acting as an obstacle in the family’s dream of leaving the ghetto to start a new, better life in Clybourne Park. By sharing this play, Lorraine Hansberry makes a driven statement that blacks can achieve their dreams, but that…
finally lull into a sleeping state, we as individuals will have four to seven dreams during the nighttime. It will take one and a half hours, roughly 20% of our time peacefully sleeping, to dream. The empirical research on massive collections of dream reports has shown that our time dreaming reflects the relationships, activities,…
As dreamers, we all want things we can’t have, but a dream can be lost if the dreamer does not chose to pursue it. We were all once at the age of saying “I want a pony for Christmas”, but very few parents follow through with the request. About 46 years ago, a set of parents bought their little boy a pony. That little boy is my father and the little pony made my father work to where he is at today. “That little pony was a devil,” said Doug’s mother, Willodean May. “The pony did everything it…
During waking the frontal cortex is reigning in the limbic system. During dreams, the frontal cortex metabolic rate decreases drastically, and the limbic system goes wild. Rational regulation of your emotional brain goes offline. We have wild escapades, violence, fighting, running. My wife says that I run in my sleep. I also get into fights and one time I actually hit her. That woke her and me up. So dreams are dreamlike because the prefrontal cortex is offline during REM sleep, allowing…
A scene that shows these attributes comes after Santiago leaves a comfortable oasis in Egypt, to attend to his dream once more. As he pauses in the desert, a horseman dressed in black rushes him, with a sword raised to kill. "Who dares read the meaning of the flight of the hawks?" he demanded. He does not flee nor does he attempt to fight and protect himself. Instead, Santiago bows his head for the blow and says, "It is I who dare to do so. Many lives will be saved because I was able to see…
Examples which challenge Freud's assertion are found in the central protagonist of the film Pulp Fiction where John Travolta's character, Vincent Vega, finds himself at the wrong end of several narratives including a diner that gets robbed, a busted job, and going out with the bosses wife who over doses on his drugs. Vega lacks any sort of Providence and eventually finds himself gunned down in a bathroom. If anything a narrative structure exposes itself expressing the opposite of what Freud…
Freud attempted to crack the puzzle with this theory on the Id and its control over the majority of the unconscious mind. In Freud’s eyes, the Id is an incredible, sophisticated line of thinking riddled with complexity and unique abilities such as dream equating. Hall describes Freud’s idea of the id as a “demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, and pleasure-loving [character]”, which “retains its infantile character throughout life” (27). Freud initial findings were very blunt which…
The movie “Friday Night Lights” is based on a real life best seller “Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and a Dream”, by author H.G. Bissinger. The movie’s setting takes place at Permian High School in Odessa, Texas in 1988 when the tension between races were still strong in some areas of the south. There is some focus in some areas of the film that has to do with racial tension and the ongoing conflict between the student body and the city as a whole. Even though desegregation had happened by…
obstacles that prevent them from acquiring the results of these ambitions even if they strive to achieve it. The interesting thing is that many of these people risk their lives to obtain the fruits that they are supposed to gather from their tree of dreams and desires with the intention of achieving a better life and thus escape from their problems, vicissitudes, and difficulties. There are two themes that I notice in the novel “Hunger of Memory” by Richard Rodriguez where people had or still…
Every human being is born with a desire for a sense of belonging. Whether it is at their jobs, schools, or amongst their friends, people will always search for acceptance. The House on Mango Street, a novel beautifully crafted by author Sandra Cisneros depicts a young Latino girl's prolonged search for an identity. Cisneros portrays the young girl's evolution throughout the book by using ethnic and thematic elements. Through many hardships and life-changing experiences, Esperanza slowly blossoms…