Why We Procrastinate Analysis

In the first five seconds of the advertisement we see a Caucasian father teaching his son how to drive in an empty parking lot. Then we see the boy at the DMV taking his drivers license and when he finally passed he walks out the doors smiling ear to ear holding up proudly his driver license card. The males in the commercial don’t speak, but the narrator illustrates the scenes while he rhymes, “16…wide eyes. Driver 's license took two tries.” The next scenes that follow, display the boy happy because he’s driving alone, but when he pulls up home to his drive way he is alarmed because he has hit the garage door. The narration accompanies these scenes by the voice over saying, “First drive, fast living.

On the front steps of a red-roofed house, a man sits. He wears black pants, a tartan vest a brown snap-rimmed hat." Having been distracted he realizes that he needs to call his wife. When he finds a payphone he gets nervous because of the people that are around the area,"One of them has a beard and, in spite of the advancing darkness, wears sunglasses," but he doesn’t realize that they police are following him. Getting out of his vehicle he is quite nervous,"He is so intent upon the three men and the girl that he does not notice the police car drift against the curb."

In this story, the narrative mode is reduced to this single event: one, two, or three cars are racing along a superhighway. To complicate matters, X stops at the highway point to call Y but finds no answer. He interprets this to mean that she is on her way to his place, and so he turns around and races home again. But he also assumes that she stops halfway and calls him, finds no answer, and so rushes back to her home in B. The situation remains unresolvable as the cars pass each other back and forth along the superhighway.

In the events leading up to the “moment of clarity”, Jules was having a causal conversation with his partner Vincent while driving to their next assignment. Indeed events leading up to the moment were causal and the audience was not preparing for the moment of climax. In Pulp Fiction, Jules does not talk about his life before he became a hitman. In the car they talk about Vincent’s trip outside of the country. The conversation takes a turn to how Marsellus had men throw a guy off a roof because he gave his wife a foot rub.

For the rest of his life, he would be haunted by blood in the streets and late night disappearances. Even after he had been in the states for years, he jumped if a black Volkswagen passed him on the street. He feared anyone in uniform: the meter maid giving out parking tickets, a museum guard approaching to tell him not to touch his favorite Goya at the Metropolitan”(Alvarez 95). While in D.R. her father went through a lot, he lost his brothers to the comrades that followed after the dictator and after the fear they created that followed him.

He realizes that the women he loves is gone, having none of the emotions or personality that he fell in love with. Bennell escapes capture once again, running towards the nearby highway and dashing in between cars as he attempts to find a ride. However, once Miles finds transport vehicles loaded with the seedpods and bound for other parts of California, he begins to scream at the passengers in the cars. “They’re after you,” he cries, “you’re next!” The flashback ends, returning to a disheveled Dr. Bennell inside the emergency room. It’s clear that Dr. Hill, the psychiatrist listening to Miles, doesn’t believe the patient; however, when a truck driver is wheeled into the room on a stretcher, having been run into by a Greyhound bus and found amidst a pile of seed

The dysfunctionality of this family is anything but enjoyable. You have Felice’s father Brian who is close to irrelevant, he is ready to put his family on the line for a fling with his co-worker Fernanda, and is even driving in a hurricane to get to his office only because he suspects that his best friend Javier is blathering to Fernanda behind his back if he does not show to work. “Images of Javier and Fernanda fill his head: he sees them laughing, heads tilting together. The rushing, chaotic highway, the backlit sky…he feels increasingly doomed, assailed by a serious of bad decisions, yet he’s determined to be at the office.”(305) He is openly showing how he can go forth without caring for leaving his family behind, he refuses to speak or see Felice since she has ran away. With absolutely no interest in his daughter he is now even resulting if referring to her as a terrorist.

During the book, Leamas almost hits another car with a father and his kids. Twice in the book, Leamas references a vision he has after almost hitting the car of the children sitting in the back, waving and laughing, while their father drives away. Although Leamas would never admit it, the children in the back of the car are symbolic of him as they are both characterized by the same qualities of oblivion, trust, and helplessness. Obliviousness entails there is a lack of information and therefore a reasonable understanding of the situation is impossible. When Leamas is late for a meeting with

In the novel, The Hobbit and the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, materialistic possessions, and desires negatively impact individuals, because it results in negative alterations in behaviour, mentality, and actions of the characters. Their materialistic desires lead the characters in both the novel and the movie to be consumed by their possessions. The concept of attaining and maintaining a materialistic object sublimates the control you have over it. The greed and materialistic desires the characters exhibit in The Hobbit and The Lost Ark, represents the immorality of a strong materialistic desire. The various objects and idols they acquire consume their minds, which in turn controls their lives.

The father, Walter, wants to buy a liquor store and to finally be in control, but the wife, Ruth, and, Mama, do not want him to. Walter and Ruth all of a sudden start fighting because he thinks nobody in the house listens to him but soon realizes she is pregnant during these fights. She is stressed because of the fighting that, and she is thinking about having an abortion. Walter eventually does get calmed down. Days are go by and he