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Titanic Persuasive Speech

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85 years. 85 years is the average lifespan of a human, according to the Social Security Administration. Humans as individuals are not around for an exorbitant amount of time. The heartwarming, yet devastating 1997 film Titanic, by James Cameron, as well as, the spunky and rebellious quote, “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun”, by Katherine Hepburn, reflect the idea that even though life a short, why not make it a good time? James Cameron in his film, Titanic, portrays two characters, Jack and Rose, who long for adventure. Jack Dawson is a young, penniless artist, who has nothing to his name except the clothes on his back, his sketchpad, and a couple bucks in his pocket. After spending time drawing his way through Europe, Jack …show more content…

The way someone would figure this out is by first following the rules, realizing that life is boring as can be, and then coming to terms with breaking the rules to find a trill. This can be related to a child growing up. Children, when they are young, tend to listen to their parents, do as they are told, and are imbedded with the idea that rules must be followed at all times. Those children, however, will start to grow up one day, and want to test the waters. They will want to have fun, and lose the innocence of being a child as they start to break the rules and make their own decisions. They become adults. Losing innocence is an inevitable part of life, and is similarly represented in Titanic, as Rose and Jack fall for each other. Rose grew up in a high class family with a social standard to maintain. There was always a molded lifestyle set up for her; it was the lifestyle she never wanted. Rose constantly felt like she could never break the mold, until she met Jack. Jack became her beautiful drug. She did not want to break her mother’s social standard to be with him, but she could not bare to not be with him. Something about him kept drawing her in, she was addicted. In a fast, fun scene of the film, Rose and Jack were on the run from some undesired company, sent by Rose’s fiance, they found themselves running in between masses of cars on the storage deck of the ship. They took refuge in …show more content…

One of them being, Rose and Jack throughout the movie come to reach a level of maturity and find that some rules should indeed be followed. After the Titanic goes down, but before Jack’s tragic and untimely death, Jack and Rose made each other a promise. Jack pleaded to Rose as he hung in the freezing water, “Never let go.” With fear he may not make it she replied, “I’ll never let go Jack, I'll never let go.” In that moment Rose and Jack realized the only way to have fun is not to break rules. They gave each other the rule to never let go, and that is a rule they will always follow since it unfortunately followed them to the grave. While Rose and Jack were able to reach this level of maturity, Hepburn’s quote does not indicated any possible maturity, only rebellion. Her quote focuses on having fun, and not caring what rules try and stop her. There are some rules, that need to be followed simply for reasons, such as safety and respect. Her quote, however, shows no remorse for breaking rules. While this is a good thing in some cases, others in is not. Unlike Rose and Jack, it is uncertain based on the quote if Hepburn ever reached that level of maturity to know when rules should be

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