Revenge is bittersweet Revenge is the main theme of the film The Count of Monte Cristo‚ directed by Kevin Reynolds. The protagonist Edmond Dantes has his mind set on vengeance as he has been deceived and betrayed by J.F Villefort and Fernand Mondego. Throughout the film Edmond carefully plots and plans to have vengeance on Villefort and Mondego. Although with revenge comes with a price‚ what has been done cannot be undone. Edmond has to live with the guilt of taking another man’s life. Villefort
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Summer Reading Response This summer I read “The Shadow of the Wind” written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon‚ a spanish author‚ which tells the story of Daniel Sempere and his journey to undercover one of the most literary mysteries in all of Barcelona. The tale begins just after the Spanish Civil War‚ with Daniel’s father transporting him to the Cemetery of Forgotten books‚ where he is to pick one book and swear to protect it forever. Daniel chooses The Shadow of the Wind and instantly falls in love with it
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“Hope begins in the dark‚ the stubborn hope that if you just show up and do the right thing‚ the dawn will come” ~Anne Lamot. Illustrated in the novel‚ The Count of Monte Cristo‚ Alexandre Dumas uses the character of Edmond Dantès to portray that even in a dark place you can still have hope. In the darkest of places‚ with God‚ hope shines through. Confirming this statement‚ “I lay aside my pride before God‚ who has taken me from nothing to make me who I am” (385). He became nothing‚ but he had
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resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians and fighters. This fierce fighting has led to public outcry for the two factions to come to a peaceful solution that will once again bring stability to the region. Sandy Tolan‚ author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab‚ A Jew‚ and the Heart of the Middle East presents the conflict through the true histories of two families‚ antithetical in nature‚ whose pasts ultimately lead them down a road of friendship. Despite a few exaggerations and assumptions‚ Tolan
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1 In the book‚ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn‚ Francie Nolan lives in a world where she has trouble finding who she is‚ but eventually finds a way of discovering who she wants to be. Francie is an eleven-year-old girl living in Williamsburg‚ Brooklyn. You can find Francie sitting on her fire escape reading book‚ while imagining that she lives in the Tree of Heaven. The narrator says: “An eleven-year-old girl sitting on this fire escape could imagine that she was living in a tree. That’s what Francie
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The Count of Monte Cristo Love fills the heart. In The Count of Monte Cristo‚ the character Maximilian proves that love triumphs all. Maximilian was a soldier who never felt love until the age of twenty-nine‚ that is until he met Valentine. The moment he lays eyes on Valentine he is so deeply in love that he would literally die without her. Maximilian’s heart if full when he is with Valentine. Through the actions of Maximilian‚ he proves that love triumphs all. Maximilian meets the Count for the
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Compare and Contrast Natural Law and Relativism as approaches to decision-making. Morality serves two universal human needs. It regulates both conflicts of interest between people and those within the individual born of different desires and drives that cannot be satisfied at the same time (Wong‚ D. 1993). Natural Law and Relativism are two opposing approaches to morality. In comparing and contrasting the two approaches I will also briefly outline the background and principles of each. Natural
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The Taliban In everyday life in Afghanistan‚ people live in constant fear due to a group of terrorists. The novel‚ Under the Persimmon Tree‚ by Suzanne Fisher Staples‚ demonstrates the cruel truths of life in Afghanistan. The book follows two girls‚ Najmah and Nusrat as they are faced with tough challenges everyday that will alter their lives forever. The Taliban impact the everyday lives of people worldwide in an awfully negative way‚ and the book accurately proves this to be true by following
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The Lexus and the Olive Tree written by Thomas Friedman is not important because it simply refutes the long held belief that globalization is a temporary side affect to the machinations of American foreign policy interests‚ but because Friedman takes it one step further by claiming it is a totally new world system which has completely replaced the old Cold War system. Even the title of his book is representative of this idea. The Lexus and the Olive tree represent "symbols of the post-Cold War
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accomplish nothing. Everyone knows misery loves company and revenge is the perfect partner. Most of the time it takes others to show you the good things in life that make that one bad one seem less severe that it doesn’t matter. In the movie "The Count of Monte Cristo"‚ Edmund Dantes (Jim Caviezel) must go through trial and tribulations as he learns the biggest lesson of his life. Dantes is a poor sailor that dreams of one day owning his own ship so he may marry his longtime love Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk)
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