Category: Drama

There are 4 main characters at the beginning of the book. Their names are Tom Wingfield, Amanda Wingfield, Jim O’Connor, and Laura Wingfield. They are all blood-related and play a big part in the Glass Menagerie. Tom is the only person in the family that gets money. Tom gets frustrated from working a job he…

Throughout the novel “The Handmaid’s Tale” readers can learn the increasing limitations the patriarchy places on the female identity through the experiences of the protagonist and the first-person narration Offred delivers along with her flashbacks to the society that preceded, conveying both the initial lack of opposition in the past and providing context to, the…

‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ is a drama/comedy featuring Olivia Cooke, Thomas Mann, and RJ Cyler, and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, an American filmmaker. It was entertaining and very heartwarming, causing many laughs and cries throughout the film’s entirety. This movie follows Greg, played by Thomas Mann, as he goes through high school.…

The Color Purple by Alice Walker follows the hard plight of Celie. The story takes place in Georgia in the 1930s, during a time where intersectionality affected women of color. Celie was sexually assaulted by her step-father, forced to stop her schooling, and marry. After marriage, Celie continues to suffer and live an unfulfilling life…

Yann Martel uses the island as a way to showcase Pi’s transition from the beginning of the novel to the end. In the beginning, Pi was very religiously focused and innocent. He had not yet been exposed to the cruelty and harshness of the real world and the animals that lived in it. As the…

In the novel “Life of Pi” By Yann Martel, in order to survive his ordeal, Pi must meet his physical, emotional, and spiritual needs by focusing on each equally so he can hold onto his faith as well as keep his mind stable and his body nourished, as he is struggling for survival when stranded…

Survival is a common theme that is imbedded throughout the book Life Of Pi this can be seen mentally through Pi, symbolically through Pi and also color. When it comes to survival, there is no plan, you’re just trying to get through the day. There is no time for preparation, only time to get into…

Jack wakes up in a jungle. The setting of this episode is on a beach right outside the jungle on a deserted island, which they thought was at the time, when their plane had crashed. He runs toward the beach where the plane crash happened and begins to help the survivors. Kate helps sow up…

I must admit, I’ve always found identifying book and film genres excruciatingly challenging, because of my indecisive nature. And Yann Martel hardly aided me in learning how to do so efficiently with ‘Life of Pi’, as the novel itself mingles complicatedly between fiction and non-fiction. I will have to take a guess that this specific…

Introduction Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure drama film based on Yann Martel’s 2001 novel of the same name. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named ‘Pi’ Patel, who is narrating to a novelist about his life story. He tells that how at the age of 16 he became a victim of a…