Good Bye Lenin Quotes

The Lives of Others and Goodbye, Lenin are two movies cleverly depicted about the fall of Communism. One director chooses to portray humor as the base of his movie, while the other chooses a more dark and serious tone. Both directors clearly want their viewers to understand the seriousness of what the fall of the Berlin Wall meant and the importance of Germany’s East West unionization for the citizens of the GSD. However, a hidden truth in both movies is revealed. Truth about a culture that once existed, but has since been swept under the carpet of change. The late 80s brought on the fall of the Berlin Wall signifying the end of the Stalinist regimes that had once held so much power. Outlined below are two movies that, while so different in their delivery, end with the same clear message.

He even finds himself wanting to laugh at his situation. After this, he goes into a reminiscing and even happy tone about what he thought life in Canada would be like. He states he used to dream of Canada and of the opportunities of a new life outside of his homeland. He recalled how he planned to get married, have children, begin a family with a house, maybe even a cottage on the edge of the city. Middle class was his goal, he’d provide for his family, a stark difference from the “hard-to-mouth” life he was used to. But then, all too quickly, this daydream is ripped from him as his feet pressed to asphalt, continuing his never ending search for a job. With each step, he finds his sense of revulsion increasing, and thus begins his doubts. He wonders if he was really happy on the island, happier than he even realized before reaching Canada. Again, reality tears him from his regrets and hopes and he knew he needed to find a job or he will starve. His tone quickly takes a sharp turn into humorous denial, perhaps another past thought of what he thought life in Canada would be like; “No one starved in Canada; that only happened in such places as India or Africa. But definitely not Canada!” For a third time, the reality of his starving, growling stomach brings him back to his current, unfortunate situation, in which he becomes slightly panicked at the prospect of actually not getting a meal that night. He suddenly feels out of place,

Having parents that tried so hard to set themselves apart from society, all while struggling to earn money, had an impact on their children's lives, and it wasn't for the better. These children lived to struggle. With a bad home life, and parents that didn't seem to care for them enough, Jeannette, Brian, Maureen, and Lori Walls all eventually moved away from their careless parents, to New York. Although it took time for Lori and Jeannette Walls to save up what little money they had, due to the fact that the father continually stole it, they were able to move to New York successfully. Later in the memoir, their parents also decide to move there, except they don't try to better their lives like their

This quote talks about how Lenina woke up in one of her naps or when she was sleep and realized that they were teaching her through her sleep. I feel like this is why her personality is different than other people in the book. I feel like she seems more great full than other people for not being a lower cast because she knows how horrible their job is. Maybe because she wasn't asleep all the way through the teaching session that the thing they were repeating over and over again didn't stay permanently stay in her memory like the other people. And the fact that it scared her when she realized this probably didn't help either. (117)

In LaVaughn and Jolly’s life their families have to ability to build up or tear down their self confidence. In LaVaughn’s life her mother is great at building up her daughter's self esteem. When LaVaughn was younger she gave her parents a special dried flower picture. Her parent repeatedly told her how much they were proud of her. Knowing that she had made her parents proud boosted LaVaughn’s self esteem. This give LaVaughn the knowledge that she has the ability to be successful and make her family proud. Her mother also gave her the confidence she need to go against the odds and apply for college: “You go to college, you make me prouder than I been in my whole life” (Wolff 11). Her family encouraging her to follow her dreams promoted LaVaughn to get good grades and apply to college. Without the confidence her family gave her, LaVaughn never would have applied to college, and would be stuck in poverty for her whole life. On the other hand Jolly’s family only tears down her confidence. Because of her lack of self esteem Jolly gets pushed around by her boss. Jolly recalls, “‘ I said Stop it, he kept findin’ other directions to put himself all over me --’” (Wolff 57). Jolly’s family restrained the amount of confidence she was able to obtain. By kicking her out of the house and not providing support for Jilly and Jeremy, Jolly’s parents made her feel unloved and unimportant. This

Crispin, by Avi, takes place during the Middle Ages–the Medieval era. Living during this period also meant social class division and intense Christianity. This causes Crispin’s character to become powerless, cautious and worrisome, and religious. The Middle Ages was a time of hierarchy, so unless you were born into a family of nobles, you were a powerless peasant. In the novel, Crispin is a serf, the lowest rank of peasants, and suffers from many hardships because of it. With being serf, your rights are stripped away from you, leaving you completely powerless. Masters are allowed to anything they wish and if they disliked you, they were able to make false accusations against you. Crispin was a victim of this when Father Quinel tells him, “Aycliffe claims you stole money from

town. Everybody is waiting for the day George Amberson Minafer, the only grandson and extremely spoiled, to get his “come-upance.” One day at a ball, George meets a girl named Lucy Morgan and falls in love. Her father, Eugene Morgan, works in the automotive industry, which George despises. Lucy and George are “almost-engaged”, but Lucy says she won’t go any further until George decides what career he wants to go into. George says he doesn’t want a job and blames Eugene for those ideals.

Obsessed with her “unluckiness,” she neglects her children who are constantly exposed to the cold, emptiness of their mother’s heart. She is unable to love anything but the money she cannot attain. Her oldest child, Paul, forced to deal with this bitter treatment the longest, becomes obsessed with money as well, but as an attempt to win the interest of his mother. “Absorbed, taking no heed of other people, he went about with a sort of stealth, seeking inwardly for luck” (Lawrence 483). He rides into a trance on his rocking horse until he is killed by this urgency to find a winner. He wants to be “lucky” so badly. He wants to be the best, something his mother and father believed they could never be. He needs the money so that his house will stop screaming and his mother will love him.

