Throughout this semester we watched some pretty good movies and read some pretty interesting short stories. They three characters I chose to discuss are Royal Tenenbaum from the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, DJay from Hustle and Flow, and Harrison Bergeron from the short story Harrison Bergeron. The reason I chose these characters to write about was because they all had different struggles with their identity. Some were more obvious but some took a little bit of thought and discussion to fully understand the problem they had. The first person that struggled with their identity was Royal Tenenbaum from The Royal Tenenbaums. I believed he struggled with his identity because he and his wife got divorced and he moved away from his kids at a …show more content…
What causes him to change his perspective is he gets kicked out of the hotel he had been staying in for the past 22 years. Also once they find out he was lying about cancer he has to find a new way to approach them. He changes his identity throughout the movie because he wants to have a relationship with his kids and he changes the way he acts mainly. He understand the current way isn’t working and has to change. The second character I chose to discuss was Djay from the movie Hustle and Flow. In the beginning Djay seems to be a hardcore pimp but in the movie he changes and he says he doesn’t like pimping girls out of his car. Djay struggles with being from a neighborhood full of poverty. He wants to be famous like someone else who made it out of his neighborhood. Djay lacks the financial needs to succeed the way he wants too. He needs a several hundred dollar microphone and leaves one of his girls there to get it for him. Since he can’t afford anythings else he gets an old friend to help convert a room in his house to a studio. They cover the wall with cardboard cup holders to help with sound. Djay sees himself as someone stuck where they came from and had to resort to selling drugs and becoming a pimp. Djay’s ultimate goal is to become a successful rapper and to have a better life. He tries to have a famous rapper help him out but it fails and he ends up arrested. However, one of the girls who he use to pimp gets his song on the radio and becomes a
rebellion after the death of Harrison Bergeron, the government was overthrown and was forced to remove all handicaps and then was released to go back to normal before the equality amendments. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. All of this ceased in the month of April, 2082.
You're in a classroom with many other students awaiting the arrival of a test. Everyone on the edge of their seats as the teacher passes out your grade. That anxious feeling of what grade you got. “Yes I got and A!” You hear the cheerful sound of students celebrating their accomplishment. However when the teacher calls your name, you dread even looking at what you've got. When you finally get the courage to see, you're emotions dig the deepest pit in your stomach. This wasn't the grade you're expecting. Have you ever felt this way and wished that everyone could have gotten the same grade, that everyone had the same advantages at succeeding? Have you ever wanted the world to be equal? In the story Harrison Bergeron author Kurt Vonnegut grants
It takes courage to stand up for one’s beliefs, and not everyone is bold enough to take the chance. Freedom, taking risks, and just living in the moment is displayed in the short story of Harrison Bergeron , when Harrison tries to break free from under the government's laws in the future. In society, everyone is different, and has their own hopes and dreams in their lives that are aimed to be pursued like in Harrison Bergeron. The theme “Total equality isn’t an ideal worth striving for, but a mistaken goal that is dangerous in both execution and outcome” is the statement the other is trying to communicate. Kurt Vonnegut, in Harrison Bergeron, helps develop the theme through satire and characterization.
In 2081 everyone was treated equally due to laws 211th, 212th, and 213th. Can you imagine a world where nobody could be smarter or stronger than anyone else? In “Harrison Bergeron” the law said that everyone was supposed to be equal in every way but everyone was not truly equal. Everyone in “ Harrison Bergeron” were being treated equally because they are being treated differently, they have leaders that are treating them poorly, and all of these problems could be because of laws 211th, 212th, and 213th.
“Harrison Bergeron”by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., is a story about a teen that speaks out about the equal but unfair government in a dystopian future. “Harrison Bergeron” encapsulates the importance of celebrating each other’s differences and how equality ruins that. The setting of “Harrison Bergeron” is always in the distant future in a bleak place where mediocrity is admired. Because of the feeling of dullness in the setting, it gives a platform for the government to equalize everyone.The movie’s setting is very 1950s influenced, while the short-story is timelessly bleak.
