Similarities Between Film, 'The Crime of Father Amaro' and the Book, 'The Relic'

Tuck Everlasting is a novel, and motion picture about a family, the Tucks. The novel was written by Natalie Babbitt and, a positive review was made by The New York Times Book Review. This book, and movie, is intriguing intense and, odd.Also, there are many similarities between the book, and the movie.

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I can hear the blood pounding in my ears, as I am barely able to contain my hatred towards my traitorous friend.Sneakily a wonderful thought slithers its way into my head, and I now know how I am going to do the deed, he will surely not leave the vaults alive. The cask of Amontillado is a story that brings the golden rule (treat others how you want to be treated) to life. As Fortunato has wronged Montresor’s family, Montresor comes by, and “takes his breath away”, in other words, leaves him to die. The Cask of Amontillado has many similarities and differences between the book and movie, and the filmmaker did do an effective job of turning the story into a film.

One of the most outstanding characteristics of humans is that we have a moral conscience- the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, as well as understand the consequences of actions beforehand. Nonetheless, religion remains important to society because it helps to refine and provide a deeper understanding of humans’ moral responsibility. There are instances where either people ignore religious practices in favor of reason and logic or follow only religious teachings that suit a particular situation. Chronicle of a Death Foretold is a novella that typifies the failure of religion to unify people and provide a common course for understanding life. The story talks about Santiago’s fight against fate and the probability of escaping death that is foretold beforehand. The priest symbolizes religion in the novella and readers observe that his actions are similar to those of ordinary people. Ordinarily, we expect the priest to uphold religious practices and bring people together when society is divided on an issue.

Values are a vital part of any community. They shape the identity of a culture and help to form the identity of each individual in that society. Sometimes these embedded values have more power over a person than anyone would like to admit. Gabriel García Márquez shows the power of the value of honor in his book, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. In García Márquez’s writing, the theme of honor shows to have control over most of the characters. Through the many characters in García Márquez’s book, we can see that the heavy burden of one’s honor is portrayed as the reason for Santiago Nasar’s unfortunate homicide.

The antagonists of a story are usually not the ones critically acclaimed. Due to our human inclination it’s fairly relevant that, as readers, more of an emotional attachment is built with the protagonists. However, in spite of that, villains still deserve our attention. From taking a close look at a few villains and the methods in which they manipulate, parallels in strategy are prevalent. A few examples of antagonists that particularly stand out are: Iago from the tragedy Othello written by William Shakespeare, Roger Chillingworth from the novel The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Abigail Williams from Arthur Miller’s novel The Crucible, these characters all use isolation to manipulate others throughout the stories.

Initially, Antonio 's family in itself experiences major discrepancies with beliefs in different religions. Antonio 's mother, Maria Maréz, (formally a Luna), has a strong monotheistic belief in praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe and is very active in her catholic faith. Antonio 's mother would always make them pray and often times,“after supper [they] always prayed the rosary… [she] had a beautiful statue of la Virgen de Guadalupe” that they would kneel in front of and sometimes pray to for hours on end (Anaya 43). Maria had a strong belief that

Tartuffe is the ultimate hypocrite in this play due to his immoral actions that go against the Catholic ethics, which he preaches. Though he asserts to be religious, righteous, generous, he is in fact, deceitful, avaricious, and immoral (Cashman 80). Tartuffe hypocrisy is contagious, dangerous, and has a negative impact to those surrounding him; it affects Orgon by destabilizing his entire family and making them believe him as a supposedly spiritual man. Furthermore, those who result in believing him grow into pretenders. For example, Madame Pernelle who preaches Christian kindness, assaults her house help, whereas, Orgon commits wickedness against his household. Notably, some characters, such as Elmire, Dorine, and Cleante are strongly against Tartuffe’s hypocrisy. Both Dorine and Cleante employ rhetoric linguistic to attempt to contradict Tartuffe, and although their opinions are coherent, it is hard to triumph against him. Elmire notes, “You see him as a saint. I’m far less awed…in fact, I see right through him. He is fraud” (1.1.23). This aims to expose Tartuffe for what he truly is, by exploiting his lust for her to attest his insincerity to his spouse Orgon.

