Wes Anderson Character Analysis

The main focus of the 1989 film Steel Magnolias is a relationship between a mother and her daughter and how that relationship touches and affects the lives of others. The film features some stellar acting. Sally Field plays the mother M’Lynn Eatenton and Julia Roberts is her vivacious daughter, Shelby. The rest of the Eatenton family are Shelby’s younger brothers, Tommy and Jonathan and their father Drum, played by Tom Skerritt. The supporting cast features Shirley MacLaine as Ouiser Boudreaux, the cranky neighbor with Olympia Dukakis as Ouiser’s lifelong friend Claree. Dolly Parton plays Truvy, everyone’s beautician and Daryl Hannah as Annelle, Truvy’s recently hired employee. Dylan McDermott plays Shelby’s fiancé, Jackson Latcherie. The

Childlike abandon refers to the notion where the purity, unsophistication and inexperience of children are conveyed in their lack of inhibitions, recklessness and naiveté. This complements Anderson’s theme of purity of the love Sam and Suzy share. Anderson’s purpose of exemplifying this theme was to evoke a sense of nostalgia in the audience as they too recall their innocent experiences of first love. This is evidenced in an interview when he stated, “What I wanted to do was re-create the feeling of that memory. I wanted to do a movie about a childhood romance — a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it’s like to just be blindsided, when you’re in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings.”

First and foremost, the children in the novel are presented as more perceptive and more honest than adults. Children in general tend to be portrayed as innocent in literature. Unlike adults, they don’t really know why things seem to be the way they are and don’t know from right or wrong. In this case, the author might have included these children to act like “judges” in the book. He could have also wanted to bring out some aspects of the novel using the kids.

To make the character Winston Smith, the main protagonist from the book 1984, complex, George Orwell had to give his character multiple traits to keep Winston from being another boring, vague, and 2-dimensional character. Winston is a complex character because he undergoes emotional changes throughout the book, he has a variety of personality traits to drive the plot, and he has significant interactions with other characters throughout 1984.

Randy Pausch. Who is he? What does he stand for? The day he gave the last lecture... His last lecture he only had months to live. He packed a lot of lessons into his lecture. The claims he gave that stood out were to be optimistic, to be determined, and to take risks.

Through Wes Moore’s The Other Wes Moore, the author tells the story of himself and another man with the same name and a strikingly similar upbringing. In chapter 6 it is revealed that the parental and authority figures in both their lives greatly affected and shaped who they became. By comparing and contrasting the tough choices they made, complications they face at home and at school, and their new authoritative positions, the author uses the two Wes Moore’s lives in Chapter 6 to appeal to pathos, allowing the reader to feel a connection with each character and develop an understanding of both Moore’s accomplishments and hardships.

In the book 1984, Smith is trying to be an individual in a society that is ruled by Big Brother. as a consequence of him trying to be an individual, he is testing the rules of the party. The individual in an authoritarian society is forced to follow the rules and beliefs of the rest of the society.

Nicole Mareik Barbara Goward English 399 9 December 2016 Essay 6 The decisions we make about the lives we live decide the sorts of legacies we clear leave. In, The Other Wes Moore written by Wes Moore the author, is a tale around two young men with comparative foundations and comparative circumstances, experiencing childhood in similar neighborhoods. Indeed, at first look, the pursuer may be constrained to see these young men as the same, and ponder what brought about their lives to wind up so in an unexpected way.

“The Other Wes Moore” is a book written by Wes Moore. This story is based on him and another boy who grew up with the same name, Wes Moore. In this book he explains both his and the other Wes Moore’s childhood. Both of them had a similar childhood and experienced some of the same things. They both grew up without fathers, got involved in drugs, violence, and lived in poverty. Despite having the same circumstances one Wes Moore went to military school and turned his whole life around while the other ended up in prison for the rest of his life. Was this because of fate or was one Wes Moore more determined than the other? Neither. We all have the free will

The main idea in West Moore's novel, “The Other Wes Moore” is about the different paths that people take, despite going through similar events. Author Wes Moore founded a homogeneous circumstance between himself and the Other Wes Moore, who was in prison for convicted criminals. The Other Wes Moore and Author Wes Moore both experienced a tough childhood. They both grew up in downtown Baltimore and was raised by single mother. Succumbed to their curiosity, they both got involved with drugs; however, individually, they ended up taking different roads towards their future. Author Wes Moore became a successful business leader and juxtaposed to Other Wes Moore, he was sentenced to life in prison for robbery. The novel is presented to us that tragedies

"...What impact did your father not being there have on your childhood?"(The "Other" Wes Moore -Part I: Fathers and Angels - pg. 4) This question is what connected me to the novel. The "author" Wes began the story of his and the "other " Wes's memories of their fathers. This explains how and why they grew up fatherless. Wes " the author" recalls only have two memories of his father one was when his father had a talk with him after he punched his sister Nikki and the other one was the day his father passed away. The "author" Wes father didn't choose to leave, unlike the "other Wes's father, which he never met until years later. I related to this chapter a lot, I too was raised by a single mother but my story is just a tad different. My family

Sarah Goldfarb suffered from an addiction to amphetamines which were prescribed to her as diet pills and also suffered from stimulant psychosis. Addiction is defined as a compulsive substance use despite the harmful consequences of said substance to ones health and life. Stimulant psychosis is a psychosis symptom which includes auditory and visual hallucinations, paranoia, and/or delusions which are caused by an overdose or high use of psychostimulants.

Also from the characters looks and age, it makes you guess that there is a relationship that will go on between the two them during the movie. Movies seem to always try and create a love story in order to get the interest of both men and women.

  The director of this film did a fantastic job in combining these two plots, and giving the audience just enough time to figure out their relation. He didn?t give it away too soon, or so late that the story got boring or confusing. He also made very good use of underscoring (background music with no apparent source) in a previous scene where Allie and Noah where dancing alone in the middle on nowhere, to the sounds of Billie Holiday. This particular shot was a three minute continuous shot taken with a camera on a 300ft dolly track. The actors and actresses in this film did a remarkable job in playing their roles. The language and wardrobe fit the perfect description of a 40?s teenager.

In “The Journey to the West,” the monk was accompanied by Pigsy, the Sha Monk, the Handsome Monkey King, and the horse. Each of these supporting characters possess a certain magical ability that assisted the monk on his journey, additionally they had their own flaws. This contrasts the monk, which has no magical ability and was devoted buddhism. The strengths, weaknesses, and backgrounds of these supporting characters encapsulate the idea of buddhism throughout the novel, and by including them and Xuanzang the book is able to summarize the idea of buddhism.