Saving Private Ryan Character Analysis

High school is a life changing experience for everyone. Teens mature and deal with situations that they may not have had to deal with before they entered it. The movies Clueless and Mean Girls are based on two different high schools with similar problems the teen girls face. Although the two films are taken place in different decades and portray a different aspect of what it’s like to be in high school; they both have a similar life lesson.

Mostly every superhero has to go through long dangerous journeys to save the day. In fact, both Beowulf and Superman have to travel through dangerous journeys in order to save their people. Beowulf traveled from Geatsland to the land of the Danes and offer king Hrothgar help defeat Grendel, the horrible monster terrorizing this land. Beowulf travels this menacing journey where he has to fight Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a dragon. In contrast to Superman who was born on Krypton but later sent to earth because an explosion was going to destroy his planet.

One reason Odysseus’s heroic claim is strong in the smallest bit is the fact that he went to war for his country. The only point of this that is not heroic is the fact that the coward faked insanity to avoid joining the fight. Superman has dedicated his entire life to saving innocent lives, and has never tried to get out of a fight to save humanity. An example of this was when Superman sacrificed himself to save the world from one of Lex Luthor’s creations in the movie Batman v. Superman.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 political satire commentary on the Cold War. The film is built around the actions of the delusion Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, who is convinced of an “international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” Ripper’s highly unlikely theory leads him to command his B-52’s to drop hydrogen bombs on the U.S.S.R. by initiating Wing Attack Plan R, designed to be issued by a military official if a sneak attack were to wipe out Washington officials. It is only after Ripper puts his military base on lockdown that other government officials realize what’s going on, but by then it’s too late. Upon discovering that there are thermonuclear weapons en route to the Soviet Union,

In Illuminae, the main character Kady flees her planet after it is invaded in the year 2575 with her ex-boyfriend Ezra and boards a refugee ship, where she encounters many obstacles. These include a war between two rival megacorporations, a conscious and sometimes deceitful AI, and biological warfare in the form of a plague manufactured by BeiTech Industries, the enemy megacorporation. The authors, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, use Kady’s Hero’s Journey to develop the plot and show Kady’s growth. In particular, they use Crossing the Threshold when Kady and Ezra escape their planet and Tests, Allies, and Enemies when they meet and overcome the challenges mentioned above. Kady helps Ezra get on a refugee ship, the Hypatia, after BeiTech

The reason for his terror is his loneliness, jealousy, and being an outcast. For Beowulf, the news of Grendel is hard to ignore, so he comes to Heorot to kill Grendel. Foster, an expert on all things literature says, “... Someone tells our protagonist, our hero, who need not look very heroic, to go somewhere and do something” (Foster 3). As soon as Beowulf hears about the thirty men that Grendel killed and the abandoned mead hall, he makes it his mission to kill the evil monster.

Devorah Banks is a senior in highschool who doesn't have her life together. Things started to fall apart after she broke up with her boyfriend Bryan Sanderson. Since Devi was so occupied with her relationship she loses interest in her family,friends and even school work. Without Bryan she felt that she had no one and nothing. At first Devi can come off as selfish, demanding and even boring but later on it's revealed that she is persistent and determined to change her life for better.

She seems to be very angry at Darren’s father in particular, and as such criticizes him mercilessly particularly where his dad is

My book is Heaven is Paved with Oreos, By Catherine Gilbert Murdock. Summary:         Sara Zorn is an average 14-year-old girl. She’s smart, funny, awkward, shy. Sara has a crush on her best guy-friend, Curtis Schwenk, but doesn’t realize it, saying she isn’t a “boy-liker”.

Hanna has lost weight since the group split and is now the popular girl. Her best friend Mona Vanderwaal, who they use

Paige is a popular teenager who is dating the star football player named Jake. In the beginning of the story, she is a mean “princess” who doesn’t pay attention to the kids in other social groups, but as the story progresses, she shows her fun personality. The crash causes her boyfriend and best friend to change the way they treat her so her relationships with them change drastically. She is the main character and is also the narrator. Jake is Paige’s boyfriend who is a football player and is also alcoholic.

Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi regime of Germany during World War Ⅱ, led a successful war campaign that conquered massive amounts of territory in Europe, as well as capturing and murdering millions of Jews in what is known as the Holocaust. The war in Europe fought by Nazi Germany and the combined might of the Allied Forces ended with the Battle of Berlin and Adolf Hitler’s suicide. A number of mistakes were made by Hitler that ultimately caused his defeat his defeat in Berlin. One mistake was during his battle for France, when the Nazi Army trapped the French and British in a pincer maneuver, forcing the French and British to flee for the port city of Dunkirk, where he spared thousands of lives. Another mistake was the Holocaust, where

The second world war pits the United States against Japan in some of the most bitter fighting in the history of warfare. Thousands of lives are being lost, and billions of dollars are being put into developing a weapon that would halt the warfare. What many may not know is, that this was an arms race more dangerous than that of the Cold War. Japan was also working nonstop in an attempt to create a nuclear bomb to wipe the U.S. out of the war and off the map as a world power. Despite their best efforts, the United States prevailed.

His love life begins with a girl named Abby who is on the drill team. But Carter is far-off from being an expert at the “getting the girl” mechanism. By getting tips from his sister, Lynn, he learns how to talk to girls and keep them interested in him so that he could now win Abby over, although she didn’t need much of that. However, being able to keep Abby on his arm is another obstacle he has to face. After declaring his love to Abby, Amber Lee, the most popular freshman, manipulates him into asking her to the homecoming dance.

While Cameron’s life was flourishing, Screamer left Messina in hopes of becoming an actress in Hollywood (65). Rather than showing the world her talent, she tried to sleep her way to the top, which hurt her in the long run (66). According to Nat, Cameron’s best friend since Kindergarten, Screamer looks like an aging high-dollar call girl, while Cameron is nothing but class (98). Neely neglected Cameron because Screamer was hot and trot, but fourteen years later all she had become was a thirty-two year old, looking fifty that was fat, ugly, and tired (97, 182-183). Outer beauty, obviously, cannot define a person for who they are.