on the gauders good side and jack told jurgis as soon he gets out that call him and well jurgis took that offer and he gave jack a call and well they go on missions together and rob people and steal cops stuff and then went to a party with jack and met a lot of cops there that really liked jurgis and jurgis met this guy there too (which i don’t know the of.) that he got a job for jurgis that involves a lot of money if he was looking for that gold.

The controversial artist Kanye West has always attempted to make known what he thinks, no matter if he has to be disrespectful or graphic in his illustrations of said topic. So it wasn't a real surprise when he chose to focus his energy into reveling to the American public horrors happening that had a direct connection with the beloved diamond stone. West's 2005 music video “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” shows the corrupted underground diamond trade in the African country, Sierra Leone. From this groundbreaking video, West showed the devastated lives those who worked on the mining rivers live. However upon further investigation into the issue of diamond workers in Sierra Leone there emerged the true source of the situation, a violent

Archetypes reveal something of wherever or whomever they came from, and these can be significant cultural values of that area or civilization. “Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.” - Maynard James Keenan. The Ancient Middle East have cultural values that are reflected in their stories. These cultural values are comparative and can be used to connect civilizations like Egypt and Mesopotamia with one another. The use of archetypes in Gilgamesh, Adoration of the Disk, and Genesis reveal the comparative cultural values in the Ancient Middle East by identifying certain beliefs and ideas that the Egyptians and Mesopotamians valued regarding their religion.

Greed exists at the centre of evil on not only an individual level, but also that of a communal and global level. Contextually there is a superficial alteration in the stimulus (Ivory vs. diamond) for greed and of global awareness towards the issue, although in the century that separates Joseph Conrad’s exploration of colonial regime in his novella Heart of Darkness and Edward Zwick’s post-colonial film Blood Diamond, the values driving the major characters and factions from the different texts are comparably similar.

Another conflict in the story is man versus society and this is the main plot of the book. It is Jonas v the community and the people who run i. Once joha figure out what they have been doing he is curious as to why. He sees the wonderful thing that the giver has shared with him and he think it would be a better world if they were to be shared with everyone. “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it.

Imagine surviving in the Congo jungle, looking for a long-lost city with only a handful of people where even the terrain itself is your adversary. This is one of the many ocurrence sthat happen in Michael Crichton's 348 page book, Congo. The book starts by illustrating a team searching for diamonds in the Congo having a fateful demise, seemingly at the hands of a gorilla. Another expedition team is sent in, this time armed with advanced artifice and Amy, a gorilla trained in American sign language. The location for the lost city of Zinj had been gleaned from the gorillas dreams and satellite imagery. This place was said to have blue industrial diamonds, that would be worth billions. The crew goes into the jungle by plane and encounter many hardships, including native wars, animals in the jungle and an enemy team also trying to get the diamonds. Even though the book is similar to some other of the author's books, I could still visualize many scenes, and predict what will happen next.

The effects that shadow networks and war have on the world deems them astonishingly global. The most obvious case of this is in the movie Blood Diamond. The movie takes place during the war between the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the government in Sierra Leone, West Africa. The plot follows Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler for the powerful Van De Kaap Diamond Company as he tries to find a rare diamond. However, the most effective and global part of the movie is how it demonstrates the shadows that run the economy. Archer describes for a journalist, Maddie, how the system of the shadows