Thomas “Blind Tom” Greene Wiggins Bethune (b. 1849 Georgia-d. 1908 New Jersey), was a composer and pianist born to Domingo Wiggins and Charity Greene on Wiley Jones 's plantation in Harris County, Georgia. In 1850, Bethune was auctioned off to Colonel James Neil Bethune, along with his parents and two brothers. Born blind and sickly, he was included with the purchase of his family for free.1…
There is a great deal of narration in the movie, much of which helps to move the plot along. A lot of this dialog is from Carine, Chris’s sister. We get a number of details from her point-of-view. What do you think of this strategy? Does the narration help to explain the story better…or does it stray from the facts of the book. Give an example or two.…
The story actually begins quite late in the journey of Chris McCandless with him meeting a truck driver who gives him a lift, named Jim Gilliam. The story from there moves around from here to after his death, covering his high school days and even the life of the author himself. This non-linear story structure is used quite well to show the growth of Chris and how the decisions he made affected him. McCandless really gives an interesting outlook on who…
Planet of the BlindStephen Kuusisto is a true poet. His tale of his journey through a darkened world, is told in words that are not just written, they are painted onto the canvas that is his book. I started off full of pity for Kuusisto. He made me sad for the life that he led. I found the image of him trying to read tragic. With his descriptions, I could just picture him leaning 2 inches above a book, with one eye pointing the wrong direction, and the other jiggling back and forth in its socket. I think Kuusisto intentionally pressures the reader into feeling pity for the majority of his life story. He tries to draw you into seeing how he lived constantly in a state of despair. My heart would ache as I saw him make a fool of himself pretending to be sighted. Time an again I cried out "Just tell people! They will still love you!!!" For some reason I couldn't understand why he wouldn't let people in. Since I had such a hard time understanding it gave me a new sense of what people with disabilities go through. Their thinking must be so different from mine that I can not even imagine.…
One notable difference between the movie and the book is in the structure and chronology. Both the film and the book basically disregard the chronology of the actual events that took place throughout Chris’s life and up until his death. Chris McCandless himself sought to completely abandon all forms of structure and the movie mirrors this by jumping in between three different narratives. The first shows Chris, isolated from society, loving life and not only being physically hungry, but being hungry for the enlightenment that he sought through this type of lifestyle. The second narrative shows the months leading up to McCandless landing in Alaska. The third narrative explains the emotional trauma he experienced as a…
The film incorporates a variety of auditory, visual and language techniques to reveal challenges and his discovery of his need for other people. A sense of non-belonging with his parents at the beginning of the film where Chris is…
* In the film the story line never takes a path which is not travelled upon by Chris, he is portrayed as a hero who is easy going and is literate enough to summon Thoreau’s and Tolstoy’s words to suit any occasion. On the contrary in the book he is described as an abrasive and inconsiderate kid ranting against authority when confronted. Also the author gives his personnel opinion on Chris and quotes many adventures from his life too.…
“Reading good literature won’t make a reader a better person any more than just sitting in a church, synagogue, or mosque will. But reading good books well just might.” This quote is from the article “How Reading Makes Us More Human.” It shows that although the common belief is that reading will make us better people, it doesn’t mean anything to us unless we really know how to comprehend the book itself and allow it to influence our decisions. A text that applies to this idea is A Raisin in the Sun. It is just a normal book until you take it to a new realization and apply it to much more. Through this book, I have learned how characters are influenced by their surroundings, how pieces of the book connect to this quote, and how my life has been influenced by the actions of characters throughout the book.…
The first specific concept that I have chosen to discuss is the Sociocultural Context concept. The Sociocultural Context is based on a child’s environment which, when combined, can impact the development of a child, this includes the environmental, physical, cultural, social, and historical aspects of a child’s life (Siegler et al., 2014, pp. 17). This concept applies to the film because of the fact that the individuals in the film had completely diverse environments when they were children that impacted each individual differently. A prime example is the individual, Symon.…
The story of Chris Gardner, a man with vision, a role model to his son and a classical example of how a homeless man with a child can exert himself from being poor to become one of the most outstanding man who successes, and go above and beyond what people think of him. In describing Chris Gardner personality traits, I would say it consist of the fact that he very aggressive ambitious and loyal to his son. Referring to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, his physiological thirst was become a stock broker to improve his living condition. In providing his child with a safety place to bathe, sleep and eat. Chris knows that he poor therefore, he accepted himself for whom he is. His self-actualization is that do better for himself and his son is drive to achieve the goal that he established for himself. From reviewing the interview and movie he seems to be a person that doesn’t give up. He works extremely hard to get to where he needs to be. An example being raped by other men or being abused by his step father doesn’t stop or causes him to give up. Chris Gardner is determined to succeed as he quoted “you can beat me down, but I could read and I’m going place”. With the responsibility of supporting himself and his son he made a pact to himself that he would not abandon his son like his father has done. Thru thick and thin, both will work together to get through the obstacle that arises.…
One of Chris Gardner's Personality traits is him being a good father. When Chris was 28 he finally met his father. Chris had always promised that he would be there for his own kid unlike his dad was there for him. Whenever Linda left Chris, Chris seen Linda in an ally on her way to work and he stopped her and told her that he wanted Christopher to come live with him because he knew and she knew that Linda wouldn’t be able to take care of Christopher by herself. Chris gets kicked out of his house with his 5 year old son, and he tries to find a place to stay, but the only place he could find was the bathroom at the bus station. Also Chris makes sure that his son eats before he eats, he buys his son breakfast and a candy bar.…
As a Director, McGann has used a range of storytelling techniques to build on the contrast between the world of the Father and the world of Little Man’s younger sister, Kid. McGann uses the Father’s occupation as a trapper to symbolize both the father’s control and treatment of Kid who is ‘trapped’ by her autism and also his sense of being ‘trapped’ away from the rest of the world as a consequence of Kid’s disease. A disease that was not understood nor accepted at the time. Unfortunately, the characters of the Father and Kid are not well developed as McGann spent most of his time exploring the internal world of Little Man. The character development feels contrived and as if the Director is trying too hard for artistic merit.…
The film describes a beautiful and everlasting relationship between a father and a daughter as it leaves a very deep impact on the audience…
All in all, the narration used by Krauter to demonstrates themes of the story are hard to believe. Krauter makes us thinks that by Christopher McCandless arrogance abandon things and by materialism, a person at this age will always left all behind and makes the themes and the narrations biased. This demonstrates that Krauter didn’t hide his biased and makes the reader questioned where does he get this information and questioned how is the outside…
The film is about a mother who left her son in the Philippines and also an English teacher, who relinquished her profession in line of caregiver in London, in hopes of augmenting her salary.…