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    !! Walter Mitty: Finding Sean Most people are like Walter- Simple‚ average‚ a grey piece of paper‚ fitting in the urban office life seamlessly‚ searching for romance and adventure. The movie‚ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚ is an action filled comedy-drama movie; filmed in Greenland‚ Ice land‚ Afghanistan and New York City‚ full of beautiful‚ awe inspiring sceneries as Walter Mitty does his best to find the photographer of Time magazine covers‚ Sean‚ becoming more than he was before. Walter Mitty

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    “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚” Walter Mitty uses his dreams as a means of escaping and to convey his feelings of irritation and unhappiness. When an individual daydreams‚ they have the tendency of escaping the trivial aspects of life and attaining a sense of freedom from their real world situations. In the usage of the literary elements of character‚ setting‚ and symbolism‚ the author contributes to the larger narrative theme of fantasy and reality in showing how Walter Mitty leads a double life

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    the film “The Visitor” directed by Tom McCarthy. The film is about a middle aged American man named Walter‚ who finds two refugees in his apartment. Walter forms a bond with them‚ as Tarek the male teaches him the drums. When Tarek is arrested we see what Walter does to help Tarek and his mother Moana. The scene that I will analysis for this report is Tarek’s deportation in which we see when Walter learns of Tarek’s fate and how he reacts to it. The aspects I will be looking at are costume‚ dialogue

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    Walter Payton In 1954 Walter Payton‚ a star‚ was born in Columbia‚ Mississippi. His parents Edward and Alyne Payton had three children‚ Eddie‚ Walter‚ and Pam Payton. When Walter was a kid he always loved to go outdoors. He always loved to go fishing‚ play football with his friends‚ and exploring the woods that he lived by. Walter spent his first three years of playing football at an all-black school named John Jefferson high. After he had finished High School the options for a black athlete

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    From reading the book‚ “Secret Life of Walter Mitty” and watching the movie‚ it is made clear that Walter Mitty is not just any ordinary man. In both the short story and the movie‚ it seems Walter Mitty is completely lost. Mitty has trouble focusing on what is in front of him‚ instead he daydreams about an exciting life‚ that he does not have. The book and movie both show how Mitty has relationship issues‚ how his daily routine is absolutely boring and how he daydreams about the exciting life he

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    In James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” we see the main character drive into Waterbury‚ Connecticut‚ with his wife for some weekly shopping and his wife’s routinely visit to the salon. During the shopping trip he has five dreams that cross his mind. “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” shows us how he used imagination to channel someone deep within himself. It allows Walter to set himself apart from everyday reality. The story is based around a boring man who goes shopping with his

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    Daydreams and Walter Mitty "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" You have all daydreamed from time to time but Walter Mitty is an excessive daydreamer. He daydreams because he is stressed out by his controlling wife. He also dozes off to dream about masculine adventures. Also the reason is he feels society does not get him and what kind of man he is. The last reason he daydreams is because he wants to get away from his boring life. In James Thurber’s "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty‚" Walter daydreams

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    I love funny/action movies like “The Secret life of Walter Mitty”‚ about a young man and everywhere he goes‚ he daydreams of a girl name Cheryl Melhoff . One day Walter was pasting around in New York. He had received a phone call from a random man on the phone‚ but surprisingly it was Todd from E-harmony. Todd was helping Walter with his profile and explaining how he could send a wink to Cheryl to capture her attention. After a while Walter imagined that he smelled burning fire in the building

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    short story‚ “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Thurber‚ a middle aged man named Walter MItty‚ very regularly fantasises about what his life could be like‚ because he is bored and tired of his own life. But his wife‚ Mrs. Mitty‚ tries to protect him from his fantasies interfering in the real world. I believe Mrs. Mitty’s actions in the text are only to keep him safe and has his best interests at heart. Furthermore‚ Mrs. Mitty did not want Walter Mitty to get cold so she asked him‚ “Why

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    living separate lives learn the meaning of life. Faced with different hardships‚ Carrie and Walter are alike more ways than one. Walter is an unoriginal character‚ who isn’t very noticeable like a grain of sand in a children’s sandbox. Whereas‚ Carrie is seen as a typical adult whose greatest hardship is her cluttered house. However‚ the lives of the lost boys and Tarek awakened the desire of both Carrie and Walter to change for the better. It became a need‚ not a choice to help the refugees by learning

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