Jared Malpass 1-29-2012 PD. 5 West Side Story Theme Essay In the movie West Side Story‚ there are many themes that were created. But the two that are the most important to me are‚ the importance of putting your differences aside‚ and that poor choices create bad outcomes. I think one of the themes that most reassembles West Side Story is‚ the importance of putting your differences aside is because both the Sharks and the Jets had there differences‚ but if they were to just put them
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The Truth Cannot Set you Free The Crucible‚ written by Arthur Miller‚ is a tragic story of injustice suffered by an innocent community who are subjected to the hypocritical‚ prideful judges of their trial. These Judges use their power to eliminate evidence of their mistakes and return their community to puritanical ways. The leaders of Salem are not concerned with seeking the truth and justice‚ but with maintaining their authority and reputations; this objective leads them to consistently
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In the Lake Side School of history‚ dark and gloomy stories ruled the school. These dark stories gave the students the fear and discipline that would never have come came to normal students. why? But in the midst of all the students‚ there was one student named Billy Longnose who wasn’t the average Lake Side student. For one‚ he often roamed the school’s underground passages that had long been abandoned by students and staff.how does this compare to normal students there? The tunnel floors were mostly
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and screenwriter‚ who was credited for the musicals from there books "West Side Story" (1957) and "Gypsy" (1959). In 1957‚ Laurents wrote the libretto for "West Side Story." Which was originally conceived by Jerome Robbins as a twist on “Romeo and Juliet”. Idea for this began with Robbins. In 1949‚ he asked Laurents to draft a script for a story of conflict between Jews and Italian Catholics on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Took five years‚ and a rethinking of Manhattan demographics and geography
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The Other Side of Truth is an historical fiction novel set on a true story. Although all the characters in the book are fictional‚ three political figures who were real people‚ are mentioned within it. It is set in around 1996‚ just after an event that ties in with one of these real people‚ has come to an end. The story linking the fictional characters together is supposedly set when talk of this real life event has died down. The novel is told in third person and is mainly focused on the thoughts
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“You Got To Do What You Got To Do‚ To Get Where You Got to Get” In Ralph Ellison’s story “Battle Royal”‚ Ralph’s dying grandfather gives his son advice on how to advance in life as a black person‚ in the United States. Ralph’s grandfather said‚ “I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses‚ undermine ‘em with grins‚ agree ‘em to death…”(1042). Basically‚ by being really nice to white people‚ he could gain favor and possibly be rewarded for his obedience. Ralph‚ took his grandfathers advice‚ and was eventually
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“West Side Story” Analysis Do you believe that everyone has a reason to hate someone or something just because of the way they look? May racism be the starting point to hatred? In “West Side Story”‚ author Irving Shulman gives us nothing but clues to these questions. The Sharks and the Jets are in a “ turf ” war. But two people‚ one from each side fall deeply in love. Irving Shulman writes how interracial relationships cause hate to increase in an instant and how racism leads up to hate. The
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‘A critical reading and contextualisation of West Side Story written by Arthur Laurents‚ music by Leonard Bernstein‚ lyrics by Stephan Sondheim and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.’ West Side Story is a 1961 film set in the mid-1950s in the upper west side of New York. West Side Story is based and inspired by Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story. In West Side Story the protagonist is the former leader of the Jets‚ Tony‚ who
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In the short story “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates there is bad parenting and it costs Connie at the end. Throughout the entire story there is little or no parenting‚ or sometimes there is a little parenting but it is not very good parenting. For example‚ “their father was away at work most of the time and when he came home‚ he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed. He didn’t bother talking much to them” (Oates 1). So even
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Both stories involve manipulation in different ways between men in an adult relationships in the kiss and manipulation of the young and vulnerable in the fly pepper .Both stories also involve twists at the end‚ which in turn serve to manipulate the reader. In the story "The Kiss" by Kate Chopin Natalie manipulates Brattain by playing upon him making her self look as the victim of the circumstances‚ by sucking up to him and making her self look pitiful. Saying that she felt very uncomfortable when
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