Compare And Contrast The Greatest Gift And It's A Wonderful Life

Imagine being separated into two different groups based on what side of town one lives on and what one wears, then imagine having to act a certain way when one feels a whole different way. In the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, there are two groups, Socs and the Greasers, they have a rivalry with each other; the Greasers are known for having bad reputations that will never go anywhere in life and are poor, while the Socs can be disrespectful to the community, but an asset to the community the next day, and with a lot of money. In the novel, S.E. Hinton includes Robert Frost’s poem “Nothing Gold Can Stay” to focus on the poem’s deeper meaning. When examining Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay” and S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, one can analyze the usage of color, lost of innocence, and identity change.

A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens is a compelling tale of greed, love and charity. Studying this short novel at school is necessary because it concedes the threats of holding and leading a selfish life and how acting greedy is notorious on your fate and your perspective of life. Through his representation of Scrooge, Dickens wants the reader to learn from his miserable personality and encourages others

It’s not uncommon for producers to use pathos in movies for a bigger audience. The book The Ultimate Gift was first originally published in 1999, and a while after the movie was released in 2007. Jason Steven is an egotistical young man who has been privileged his entire life. While he does drastically change, there are myriad differences between the book and movie in the way he is taught many life lessons. The movie, The Ultimate Gift, is more engaging than the book because the movie shows more emotion and interests the reader.

A film that can be compared to, “Bless Me, Ultima” would be The Giver. In, The Giver, the main character is Jonas who is sixteen years old. When in, “Bless Me, Ultima”, Antonio is six years old which is something that can be differed between them. In both stories they have different kinds of cultures and beliefs. In Tony’s world, he doesn’t have much technology since it takes place during World War 2; When in The Giver it is full of it as it takes place in the future. In, “Bless Me, Ultima” the landscape that is described is a old town in a desert. Before Tony met Ultima he didn’t really notice much about what was around him. When she arrived the book states, “Her eyes swept the surrounding hills and through them I saw for the first time

In It’s a Wonderful Life, the main character, George Bailey, is a good, giving man who faces a rough patch in his life. I think that this story teaches us a great lesson on being thankful. I liked the part when, at the end, Clarence finishes his job and earns his wings. The part I didn’t like was when George said that he wishes that he was never born. The lesson that It’s a Wonderful Life teaches us about thankfulness is that you need to appreciate how blessed you really are and not to take it for granted. To apply this message to our daily lives, you can focus more on the little things and not so much on the big things. You can do this by focusing more on the house you have and the food that is being provided, rather than focusing on if it’s what you like or not or wanting to own more. George Bailey never got the opportunity to travel the world and build skyscrapers liked he hoped because he feels tied down to the family company he never wanted to own and work for. As George Bailey got older, he began to see everyone grow up to be what they wanted, and he sees all of his youth and opportunities go right past him. George decides to end his life because he believes he is worth more dead than alive. When Clarence, his guardian angel, sees this, he decides to show George what life would be like if he had never existed.

George’s actions will later cost him to lose the opportunity to be in his kids lives. His fascination for Carrie causes him to lose sight of his fatherly responsibility. Carrie was like a drug to George he was hooked on her even though she was slowly killing and changing him. George loses not only his wife and kids but also his wealth because of the affair with Carrie. In the end of the story he’s a poor old old man that lives alone.

The movie has been an American holiday tradition since then, as it tells the story of a man, George, and how he positively affects the world around him. The story, “The Greatest Gift” and the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life share many similarities and differences in plot and theme. Plot refers to the

The goal is well defined and the stakes are personal for the protagonist and for the town. The script explores themes about grieving, healing, hope, and second chances.

The movie focuses on the character named Charlie Baileygates who is a proud member of the Rhode Island State Police Department. In the beginning it seemed like Charlie had everything going for him, a town that respected what he was doing, a beautiful loving wife that he recently married, and a nice house that he call home. Month later he found that his wife was pregnant and one would think this couldn’t get any better for the main character of this movie; until that moment when they were in the delivery room.

Even the beginning felt so disconnected to life: “My mother tells me I am just biding time. She means it as a push toward not biding time” (Rankine 40). That was the only success to the story that I could find: how it masterfully echoed what loneliness is like. It was overall depressing and none of the characters had “happy endings” nor full lives. The beginning contained a recount of a father in his deathbed who regretted how much of his life he wasted worrying. The narrator’s friend was in a deep depression, even to the point where he had a nervous breakdown, and began crying while watching a movie irrelevant to his tears. A man, Timothy McVeigh, died from lethal injection and could not hold regret to what he did to all his victims. Even the dream of drinking a few glasses of water and the narrator being caught off guard by the price of the drinks powered the sense of loneliness and being lost. “I am, obviously, caught unprepared both financially and emotionally” (Rankine

Many elements of the film Life is Beautiful can compare to the Bible. For example, Guido, the main character, acts as a Christ figure in that he saves his son, Joshua from the evils of the Holocaust. Another example that compares with the Bible is the tank that is promised to Joshua. Finally, Guido’s death eventually saves Joshua from his own death. Such examples in the movie are comparable to examples in the Bible.

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are extremely influential novels that can teach great lessons to teenagers and adults. One of The Outsider’s main themes is; everybody has different problems, but everybody is still the same. This theme is shown throughout the entire novel and explains it well. There are two different groups in the setting of The Outsiders, the socs and the greasers. The socs are the rich kids that drive nice cars and get into a lot of trouble without being punished by their parents, and the greasers are the less wealthy kids that fight with the socs and wear greased back hair and leather jackets. Both of these groups are completely different people, but they still live in the same city and see the same environment. As Ponyboy states “Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren’t so different. We saw the same sunset” (Hinton).

Time period: The movie adaptation of the play takes place during World War II. It was an effective time period for the film to take place in because it was a time where many people were hungry for power, just like Macbeth is in Shakespeare’s original play. Dialogue: The movie uses Shakespearean language throughout the film. This helps maintain the original storyline. Despite the modern day twist on the story, the audience still gets the feeling of watching a Shakespeare play.

Rich Man’s Son and Git and the Giver are both share the same theme in many ways. In both stories there are really greedy characters and there are very generous characters.

The ultimate gift from the movie is giving someone else a blessing. Throughout the movie, Jason had to learn how to help others during their time of need. Howard Steven wanted his grandson to experience the change of good by putting himself in someone else’s lifestyle. Jason blessed people by giving money or just been there during their time of need. By giving someone a blessing is like a miracle for some people.