The film industry was able to rush in a golden age of film by capitalizing on the need for Americans to have an escape from the harsh reality of the Great Depression; they were able to provide Americans with this escape from reality by utilizing the best of technological innovation of the time which included sound and color films. The film industry created an environment where Americans could pay a small amount of money to sit down and enjoy a film that took them away from the bleak times of the
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Great Expectations: Injustices and Poor Conditions Committed On Women and Children Great Expectations‚ authored by Victorian novelist Charles Dickens‚ is considered one of his finest works of literature. It was indicative of Dickens’s strong feelings for injustices and poor conditions committed on women and children of that time. Through the main character‚ Pip‚ Dickens’s demonstrated the compassion he felt for children. Most readers‚ like myself‚ are able to associate Pip’s experiences with
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“‘A Clockwork Orange’ comparison of the book and film.” A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian nightmarish fantasy of a near-future England‚ where teenage hooligans neglect the somewhat standing laws of society‚ and take control of the streets after dark. The novel’s main character‚ fifteen year old Alex‚ and his three ’droogs‚’ take place in all-night acts of random violence and total destruction. This dark image Burgess has presented to the reader portrays his view of what he believed would be a
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The book I read this trimester was The Choice written by Nicholas Sparks. The choice is a heart wrenching story about two neighbors‚ Travis and Gabby‚ who end up falling in love. Spanning the eventful years of their young love‚ marriage and family‚ The Choice ultimately confronts the reader with the hardest question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? If i could make this book into a movie i would very known directors and actors because it would make the movie more interesting
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The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Novel Characters: Nick Carraway (narrator): Born in Minnesota‚ educated at Yale‚ and a former soldier in WWI‚ Nick goes to NYC to become a stockbroker. He’s approachable‚ and therefore often ends up as other characters’ confidant. Nick lives in West Egg (new money section of Long Island) next to the rich and mysterious Jay Gatsby‚ who has long been in love with Nick’s cousin‚ Daisy. Jay Gatsby: His past is a mystery‚ but his
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Movie vs. Book Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein has been done and redone many many times. The most recent version starring Kenneth Branagh‚ who also directed it‚ and Robert DeNiro has many differences when compared to the original story. Mary Shelley?s original story provided a story line for the imagination of the filmmaker‚ making the movie related to the original story but also unique in itself. For the most part‚ if one were to only watch the movie they would have a fairly good sense of the book. There
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We are under the pressure of other’s expectations since we are born. We are expected to be brilliant in school terms‚ have a successful job and make up a wonderful family. Society has established these features as the key to achieve happiness. Consequently‚ our lives are so restricted. Indeed‚ those standards could bring us stability‚ but at the same time it could make us feel sedated. What’s life without a little bit of risk? It is amazing to realize that we have still the capacity of surprising
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people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences that Pip faces include poverty‚ low
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A major downfall of the movies compared to the book is the added characters and storylines. While some of the added storyline help to clarify parts about the battle of five armies‚ it also serves to muddle up parts of the movie and making them hard to follow‚ such as the story line about the Necromanser and all the death he is bringing back to reclaim the mountain. Another one of these completely unnecessary use of additional characters and storylines is the love story between Kili and Tauriel. Even
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The title Fat Catsby expresses Gatsby’s extraordinary wealth. Gatsby is a very wealthy man who has most of everything that he wants. However‚ a man named Nick‚ and his cousin Daisy come along‚ and he sets eyes on her. He tries to lure Daisy with his extravagant wealth. This caused Gatsby to throw a party for everyone‚ and invited Nick‚ and his cousin Daisy. Gatsby’s life is full of deceit‚ and lies‚ and misfortune when it comes to love. The moral of the story to me is that money cannot buy you love
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