12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose

Robert Penn Warren wrote “All the King 's Men” to showcase the reality of political life in early twentieth century. The reader is introduced to the narrator Jack Burden, a young political muckraker for Willie Stark, governor of an unnamed Southern state in the 1930s. The novel is about Willie 's rise to importance and transformation from a modest lawyer to a fiery manipulator who uses corrupt means in order to do well for the poor crowds of his state. It is also the story of Willie 's downfall and the complicated personal story of Jack as the latter comes to realize his responsibility for the world around him. The insight that this book gives on politician life’s can compare and contrast history events thought the different themes like visions of America, alcohol, politics, and education.

Tag line: Louis L’Amour sucks the reader into a story of adventure, intrigue, and the survival of a lone man facing Russia, and Winter.

“In the Company of Men” is a play written by Neil LaBute set in the 1990’s. The three main characters are Howard, Christine, and Chad. It is revealed in the beginning of the play that Chad and Howard have been friends since college, and that they work in the same office building. While Chad and Howard are outside of the office, Chad reveals that one day, he came home from work to find that the house had been packed up, and his wife left him. While on the topic, Howard reveals that he recently had his heart broken by a woman after she declined his marriage proposal. While wallowing in their heartbreak, Chad proposes the idea of finding a girl, and having Howard and himself date the girl simultaneously, only to break up with her when

In his works, Sigmund Freud attempted to analyze what drives human function and its quirks. The movie “Fight Club”, a film adaptation of a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, displays many of the theories that Freud introduced in his writings. The Unnamed Narrator can be viewed as a case study representing the way that Freud’s musings can take human form. The fight between the ID, the Ego, and the Superego are a driving force in Fight Club’s plot development. The main characters are on a continuous “Death Drive”, seeking out pain and destruction in ways that seem obscene to the normal viewer. Fetishes plays a large part in the movie, showing how people can become obsessed with actions that go against societal norms. “Fight Club” is a perfect example of a work that can be analyzed through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theories.

In the book “Thirteen Reasons Why”, Jay Asher shows that the actions that you make can affect others. Clay Jensen comes home from school to find a box that is lying on his porch that contains seven cassette tapes. After Clay finds out that the tapes are from Hannah Baker, a girl that committed suicide a few days before, he goes to Tony’s to find another way to listen to them because Hannah said if you got the set then you are one of the reasons why. As Clay listens to the tapes waiting to get to the one that is about him, he heard stories about other kids that did something to Hannah. The kids ranged from being friends that turned on her to a peeping tom. One of her friends put her on a list “best ass in the freshman class” and that started a land slide with everyone thing she was a slut. When Clay’s tape comes up, it is just a love story that explains the history between Hannah and Clay. At a party Clay and Hannah made-out and made it to the bedroom before Hannah broke down crying and forced Clay to leave. Hannah was sitting next to the bed when a boy dropped off his drunken girl on the bed then left. Right after that a kid named Bryce came in and raped the sleeping girl. Then after her world kept coming apart see was walking by the after effects of a party and Bryce convinced her to come into the hot tub with him. As an act of letting go of herself, she had sex with Bryce in the hot tub. Later in a last ditch effort she went to the student councilor and told him but he

The movie Cast Away by William Broyles jr. is an interesting one. It's a movie about survival and battling against the elements. In this story the main character starts off with a great life, a good job, a beautiful wife, and no money troubles, but is all ripped away in one instant as his plane crashes into the ocean. When he wakes up he finds himself on an island all alone with nothing but a few FedEx packages and what little is on the island. The people who directed this movie did a great job at making it interesting but not too action packed. This made the movie have the perfect feeling of it actually being realistic. I personally admire this movie because of this tactic, and normally movies without a lot of action and fighting are hard

In The Fault In Our Stars,by John Green,I can really relate to Augustus feeling that he has to leave a mark on the world.I have taught of what I want to do to be remembered as someone important in the world..But Why do we feel like we have to leave a mark on the world?.To the end of Augustus Water’s life, he becomes angry at himself for not leaving a mark on the world.He becomes angry because he wanted to be rembered as a hero or at least someone important is that not what we all want.Green uses “outlasting death” and “being another unremebered casualty in the ancient war and inglorious war against death” to describe how obsessed we are on being remembered or not dying at all.By comparing our lives to a war against death shows that we fight

