The Lost Boys Directed by Joel Schumacher

‘Twelve angry men’ shows that personal experience is the strongest factor influencing human decision-making processes.’ Discuss

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

This structure is commonly seen in any film or television production, as using the structure makes sure that the narrative is continuing to move forward, and is developing. The film plot line I will be studying and making an analysis on is The Lost Boys.

While the book “Left to Tell” by Immaculée Ilibagiza and the movie “Hotel Rwanda” by Terry George shows its share of similarities, both portray the Rwandan Massacre of 1994 in diversified ways. First, while both characters share similarities portraying the perspective of the genocide, they also show some major differences in the point of view as the main character in the movie was a hotel manager while the other main character from the book was a young, Tutsi woman. Also, while they face similar conflicts and hardships, both have their own personal field of adversities to face.

To mimic men’s actions and lost of civility in times of war and need, William Golding, narrates a story in which all characters are boys, with the intention of taking the reader through the journey made by those who descend to savagery when facing certain conditions. This essay is going to explore and explain the symbolism behind one of the novel’s main characters and how his presence influences other characters’ actions and the way things turn out.

For example, ‘the rifle’s eye is blank’ and ‘rumours flower over his absence…’ symbolise how the reason for the family man’s death is ‘blank’ and because of that, his workmates made assumptions as to why he killed himself. Dawe also uses imagery to symbolise the man’s walk away from life and how he kept it to himself; for example, ‘from the table of humdrum cares and dream and walk…over the edge of dark and quietly lie…’ which clearly explains that the man turned away from life. The imagery and symbolism in ‘The Sadness of Madonnas’ is similar; its purpose is to create an image of oppression through the mother and child. For example, ‘the xylophone rib-cage and the wasted music of leg-bones’ and ‘the thousands lying silent in the dirt, the dehydrated children’s skin as tough as leather’ present a powerful picture of the Ethiopian people and how the famine is making them suffer and slowly leading them to their deaths.

Similarly, in his poem Lime, contrasting imagery paints a historic landscape that lays the foundation for the duality of cultural evolution. Take, for example, the first stanza, “The victorious army marches into the city, / & not far behind tarries a throng of women / Who slept with the enemy… (1-3). While victory and pride are associated with the first line, disgrace and embarrassment become the central tone of the following lines. This sharp difference in attitude creates a duplicitous setting that characterizes change as both hopeful and despairing. Additional imagery, in the form of personification, further illustrates cultural evolution as a double edged sword, Komunyakaa exclaims, “The stunned morning / Opens into a dust cloud of hooves“ (4-5). By portraying the morning as in a state of shock, the triumph of the army feels like an unnatural disturbance in the environment. Coupled with “a dust cloud of hooves,” the tumultuous effects of war are exhibited. Despite opening his poem with a scene of victory, the contrasting imagery illustrates the bittersweet qualities that accompany cultural

The second part, Like Ants Spewing from the Nest, describes the boy's journey to Ethiopia and their stay as refugees in Ethiopia. It was a very difficult journey and it was not rare to see some not make it to the end. “That is a skulls tree where you can see all types of bones from a lot of people who went to rest in the cool shade and never got up to continue on their journey” (80). There was no resting; they had to move constantly because it was not safe for them to stay in one place. During the journey not only did they have to deal with wild animals but the boys encountered physical wounds and some would become ill. Alepho had become ill during the journey and had to be separated from Benson. Benson wrote "Once again I was filled with

Cowboys and Aliens (2011) directed by Jon Favreau, takes place in a Western style setting in New Mexico territory. Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of the desert severely injured with no recollection as to why he is in pain. At this point he notices the scientific and advanced technology attached to his wrist. This strange mechanical device immediately incorporates the science fiction aspect to a clearly western style film. After killing three men who were attempting to attack him, he steals their clothes, a horse, and guns so he can ride into town. From there he discovers he is a wanted man, is taken to jail, and eventually escapes. Lonergan finds his way to an abandoned cabin where he experiences a flashback explaining that he used to steal gold and has a love interest. Alice (Abigail Spencer), his lover, pleads to him to return the gold, and immediately after she says this, aliens abduct both of them. After these events, the aliens abduct multiple people from the town leading Lonergan to join up with Colonel Woodrow (Harrison Ford), Ella Swenson (Olivia Wilde), Doc (Sam Rockwell), Nat Colorado (Adam Beache), and many more loyal followers. Together, these characters seek to take back their loved ones, fight off the alien forces, and regain control of the land being invaded.

Run Lola Run (1998) is a visually stunning German film that carries out three different scenarios of the same plot that in which display the power of consequence of any action at any moment in time. While the film itself is complex due to its multiple retellings of the same story, director Tom Tykwer successfully creates a logical coherence between each scene and scenario through his use of temporal continuity editing.

On the surface, the 2006 film Children of Men, simply seems to be a dystopian movie about a man in an infertile society trying to get the first pregnant woman in 18 years to safety. Although this interpretation isn’t necessarily wrong, such a simplification of the film wouldn’t do justice to the many deliberate and symbolic choices that director Alfonso Cuarón made. The real story, Cuarón’s portrait of society, isn’t found completely in the plot itself, but rather hidden in the background and in the use of fertility as a symbol. To get a full picture, one must not simply rely on the plot, but analyze Cuarón’s subtler choices as well.

Issa’s poem jarred me out of my habitual thoughts concerning melting snow, villages and children, with the startling image of children falling on a village. The poem uses little poetic technique except the rhyming ‘il’ sounds within the words village and children linking these two words together.

Inception is a science fiction film that was directed by Christopher Nolan and co-produced by Emma Thomas. It is about the story of how a group of “extractors” infiltrate the minds of their targets, extracting information and planting ideas, which is called “inception.” After watching this movie, I was deeply impressed by its careful designation, the precise logic of the scenarios, its method of narration, as well as its use of symbols through the plot. An effective storyteller always draws the audience’s attention. The narrative structure reveals the theme of the contrast and comparison between real life and life in dreams, and the representative symbols in the movie. Some techniques are also to be appreciated.

A. Geographical location, including climate: The play takes place in the Midwest, somewhere in Ohio, United States of America. It is hot, since the characters are wearing dresses and short sleeves and most characters are sitting and standing outside, on the front lawn, for most scenes. This could mean that it is hot outside, and the characters are leaving the house might be hotter than outside.

Reading works of child soldier literature is, for someone amateur first-hand in atrocity, to be humbled. For such a reader inescapably bestows moral authority to those authors prematurely enlist to fight in hostilities, or who dare mention a fictional demonstration of the same. A sterling similarity which will be noticed at once we go through all these three pieces of works is their dealing with child soldiers. Portraying child soldiers as a victim of warfare is a common phenomenon in recent African fiction and film. Through the work of several humanitarian focused literature, children amongst war torn countries can be seen as heroes, damned by the unfortunate reality of their homeland.