Lionheart: A Journey Of The Human Spirit

Major Themes: Rebellion against Civilization- Throughout the novel, Huck is rebelling against “sivilizing” and wants to do what he wants when he wants. Huck doesn’t see how important it is to read and write until later in the

   The narrator in "Battle Royal," by Ralph Ellison, is confused and disillusioned. He is black man trapped in a world of cruelty and social inequality with nobody to guide him. He is being ripped apart in two directions by the advice of his grandfather and by the wishes of the white society which he longs to please. While attempting to satisfy their wishes, he forgets what is most important- his own dignity.

The character helps understand the theme in the story, that individuality must be treasured in our society, because it shows what the emotional and physical links to the society in the book, as well as the mental states and feelings influencing the text.

Another theme heavily shown throughout the book is people are defined by the choices they make. Ben left his little sister Sissy to die even though he may have been able to save her, because he left her therefore he now vows to not run from danger/things that scare him. On top of that, Cassie promised Sammy that she would find him, and because she made that promise she will stop at nothing to be with him again.

Many believe that Secondhand Lions (2003) is about action and adventure, but the essence of the film lies deeper. It is a coming-of-age movie written and directed by Tim McCanlies. The movie is about an adolescent boy named Walter, who develops trust over the course of a summer. Walter’s irresponsible mother, Mae, leaves him with his two great-uncles who resurfaced in Texas after forty years of adventuring through Africa. The acting, mise-en-scene and cinematography presented in the three images I have chosen are central to the essence of the film. The discourse of these images reveals how the theme of trust develops throughout the story.

Ralph Ellison’s short story, Battle Royal, is mainly an account of the African American struggle for equality and identity. The narrator of the story is an above average youth of the African American community [Goldstein-Shirlet, 1999]. He is given an opportunity to give a speech to some of the more prestigious white individuals. His expectations of being received in a positive and normal environment are drastically dashed when he is faced with the severity of the process he must deal with in order to accomplish his task.

We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us, and wealth classified us.” – Anonymous. In “Battle Royal” Ralph Ellison, displays that African-Americans being freed from slavery did not bring them equality to the white-superiors using allegory and symbolism. The grandfathers last words, the desperation of the narrator wanting to read his speech, the battle and the nightmare all represent what Ellison is displaying. The narrator opens to the audience explaining his grandfather’s last word to his father. Some of what the grandfather says is, " Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction.” (2) The grandfathers last words show symbolism and appear to the narrator’s life throughout the story. What the grandfather is telling his son is to step on rocks and pebbles while he is with the white people. He is telling him to live with the fact that the whites can end him at any moment and to always say yes and nod at them. To always smile and never show anger for your life could get worse.

Lionel Serbousek, in Stotan! is affected and responds to adversity in a variety of ways throughout the book. He is very strong with his opinions and resilient when he doesn’t get his way. He isn’t spoiled or bratty, just is opinionated and has strong feelings about many things. With Lion’s parents being killed in a freak boating accident, he has to be the leader. He has nobody taking him through life, therefore making him the leader and man to look up to. These actions really show the reader how much of a leader Lion is.

This self-description of the narrator says it all. He gives a brutal, yet inflated description of himself and his friends that gives the reader a very round main character.

Hiram, The Main character , and RC, his best friend, are the two most important of the book. hiram was a teen who lived with his grandparents in greenwood, mississippi (crowe 7). Hiram helped his grandfather with his farm fields and he enjoyed it (crowe 11). Hiram’s Grandfather was a racist man and hiram did not understand why he was (crowe 12). Another main Character in this novel is Rc Rydell. Hiram and RC had been friends for a while, rc lived down the road from hiram (crowe 16). Rc was always doing something he shouldn't of been doing (crowe

Themes: activities that young men encounter, the bond between a father and his son, an American imagination; these themes don’t really relate to me because i don’t feel like i have a connection with society telling me to be “reckless.”

Weep little lion man, you’re not as brave as you were at the start.” This is one example of a reason for the little lion man to be frustrated with himself, but this line also relates to the feelings of many of the individual soldiers during the vietnam war. The line explains that the soldiers were never able to achieve what is expected of them and how this pressure broke them down until they were not as brave as they were at the start of the war. Specifically, this line relates to the feelings Norman Bowker is going through in Speaking of Courage. O'Brien explains: “He wished he could have explained some of this.

To begin with, one major theme that continuously played a part throughout the entire book is desire. To many of the characters, it was the one urge that they could never overcome. One

The main theme of the book is the ‘character’ of people in that time. How people bonded and rejected one another in a time of such hardship and demoralization. I think every character played a part in the

Next, the author makes her interpretation of the main villain in the movie. It is a lion named Scar, and he “speaks in an effeminate, limp pawed style given voice by actor Jeremy Irons” (118). She calls him a “seemingly gay caricature” (Lazarus 118). If Lazarus is the accomplished filmmaker, she seems to be; she should have studied movies and would know how a typical British Monarch would act. Jeremy Irons portrays Scar as an uppity, well to do lion that is in charge and does not want to get his “paws” dirty. He spends his