Movies are not only a form of entertainment, when analyzed in depth, reveal deeper levels of meaning. Depending on the approach, one can make inferences about the real world the authors want to illustrate. While many movies expose a deeper meaning, The Great Gatsby and Finding Nemo, through the use of narrative therapy, reveal the importance class and ability play in the real world. The primary problem on how privilege operates is that separation of class is indefinitely denied and discounted for, while it is the entirety of other significant differences. In addition, being genetically different is often times ridiculed and disgraced upon, due to the differences that are displayed, when they are individuals as much as anyone else.
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While Nick Carraway is considered middle-class he is placed slightly on the outside to distinguish the differences each class demonstrates on socialites, morals, privileges, and money, without any bias. As he moves to the “new money side of town” the film introduces classification between “new money” “old money” and the “poor”. Just like the movie, people tend to locate themselves near people of the same class as them. This demographic representation can be shown from a broadened scale to a narrow, for instance towns have distinct classification between the rich and the poor, while the middle-class are somewhere in-between. However, the major problem is people do not realize the grave psychological distinction people make about one another. As Nick Carraway uses his storytelling as a way of narrative therapy, he recalls specific details to aid the way he feels about certain occurrences and peoples actions in the film, one should also consider taking his advice that "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”(The Great
This specific, Thinking About Movies by Peter Lehman and William Luhr was very relatable to me. Many of the points that they talked about, in the article I had previously wondered about. To start off, they talk about in how many Hollywood films they have an Invisible class norm. This invisible norm is that the middle class is the class most people relate too, and want to be in. Although this is true for most people it is not true for all people.
Bulman is based on why Hollywood films represent students and education in constant way that can be predicted by the actors/plot social class based on American culture. The difference among urban, suburban, and private school genres are separated and compared to find their consistencies in films. Bulman uses Durkheim’s theory of individualism (utilitarian and expressive) to indicate how individuals are dependent on one another and although it is a product of social life, it can restrict some from recognizing their connection to the social life. This foundation of individualism guides the reader as the book further breaks down how the films ‘choose’ their plots to portray a stereotyped social class. Urban schools are in need of a savior, suburban schools have student heroes and do not need education, and the private school that challenges the culture of privilege are the three sections
1. “I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father said snobbishly, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.’ Ch.1 Analysis: nick is tying to say that Money isn’t always what people are born into; especially in this time people who are born into money are considered the upper class and above all. Some people are just a better person in general even without being born into a rich family he doesn’t know if a person has to be born into wealth to have natural class or just be classy on their own.
Daniel Aguirre Ms. Tobias English III GT - 6th 12 January 2017 After analyzing both the movie and the novel, I have discovered similarities and differences. Ill try to compare and contrast the two since the movie does not depict the story exactly as how the novel does. Similarities There were still some similarities in the film that tied back to the book. One of the main ones is when Nick walks to Gatsby’s backyard and finds him standing at the edge of his dock reaching out to what was a green light.
There are times in life when a person is told they are not satisfactory or that they will never complete their life long goals. The majority of these people submit to what people say; while others try to break their mold in society and overcome the societal oppressIon they face. Throughout the course of the year, there was an exponential amount of different pieces of literature that surfaced to prove no matter what the odds are, people can still break the cycle and win against society. Movies help in providing emotional or an influential impact on people in different forms.
Through dialogue and the actions of characters these traits of Nick Carraway
The Outsiders Final 5 Paragraph Essay S. E. Hinton’s The Outsiders is a novel that follows a group of boys growing up in the 1960s who have to face prejudice and stereotypes on a daily basis. The author uses multiple examples of prejudice in the novel to demonstrate the destructive nature of prejudice on the characters in the story, such as fights between characters, friendships being torn apart, and people feeling ashamed of who they are and which social class they belong in. The first examples of prejudice shown in the novel are fights and hate between the two social classes. As a result of prejudice, many characters got into fights and there was a lot of hate between the two classes.
The first example we see in the novel that portrays social class are the islands of East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes. Nick is a member of the new money class and describes West Egg as being, “the less fashionable of the two, though is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a
“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had”” (5). The opening passage in the book, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, shines a light on the personality of the narrator Nick Carraway. A very similar quote is one Nick Carraway seems to understand, it is this, “Never judge someone without knowing the whole story.
The entire plot of the movie “The Great Gatsby,” directed by Baz Luhrmann, is pretty much very accurate to the novel of the same name written by author F. Scott Fitzgerald. They both center around a man named Jay Gatsby who throws extravagant parties in hope that one day his love Daisy will wander in. Of course like all movies that are based off of books they all have their similarities and differences. Whether they be very small or very noticeable, sometimes even changing the entire story completely, they are still there. Sometimes the purpose of this could be that the director wants to add their own little twist to the story or it could be that they are going for a much deeper meaning or symbolism.
Hoop dreams is an award winning film that follows two African American boys, William Gates and Arthur Agee, throughout their high school basketball careers. Both boys were recruited at a young age by a scout from St. Joseph’s High School in Westchester, Illinois approximately a 90- minute commute from their homes in Chicago. Agee and Gates struggled to succeed in this prestigious program due to issues surrounding race, socioeconomic status, a foreign social environment, education, injury, and values. This film tied together everything we have learned about how race and social class are not separate dimensions of inequality.
Zhe Xie Ms. Zylka English III April 20 2016 Both The Great Gatsby and the Of Mice and Man, are novels that represents authors’ lives, John Steinbeck’s George and Fitzgerald’s Gatsby, two outwardly different characters, are disillusioned with the American Dream, but for opposite reasons. George and Gatsby are both lonely, although the life they lived are completely different from each other, one is rich the other is poor.
Although, there are many who attempt to live up to the “middle-class measuring rod’ by embracing the culture and social values of the middle-class. However, being “ill-equipped mentally, socially, and linguistically to achieve the rewards of the middle class’ (Rabow, 1966). This action is mainly caused by what Cohen refers to as “The college boy”, able to succeed, but unable to function at the caliber of his social group
In Search of Human Morality Although the past is generally portrayed as a recollection of mistakes, regrets and unfond memories, it does not define one’s self identity. This plot is explained in vivid detail in both novels The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is a coming of age novel of an uncommon bond between two unlikely friends who separate due to the increasing religious and political tension in Afghanistan 's years of corruption. After several years, Amir, the protagonist, receives a call and a familiar voice reminds his that there is a way to be good again. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald bases in Long Island, New York in the Nineteenth Twenties where
Furthermore the film highlights how naïve members of society can be. This well renowned movie, does not desist in scorning each and every individual of American society. Throughout the film,