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He realizes just like his father and his mother he is using drug and alcohol to cope with his pain is slowly killing them. Paul still didn’t know if he wants to live or die so he flirts with the idea of death, but he stops himself at the last second.

Paul’s neighbours stay away from him and her mom – Mary Dempster, due to the simple-mindedness of Mary. It makes his guilt more badly: “Paul was not a village favourite, and the dislike so many people felt for his mother–dislike for the queer and persistently unfortunate–they attached to the unoffending son.” (P.32) After Mrs. Dempster is found having sex with a tramp in the forest, neighbours start laughing at her, and Paul feels more guilt about what her mum has done with the tramp. He decides to run away from home when his dad dies.

When Paul finds out that he was being tracked down, he uses what is left of the stolen money to escape into the countryside where he finds an overpass and ends up jumping in front of a train to end his life.

Her sex appeal was seen upfront for a cartoon character. Things started to change when hollywood films was threatened to be boycotted by the Catholic Legion of Decency in 1934 according to the class lecture. To prevent that to happen, Motion Picture Producers and the distributors association decided to impose strict codes including for the animated films. Production code that was mention in class was about “guidelines for depicting sex.” As it was mention in the slides that “excessive and lustful kissing, lustful embrace, suggestive postures and gestures are not to be shown.”

Comedy”. 2 It was called the sleeper hit of the decade, and gained extreme notoriety for its breakage of traditional cinematic taboos, in that it showed rather explicitly both sex and especially, raw and brutal violence. It greatly surprised both the

When Paul, the main character, decides to abandon his childhood home to travel to his ideal city of New York, he eventually succumbs to the bitter reality of his own struggle with depression. “It was the old depression exaggerated; all the world had become Cordelia Street” (Cather 21). In Paul’s Case, by Willa Cather, the author writes of the depression-ridden Paul who attempted to convince himself that his appreciation and admiration of his dreams were nothing less than ideal, but they ultimately morphed into obsessions that failed. Despite Paul’s limited glimpses into his greatest hopes of living a life well beyond his current lifestyle, it was one he eventually realized he could never attain. Paul believed he could convince himself and the world, that Cordelia Street was where he started, but the lavish life of a New Yorker would be where he—not only deserved to be—but where he was meant to be. Despite his efforts, he ultimately fell. The aspects that made Paul resent Cordelia Street were aspects he discovered everywhere else—including New York City.

When he is reunited with his mother "[they] say very little," but when she finally asks him if it was "very bad out there" Paul lies. In trying to protect her by lying, Paul creates a separation between his mother and himself. As Paul sees it, the tragedies and horrors of war are not for the uninitiated. Sadly, the true nature of war further separates the two generations.

Rose is unable to fully accept herself or the statements made by her mother throughout the chapter, until she reflects back on her relationship and realizes how her mother predicted this by the condition of the garden taken care of by her husband. She understands her mother finally and stands up to Ted, explaining to him how she was going to fight for everything in the divorce.

the love and care he unknowingly needs. Paul takes on roles that disguise his own traits and turns him into what he believes to be a person nobody can say no to. When he takes on these roles, he

A lifelong dream of Paul occurs when he makes the trip to New York City. The trip to New York City gives Paul the opportunity to live the life he always dreamed of. After being forced to leave his job as an usher at Carnegie Hall Paul gets a job working at Denny and Carson’s office firm. He gets the money to go to New York City by taking the money

what the young men are becoming. Then, in an attempt to regain himself when he goes

In Saturday Night Fever, portrayal of scenes and actions that were once prohibited due to the Hays Code allowed the characters to develop while giving a sense and portrayal of who Italian Americans are. Many of the characteristics exhibited by Tony, his friends and other characters relate to the first time they were explored and used in the film, The Godfather. For example, in Saturday Night Fever, there is a scene in which Tony and his friends are beat up by the Barracudas (Hispanic gang) and vice versa, when they go to get payback and avenge their friend Gus who was hospitalized (AFI). This relates to scenes in which the Godfather displayed brutality, blood, and mob violence (Browne). In general, such violence would be prohibited in films

in his quest to the live the life he always wanted, Paul not wanting to face his father and his true reality takes his own life by jumping in front of a train. He could not live with

Paul finally escaped the hostile world he lived in, but his money-bought romance did not last long. When he discovers that his theft has been made known in the new papers, and all the stolen money has ran out, he knew he had to go back to his real life. After a week of having the glamorized life he was longing for, Paul refused to go back to face the reality that he left behind in Pittsburgh. Paul knew he couldn’t go on forever in the City with no money in his pockets so he decided to give up on his own life. While going to get on his train that would bring him back to reality, Paul stepped out in front of it and killed himself.

"A wounded soldier? I shout to him-no answer- must be dead." The dead body has fallen out the coffin and the coffin has been unearthed because of the shelling. Even the dead and buried cannot rest in peace during this war. This just adds to the horror of the situation Paul is in.