Central Station Themes

The character of Nanny develops more to show the readers that with her forceful strong attitude, Nanny is still very loving and caring towards

After Ruby’s mom and step brother pass away, she relies on Simon and they finally get the bonding experience he always wanted. Simon does eventually pass away, nevertheless they had a good time together and Ruby learned valuable lessons. Ruby goes to find refuge and find a fellow nerd, which also so happens to be her classmate, Darius Spratt at first Ruby hated him, but it was required that Darius and her got along so that Ruby could complete her journey of finding her real dad. After a few days they split and Ruby becomes very sad, she realizes the importance of a friend, but she becomes very determined, she would go anywhere to reunite with her dad, it was her last hope. After a few days she finally found him and she burst with excitement and now understood that life was more than makeup and her phone, it was about family and relations with them, it was about others who mattered and Ruby now understood that. The reader could now infer that Ruby has completely changed into a brand new person for the better and that her life will forever be changed with her new

When Rosa returned to America and found out her husband’s plan, she declared her refusal going against Santino. This shows a major change in Rosa because he was someone she was most afraid of, and allowed him to control her till she took this stand. Though taking his threats seriously she takes the kids and moves to Chicago. This also reveals the changes in Rosa because she is willing to be on her own in a brand new place. While in Chicago she divorces Santino and eventually remarries Gionin. Though Gionin is a good man he leaves Rosa briefly fearing religious persecution. When recounting this she didn’t panic and managed on her own without him. Rosa also learns to be more wary of strangers. When she first arrived in America a man conned her out of her money because she was more naive then. A man approaches her asking for the ten dollars for her husband to buy the horse he had previously mentioned to Rosa but instead of handing over the money she pretends to not have it. Later when she brings it up with Giornin they found out it was a scam and that Rosa acted smart in suspecting something. From the time Rosa came to the United States till her life in Chicago, she has struggled, but instead of breaking down she continued working harder.

There are many themes within this play/movie. First, I noticed that love is a major theme. Roger had lost his girlfriend; April to suicide after she found out she had contracted HIV. He is trying to write one more song for her, and cannot find the right words. Another key theme for this movie was acceptance. Each of these characters accepts each other, and overall really cares about each other despite their differences. Angel who is also infected with AIDS soon found Collins, who was left in an alley after being beaten by thugs. Angel proceeded to take car of him and take him back to his place to fix him up.

theme of how the important characters as vehicles to convey the theme familial love and

Dora breaks her hip and Abel realises that his mother is too old to stay at the house alone. She cries as she realises she can no longer stay at the house alone.

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

A recurring theme in the book Station Eleven is the past and its importance. There has been conflicting feelings about whether or not they should continue to remember and teach people about the past. I believe it is important to remember the past and to learn where you came from even if it is not all good.

The main theme is overcoming your fears. Seven kids all have fears and have to overcome it in order to save their own lives. There are also many smaller themes that I personally noticed such as, growing older. All seven kids were very young and naive when the movie first started, but once life hit them in the face, they all seemed to grow super fast. Also, another huge theme would be teamwork.

“Survival is insufficient.” These are the words that the Travelling Symphony live by in the world of Station Eleven. In the painting above, I used harsh black with choppy brush strokes and fading colors to show the emotions that are within each of the survivors of the apocalyptic virus, and their fight against the darkening world that survived the apocalypse. They are having to survive in a hardened world to bring the rest of the world a little joy and culture through their plays and music. I represented this with the various leaves of differing colors. Their plays and music bring little spots of life and color to an otherwise darkening and dreary world that is focused on survival. These actors and musicians wish for them to view it from another

4) The main characters in the story help to illustrate the theme by contrasting the two different “worlds” in the story. Esme, although she only knows the writer for a short time, has a profound impact on him. Esme is intelligent, but it is obvious that she is trying much too hard to impress the author. Her dramatic vocabulary and over use of the word “extremely” is childish and annoying. During the choir practice the coach says that children should “…absorb the meanings of the words they sing, not just mouth them, like silly billy parrots.”

In the film Central Station (Central do Brasil), Walter Salles presents the characters as on a journey to self-discovery. It is a film about identity. Central Station is a melodrama of transformation based on an anomalous-duo comprising of Dora, a jaded retired schoolteacher, and Josué, a nine year-old boy, who embark on a cross-country journey in search of the boy’s father upon the unfortunate death of his mother. The film presents its analysts with many possible interpretations and significations due to its combination of different themes, visual allusions and narrative elements. Central do Brasil film can be interpreted in three ways: as an extended metaphor on the writing process and a narration of personal stories and experiences, as a figurative journey of Brazilian search for its identity depicted in Dora’s transformation and Josué’s quest for his roots, and as a theological allegory inviting a “theological reading of humans struggling to maintain a relationship to an absent God” (Bowman 1). Through a detailed analysis film’s content, production, and reception, this paper interprets Central do Brasil as an allegory representing the pursuit for identity and transformation.

One theme that I found was very strong and prevalent throughout the story was the importance of family. Aranka’s bond with her sisters was very touching to watch, especially during their time in the concentration camps. I liked that they had a code word (Atkar) to find each other if they ever got separated. This was especially important after they got separated from their mother at Auschwitz. After that, they only had each other. They had no family left. For them to survive, it was important that they stayed together.

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?