Eraserhead

Henry is trying to communicate to his audience that the British will betray them in terms that his audience will relate to or understand, so he uses a situation that happens in a well-known piece of

Henry’s confidence does not last for a long time. The realities of the battle become a reality and cause his fear and doubt to reappear. Henry goes from being happy because he was able to fight the enemy in the first battle to being anxious at the beginning of a second

In the last paragraph especially, Henry uses many in a row to build up to the monumental moment. Henry asks the crowd, "What is it that gentlemen wish?… Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery"?(Henry 5). With these strong questions, Henry incites the people to want to fight - to break free of the unfair rule they had been under for too long. Additionally, just as Paine tries to scare his audience with their hypothetical future, Henry tries to scare the people and stir up their emotions using his logical and moving comparisons.

Henry was a normal boy and did all of the normal things young boys do: making noise, being busy and active, nosing around in the refrigerator, and asking questions - all part and parcel of being a normal child. But he was brought up to believe he wasn't a "model boy." His parents were constantly interrupted by him - his mother while she was reading and grading papers, and his father so much so that he spent most of his time in his office on campus, joining them only at mealtimes. His father wished to remain "blissfully unaware."

By utilizing the image of God being on their side, Henry is able to influence the audience into questioning their current strategies. He uses emotional words, phrases, and implications in each paragraph that connect to God in some way, strengthening his argument that his views are faultless. He respectfully conveys that by lacking war and not fighting Britain, they are displeasing God. “I consider it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery” refers to the colonists’ need to fight. The powerful words “freedom” and “slavery” contradict each other as they bring both fear and joy to the audience as it portrays their future outcome, depending on what action they take right now.

Initially, Henry fears that he will run like a coward when faced with his first battle. He’s been in the army for a while now but hasn’t seen any action yet. Talking with the other men, he tries to get them to admit that they are scared as well. No one wants to say as much; they all seem perfect examples of fearless men, which leaves Henry feeling even worse about his own apprehension. Shortly before his first battle, he sees his first dead body, a gruesome corpse.

After the Vietnam War, Henry was crazy and unstable. For instance, when Henry was watching television and he bit through his lip with blood pouring everywhere (977). The blood was getting on his bread every time he took a bite, but because of his lost ability to think straight Henry doesn’t even flinch as blood pours everywhere. Also, at the end of the story Henry snaps on his brother Lyman. He punches Lyman, which leads to a fight ended by the laughing of Henry (980). During the fight with Lyman, the extent of Henry’s mental changed, to turn on a family member and physically strike him. Henry illustrates how crazy he is when he jumps in to the river all of the sudden to “cool off”(981). This action by Henry ends his craziness and his life.

He also turns towards pathos, trying to provoke emotion from the audience and his classmates by using phrases as “outrageous fortune” to strike up motivation within them. Henry is

Henry uses imagery to make them picture them waiting for something to happen when they all know nothing is going to change.

First, one should focus on the language and Henry's ethos. The soldiers are burdened with the thought of a

Moreover, another event from the movie that shows his (CD) is his attempt to kill his mother. After running away from her in the woods and hiding, he tries to push his mother of a cliff. This plan was once again stopped by Mark. This ultimately led to Henrys death. This shows just how maladaptive or out of touch with the world Henry was. As I pointed out earlier, Henry was a very intelligent and manipulative child. He convinced his parents and other elders around him to believe that he was the perfect child and tried turning them against his cousin Mark. He even had Mark’s doctor believing that Mark had a problem. According to (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 12/10/09) both of these events are characteristics of (CD).

(Quabeck, 2013, pg. 228). The ill-timed allusion, as a result, exposes one of the several flaws of Henry’s character. This paper

Eraserhead is a 1977 American surrealist body horror film written and directed by filmmaker David Lynch. Shot in black-and-white, it is Lynch's first feature-length film, coming after several short works. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of Henry Spencer (Nance), who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape. Eraserhead spent several years in principal photography because of the difficulty of funding the film. It was produced with the assistance of the American Film Institute during the director's time studying there, and donations from Fisk and his wife Sissy Spacek kept production afloat. Lynch and sound designer

The movie Regarding Henry tells the story of a man named Henry who is shot and subsequently loses his memory. The movie follows him as he treks through his recovery, picking up bits and pieces of his past along the way as he tries to recall the events that make him who has grown to be. His family and friends encourage him as he searches for clues of his past and attempts to build himself up once again. One day, Henry goes to buy a packet of cigarettes. After walking in at the wrong time and angering a robber, he gets shot in the chest and head.

Henry is able to control what he wants his viewers to see. “The Nightmare”