Prompt Number 2 The Johari Window is explained by a model showing the different ways of communication between yourself and others. The Johari Window goes to explain the different types of views of yourself. What you allow people to see, what you don't know that people see, what you don't let people see, and what you and others don't see. In the movie Gran Torino, the character Walt learns to allow people to see him as his true self, and not just how he allows people to see him. Which is explained using the Johari Window. At the beginning of the movie, it shows Walt being closed off towards others. Not in a sense of closing in on himself due to his wife dying, but he mainly just didn't want anyone to bother him. Which was shown when Father Janovich tried to approach him. He didn't allow anyone else to see that he was hurting or even missing his wife. Instead he showed that he was disappointed with how his family was acting. Despite not showing any of his emotions towards people, he conveyed them when he was speaking to his dog, telling her that they both missed “mom”. At this point in time, Walt's Johari Window was mainly his “hidden area”. Walt finally starts to open up to Thao first, after Thao started working for Walt to repent for trying to steal his car. At first it appears that Walt was trying to “toughen” up Thao by trying to show him that his life can be more than a gang if he wants it to be. Walt helped set Thao up with a job, after he helped get him the supplies
Walt was good at his job and doing well to perform his duties, but then few things happened around him, which changed his whole life. The first thing or event was corruption, which he was seeing around him in his company. The second thing was to see the superiors also doing corruption and looting money from the company accounts. And third thing was customers of the company. He saw that even customers don’t pay up their money to the company, but still company is bearing them, so he thought if customers are free to do so, then why he cannot do so. He saw that rules are being broken everywhere, so he thought to do so as well. These three events became the major factors for Walt to think about committing a crime
The text stated, “in the face of the threatened injustice against old lame Loren Hall he felt that he must do something”(London para 19). When the terrible men stole the claims from Loren Hall, Walt was inspired to save them. Walt became mad and was determined to turn them in. Walt thought that it was the right thing to do because he felt sorrowful for Loren. He went out of his way to complete this worthy goal. In addition the author stated, “Stop! Or we’ll shoot! But Walt only yelled harder at the dogs, and dashed round the bend with a couple of revolver bullets signing after him”(London para 26-27). Walt Masters badly wanted to help the people and turn the evil men in. It must take heart and determination to never give up when there are bullets flying by your face. He has great morals that lead him to doing the right thing even when he is putting himself in unnecessary danger. Aengus, the god of love, also had a ton of willpower on his quest to find a mysterious woman. When Aengus was in the woods, he caught a silver trout. That trout turned into a glimmering girl, and the god fell in love with the girl at first sight. The girl disappeared, which made Aengus very curious about where she went. No matter the cost, Aengus is determined to find his lost love. For instance, “Though I am old with wandering, Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
Walt showed less emotion, but this was because he was always busy, due to his job. This along with his mentality to always be in charge led Chris into hating his father. However, Walt still did care for his son this only mean they clashed heads every once in awhile. After Chris had been gone for months Walt slowly became depressed.
It was recently after he graduated from college in Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout college, Chris maintained a 4.0 grade point average; except for one mistake and he received an F on an essay. Walt was furious with that one grade and contacted the teacher. After the call, Walt informed Chris he deserved the particular grade and should have done what the teacher told him to do. From the evidence stated about Walt, I can infer that he pushed Chris to do his absolute best in school. Just like Chris, Walt is a well-informed man. The novel states Walt worked as NASA’s project manager. You can realize from Walt’s career that he was industrious, and I can conclude he wanted Chris to be the same. Walt’s strict personality would get irritating after many years of pressure for acceptance, so I can visualize Walt was one reason for his departure.
