The Wedding Ceremony By The Sarah Siddons Awards Banquet

The film opens on modern-day Louisiana and tells the story of a circle of friends on the wedding day of Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts) daughter of M'lynn Eatenton (Sally Field). Shelby suffers from type one diabetes.

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko is a novel written multidimensionally to portray the traditions and ceremonial practices of the Native American. Silko describes the rebuilding of the Native American culture by writing the real story and poems in the alternate story. The animal symbolism is an integral piece of the novel’s importance that reflects characters and the Native American culture with the use of them in metaphors. Silko respectfully depicts the animals, such as cattle, Fly and Hummingbird, and mountain lion that represent Tayo and the Laguna people, Betonie, and the cultural relationship with nature.

Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston tells the story of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston when she was a young girl, in spite of her japanese heritage, she and her family faced struggles during the time of The Pearl Harbor attack and The war between Japan and the United States, which was the Second World War. As the story goes by it shares all of the hard work they had to do as a family to overcome the struggles. Also how the struggle and hard work, changed their lives a lot in Manzanar. Houston and Houston both uses struggle, hard work, and change to show how Houston and her family had to live before and after the hard times of the war between Japan and the United States. During the course of the novel, significant

Native Americans are losing their background and where they come from starting with culture and heritage that has been passed down to each generation. Not losing site of that, there is a chance in seeing the positive of preserving and continuing the culture and heritage of the Native Americans and bringing significance to ceremonies.

In Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, Silko shows how change and new perspective is the regeneration for a reservation with lost ways and old traditions. Silko uses three characters with social deformities and unacceptance to show how old and lost traditions condemned them, but ultimately shows how they bring new ideas and lessons of equality and adjustment. Betonie is a mixed race medicine man that uses his life decisions as an example to serve the idea that being an outcast shouldn’t limit one’s power and wisdom. Night Swan is another mixed character that uses her experience of being shunned to help Tayo understand the power of being different and what he might face. Tayo is a mixed character and he is the result of both Night Swan and Betonie

In Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior, both of the main characters develop a connection with the issues surrounding the state of the environment in the novels that leads to creation of a new character, the character of “environment”. Both Tayo and Dellarobia discover more about themselves through their relationship with nature and their surroundings, however, Silko manages to convey empathy for the character “environment” more efficiently when compared to Kingsolver. Tayo’s link with the character “environment” mentally and spiritually, resonates with the audience and draws in support for “environment”, whereas any empathy for the character “environment” in Flight Behavior becomes buried underneath

The movie started with a single divorced Joan Crawford. As Joan went thorough her life she always thought that something was missing. So, she then started on the trek to get a child through adoption. This is how she got Christina, and then Christopher. From Christina's accounts from living with her, Joan did not just suffer from psychological and psychosocial problems she also drank to excess. When she did drink her disorders were worse than before she started to drink. All the stress that is put on her, impairing her ability to develop valuable functional relationships with those around her. Which lead to the unending failed relationships Joan had. Christina met them all and called all of the men that came

The film Our Family Wedding illustrated the diversity among and between families. The film depicted the views of different generations within a family and how an interracial marriage affected them differently. The film explores new contemporary marriage trends and challenges traditional family roles and marriage trends. This paper will explore different demographic trends as it relates to the social constructs of class, race, and gender, survey the recent trends and changes towards contemporary marriage, and study the changes in the family relationships within the film. Conclusively, this film analysis will use textbook concepts and examples in the movie to establish a framework for the diverse family system and the changing marriage.

This movie is about institutionalized girls some of which have been through extremely traumatic events. They are receiving treatment for multiple mental health disorders. Claymore Psychiatric Hospital is in Belmont, Massachusetts. This film was based on a true story. Daisy Random, Susanna Kaysen, and Lisa are the three main characters. Mrs. Randone is hospitalized for depression and bulimia nervosa disorder. The way this movie portrays numerous mental health disorders is excellent. A variety of clients from different cultural diversities are being treated at Claymore. It is an awesome movie, the way the patients’ act out the personalities and disorders gives an excellent understanding of the disorders. Susanna is being treated for depression, and borderline personality disorder. While Lisa is a sociopath and is not very compliant with her treatment regimen. She has been admitted to Claymore facility, numerous times. While Susanna attempts suicide by chugging vodka while consuming a bottle of Aspirin. She is unsuccessful in her attempt. Daisy sadly ends up hanging herself from harsh words and manipulative, provoking by Lisa. She hangs herself on her birthday. It is very ironic that Brittany Murphy plays this part in the movie, she passed away of accidental causes by over the counter medications and prescription drugs.