He is deceiving his parents, Pee and Em, insinuating that he has a job and that is why he is out all night and comes home with a bunch of money. Instead, he is out causing havoc among the city. He and his droogs start off every night by going to the Korova milk bar. There they go out to see the old ladies where they buy drinks and make friends with the old ladies so that the older ladies can cover for them. There are a couple of events in the night that happen and show the reader Alex’s true colors. There is an incident with and old drunk man in the streets. The man is talking about how the kids have ruined his beautiful country. Alex and his friends decide that this man has to be stopped and proceed to beat the hell out of him and leave him there to rot. Alex and his droogs also run into someone around their age in the night. The only difference between Alex and his droogs and this kid is that; this kid is a bookworm and is more into books rather than violence. They harass this kid by beating the hell out of the kid and shredding all of his reading material. They also arrive at a shop where they decide that they want to go in and rob the shop owner. Though they are young, Alex and his friends are smart. They use Masks to go in and rob this store of their cigarettes and money. While in the process of robbing this man and his store they also decide to just have fun with him and torture him. Alex and his

We are going to examine the movie “Good Bye, Lenin” and identify the ways the movie depicts not only the fall of the GDR, with the Berlin Wall being knocked down and joyful people ringing out from the East, but, also describing the movie as a product of the twenty-first century by the push from communism to capitalism. Both could accurately describe the this movie, but, it is upto you to decided which side is more accurately profound in your perspective.

After putting a down payment on the new house, Mama gives the rest of the money to Walter and ultimately gives him the role of the man of the house and to step up to take care of the family. However, Walter goes against Mama and decides to follow through with his dream and invest the money in his potential liquor store business. Although, his plans fall through when Willy, one of the “investors” runs off with the money. Not only Walter, but his whole family lose the chance of a better life and are forced to start back up again. They no longer have the money to put Beneatha through medical school or the money to support themselves. Despite the backfall, the younger family keeps trying. Even though the road ahead may be difficult, the Younger family has each other to support one another and that’s all they need. By picking themselves back up after they have lost everything, it shows that they aren’t ones known to give up at the sight of defeat. They kept trying after they had lost everything because having nothing left to lose means that things can only get better from here on out.

He was sitting in the bath with a bruised back and cut face. Alex Flower was only a sophmore in highschool, yet he felt like he was an old tattered man. He knew that he had to go back down stairs but that is where they were. He lived in the top floor of a three story apartment in Rerik, Germany which was unfortunate for him considering that they were on the first floor. “They” were simply what he referred them to because he never did quite catch their names as they were beating him when he tried to exit the apartment to get away for awhile. There were three of them, all older boys, and they beat poor Alex Flower down for any reason they saw fit. Alex could live with this though, as long as he got out of the apartment to go see his sweet, beloved Rosey. She was a senior in high school, much older than Alex, but there was definitely a special aura surrounding the two. Alex woke up every morning in the summer of 1973 just to be struck down relentlessly on his way out the door to go meet Rosey in the warehouse but he would not trade it for the world. Rosey was hiding something from Alex for way too long and the time to tell him was now, but would her decision be right?

For him it is a never-ending flow of misery, a prison. The only time he had a little bit of fun, he was curtailed and punished. He feels the neighborhood houses rise like a trap, a maze of staircases. He feels bitter at heart, and thinks his surroundings are detrimental to his mental health. He doesn’t want another job but open spaces and peace of mind. He can live this life of complete freedom only by escaping from the humdrum of family life. To seek that he really runs away from the home. As soon as he escapes in bus, he thinks as if he got new life like snakes that get new life after they leave the withered rags of their old skins behind and disappear into grass. “He thought of how he was leaving the world, a world that made its endless revolutions towards nothing. Now it did not matter any more. His heart was caught in a thrall of joy and fear. Somehow, somewhere, he had found a crack.”

Realizing that his life offered him little more than sharecropping, Stevie decided to hitch a ride on the B & B Railway going North. For moths, he practice running beside numerous compartments and jumping on, exhausted yet satisfied with his feat. However, he always got off and returned home, until one day when he chose to make a move and not look back. It was his ticket out of the fields. “My family lived on the Branden Farm for generations, but they were only able to scrape by. There was no way of getting out of debt,” he said. He notice how his father’s back became bowed and his mother’s hands ached and swelled from picking cotton. His older siblings were also starting to show sign of being physically spent. The boy realized that his baby sister would eventually follow along in their footsteps. If he had any choice in the matter, Stevie’s life was going to be different than his family’s, and even though he did not have much formal education he still had a desire to return to school.

Blindingly pursuit his ideal life, most importantly, the man has lost his social skills which he assumes himself a “bad boy”. Even though the man has enough intellectual knowledge to get aware of his temporary problems, he does not make any changes. His selfishness dynamically expresses later on in adulthood. He admits that he is always unconfident, sad and anxious. Moreover, he develops a sense of disrespect to his parents. He makes fun at correct their grammar mistakes; He get sick of their constant encouragement; He is disgraceful parent because they can help him with his homework. The character obviously does nothing to compensate for his parent sacrifice. He is an outstanding student, but in the human sense, he fails to be an educated person. He once admits: “He cannot afford to admit his parents (How could he still and pursuit such a contrary life?). He permits himself embarrassment at their lack of education” (Rodriquez 3). He may think that now with an excellent education, he is in a higher level than others including his parents. Therefore, he feels ashamed of them. Getting rejected from the society and suffering a state of loneliness are a pricey cost of success that Richard Rodriquez’s character decides to take.