Comparison Of Fred And Brandon

His father is taken away for, what his family said, business. Then, with a surprisingly tender smile, he patted my shoulder and went away with the gendarmes"(11). Sarkis Vendarian, Vahan’s father, doesn’t seem to be worried for his life. He doesn’t overreact which allows his family to have false hope for him. This doesn’t last long. Vahan’s family gets word that he and a large group of men were killed on a march. But, the bad news doesn’t end here. A few days later, Vahan wakes up and finds out that his uncle is gone. “Two days after I was taken out of school, Uncle Mumpreh was gone. "To prison," Sisak told me."They came for him earlier this morning." "Why?" "They claim he is a revolutionary," my brother said"(15). Vahan was very close to his uncle. The two were very much alike. Vahan’s uncle was the silly jokester of the family and the two of them were the black sheep of the family. Well, now Vahan is the only outcast. After Uncle Mumpreh was taken away, a couple weeks later, Turkish gendarmes come to Vahan’s house. This gendarmes allow their family to stay in the house, but then they take both of Vahan’s oldest brothers to the garden and the gendarmes shoot them. Now, Vahan and his brother Sisak are the men of the family and they have to help protect all of the women. Vahan realizes that his decisions

Jim Stark is a problematic teen who constantly gets into trouble which makes his family move from place to place. Judy catches Jim’s eyes and they seem to have a connection, but she already has a boyfriend. Jim starts out the school year at a new High School and has no friends. He gets into trouble with some “tough guys” led by Buzz (Corey Allen), which creates inconvenience for Jim and his family. He befriends an odd boy named Plato. Buzz challengers Jim to a competition which ends with Buzz dying. Jim befriends Buzz’s girl, Judy after this dramatic event and makes sure she is okay. Jim, Plato, and Judy now are on the run from the “tough guys” and the police for the death of Buzz. It ends with Plato dying because of a police man shooting him. The mini family will never be back together.

Furthermore, success is so solo for Kate since seeking the higher education is almost the fateful dream of Morrison clan, from the Great-grand Mother Morrison to Kate’s parents. She works so hard to fulfill it after Matt “betrayed” it. However, by gradually involving in Daniel’s life and his family, Kate learns that the success what she believes in is not as satisfied as she expected before. The people who are successful in the common acceptable concept of success have many problems such as the disagreement between partners and academic dishonesty in their life. For example, Daniel’s parents always dispute with each other in front of other people, the colleague “conducted a highly unprofessional piece of research” (149). However, Daniel’s attitude towards this kind of situations sometime really astonishes Kate. Kate considers “Daniel is naive in some ways,”(149) and Daniel thinks Kate always take everything so seriously. The conflicts between the two lovers are the way to deal with people and the attitudes to life are so different. To make efforts of reconciling the conflicts, Kate feels painful. But this is the course of rediscovering and readjusting herself.

The summary of the play includes the insight of multiple characters’ lives, all within the Hispanic community of Manhattan’s Washington Heights. One story includes a street market owner, Usnavi (Steven Pego), who’s in love with a girl named Vanessa (Lexi Marta) and is encouraged to make a move by his co- worker, Sonny (Edwin Rivera). Vanessa works at a beauty shop owned by Daniela (Goldera Surles) AND struggles to pay her, all while being bullied at work. Benny (Makay Johnson) and Camila (Kimmy Paltz) are a happily married couple who owns a business, while their daughter, Nina (Lauren Guerra) struggles in school but is in love with Benny who works with her family. Their love is forbidden by Nina’s father because he wants her to finish her education. The town’s grandma, played by Deidre

The boy’s in “Blackrock” often partake in risk taking behaviour in order to gain respect within their group and this can lead to a detrimental gang mentality. In the third scene Jared reveals to his friend Rachel why he is so loyal to his good friend Ricko. “He’s been my mate since forever...” he says, with the use of emotive dialogue and colloquial language. The authenticity conveyed through the emotive and colloquial language shows the seemingly positive impact that Ricko has had on Jared. After his Dad “split” he didn’t have a male role model and was what he called a “total fuck-up” or someone to guide him in the hyper-masculine world. He found security in Ricko and in return Jared defends Ricko at all costs, this shows the encouraging aspects of mateship, where boys can find sense of belonging in their friendships. However, Jared’s idealisation of Ricko blinds him to the realities of his aggressive personality.

