Hannah's Story: Film Analysis

In the words of Pauline Hopkins, “And, after all, our surroundings influence our lives and characters as much as fate, destiny, or any supernatural agency.” In the post-colonial fiction, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, a family of six is being led blind into the Congo in the name of Jesus and left all their modern conveniences behind. There are many shifts in the daily lives and beliefs of the Price’s from the “simple” change of drinking water to the complexity of what Jesus truly means in their lives.While adapting to the new normal throughout the developing years of the Price children’s lives, the second eldest daughter, Leah Price, starts discovering who she is and how she is going to take on the task of life. By replacing each

In her new school, Theresa had a crush on an older Chaldean boy named Daniel, little did she know that that this innocent crush will turn her life into nightmare. Chaldeans had a

Hannah Bailey is a young, wild, and carefree teenager from a small town called Warsaw, Indiana. She attends Warsaw Community High School and she likes music, art, and photography. Majority of the students at the school are Caucasian and most of them are in cliques, relationships, and are somewhat popular. People call Hannah weird and say that she does not fit in with everyone. She wants to go to college in California to study film. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother suffers from depression and is not in the home, and her father works out of town in Ohio. Hannah’s boyfriend, Joel, is also a big part of her life. She spends a lot of her time with him. For Hannah, Erik Erikson’s Psychosocial Development Theory can be used to help explain her adolescent life.

God uses Hannah by giving her a son named Samuel, which would be used for his glory. To some, Hannah is not considered a leader or of any great importance. However, to me, Hannah’s story of faith and praise inspires me. Eli instructed Hannah to go in peace and the God of Israel would grant the petition she had made to him. Hannah did as she was told and her petition was answered.

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

Ray Comfort is a long-time evangelist who has employed many methods to spread the gospel. He’s well known in many if not most Christian communities. He’s produced several films and is involved with Living Waters, a Christian organization that creates films, devotionals and such. Comfort is mostly known for his videos of street evangelism, where he approaches individuals and asks them questions that lead back to a conversation about heaven and where the individual being interviewed, will spend eternity. These videos are what will be discussed in this essay, specifically Comforts use of the Rhetorical Opportunity in the film titled “180”. It is a documentary style film in which he likens abortion to the Holocaust and leads people to change their views on it and point them to God. In this movie Ray comfort uses the rhetorical appeals well to get people to change their minds about abortion.

In the movie and the book my favorite was the movie. Some of the reasons why i liked the movie more because it was more understanding for me. Its easier to understand things when you see it for yourself and not see it in black and white. My favorite part in the movie is when hannah is so kind and takes her life to save man many others it was emotional part in the movie. There was a big difference between the movie and the book here are some examples…

This letter a woman wrote to her teenage daughter before she died will have you in tears

Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s documentary “Jesus Camp” is an eye-opening display of the intense power which can be directly associated with the belief of a deity, or some form of higher power. Following Pentecostal children’s pastor, Becky Fischer and her unsettling children’s camp “Kids on Fire”, viewers are shown a series of clips demonstrating their deep-seated religious conviction. Among the various dialogue and imagery illustrated throughout Jesus Camp, the direct correlation between such a film and the demonic theory becomes increasingly apparent. In addition to power being heavily equated with the church, those who falter in their beliefs are looked down upon. Furthermore, the temptation of sin is spoken upon frequently along with the

Beliefs, no matter how irrational or ridiculous they may seem, sway an individual’s decisions, behaviors, and eventually identity, more so than anything else. While both stories (but especially “Curvaceous Dolls”) were hard to digest, one interesting factor was that both “My Kid Brother Kangxiong” and “Curvaceous Dolls” involved a discussion of beliefs (and perhaps as far as religion/faith). Kangxiong is compared to Jesus on the cross, not so much in the honorary sense, but more so as a representation of the lonely, poor, pathetic individual who believed in nothing. Both Kangxiong and the image of Jesus are at the extremes in the scale of “belief,” so different yet so similar. Reflecting upon Kangxiong’s belief in anarchy and then in nihilism

Nowadays TV nudity is seen more often than not however, images of women who are normal or bigger in size causes women to feel more positively towards women with larger bodies, which may lead to improved self-image. Whether or not Hannah Horvath character is a role model can be debatable but many, but there is no doubt that Hannah, is very comfortable with her body and her sexuality which is not the norm of society. When Patrick Wilson’s character Joshua tells Hannah she is beautiful, her first reaction is disbelief. It’s not because she believes herself to be ugly, but because it’s “not always the feedback that she usually receives.

Hannah was raised into a Catholic family. I asked her what her faith was like during her childhood, whether it was strong and she was going to mass every Sunday and praying everyday or if she was that Catholic that just went to mass on Christmas and Easter? Hannah answered me, saying, that during her childhood faith played a huge role in her and her family's life. Hannah went to church every Sunday with her family. They also prayed together every night before bed as

Through the help of these two characters, Anne’s life gets immersed in Christianity. Prayers and the love of Jesus form the pillars of her

As a young child, we are told many stories from people we love and believe in. The young boy in “Salvation” was told from his Auntie that he would see the light, see and

A documentary named The Thirty Years of China’s Christians narrates the struggle and challenges of Christianity in China over the past 30 years. The shooting of the documentary took two years, recording the glory of God in China.