The Structure Of The Lost Boys

The Boys in the Boat is a nonfiction novel written by Daniel James Brown. This book takes place in 1936 in Germany where the Berlin Olympics were held. Nine American boys from the University of Washington on a eight-oar rowing team entered the Olympics. They were going for the gold and to win it all. They caught the attention of millions of people. Their story of how they got to where they are is very emotional and inspirational.

The Defiant Ones (1958) directed by Stanley Kramer showed the racial relations going on in the United States of America. The film features two men, one black and one white becoming friends, which was almost unheard of at the time. Although when this film came out segregation was illegal it still was not fully accepted as being the new norm. This film starts to try to shape America into accepting all races and stopping segregation, but also tries to mirror society when a third party is brought in and tries to come between the two men and their friendship. Kramer uses The Defiant Ones as a way to mirror the public of the times opinion and shape there new opinion of the changing world.

Throughout the film I began seeing America and its culture in a new light. I was able to see the things that Americans take for granted every single day, that other countries and people would worship. I was able to see American beliefs, traditions and practices through a different perspective. One practice that stood out to me was our use of technology and how dependent we are on technology. When the Lost Boys of Sudan came to America, they had never used electricity at all and it was hard for them to adjust to using it. This, I found was strange because technology has become second nature to Americans. We don’t have to even think about using it anymore. One tradition that stood out to me was how we as Americans, celebrate the Fourth of July.

Imagine the world is invaded by aliens. Some of them eat humans, some live among humans, and others live outside of our world. You don’t know it, but many of the people who have shaped our lives and our culture aren’t even human themselves. This is the world of the 1997 film Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld. Men in Black is a sci-fi comedy about a group of enforcement agents defending and regulating aliens from invading Earth. But if you take their costume off, Men In Black can be seen as far more than a comedy about space aliens. Under the lens of postcolonial criticism, the film reveals itself to be a veiled, political commentary on immigration. A lens is a way for us to look at a piece of literature in a whole new depiction that we may not have thought of the first time we had read or watched a piece of literature. Through the postcolonial lens, I can see the movie as a biased contrast between the immigrants and the immigration police. Interpreting the movie through this lens allows me to see that the Men in Black are the immigration police, and are considered to be the protagonists of the film. On the other hand, the aliens, or immigrants when looking through the lens, are the antagonists of the movie; The Men in Black protect the US from bad aliens, giving immigration police the positive reinforcement of the brutal evictions immigrants received in the 90s.

Year 11 English: AS 90854 (1.10) Form personal response to independently read texts, supported by evidence.

The film ‘Boy’ (2010) uses a range of techniques to construct an effective mise-en-scene. Taika Waititi (director) has been able to create aesthetically pleasing scenes to communicate to the audience about the setting, characters, story and themes. The sequence at the beginning of the film is an appropriate example of the good use of mise-en-scene.

One of the hardest things to do in life is to get over the loss of someone else's life. In “The Outsiders” by S.E Hinton, Ponyboy and the rest of the gang experience the loss of close family and friends, and even enemies regularly. Weather that be through death or a simple goodbye. It can make being stuck in the past is a tremendous problem, especially when you're close to someone that passes away. Nevertheless the Greasers do an Unbelievably adequate job getting through the loss of people they are so close to, you would too if you had gone through it so many times. But some of the losses affect the gang more than others, and being stuck on the thought of someone leaves no room for growing.

Speculation and analysis of the Coen brothers’ films has often portrayed them as drivers rather than reflectors of pop culture; NPR wrote earlier this year “The Coen brother's sparked a bluegrass revival with taheir 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou? – will they do the same for folk with their latest movie Inside Llewyn Davis?”1 But the posing of this question and the assumption of Inside Llewyn Davis as a top-down culture creator ignores that folk has always maintained a strong presence in American culture, and suggesting that a single film can bring folk ‘back into style’ ignores folk’s ongoing status as a key tenet of American culture and identity; as sociologist Leo Marx writes in his study of culture and technology's interactions

Over the course of 60 years, the development of identity and the social self for modern Western adolescents has gone through a great deal of change while also carrying some continuity throughout. Comparing both films ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1956) and ‘Boyhood’ (2014) the different characteristics and familiar traits of that are experienced through the journey of adolescence. The role of Gender from the 1950’s onwards has created a great influence on how modern, western adolescents develop their interpretation of their position in society, creating a sense of identity as well as the rights and responsibilities that come with their gender. Seen in both ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and ‘Boyhood’, many rites of passage are noticeable in regard to how

The movie started with a great hook that really lured the watcher in. The lady screaming grabs your attention and makes you want to find out why she is screaming. After that, the hook continues in showing Lennie and George running away from men who are hunting them. This would make people want to see who they are, why they’re running, and who the people chasing them are.

The movie Boys Don’t Cry is about a trans man named Brandon Teena (Born Teena Brandon). When Brandon is found to be Transgender by his ex-girlfriend’s brother, he is forced to move to Nebraska where he makes new friends and falls in love with a girl named Lana. Lana is unaware that Brandon is biologically a woman but when she finds out she pays no mind and continues to love him. His other friends, however, react in disgust and they drag him into a car and drive to and isolated location where they brutally beat him up and rape him. Later, they take him to a house where he escapes through a window and hides in a shed near his house. His “friends” get drunk and decide to search and kill him. The movie ends tragically with Brandon being shot in

The 'Once Brothers' video we watched, took place after WWII during the split up of the six republics in Yugoslavia. This film showed the friendship between Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic. They played together on a Yugoslavian National team. They then split up because of the nationalism on their team and the war in Yugoslavia. They were so close but because of Vlade's actions, they grew apart and never spoke again.

The book "Master Harold"...and the Boys, is a play written by Athol Fugard. It is about a boy, Hally, dealing with his abusive alcoholic father and his relationship with Sam, who is more of a father figure than his dad. The film adaptation of Athol Fugard’s play directed by Lonny Price is an impactful piece of art and it truly compliments the play. In the scene of how we meet Hally who becomes concerned when he hears his dad is coming home from the hospital, we could see the director did such a great job at interpreting the play into a movie. What's significant about this scene is that it draws two major emotions - joy and anger- residing in the mind of Hally and it enhances the

Brandon Teena being trans man, that is, he was assigned female at birth but his gender identity is that of a man. He wasn’t entirely supported by his family throughout his struggle as a trans man. He was evicted from his cousin’s trailer. Teena Renae Brandon,or Brandon is also enduring a sexual identity crisis. His cousin did not understand Brandon’s identity crisis problem and just said that he was a lesbian. Zooming in on the events that take place in the film Boys Don’t Cry, one can have a deeper understanding of gender identity, by applying the ideas of Foucault and Queer Theory. Such main points considered from Foucoult and Queer Theory are the construction of homosexuality, Queer knowledges/Queer Performances and Scienta Sexualis. Boys don’t cry is not a film that only caters to the viewer’s pleaser, but a film that shows ones struggle with gender identity in a Midwestern society.

“Children of Heaven” is a film that portrayed a story mainly about a brother and sister in Iran and a missing pair of shoes. The plot brought into perspective a different culture both within the family environment and between the rich and poor neighborhoods. In addition, the film described a variety of people’s attitudes when they encounter setbacks. The most significant aspects of the film were the social factors that distinguished fate, and the embodiment of the family value that displayed precious love. Moreover, the effect of environment, which depicted the different aspects of the community.