These two characters showed significant psychological work in hopes of changing their “problematic” social identity. Both of these characters were conscious of the stigmas that surrounded their identities, each, however, had distinct ways in which they dealt with those stigmas and changing their meanings as they grew older. Many would say that the way in which they were able to transform their identities meant either embracing it or denying one’s own identity fully as the film progressed and new societal pressures arose.
In”Harrison Bergeron” written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., the family shares similarities and deferences with my family concerning point of view, standing up for what you believe is right, and how it fits into families today. The “Harrison Bergeron” has similarities to my family such as Points of view because in my family everyone has a different option on things. Another thing is standing up for what you believe in, in the story it shows a lot of how concrete Harrison belief is that the handicaps are bad and how he is willing to challenge the whole government over it. There are many families but all of them will have the differences good and bad.
Everyone has things that they feel isn’t right and should be different, and most people try to change what they think is wrong. Kurt Vonnegut and Carole Boston Weatherford use this universal human feeling in their short stories. In “Harrison Bergeron” he doesn’t like that people are limited because of handicaps and can’t reach their full potential. In “Freedom on the Menu The Greensboro Sit-ins” the characters wants to be able to have the same rights as the whites and starts “sit-ins” to protest. In both “ Harrison Bergeron” and “Freedom on the Menu The Greensboro Sit-ins,” we learn that in life they’re things that you don’t agree with and you have to stand up against, regardless of the outcome either good or bad.
Harrison Bergeron is an Icarus tale written by Kurt Vonnegut about a society where everyone is forced to be equal. This story takes place in 2081 where people have handicaps to create an environment where everyone has the same physical and mental capabilities. Harrison Bergeron is the main character who tries to overcome his oppressive society and be free. Harrison achieves his freedom, but it is short lived and he perishes soon after. This is almost identical to Ovid’s Icarus, where Icarus flies towards the sun to be free, but dies soon after. In the story Harrison Bergeron, Vonnegut is warning the read not to dwell on insecurities because they trap people in negativity, cause people to lose sight of surroundings, and weigh people down.
In society, it is perceived as peculiar to act different than everyone else; to go against the norm is against the rules, in a way. In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, George and Hazel Bergeron’s son gets the ultimate punishment for wanting to be different. Breaking the chains of his “handicaps” such as weights hung around his neck and glasses with thick distorted lenses, Harrison Bergeron tried to persuade a small group at a television station to remove their handicaps as well. He had just escaped from prison and called himself the Emperor. For breaking the many laws of equality established before the current year 2081, Harrison was shot and killed instantly, right in front of his parents who were watching
How can we tell if a character in a book is a Christ figure? Harrison Bergeron is an appropriate example. He went through and done things that Christ had done such as being persecuted for his faith, carried a beam of wood on his shoulders, and came to rescue the unqualified world. Harrison was taken away from home and went through series of rough treatment. He was terrorized for his beliefs, as with Jesus when He suffered the same way when He was crucified. In addition, the story read that he wore earphones that dulled his intelligence, weights that were strapped him to decrease his strength, wavy glasses that made him half blind, and a wooden beam on his shoulders to cut his mobility. Coincidentally, Jesus had to carry a wooden cross on
The escape of Harrison Bergeron from jail cause chaos in the studio and sudden death as he been shot by HG
Harrison Bergeron was first a short story created by Kurt Vonnegut. Then a movie inspired by the short story was created and released in August 13, 1995.
Each family is unique in there own way. In “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., there is a family of three; a mother, father, and a son. There son gets taken away early in the book because he is different. Also the family has thoughts about corruption. My family is about the same. I feel that our society is controlled, blinded of our government, and our the whole system. I believe that both my fatter and I are different but, does that mean its bad. I most certainly agree that we have a corrupted system. The reason’s that I’m about to give you people may not understand or like, but that why were are unique.
INTRO: The story that took place in 2081. It is called “Harrison Bergeron” this story is about life, a life where people are all the same,