The film tells the story of a fake psychic, Blanche Tyler, and her boyfriend George, who get hired by a millionaire to find the missing heir of her fortune. The baby grew up with the name Edward Shoebridge, but allegedly dies in a fire with his parents years ago. Driven by money, George is not convinced and continues to search for him. Meanwhile, Edward Shoebridge living as Arthur Adamson and his girlfriend, Fran, kidnap famous people returning them in exchange for valuable jewels. It is revealed to Blanche and George, Edward’s true identity. Blanche goes to meet Adamson at his house by herself. Blanche finds Adamson and Fran in the midst of a crime, but vows not to tell a soul. Adamson locks her in a hidden room while they complete

Although a character of few pages and few words, I find Honey Brown to be the most compelling and intriguing figure of The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers. Honey Brown, the foster brother of Berenice, drifts into the story only a handful of times, but his presence, even in the shadows of the scenes, creates a growing curiosity for the reader and ignites a profound empathy for his account. His quiet and stunted dialogues and solemn nature create an enigmatic yet noteworthy narrative. His struggle with racial confinements and inability to conform leaves him without a purpose and with a soul perpetually tormented and eventually broken. McCullers personifies the extreme realities of Frankie’s fears of entrapment and exclusion in

It follows the story of a suburban housewife named Carol White (Julianne Moore) who develops an illness her doctor cannot diagnose and her husband (Xander Berkeley) cannot understand. The film raises various factors into play such as class, gender, race, self-help culture and so on. The biggest question to answer is whether Carol’s illness is real or not. Haynes does not provide his audience a direct answer to this predicament.

We are all gathered today to commemorate my life. Here I am, lying in my coffin, wearing full white dress, and excessive make up to hide how pale I am today. Some may say that I lived a very short life. And that I was a very nice person, but I was not. I was a girl who does a lot of bad things for the one I loved. I was the girl who swears a lot even it was not needed. I was a girl who disobeys my parents just for some guy who did not even deserve it. I was a sinner, and that may be the reason why I died early. Let me talk about my life. My life was indeed short, too short for me to experience pure happiness. I had an exciting life. I learned how to value the people who were in my life. I learned how to accept that not all people will stay.

It all started that drizzly night, she didn’t seem to be there, waiting for Margo Channing as she usually did. Strange, never had I seen such devotion toward someone, even a charismatic and dramatic star like Margo. It was almost odd not to see her, funny how odd behaviours become normal when repeated. I remember she approached me, pitifully walking out of a dark doorway, she began to ask about Margo and Bill and Lloyd. I was amazed, never had I seen seemingly genuine love and devotion for someone as she did. How I did not see through the deliberate ethos and modesty of the girl is beyond me. From the first moment this “tongue tied gushing fan” seemed in love with the theatre, something that she frequently alluded to. We all should have seen, her interest was not on Margo, it was on the theatre and all its applause. Soon after taking her in to see Margo, she told her life story. We were transfixed, it seemed tragic and it sent Margo to tears. Only Birdy saw through the lies that Eve told. Birdy was right and retrospectively it does seem unrealistic that she would have “everything but the blood hounds snapping at her rear end”.

The book The Members Of The Wedding written by Carson McCullers was a very complex and fairly well thought out book. In The book a young girl by the name of Frances is growing up in a small town with her family during World War 1. The young girl goes though many internal struggles with herself, such as wanting to fit in and belong or to just be liked and welcomed by everyone. She battled with herself more than anyone, she changed her name three times in the book to try to be treated more like an “adult”. Although the book was based around Frances the main theme of the book that diffidently contrasted through was sadness.