Though they clash at first, Lina and Andrius Arvydas, a seventeen year old boy she meets on the train, fall in love. Andrius is handsome with wavy brown hair and blue eyes. He tries to take care of Lina’s family as much as possible, especially Lina’s younger brother Jonas. Andrius is separated from Lina, but they eventually find each other and get married.

An important idea that is relevant to young people in the text is the idea of change is needed for social and personal development and progression in society. This is relevant to young people today because without change we would not be able to better ourselves and evolve. Ross uses the techniques of colour, symbolism and cinematography to assist the viewer and help us understand this important idea. The film is about two teen age siblings named David and Jennifer who are teleported into an ideal and restrictive community which is in a 50’s black and white television show called Pleasantville. Jennifer and David introduce the idea of change to the community of Pleasantville which change the community from restrictive and ideal to an open and

The readers are first introduced to the Rudkus family and their friends through the wedding of Jurgis and Ona. A short while after their marriage, they are eager to begin work to pay off their wedding debt. The characters appear optimistic and have a firm belief in the American Dream. Luckily, both Ona and

The conflicts in this book mainly revolve around Paul and Erik Fisher. One conflict in the book is when Paul confronts Erik for making fun of the death of Erik’s football teammate, Mike Costello. Another conflict is when Paul is not allowed to play soccer at his new school due to being legally blind. Another conflict is when during one of Paul’s classes a sinkhole occurs and sucks up most of the portables. Another conflict is that when Paul transfers to a poor school called Tangerine Middle School he does not get along with his new teammates, Victor and Tino. Another conflict is that while houses in Paul’s neighborhood are being fumigated they are being stolen from. One last conflict is that Paul witnesses Erik order his friend Antoine to kill Tino’s brother Luis with a

Summary: Janie Crawford is a southern African-American woman who grows up under the care of her grandmother. Janie’s mother has her at seventeen and soon after Janie’s birth she becomes a drinker and stays out late until she leaves for good. Janie’s Nanny’s background of slavery makes her push Janie to be someone she could not be during her days. Nanny urges Janie to marry Logan Killicks. Janie is not in love with Logan, but Nanny and others push Janie to marry him. Janie thinks if she marries him, then she will start loving him. However, a marriage not built on the foundation of love will not last. While Janie struggles with her relationship with her husband, “she knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman (24). Janie’s marriage with Logan diminishes her idea of a loving and romantic relationship. Janie spends a little over a year with Logan under miserable conditions, until she marries Joe Starks not long after. Mr. and Mrs. Starks move to a new town where they meet friendly townspeople. Not long after, Joe

That also mean there would be no money coming in. Family was getting trouble right now. Then, they decide to let other two kids in the family went to work, Vilimas and Nikolajus to help the family and Jurgis. After few weeks, Jurgis could see his wife changed. She did not come back home at night. She told Jurgis that because the weather were too cold outside , she just wanted to stay at the factory for safety. Then, Ona was pregnant again and she was not happy about this. Jurgis found out that story was not true. What actually happen was Ona was raped by her boss, Conor. Jurgis was anger. He tried to find the boss and through the punch right in the face. Jurgis got caught and police put him in the jail. He also discovered that his family get kick out of house because they could not keep the salary coming

Greg Gaines is an awkward senior in high school who has an interest in making films with his only friend, Earl Jackson, of whom he calls his “coworker”. Greg’s mom tells him that Rachel Kushner, a girl he used to go to Hebrew school with, was diagnosed with leukemia. By

“Jewel,” she said. I was sure she was glaring at me, but I kept my attention on the screen. Guy #1 was looking at Girl #1, who was looking at Guy #2 longingly, while he kissed Girl #2. I'd seen this movie about a dozen times now to know that this wasn't going to end up well for either of them, but I still got butterflies when Girl #2 dies in a horrible car crash, and you think just for a second Girl #1 may have a chance, until Guy #2 tells her he doesn't love her and could never love her.

The short film entitled “The Most Beautiful Thing” is about a smart and lonely boy in high school who falls for a girl who is also lonely and has special needs. This film came out in 2012 and Cameron Covell is the director, writer, and producer of the film.

Movie Synopsis This comedy, drama displays a non-traditional family with very traditional issues of loyalty, fidelity, honesty, teens pushing limits and parents struggling to find common ground. Joni (18) and Laser (15) were both conceived by (IVF) from one sperm donor, the twist is their mothers are a lesbian couple, which Joni calls the “moms”. Nic is an Ob-gyn doctor and Jules, the homemaker, is starting a landscape design business, both are struggling with the fact that Joni is leaving for college in the fall. Laser, the only male, appears to be missing an actual male