La Jetee Analysis

In the story, "Growing Up" by Gary Soto, Maria thinks that she is too mature to go on vacation with her family but because she thinks she is "too mature", she is missing out on being with her family before they are gone forever so that's what I think the theme is. Why I think the theme is that she should enjoy being with her family while she can is because on pg. 1-2 it said "Her father promised to take them to Great America, but she knew that the grown-ups would sit around talking for days before they remembered the kids and finally got up and did something. They would have to wait until the last day before they could go to Great America. It wasn't worth the boredom." Because she is thinking about herself, she didn't think about the bad things

A majority of the film takes place in the mind of Joel as he tries to find a way to hold on to his memories of Clementine while the employees from Lacuna work to erase the memories. The audience is magically placed into the mind of Joel as he is having his memory erased of Clementine. The flashbacks begin, transporting the audience on a journey in their relationship but in reverse. Director

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

An hour with abuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer describes a boy changing his perspective about his grandfather. “Just one hour una hora, is all i’m asking of you son.” (Judith cofer 592) That shows us that he does not think too fondly of his grandfather. “I walk slowly down the hall toward the exit sign. I want my mother to have to wait a little.” (Judith cofer 596) This shows us that he had a good time. Another piece of evidence that supports this question is “Anyway, after my mother nags me for about a week, I let her drive me up to golden years.” (Judith cofer 592)This piece of text shows that he hated his grandfather because he only let her mom drive him there after weeks of begging. A quote that states he liked him is “I liked it all” (Judith

There are many eerie stories in the Mexican culture. I didn't grow up with a grandma, so I didn't really know that story, till a few years ago. Well this is a short version of the story, la Llorona was a gorgeous young lady, she got married and her husband didn't give her attention. Her children got all the attention, and she got very jealous, so she drowned her kids in a river. So, to this day people say they hear her cry at night "oh my children, where are my children".The young woman walks along the rivers crying to find her children, La Llorona woman". La Llorona has many similarities to the Medea. She is one of the most is known in the Spanish language. The English language she is known as "the weeping known ghost in Texas. There are many stories about la

The theme is normally the message the author wants the reader to understand and take in. The theme of the story started with this quote, “From my office, I could look across town to the weather signal on the Mutual of New York Building and the lights that alternately spelled TIME and LIFE above Rockefeller Plaza; that pleased me obscurely, and so did walking uptown in the mauve eight o’clocks of early summer evenings and looking at things.” (Pg. 6) The theme of this story is about time and life. It took time for the character to finally realize the things she wanted in life. She thought she wanted to live in New York and settle in. However, her time in New York wasn’t the best experience she had hope for. Her life was a mess, and she wasn’t focused on the right things she was suppose to be focusing on. Seeing the words TIME on Rockefeller Plaza, one of New York’s main attraction gave her hope again. From the beginning she believed that time would help her adapt to New York. When she first got to New York, she was young. Being young gave her opportunities and time to find jobs and work her way up. It took time for her to realize all the problems she had been living with. It took time for her to realize that Los Angeles was a place she enjoyed living in in the future. New York was a stage of time where she had to discover herself as an individual. The last sentence of the passage showed that she was happy living in Los Angeles. “There were years when I called Los Angeles “the coast,” but they seem a long time ago. (Pg. 8) Normally, people living in the east coast would call Los Angeles the coast, but it was a long time ago since she called Los Angeles the coast. This provides the reader a hint that she had settled down in Los Angeles and have been living there for a long time. It took her a long time to discover the life she wanted. New York wasn’t the one for her. It only took time for her to discover what she

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

At Fond du Lac High School, in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, there are classes that each grade is required to take. For example, every student is required to take four English classes, one per year. In addition to that, every student is required to take three science, math, and social studies classes. This hinders a student’s ability to further themselves along a potential career path by forcing them into taking classes that aren't needed. In order to fix this policy, three things need to happen. There needs to be more trade high schools, fewer required classes, and differently formatted school days.

Pulling from the ecological theory, one of the main issues that LaJoe face is her environment, the microsystem. LaJoe live in Henry Homer Projects, which contributes to a significant amount of the problems she and her children face. Henry Homer Project has a high rate of violence, shoot-outs, drug dealing and when there are drug dealers there are individuals in the location that are using drugs. The concern I have for LaJoe children is their health, emotional and behavioral outcome. According to The Future of Children (n.d), a child growth can be explained by the physical, cognitive, social and emotional process of human beings from conception to adulthood.Therefore, it is a process that is modified by associating biological and environmental.

Also another theme would be about money because in the story as you can see Walter needs the money to open up his liquor store and Beneatha needs the money to go to college, and Mama who want to buy a house instead of living in a place where it’s so small and having to share a bathroom with the neighbors.this all shows money problem, each of them has a dream they want to achievel but they can’t, just like how Beneaths dream was to become a doctor but it’s not going to happen because they lost the money.

There were many issues and concepts that were arisen with this film. What seemed to be the major theme that predominated throughout the film was that being older does not mean that life ends. There are different issues that are dealt with when aging, but

Purpose. That is the major theme I sensed in this movie. From Hugo discovering how to live his life after his fathers death, to Mr. Melies finding his love for cinema again, this film is all about the human spirit's need for purpose. There is a large use of symbolism in this story, mostly pertaining to the gears of a clock or machine, and how each piece has a purpose. This symbolism represents a person's life on this earth. As Hugo states in the middle of the film, the world is like a giant machine. Machines only come with the necessary parts it needs to work. There are no useless parts, only essential ones. So if the world is a

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?

One of the main themes is war and tension as viewed from Marjane’s point of view. Throughout the movie, there is some scenes of violence such as air raids and killings. There is also the theme of conflict between Western and Islamic ideology. All the themes mentioned goes back to the class discussion about the different cultural differences between countries such as the United States and the Muslim world. Another theme that is relevant is cultural shock and immigration where Marjane lived in Austria before returning to Iran and experience a lot of prejudice and culture shock between the two countries.

La Jetée opens with a man who's struck with a strong memory of a mysterious woman of his childhood the day he saw a man get killed. Years later, the unnamed man is a prisoner of war in a nuclear fallout devastated Paris. Experimentalists who held the man captive aimed “to send emissaries into Time, to summon the Past and Future to the aid of the Present” (line 16). As the man had vivid memories of a particular woman from the past, the scientists chose him to partake in a series of painful tests to successfully conduct time travel. The majority of the film focuses on the man’s journey into the past and the time he spends getting to know the woman from his memory while simultaneously getting pulled back into the present. On the fiftieth day, they meet in a museum of “timeless animals,” the man spends the day perusing the museum with the woman, unaware that this would be his final time in the past. The scientists soon ship the man into the future where he finds himself in an unfamiliar Paris, meeting the people of the future. They initially reject