Born Free Themes

With grades where an A is never found and an IQ comparable to a goldfish, you can guess that Donovan Curtis is far from a genius. But you don’t have to be brilliant to be the hero of the story. In the novel Ungifted by Gordon Korman, several themes are presented. One theme could be there is always a way to solve a problem. Another important theme might be it’s better to work together. Additionally, a theme to consider is friends and family will always be by your side. In Ungifted, the main character Donovan Curtis is a rebel who always finds himself in trouble. When he ends up breaking the school’s statue of Atlas, all he wants is to avoid getting in trouble. But, the superintendent Dr. Schultz is hunting down Donovan to make sure that he’ll

Hillenbrand, L. (2010). Unbroken: A World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption. New York: Random House.

Ungifted by Gordon Korman was a very interesting and an amusing book. This book was very entertaining for me because Donovan was on the edge of his life everyday because of the trouble he caused, and also because this book has a viewpoint of most of the characters in the book, which gave the book more depth and understanding. I was very curious about what is going to happen next and when I started reading, I couldn’t stop. Donovan Curtis is the main character of this book, and I think he is a good character because he keeps on trying hard, and he greatly cares about other people and things. For example, at the school dance party, Chloe was getting bullied and Donovan protected her and he got Chloe out of trouble. I can relate to Donovan because when he moved to the Academy, he first didn’t understand any of the things the

Moreover ‘Run Lola Run’ clearly illustrates how texts can explore the human experience by using distinctively visual elements,highlighting every choice can unintentionally alter one’s fate..Through the antwerp structure of the film,Lola took charge of her actions however it failed .However in the third run she relied in fate and succeeded.The significance of choice to one’s fate is epitomized through Twkyer’s use of medium shot as the blind lady holds Mani hand leading him to the homeless man and regaining 100,000 marks which is ironic as the blind person can see.The relevance of the moment between Mani and the blind lady is evoked through the dolly shot of the revolving around Mani’s face as he sees the homeless man accompanied with the

“If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen...” (pg. 54). Throughout the course of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, we familiarize ourselves with the exceptional hardships that Ishmael has experienced as a child soldier, in Sierra Leone, and what actions he takes to overcome them. Despite the fact that Ishmael has been through these devastating hardships and that he became the fear that he himself feared, Ishmael is able to instill hope and keep the reader going through the themes of powerful memories, nature and redemption. He does this through the use of powerful memories that contrast the fear and danger of the war with the remembrance of the beauty of life. Furthermore, nature leaves the reader striving

Out of the Past is definitely an interesting movie with a lot of things to talk about. I will touch briefly upon two main things I have noticed during the screen: the film noire genre and the image of the femme fatale.

In the Blackrock text written by Nick Enright in 1996, there are many themes and ideas that are developed and looked at throughout. The main themes and ideas looked at throughout the text are; mateship, peer pressure, and violence. These themes and ideas are built throughout the play and have a great impact.

In the book, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand, Louie Zamperini was majorly obsessed with vengeance throughout the end of the book that his life was consumed by the quest for it. Louie felt as if the Bird had stolen his dignity at the POW campsites, where he was beaten, humiliated, starved, and stripped of his powers of self-defense. Louie was overwhelmed with his anger that the only objective he sought was to get revenge on the Bird. In other words, Louie was angered about his loss of dignity at the POW campsite, he wanted to get revenge on the Bird by killing him, and how Louie eventually forgives the Bird for what he did to him. These three reasons show how Louie’s loss of self-dignity in the POW camp was pursued.

A theme, by literary definition, is a central topic of a text.This means that they are a always a part of every story. Mainly, themes symbolize the meanings of texts. In one particular story by Ursula K. Le Guin, “The Ones Who WAlk Away from Omelas,” one of its main themes centers around the neglection of morals and ethics. Throughout the text,this idea of moral neglection is apparent and it describes how derelict the ethics of the people of Omelas has become.

“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” It is said that the worst things in life happen happen to everyone to appreciate the good things in a whole new light. In the novel of Elsewhere by author Gabrielle Zevin, the main protagonist, 15 year-old Elizabeth Hall, is confronted with an internal conflict of coming to terms with her death. She questioned her mortal existence on earth and her days in the land of Elsewhere were consumed by depression and anger. Yet, throughout Liz’s struggles and her journey through a proverbial dark tunnel, there are three main themes which arise in Elsewhere. Zevin’s themes are happiness lies

Imagine playing the game Battleship, firing fake cannons at fake ships to destroy them. The thrill of the game gets the heart pumping and the adrenaline rushing. But what if the game was actually real? At the very moment fake cannons are firing, real cannons are hitting real ships. With this analogy in mind, in the book Ender's Game written by Orson Scott Card, the commander Graff manipulates Battle School and Ender's friendships for his own advantage. It was right for Graff to manipulate the Battle School and Ender's friendships because if Graff didn't tell Ender his family didn't love him he may have never left home. Also, without the tough commanders and friends he may not be the person he is when he destroys the alien race and, if he knew the battle against the alien race was real then he may get nervous and not do his best.

When it comes to little boys, Ender isn't any ordinary one, killing a whole species isn't what I would call ordinary. Ender's game is a space Sci-fi, written by Orson Scott Card. The theme of the book is forgiveness, because of how Ender's enemy forgave him, how even the biggest mistakes can be forgiven, and how Ender goes out of his way for forgiveness.

The makers of Frozen wanted to base their movie on this story but with a different and more of a “Disney” theme. Unlike in the story when Kai gets his heart frozen, Elsa, one of the main characters from Frozen, is born with her powers of snow and ice and accidentally freezes her sister Anna’s heart. Just like in the story, an act of true love can thaw a frozen heart; seeing what Elsa did to her sister she starts crying and apologies. Doing so she lets go of the fear that was controlling her from the beginning and accepts her and learns to control them. Frozen is a wonderful that teaches kids a lesson on that just because you are different that doesn’t mean that you have to lock yourself away and shut yourself from the world so you wont have to worry about the

3. Choose one or two themes from the following list and show how Spiegelman conveyed this in Maus: Loneliness; Discrimination; Abuse of Power; Loss of Innocence, Guilt, Survival.

Based on the Play ‘Trifles’ written by Susan Glaspell, the literary element that I would like to suggest is theme. Theme is used to convey the main idea of a story, novel, play or drama to create a better understanding of the readers about the story. In the Play ‘Trifles’, the themes that I found aregender differences and oppression of women.