Identity Versus Confusion In Toy Story

This marking period, I will be doing my Literary Letter on “The Youngest Doll” by Rosario Ferre. Out of all the short stories that we have already read, this one has the most meaning and makes the most sense to me. In every story there is conflict whether it is internal or external. In this tale the main conflict had been a character vs character which is external. It had been the Aunt vs the doctor. The Aunt had gotten a prawn stuck into her leg and it started to live inside of her calf. This had been a big problem and she went to the doctor to get it checked out. This is when the doctor lies and he had told her it was nothing. By saying this it made the Aunt think it wasn’t much and that she would be okay in the end. The scab then wouldn’t heal and the doctor had been making money through all of this. This conflict was resolved unhappily as the Aunts youngest turns out to marry the man who lied to her for these years.

The animated motion pictures Toy Story and Shrek use an array of underlying messages and themes to provoke emotion within the observer. Mutually, Toy Story and Shrek use the same theme of friendship to promote the importance of maintaining healthy relationships with those individuals surrounding you. The technique of characterisation is used vigorously within each film, as it helps viewers to feel connected to the characters, and understand the underlying messages. Each film is used to present the importance of friendship; showcasing the effects that companionship can have on individuals. In the film Shrek, the protagonist Shrek is used to exude a hostile dismay toward companionship, and showcases the negative effects relationships can have on you. Shrek is compelled by his resentment and loneliness in life, and takes that out on

As they are all escaping the daycare, Lotso approaches and pushes them into the dumpster. Thankfully for Woody, the baby expresses his good heart and throws in Lotso into the dumpster with them. Sadly, the dumpster was just picked up and was off to the landfill. As they were fighting to get out of the landfill before the big fire, Lotso escapes and leave Woody behind. Woody and his friends were doomed, but at the last second the claw came down (controlled by the Aliens), and were picked them up and brought to safety. Finally, Woody returned and brought the gift of, being a hero to his friends, and the gift of remembering his past mistakes. The hero's journey in Toy Story 3 was expressed through the toy cowboy: Woody. Throughout his journey, he learned to be courageous and to be determined. As he was being taught through the journey and by the mentor he was learning how to become a hero. Without this key journey, the story of the movie would not be the same. Instead, the path of the story could have been accepting your mistakes because of the mistake of going to daycare. But from the journey, he learned a different lesson and is now a hero for helping his friends get out of the daycare.

In Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Nora Helmer is a traditional “angel in the house” she is a human being, but first and foremost a wife and a mother who is devoted to the care of her children, and the happiness of her husband. The play is influenced by the Victorian time period when the division of men and women was evident, and each gender had their own role to conform to. Ibsen’s views on these entrenched values is what lead to the A Doll’s House becoming so controversial as the main overarching theme of A Doll’s House is the fight for independence in an otherwise patriarchal society. This theme draws attention to how women are capable in their own rights, yet do not govern their own lives due to the lack of legal entitlement and

The film The Breakfast Club, directed by John Hughes, illustrates how a teenager’s identity can be influenced by the conflicts he or she has experienced in life. First, Bender is influenced by his dad. His life is rough. His dad mistreats him and doesn’t care for him. This influences Bender to be a bully to feel better about himself. For example, when he is in the library, he tells everyone about how he got a cigar burn from his dad. His dad must abuse him, so Bender doesn’t know what to do about it besides bully others. Moreover, Allison’s identity is influenced by her parents. They ignore her, so she doesn’t feel loved. She wants to run away. For instance, she tell some students in the

Adolescence can be described as a period of awareness and self-definition. According to Erikson (1968), it is an important period in the enduring process of identity formation in the life of an individual. The movie ‘The Breakfast Club’, focuses on a group of five adolescents, and their pursuit to find their prospective identity. This essay will focus on the process of identity development in these five adolescents, with particular reference to the character Andrew Clark. In addition, it seeks to highlight the different identity statuses, as well as, the factors that facilitate or hinder identity formation. Furthermore, various psychological theories will be drawn upon relating to events in the movie that depict adolescent identity development.

The film The Breakfast Club by directed by John Hughes demonstrates on how a person’s identity can be influenced by conflict he or she has experienced in life. A person has a choice between the actions he or she takes in the world and if they want to pick the choice that goes bad for them, that’s their problem and they will get the consequence.

Transformations of Key Characters and How Their Changes Affect The Stories and Their Themes (title still in the works)

Identity. Is it formed when you were first born? when you were givien a name. Is it formed over time, or possibly even as you grow older you start to relize who you really are as a person. We people have identities.

The second step is the call to adventure, the hero (in this case Woody) is faced with something that makes him begin his adventure. When it was Andy's birthday, he received a new gift from his mom, a new toy called Buzz Lightyear. This one possessed modern qualities, which made it more attractive among the other toys.

A theme of the story “Barbie-Q” is innocence, the two little girls were walking with their parents near a yard sale when they saw some barbie dolls. Both insisted their parents to buy the barbies until they said okay the barbies were burnt, wet, and smell like smoke. But they were still happy with their burnt barbies because they are innocence and they don't know what they do.

Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. An identity can be lost in a person’s life time when they go through ruff or troubling times. This was proven in The Lord of the Flies when young boys went from civilized school boys to blood thirsty savages all wanting power. The characters all lost their identity one way or another during the story. Piggy was the first victim of lost identity when he was already labeled by society and other schoolboys by his looks. Every boy on the island had a choice to pick between a civilized life with Ralph or a barbaric life with Jack. This choice also determined some people’s identity by them changing themselves to fit on a side. Jack’s choir boys had changed their

“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.” In the book, Lord of the Flies, small boys were flown out of England to keep them from World War II, but as they were flying they crashed on an island. After the boys realized that no adults were with them, they tried to create a society. The boys tried to be civil, but the lack of maturity throughout the children brought them to chaos. The boys on the island lost their innocence when they slaughtered a mother pig, when they murdered their another boy Simon out of cold-blood, and when everyone on the island hunted for Ralph.

But all of these hidden truths were not the most puzzling, which bestowed both Nadine and Henry the motivation to start pursuing it. This certain hidden truth finally manifested before them, when the two turned the page to a certain section of Emily Ryan’s personal diary. As it turned out, one of the pages pertained to the story of a sister that Nadine’s parents did not inform her of. What makes this life story even more boggling was the idea that Nadine’s mysterious sister had a son, roughly two years after Nadine herself was born.

Identity is the fact of being who or what a person or thing is. An identity can be lost in person’s life time when they go through ruff or troubling times. This was proven in The Lord of the Flies when young boys went from civilized school boys to blood thirty savages all wanting power. The characters of this story all lost their identity one way or another during the story. Piggy was the first victim of lost identity when he was already labeled by society and other schoolboys by his looks. Every boy on island had a choice to pick between a civilized life with Ralph or a barbaric life with Jack. This choice also determined some people’s identity by them changing themselves to fit in a side. Jack’s choir boys had changed their identity dramatically from proper school boys to savages rubbing blood on their faces and mindlessly murdering people. One thing most of the guys did was paint their faces to hide form their prey, then after killing them viscously they would wipe their camouflage off like nothing happened. The only person who never changed their identity was Ralph and you can see that him keeping leadership during