Slingblade Paper
The film Slingblade depicts a mentally challenged man, Karl Childers, played by Billy Bob Thornton, and his trials and tribulations of life. When he comes out of the mental institution he was residing in, he meets a boy named Frank who accepts him as a human being like no one had previously done to him. The whole movie shows how this intricate mentally retarded man; who was domesticated from all his time in the mental house adapts to the outside world. Throughout all the foul judgment and harsh words sent his way, he maintains a certain level of sanity and civilness throughout the madness. The beginning of the movie starts and he tells his tales of his murders. Now what’s the first thing you always assume about a
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This was a great move on his behalf, because he ended up becoming best friends with this boy and even breaking out of character and engaging in a friendly football game with him and his friends. This is something you’d expect from your friendly neighborhood father, not someone who previously committed a double murder. These two scenes are towards the beginning of the movie and are merely foreshadowing to show that Karl is indeed a caring person and can live a meaningful and compassionate life.
The last montage of scenes in the movie where Karl goes around and talks to all the people he cares about is really the icing on the cake. He shows that throughout his life, he has truly done what he thought was best for people he truly cared about. Even if this meant he would have to sit in a padded room for the rest of his life. His first murder he thought he was helping his mother out of a terrible situation that she was in. Even though his mother and father neglected him and made him live in a shack out back, he still cared for his mother enough to come to her defense, or so he thought. He thought she was getting raped by the neighborhood goon, Jesse Dixon. When he found out that his mother actually enjoyed it, he said, “I reckon that made me even madder then what Jesse had made me.” He then reacted out of pure anger and killed his mother too.
He first talks to the mother and thanks her for how kind she has been in taking
To sum things up in the Sunflower Karl wanted to forgive Simon and all the Jews but he didn’t respond to him. If I were Simon I would forgive Karl just to make him feel a little better before death... Then I again changed my opinion, to stage where I thought I would forgive him, but only by words, not actually in my mind. I changed my first opinion because of Josek, in the story he said one can forgive someone else only when the person did wrong to him, not to the
This is a matter of philosophical interpersonal forgiveness. Karl does not ask for God’s forgiveness, he simply asks for Simon’s. He is asking for there to be forgiveness granted between two people. What Simon feels is out of Karl’s control, but he can try his best to have Simon feel sorry for him. Despite who Karl is Simon does subconsciously feel some pity for the man as he waves off an irritating beetle and stays to hear the whole story. He also is able to imagine Karl as more of a real person after visiting Karl’s mother, seeing his photograph, and hearing what she thought of her son. His heart softens for Karl’s mother as he decides to not shatter her illusion of her angelic son, but he still fails to produce an answer for himself after leaving her.
Through a deadly crime, Karl freed his young friend from a life of pain and despair, only to end up back where he began at the “nut house”. The choice of right or wrong seemed to make good and evil equal.
He told Conrad that his mother showed love towards him differently even if she does it the same way towards her husband or buck. He also showed him how he is not to be blamed for how she loves him by using his father’s love. Berger states, “’Ah, now we’re back to the old rotten-kid routine. She doesn’t love you because you’re unlovable… ‘Oh, I get, [your father] got no taste. He loves you, but he’s wrong,’”
This essay will try to answer the question: should Ernst Junger’s book “Storm of Steel” narrative describing his personal experiences during his service in German Army on Western Front of WW1 be consider anti or pro war?
In Berger’s last reflection, he talks about Simon’s conscience being disturbed by the events of Karl. Berger brings up moments when he told the prisoners showing that the matter weighed heavily on him and reminding himself of the cruel deeds of the Nazi’s. By Simon’s disturbance it allowed him to make the book and ask many difference people to write a
The moral issues of the movie question the concepts of what we believe in to be right and wrong, sin and benevolence. In Karl's position did he even know what was right and what was wrong?
He says, “ It is also a question of how much, how quickly, how easily can any individual forgive a mass murderer”(Sven 102). This quote emphasis that it is not that much easy to forgive someone. By forgiving them, they bring down the values of the crimes that were committed. If they bring down the value of the crimes, it would mean it was okay to kill a person’s family or friends. This would result in more crimes, murdering people's family and friends. This was another reason why Simon wouldn't forgive Karl because he didn’t want to make it seem like it was okay to be a part of mass genocide. Moshe Bejski discussed in his essay why people shouldn't be forgiven of their crimes. Forgiving someone is very hard even when regret is involved, “No matter what, regret never pardons crimes…” (Moshe 117). As he says, even after committing the crimes and thereafter regretting it, it’s not okay to forgive someone. Forgiveness is hard because it would betray the memory of millions of innocent victims who were murdered, and it would question the validity of what happen. Forgiving someone who committed the crimes would be a crime
Karl voluntarily joined the Hitler Youth because he was naive and lack of life experience so that he was convinced by false information provided by the Nazis easily. Karl joined the Hitler Youth when he was twenty one years old. Before that he did not care much about the world around him. As he mentioned, "Otherwise all I knew about the Jews was what came out of the loudspeaker or what was given us to read. We were told they were the cause of all our misfortunes...They were trying to get on top of us, they were the cause of war, poverty, hunger, unemployment..." (The Sunflower 40). Radio news, propagandas, newspapers provided false information about the Jews so that the Germans will treat the Jews badly because they all
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But the world is just too big for Karl so he returns to the hospital, only to be told that he is no longer allowed stay there. James Hampton plays Jerry Woolridge, the warden. Jerry is concerned for Karl and arranges for him to stay at his place for the
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