On the Waterfront Essay

In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by

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"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

In The Artificial River, Carol Sheriff describes how when the digging of the Erie Canal began on July 4, 1817, no one would have been able to predict that the canal would even be considered a paradox of progress. One of the major contradictions of progress was whether or not triumphing art over nature was even considered progress. People were not sure during the nineteenth century if changing the environment for industrialization was necessarily a good thing. Another contradiction to progress that resulted from the Erie Canal was when people started holding the state government responsible for all their financial misfortunes. An additional contradiction to progress that the Erie Canal displayed was how many of its workers were either

Both texts depict an antihero who committed an irreversible sin, sinking them into despair, and leaving them craving for salvation. In the opening scenes of On the Waterfront, Kazan’s use of a close up shot of Terry Malloy’s face is a manifestation of how Terry is being harried by the guilt of Joey Doyle’s death. He thought the mob “was just gonna lean on him a bit”, instead,

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On the Waterfront and how Religious Figures are Supposed to Affect their Community Through the character of Father Barry, On the Waterfront argues that the implementation of Catholicism in the workforce allows for the improvement of workers’ physical lives through the exposure of corruption of power. At the beginning of the film, Miss Doyle confronts Father Barry’s apathy towards his flock’s physical conditions with an angry exclamation of, “Did you ever hear of a saint hiding in a church.” Miss Doyle’s impassioned cry exposes the unintentional apathy that Father Barry has for the working conditions of the people while also hinting that the people’s conditions would improve if Father Barry/Catholicism took a more active role in the community.

In the 1954 film On The Waterfront, Terry Malloy, the protagonist, wants to become a prizefighter. Meanwhile, he has other priorities which include cultivating to his pigeons to prepare them for racing while also running errands at the docks for Johnny Friendly. Johnny Friendly began his childhood fighting in the streets and became involved in an organization that helped him maintain self-preservation. At first, Friendly appears powerful and commands respect but throughout the film, he slowly begins to lose his power as Terry Malloy gains it. Terry witnesses two of Johnny’s thugs murder a man known as Joey Doyle and later meets the man’s sister who gets introduced to Father Barry.

“ Crime on the Waterfront” is a multi-article Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalism series into the criminality of the harbors which was written by famed newspaper reporter Malcolm Johnson and Kazan and his partner using this as inspiration adds legitimacy and realism to his screenplay. According to Filmsite Movie Review “The series chronicled actual dockside events, labor racketeering in New York’s dockyards, and corrupt practices… It revealed rampant bribery, extortions, kickbacks to union officials, playoffs, theft, union-sponsored loans sharks, murder..” and the overarching tyrannical rule a select few people had over the New York dockyards. Criminal syndicates had taken over certain territories and often innocent men were drawn into these enterprises. An example of this is Terry Malloy who was pulled in by his brother (Charley) who had already secured his involvement with the mob. Throughout the film Malloy witnesses murder, has his life threatened by mob-affiliates, is assaulted, and as a result of these experiences challenges his own beliefs on criminal activity, morality, and such.

The Great Depression was one of the worst financial crisis the United States has ever seen, it came more subtly to California. California’s diversified economy which included agricultural, industrial, entertainment, tourist and service sectors meant the economy was not dependent on one aspect. However, the 1930s had its fair share of confrontations and violence between labor unions and farm and factory owners during the 1930s. Furthermore, civil unrest resulted from instability of the agricultural workforce, a militant labor movement, and radical traditions. Conflict between capital and labor became confrontations between left and right.

At the start when after Joey Doyle’s death, we see Terry wracked by guilt, as he has been split in two by his unknowing collusion in the death of Joey. He starts to question Johnny Friendly’s ways, especially from the perverse humor of Johnny Friendly’s lackeys in response to Joey’s death, and

Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront is a film that tries to show the reasoning for someone in a difficult situation. For example, the struggle someone goes through when trying to figure out what the right thing to do for them morally. The film follows Terry, a brutish type character yet very empathetic of a man. This type of character makes the audience feel for someone going through this kind of turmoil as they feel for him in a way as though it were themselves having this dilemma. On the Waterfront plays with the gray area in life, and frustration of it there never being a black and white answer. For Terry, the symbol for the black or “bad guys” are the people who are his only family and were there for him his whole life. The white or “good guys” being love and moral duty that are portrayed by Edie Doyle and Father Barry. The good show him a world out there that he doesn’t have to betray himself on what he feels is wrong. Though how can he go against all those that have stood for him and raised him up when he had nothing?

The movie is set out as an officer who impersonates and identifies himself as officer Daniels, who prank called a fast food restaurant manager Sandra at ChickWhich in Ohio. Sandra falls into officer Daniels plot and gets caught up in the wind. Feeling guilty of a crime that wasn’t committed by a co-worker there named Becky. Sandra is asked to bring Becky into the room to discuss the falsely claimed downfall in which, was complained by a customer that she had stolen money from an hour ago. Sandra shocking moment send her into regret of trusting Becky. Becky’s

This is an old movie which was shot in 1980s, so from our point of view, its setting and costume are outdated. But in that time, it made sensational effect. For example, it collected 6 Oscar nominations with one win, which was an amazing achievement even in our time. What is worth mentioning is that its theme song "Let The River Run" won the Oscar, so we can say the song in this movie is a major feature of it. In my view, the plots and characters drew more of my attention. What’s more, the competition between two women and the motivited story of Tess are more attactive to me. Firstly, the plot . I have to admit that the scriptwriter masterly design the relationships among people. The storyline is a competition between two women , Tess and Catherine. At first, Tess is on a lower position, so she wants to get

The 1951 Waterfront Dispute was the biggest and most prevalent industrial dispute New Zealand had ever seen. Waterfront workers were unhappy with their working conditions and wages due to the current financial hardships, so up to twenty thousand of them went on strike to oppose these circumstances. It lasted a total of 151 days, from 13th February to 15th July 1951 (Ministry for Culture, 2014), and many different people took action in hopes of driving change. They all faced various challenges throughout the strike, and in the end of the dispute, what resulted were numerous short and long term effects for the workers and the people of New Zealand.