This prolific and award winning story by Tim O’Brien, focuses on the hardships faced by soldiers during the Vietnam War. O’Brien chronicles the lives of several soldiers as they battle through the jungles of the Vietnam. They story gives the readers the ability to go through the solders inability to accept the reality they are facing. The title of the story plays an important function in the story as throughout the story O’Brien makes mention of everything each soldier is carrying both physically and mentally.…
Though Money: The Unauthorized Biography & Ready Player One are vastly different books written for completely different audiences, major economic themes shine through in both pieces of literature. Money: The Unauthorized Biography is a non-fiction piece which focuses on the development of currency as we know it today, & the debunking of common inaccuracies in that history which many believe to be true. The novel, Ready Player One, is fiction in its entirety & doesn’t focus on economic themes. The novel follows the story of a teenage boy living in a not far off dystopian future, which inadvertently relays economic issues prevalent in its time period.…
Although the movie Ten Things I Hate About You is based on a Shakespearian play, it was released in 1999 so it was essential that the director Gil Junger made it both relevant and appealing to a modern audience. He does this primarily through alterations to the setting and the characters, with few changes to the basic plot. The target audience is teenagers, and all the major characters are also teenagers and are all in high school, making it much easier for the viewers to relate to them.…
The novel Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut depicts different periods of main character Billy Pilgrim’s life. Throughout the novel the reader follows Billy through his time as a soldier in WWII, life after, and the period where Billy thinks he lived on the planet Tralfamadore. These periods show the destructiveness of war on a person and its long-term effects after. Vonnegut actually fought in WWII and while at his war buddy’s house his wife talks about how Vonnegut and her husband were just children when they were sent to war. Vonnegut’s statement in the book, “We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood,” captures the quintessential idea…
It is important to understand that some conflicts in literature might not always be obvious. Considering how an author addresses conflict via literary techniques can reveal other more complex conflicts or different kinds of conflicts that interact in multiple ways. Analyzing those more complicated elements can help discover what literature represents about the human experience and condition. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the poem of Juan Delgado and the story of Tim O’Brien.…
Is 10 Things I Hate About You simply The Taming of the Shrew relocated to high school?…
The novel, A Lesson before Dying, was written by Ernest J. Gaines in 1993. Gaines was born on the River Lake plantation in Louisiana, where he was raised by his aunt, Miss Augusteen Jefferson. Racism was prevalent shown by the whites-only libraries in Louisiana. After 15 years of living in Louisiana, Gaines moved to California, although he states Louisiana never left him. California had libraries available for the blacks also. In California, he lived with his mother and which inspired him to the point of writing about six novels and scores of short stories. In 1953, Gaines was drafted into the Army, and he later went on to study creative writing at Stanford University. While in the library, Gaines…
Taming of the Shrew is a famous play written by William Shakespeare. In the modern day version, 10 things I hate about you, Gil Junger explores the relationship between men and women. Junger has taken Shakespeare’s ideas of favouritism, how looks can be deceptive and a person’s basis for a relationship and has put them into an up to date teenage friendly format.…
In the past one hundred years, one of the most important social issues has been the subject of equality. However, this has not always been the case. For centuries, western civilization was a primarily patriarchal society, but in recent years, this issue of equality has permeated all parts of our social world, including literature. Thus we find literary critics placing twenty-first century values on ancient works, hoping to find elements of social equality where, often times, there is none to be found. For example, critics in recent years have attempted to describe William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew as a feminist work; however, it is largely the opposite. Petruccio's actions can been seen as patriarchal, enforcing the generally misogynistic culture of the day, and Kate, the supposed feminist hero, is presented to both the characters in the story and the audience as spiteful, vicious, and generally spoiled. The only real reason to wed Kate, it seems, is for financial gain. However, modern critics still attempt to proclaim Kate as the model of female individualism. In Gil Junger's film adaptation of the play, 10 Things I Hate About You, the character of Kat transform into this feminist ideal. In the film, Kat is seen much in the same way as Kate from the play is by other characters in the film, but is presented to the audience, and thus later "tamed", in an entirely different way. Kat is a true individual with a sense of independence and a heart waiting to be won by a man who will accept her, temper issues and all. Conversely, the play portrays Kate as a spoiled brat who wants nothing but to get her way, and can only be won by someone strong enough to tell her what to do. These contrasting natures of these two characters highlight the patriarchal nature of The Taming of the Shrew. At the same time, they highlight the attributes of pop culture in the film which provide new insights to the play.…
