It's A Wonderful Life Analysis

All his life he had the same big dream of becoming rich but never gotten anywhere. He makes the same salary as he did when he was younger and now that Biff and Happy are older he wants them to reach his dream. When Biff comes home out of work Willy immediately tries to

His powerful status separates him from others throughout the years, and his life ends in loneliness at Xanadu. (Fig.2) The sad truth is when he is surrounded by nothing but his possessions, poor substitutions instead of his real friends/family that were once part of his life are nowhere to be found. (Fig, 1) (Citizen Kane,

It was normal for a man to have the most power over a household. However, Walter struggles to the role his family plays in his daily life. Because of Walter’s business failure, he was able to develop and find the harmonic balance between money and family. Walter was able to face Karl Lidner when given the choice to sell his family’s dream home in return for one thousand five hundred dollars. He confronts his greed and desire to become a wealthy businessman and realizes that he lost his only supporters throughout his journey.

“The Pursuit of Happyness,” directed by Gabriele Muccino is a film which I found myself greatly admiring. It is inspired by a true story and is about a man named Christopher Gardner who heavily invests his savings into portable bone density scanners, believing that they will be a great success and will support him and his family. However, they do not sell well as they only give a slightly better picture than an x-ray at double the price. This leads to him being extremely financially unstable and so he loses everything; his wife leaves him, he loses his house, bank accounts and credit cards but yet he manages to at least have his young son. After this tragedy, Gardner continues to sell bone density scanners whilst living on the streets and simultaneously taking on an unpaid internship.

I was out on my ass with nowhere else to go. Homeless My A-Ward brother Leo started letting me spend the night in the apartment he shared with his cousins Tina and Donald; a three-bedroom apartment on the second floor of a duplex.

The movie The Pursuit of Happyness, based on a true story, tells the story of a man who worked for years without salary in order to receive an intern position. Chris Gardner is left to raise his son, Christopher, on his own. The father and son duo spend their time living in multiple homeless shelters just to make do until Chris acquires the position he needs. In the end, Chris Gardner rises above the hard times and becomes a very well know Wall Street

In the movie titled “The Pursuit of Happyness”, there was a problematic family living in San Francisco in 1981. The main character, Chris Gardner worked as a salesman invested his entire life savings in portable bone density scanner to support his family including his wife Linda and a five years old son Christopher. However, Chris’ business is not doing well and his wife was forced to work. Day after day, Linda was suffering and she always quarrelled with Chris and blamed him didn’t play the role as a responsible father and a good husband. Luckily, this was not the end for Chris.

Gatsby thinks of himself as a dream chaser, a person who is working hard through his life to get his beautiful memory back to him. Money is just a tool to bring his beloved girl back. People believed that his money all came from his rich family as Gatsby wants them to, which means that he was born rich. However, Gatsby actually earned the money on his own by taking high risks selling illegal alcohol. Since he knew that Daisy married a rich man, he decided never to live without money.

I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy… Mama – look at me.” Page 75. Money is mentally consuming Walter’s mind. He has so many hopes and dreams for his family and being the man of the household, not being able to provide for his family results in him lashing out.

Understand. That white man is going to walk in that door able to write checks for more money than we ever had. It’s important to him and I’m going to help him. I’m going to put on the show, Mama.”

But what we do not know is that the boy who dropped out of high school had to help his parents with money. The girl who got pregnant by 16 was sexually abused. Society has taught us that our actions and decisions represent who we are. But, in reality we have the power

Intro Imagine you are stuck, stuck in one town, in one job, and in one place. George Bailey lived in this situation, trapped in his home town, feeling obligated to stay and help. He Loses his money in a crisis and does the heinous act of calling himself a failure. This is when the movie begins to kick into high gear and It’s a Wonderful Life Starts to display ,” One who finds themselves with friends cannot call that same self a failure.”

Charles Baudelaire, a literary author during Romanticism once stated this: "To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts"(Baudelaire). Chicken George was born into slavery in 1806 in Caswell North Carolina to Kizzy and Massa Tom Lea. He was conceived after his mother Kizzy was repeatedly raped by Tom Lea. In his youth he becomes a game cocker. He married Matilda and together they had six children.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one of the most widely read modern novels in high schools today. John Steinbeck uses dialogue that can be seen in the times of The Great Depression but also does an outstanding job by making it sound familiar and seem more accessible in the eyes of young readers. The book's main focus is ranch travelers struggling to find work in the 1930’s. Steinbeck uses the themes of friendship and loneliness that is vastly seen in the characters of George and Lennie as well as Candy and Curley's wife.

The scientific community today still have not found a reason as to why people dream. To many, dreams have been a mystery since the beginning of time because they have the ability to impact someone's life socially and mentally. In Lorraine Hansberry's novel, A Raisin in the Sun and John Steinbeck’s film, Of Mice and Men, both deal with characters who struggle to pursue their dreams. Fulfilling a dream has the ability to save or destroy someone's life which is why the characters face challenges while trying to achieve them. It either satisfies the family or himself.