I will now go on to Trinidad, Father Martinez's "nephew" who also exhibits a divided character, lustful and gluttonous, as well as having himself crucified and scourged during Passion Week. When he ate dinner, he ate as if he were "afraid of never seeing food again. When his attention left his plate for a moment, it was fixed in the same greedy way upon the girl who served the table...with careless contempt"(145). Trinidad seems to have such an ugly personality, but at the same time he carries out his religious duties, to the extreme.  It is as if one makes up for the other, contradicting Catholicism.  Padre Martinez, who also tends to acts upon rules of his own, has taught Trinidad literal religion, not spiritual religion. Trinidad seems to think repeated sins can easily be forgiven, acting more to please those around him instead of God. Trinidad's character of sin and solitude seems to be allowing him to get the best of both worlds, when he should just be content with one.

“Where there is no human connection, there is no compassion. Without compassion, then community, commitment, loving-kindness, human understanding, and peace all shrivel. Individuals become isolated, the isolated turn cruel, and the tragic hovers in the forms of domestic and civil violence.” - Susan Vreeland, author of Girl in Hyacinth Blue. In William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing and Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, relationships within the communities demonstrate the need for human connection, whether it be in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, or 16th century Messina, Italy. Both Elizabeth Proctor and Hero are cast out from their communities after being falsely accused of committing a serious crime. Although they bear superficial similarities, the differences among the relationship between Hero’s community’s response to her being accused and the relationship between Elizabeth being accused and how her community responded to this are pronounced.

Whether it be novels, comic books, plays, or even poetry, each has its own way of affecting a person. Reading books create and build upon valuable skills, such as critical thinking and imagination. Reading stories can paint pictures in your mind perfectly in every way you’d like, although it isn’t truly in front of your eyes. Creating movies from books allows people the opportunity to physically see what events act out and can trigger emotions that were not found while merely reading the text. Likewise, movies can alter what truly happens in a story, which could lead to a plot change. The dramatic spanish film, La Novia, is the perfect medium between sticking to the plot and adventuring deeper into the unknown.

Márquez provides a religious and political commentary through the comparison of independent action and duty to fate and religion, when Father Amador is ordered by Colonel Lazaro Aponte to

Everyone is born with sin because of Adam’s sin. A person has to be right with God to be cleansed of their sin. Christians are viewed as evil as murderers in this time period in Mexico. The punishment for Christians is the same as the most vicious murderers. The reason their society has become so poor is because leaders of their country have turned from God and began seeking their own selfish desires (Greene 1). Greene is portraying a world where the corrupt and the evil holds the power, whereas the righteous and the deserving is being persecuted (Richardson 1). The Chief of Police is the diabolical villain in this book. He had a poor childhood, and blames God for all of the unpleasant aspects of his life, and he makes it his mission to kill the Priest (Power and the Glory 1). Greene uses this journey the Priest must go through as a way to demonstrate how everyone is on their own journey to discover their

First, the Vicario brothers prove to be very clear examples of honor is love through their actions to kill Santiago Nasar. Although they do not quite desire to murder him, they know that in order to gain their mother’s love and show their own love for Angela, they have to kill Santiago. Pablo and Pedro realize that they must not allow

Religion is a dominant force in culture, social standings, and human interaction. Though narrated in a religious society that is centered around Catholicism, the Chronicle of a Death Foretold is about an affluent young man named Santiago Nasar, who is murdered by twin brothers, Pablo and Pedro Vicario. As evident as the community prepares for the bishop’s arrival, religion is intertwined in their culture. So, with the potency of a religious head figure, civilians alter their daily lives to follow a religious protocol in the beginning of the book. Because religion is foundational in the book’s societal structure, it shapes aspects of gender, sexual engagements, and character interaction, it provides assistance to understanding the complexity of a character’s development and actions.