Walter seems to be overcome with a search for power and a drive to become wealthy and leave the life of being a worker behind him. It also shows that he cares for his family seeing how he is striving to give them the best, but that aspect is overshadowed by his greed. I feel the scene also shows the Younger family at its lowest point in the movie. Walter is on the complete edge and is thinking of stealing a community's money and the rest of the family, besides Momma, seemed to lose their faith and trust in him. When things seemed hopeless with the loss of the money, they only became worse as a loss in more than money occurred. A loss in their character, faith, history, and respect for each other overcame the family, particularly Walter and Beneatha. Nevertheless, Momma soon sets Beneatha straight with an emotional and positive speech about how there is "always something left to love" and sets the standard that the family should adhere to. It marks the turning point at the end of the movie
Walt and Frank have trouble communicating with their parents, and the children show difficulty in handling their stress. Walt begins to speak with his family, and performs a song called “Hey You” in his school’s talent show. Walt wins first place in the talent show, and receives praise from his family. However, the school found that that he did not write the song, the school calls Walt’s parents in to have a meeting with just the Joan and Bernard. In this meeting, the principle
As a consequence, he avoided the Hmong family. He even expressed distaste for them to their face, not wanting to learn about them or their culture. After much conflict, Walt was presented with the opportunity to help his neighbors and to open his mind to adapting to the inevitable cultural diversity in his town.
The evident boundaries between the mother-son and father-son dyad seemed to blur. Walt realises of his lost bond with his mother and how he regrets his father not being there in his childhood, just as he is unavailable for his younger brother now. He realises his self-image as being an emotional and sensitive person as opposed to who he was trying to become with his father. As opposed to his character, Bernard goes to Joan and requests her to re-think the divorce. In his last scene with her, he puts his guard down and expresses his vulnerability, to which Joan starts to cry as if expressing her exhaustion and hopelessness. It’s appreciable that though the picturisation has been done from the point of view of Walt, it never fails to highlight the emotions and sentiments of other characters invariably. With equal focus on all the artists, it is hard to say who had the leading
The Gangster film ‘Scarface’ (DePalma) is about the rise and eventual fall of Cuban immigrant, Tony Montana. Throughout the film the viewer witnesses how Tony Montana goes from a criminal in Cuba to a drug overlord in America. The average viewer cannot connect to the arc of Tony Montana. But, the average viewer can connect to what Tony Montana is working for, the American dream. Brain DePalma chooses purposefully to have a hyper-masculine, narcissistic, megalomaniac immigrant as the main character of a story of American dream. In ‘Scarface’, DePalma show the universality of the American dream. By utilizing various filming techniques, DePalma shows how the American dream is available for everyone.
He doesn’t have many friends that he could hang out with out on a daily basis. His cousin Spider, and the rest of his gang convince Thao to join their gang in return of protection, and brotherhood. Thao is an honest person. He confessed to Walt that he was the
How does he think this sounds? When he gets to know Thao, the teenage Hmong who lives next door, he takes him down to his barber for a lesson in how Americans talk. He and the barber call each other a Polack and a dago and so on, and Thao is supposed to get the spirit. I found this scene far from realistic and wondered what Walt was trying to teach Thao. Then it occurred to me Walt didn't know it wasn't realistic.
His dead body lays on the ground in the form of a crucifix which is associated with the way Jesus Christ died in the Christian bible. This symbolism and the connotation attached represent Walt’s true character as the hero of the story. Although he is seen as a racist man at first, he is willing to sacrifice his life for Thao’s and his family’s safety. Walt knows that Thao’s family would not be able to live peacefully with the gang members still around and he has decided to make things right by sacrificing his own life for them. The symbolic meaning of the crucifix represents Walt’s character as a salvation for Thao’s
Walt was doing his normal paper route when he saw a toy in the snow. He sat down and played for it a little bit and he put it back. That showed that he was a very kind and innocent boy. When he had a lot of money he sent it to his family so that he could meet their needs. When the war was happening he wanted to help his country.
Q. What kind of man is Walt Kowalski? Examine character development throughout the film Gran Torino?
On some level he knows he can't control others, and that learning fills his edginess. In "The Fly," Breaking Bad's most clearly ruminative scene, Walt miracles provided that he can uncover a way out of the profound mess he's in. “I truly believe there exists some combination of words,” he tells Jesse. “There must exist certain words in a certain specific order that would explain all of this. I just can’t ever seem to find them.” Walt imagines that provided that he can uncover a succession of expressions as flawlessly requested as the gem designs he uncovered in graduate school, he can legitimize all his movements to Skyler and repair his broken family — maybe much adjust the unalterable wrongs he has done. However Nietzsche's cautioning about dialect rings a bell again: expressions can't catch what we without a doubt feel, and we can't control how others will hear even the most.