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Gram's Faith In The Film 'Sighs'

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In the film “Sighs” Grams faith is put to the test and his wife is used as a sacrifice. In order for him to regain his faith, he just has to believe and the alien invasion helps speed up that process. Each of the characters is introduced and the viewer sees how they act and think. In the process of regaining his faith the conflict between Gram and his son unravels as well as the conflict between Gram and God. In the end he finally regains his faith since he sees all the signs and the alien conflict is resolved as well as his relationship with his son and God. Living in the house is Gram, Marrow, Morgan and Bow. Gram is the main character and he is the one trying to acquire his faith back by seeing all the signs. Gram is also the one having …show more content…

The conflict between Gram and God is that he stops believing in God when his wife dies in an accident. She was taking a walk when the veterinarian of the town began to fall asleep and crashed into Grams wife and then into a tree. She ended up stuck between the truck and the tree with no way to save her she died. Gram wondered why God had taken his wife if he had been a respectable priest. He felt hatred towards God for taking away his wife and he didn’t want to hate God. However in order to that he needed to deny that God existed, if he denied God's existence he had no reason to hate him. Therefore he quit being a priest and lost his faith in God. The conflict between Gram and his son Morgan, is that Morgan hates his dad for the reason that he didn’t do anything to save his mother. The one who is watching the film knows that he couldn’t do anything to save his mother on the other hand in the eyes of Morgan it’s his dad's fault for not saving his mother. In his son’s eyes the role of the father is to protect his family from any harm that comes their way and he didn’t do that. To Morgan his dad didn’t play the father role that is supposed to be played causing Morgan to hate his

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