The physical environment also contributes to the climate of conflict. The room is very small causing a very close interaction zone. It is said to be the hottest day of the year and the fan does not work at first. The men gather into the jury room it is apparent through their body language and conversations that most of the men are hot, exhausted, and ready to convict the boy without giving it another thought. This gives a heated and tension atmosphere to the

Today’s society is essentially powered by consumerism, capitalism, and the media; supplying people’s thoughts, behaviors, feelings, and lives. The psychological novel, Fight Club, by Chuck Palahniuk, uses a man’s need for a male role of identity to fit in into society as a way of showing how consumerism can be threatening a man’s identity and masculinity. Palahniuk explores the life of a man who in an attempt to break free of a capitalist society forms a clandestine “fight club” as a form of rebellion towards society. Palahniuk illustrates in, Fight Club, a character that, challenged by today’s consumerism culture, struggles to find his true self-identity and express his masculinity.

In Chuck Palahniuk, novel Fight Club, it appears that freedom and the pursuit of happiness was the fundamental reason for the creation of fight club. However, fight club seems to lack any real freedom only representing a place of dictatorship where its’ members are imprisoned by their core belief that Tyler is their liberator and their way to freedom remains with their obedience to Tyler authority.

Those of Generation X found themselves born into a unique situation that generations before had not. They were born into a society fueled by rampant consumption of material goods, accelerated by the constant advertising of corporations. Many of Generation X found themselves drawn to the idea of rejecting this culture of consumption and the practice of identifying themselves through what they buy. Instead they look to find themselves in different, sometimes violent ways. In Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, the unnamed narrator begins as someone living the perfect consumer life, letting his Ikea furniture define him as an individual. As the novel progresses however he develops an alternate persona of Tyler Durden who rejects the consumer culture, like many of Generation X. They are outright disgusted with the society they were born into and as a result reject the blatant love for material goods and the idea of one’s worth or identity being defined by what goods they have accumulated and instead seek a new way to self identify and find happiness but find more problems along the way.

Men at Arms is the first installment of a book trilogy written by English author, Evelyn Waugh. The novel follows the main character, Guy Crouchback, who just returned to England after living in Italy in a villa owned by his family. One of the reasons why he moved was because his marriage had failed. When Guy arrived in England, the Second World War had already started. Guy looking for a sense of himself began enlisting himself in the Army. Many of  the army's he enlisted turned him down, but he ultimately got accepted into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers, with the help of his father’s connection.

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess, a story of a young troublemaker who rebels in every way possible against his society’s norms. The main character, Alex progresses throughout the story learning how his actions affect his future. Along the way Alex conforms, or at least pretends to, whenever necessary to survive or to get his way. However, during his incarceration, he underwent a procedure that altered his ability to rebel. This made Alex realize there are other was to adapt and overcome besides violence. After some unforeseeable instances Alex gains his free will back and chooses not to be as violent. The question now becomes what are the elements of conformity the author wishes his readers to question through his main character Alex?

I have been lied to my whole life. My parents taught me to believe that I was “special” and I could be anything I wanted to be if I put my mind to it. My parents taught me to go to school, follow directions, and always listen to figures of authority. Society taught me that I needed to go to college, marry the richest man, have the nicest house, the newest car, and have two point five children. “Live the American dream” society tells me. All the lies I have been told have come to light the moment I watched Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk 's nihilistic novel, Fight Club, which was later adapted into a movie, unfortunately taught me life’s hard lessons that my mother didn’t want me to learn as a child. Surprisingly, this movie/book isn’t just about fighting; it’s about identity, questioning society, understanding reality and getting rid of environmental, consumer and cultural influences that unknowingly tend to control our lives.

Hazel –Main character, has cancer, has to have an oxygen tank, likes Augustus from the start, semi-shy, and has a bit of a dark side, has a GED and goes to community college, but very smart and well put together, feels like she's a "grenade".