10 Things I Hate About You, a film directed by Gil Junger, is a great movie that people still watch even though it is almost 15 years old. The film is based on Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, The Taming of the Shrew, but has been made to be understood by people in the 90's. America has made some huge technological advances since the 17th century. Technology plays a huge part in our life from the internet to even the movies. The film explores the ideas of dating, individualism and trust. In contrast to The Taming of the Shrew, 10 Things I Hate About You was created to encourage female independence and control, a huge event in American history that effected the way both of them were written. Even though , the film still results to traditional views on dating and the archetypal “knight in shining armour” that every girl should find. With previous sexist views aside, and further use of the five elements of fiction writing; plot, characters, setting, theme and style, The Taming of the Shrew has been transformed into a teenage classic, in the form of 10 Things I Hate About You.…
‘Taming of the Shrew’ identifies how the stereotype of women belonging in kitchen while men belong working earning the wage to keep the household stable. ’10 Things I Hate About You’ portrays two outcasts of their society finding love despite the fact that ‘Katherine (Kat)’ & ‘Patrick (Pat)’ both try and do the opposite of what society expects of them. ‘Katharina (Kat)’ was forced into a marriage, she refused to accept,…
The 1999 film, 10 Things I Hate About You, mirrors many of the characters, themes, and conflicts as in the Shakespeare play, The Taming of the Shrew. The characters in the film involve Kat as Kate, Patrick as Petruchio, Cameron as Lucentio, Bianca as Bianca, Michael as Tranio, and Joey as a suitor for Bianca. The characters share many of the same motives as their counterparts in the play. The reasons for their motives all revolve around Mr. Stratford’s decision of not allowing Bianca to date until her sister, Kat, does; which is slightly different from the play where Bianca can not marry until her older sister Kate does. Kat however, has a bad reputation of being strong-willed and rude to the opposite sex. Both Cameron and Joey are interested in dating Bianca and so they decide to search for a boyfriend for Kat, in which case they find Patrick. Rich Joey bribes Patrick with money into dating Kat, so he can go after Bianca. Michael is the middle man who is helping Cameron date Bianca. Cameron tutors Bianca in French, similar to Lucentio’s tutoring of Bianca in the play, to be with her. Patrick similarly, is trying to do everything he can to get Kat to be interested enough in him to date. He even takes over the PA system at the soccer field where Kat is practicing soccer and pays the band to play while he dances and sings in the stands for her in front of everyone. His performance is goofy and outrageous, mirroring Petruchio’s buffoonery at the wedding. At the end of the movie Kat’s poem in front of the class is a teary, public declaration of her submission and love to Patrick. Kate’s speech at the end of the play is also a declaration of her submission to her husband, Petruchio. The two are tamed in the end, but for different reasons, Kat is tamed by her love for Patrick and Kate seems to be tamed more by her sense of duty as a wife. The movie was not stereotypical about the role of girls/women,…
To create a modern adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming Of The Shrew, the writers of Ten Things I Hate About You had to change elements of the original story to make it more accessible to contemporary audiences. Though the setting and theme of the story are very different from the original, there are clues throughout Ten Things I Hate About You that pay homage to the Shakespearean play.…
“Ten Things I Hate About You” can basically be described as a “RomCom”, a romantic comedy. A genre so commonly used and abused throughout the existence of film. However the quality of “Ten Things I Hate About You” could have dramatically improved with more romance, giving the film more of a flow. “Ten Things I Hate About You” is the retold story of Shakespeare’s play “Taming of The Shrew”, with Katarina as the well-known and disliked shrew.…
The film “10 Things I Hate About You” made in 1999 American teen romantic comedy film. It is directed by Gil Junger. The film had an estimated budget of $16 million and is considered a moderate financial and critical success. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $8,330,681 in the United States…