03/04/15 Dear Diary,
    Christopher's condition is kinda depressing. I always wondered how Christopher got the damn cognitive disability. There's is nothing mentally wrong with me or my ex wife (which by the way Christopher has no idea that she is alive). I wish that Christopher is a normal kid sometimes but then other times his condition makes him special. Like how he does so well in school and other times he just doesn't know what to do like when he talks to new people.
  
     The way Christopher is obsessed with who killed wellington is nerve racking. He is always talking bout it and finding new ways to ask me who did it. He is also coming disturbingly close to finding out who did it. Every time he brings it up I feel my chest tighten in fear because I killed wellington and I'm afraid that Christopher will be afraid of me when he finds out who did it.


    Christopher angers me every time he talks bout it every god damn time it makes me worried and I have to tell him to stop. When he asks me why I come up with some bullshit answer saying that's its rude to be in other peoples business. Or I tell him some people may not like that your in their business and do something to make sure your not in their business anymore. Hopefully that will make him stop because I can't stand the guilt anymore and if he asks me one more time I might tell him.


    Being a single parent that has an autistic child is very difficult. People don't want to have a relationship or even go on a date with a guy that has a kid groan every time he is scared or don't know what to do. The best thing that a guy like me has is a girl nude magazine and a bottle of friggin lube. Its very lonely and depressing but its something that I have to deal with because I love my son and I'd rather be alone and lonesome than have him end up in some damn foster home. Where the people don't understand him or treat him the way he needs to be treated or the respect he needs to have to function properly.

Shawshank Redemption Final

     In the movie "Shawshank Redemption"there are several characters that are redeemed in what they have done. Like Andy Dufresne who wasn't supposed to be in there anyways got his redemption when he escaped from Shawshank prison. He double crossed the warden and took his shoes that he just shined and the papers that contain the information for all the money that Andy helped him steal through the years. Then there is Red who got his redemption when he decided to leave the state and break his parole so he could see his friend Andy again. Then there is also the new guy who got redemption before he was shot and killed by the captain of the guard. his redemption was that he got a high school education and his diploma and that he realized that there is more to life than stealing things and acting like a guy that thinks he's all bad.
     Does "Shawshank Redemption" live up to its name? I think it definitely does because everyone that the movie was trying to show either got redemption or they got what was coming to them. Like the warden for instance he was taking bribes for years and storing it away in a bank while the prison got nothing not one dime of that money. But as he thought everything was fine Andy escaped and took all his money and sent a letter to the Newspaper and the police read it and went to arrest him. The warden didn't want to get arrested so he pulled out a Snub Nose .38 and blew his brains out. The crooked captain of the prison guard that killed 2 people in the movie got what was coming to him after the police showed up to arrest him. He went quietly and was sent to court and then prison I don't know if it was Shawshank prison or not.
     The flaws of the characters that got redeemed are a little difficult to explain because they're so hard to point out. Andy's flaw is that he is just to honest about things. He never believes certain things either but he is always there to help the ones that come to him for help. Red's flaw is that he just doesn't seem to care about parole anymore he thinks that he is stuck in there for the rest of his life and there is nothing he can do about it. The wardens fatal flaw was thinking that he is untouchable in the eyes of the lord and with the prison because he was surrounded by prisoners that nobody would believe if they told people what happened in Shawshank prison.

Forrest Gump

     For this blog I will explain the answers of each question. The theme of this film is about Forrest's saying that "life is like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get". This quote means that life can be unpredictable at times. The reason why I think that this is the theme  of the film is because Forrest lived an incredible life even though he wasn't as smart as the other kids. He went through college, went to Vietnam, met three different presidents, and owned a shrimping boat company throughout his life. now its time for question number two I believe that people remember the film because they find it to be humorous and heart warming especially how Jenny finally realizes that Forrest is the right guy for her and how he did all those memorable things. For question three I want to tell you how Lt. Dan is a dynamic character. The reasons are that he was a man that wanted to die in the Vietnam War because he thought that was his destiny because at least one of his family members were killed in a war. But then he met Forrest who turned him into a changed man over time yes he may have been crippled after he met Forrest but Forrest made him into a better man by walking with him and sharing his shrimping boat business. For question four the other characters don't really change Forrest. He just goes along with whatever he's doing and gets it done while the other characters all change for the better when they get to know Forrest. For question five I imagine that the shoes represent freedom. The reason why I imagine that is because you could run forever in a good pair of shoes and you could spend a lot of time thinking while your running to. For question six Forrest embodies the saying "life is like a box of chocolates you never know what your gonna get" by just living his life. He went  through Vietnam, met three different presidents, and became a millionaire. For question seven there seems to be some irony throughout the movie like how he was there when the colored folks walked into the high school for the first time or how he went to see the president and he was with the all American team and other examples. 

The Theme of Dodgeball

     I think the theme of the film "Dodge Ball" is to not give up and don't let people push you around. The reason why I think this is because throughout the film a bigger and better gym was trying to get them to get rid of Average Joes so they could build more parking spaces for their members and Average Joes kept on coming back like a cockroach. Peter Lafleur the owner of Average Joes actually didn't want to try and stop Globo Gym from demolishing his gym to make a parking lot for their members because he thought that his gym didn't mean anything and he just stopped caring bout it and the people in his program. White Goodman The owner of Globo Gym thinks he's better than everybody and no one can tell him how to do things and he can and will always get what he wants.
     These 2 gym owners have a brief history between them that has caused White Goodman to hate Peter Lafluer and willing to do anything to get back at him. The turning point for Peter Lafluer was when he was sitting at the bar of the airport and Lance Armstrong shows up and recognized Peter and asked him why he wasn't at the dodge ball game. When Peter told him why Lance inspired him to go back and play the game so he could win his gym back and also his friends. But Peter had a plan in how he was going to do this. His plan was to bet on his team with the money Globo gym gave him for Average Joes and that proved to his team that he believed in them.
     Steve the pirate thought that he had to change who he was because Peter snapped on him for acting like a pirate. So he left his friends and tried to change who he was and actually did it. But as he showed his friends who he turned into Peter asked him who is he going to share this buried treasure with and he turned back into his old self. So the point of that part of the movie is trying to show that you don't have to change who you are just to be liked by other people.
     White Goodman the owner of Globo Gym thought that everyone had to like him because he was rich and (he thought) had a nice body. But as he later found out it doesn't matter what's on the outside its the inside that counts. At the end of the movie he flips out because he is a spoiled man that got everything that he wanted from his father and thought he was better than everyone. But since he lost the match he got angry and started to get really fat and turned into an jerk. So the theme of that part of the film is that you don't have to be a jerk for people to like you. 

Are They Similar

     The films I will be discussing today are "Its a Wonderful Life" and "Family Man" and I will tell you how are they similar and how are they different and so on and so forth. These 2 films are similar because they both get a chance to see how life is different with or without something. like with George Bailey an angel named Clarence gives him a chance to see how life was like without him being even born because he thinks that people will be better off without him. With Jack Campbell he is given the opportunity by another angel to see what his life could of been like when Jack went to London but came back the next day and stayed with Kate and ended up marrying her instead of becoming a rich business man.
     These films are different because they get to see different things that changed there views on life. Like George Baily got to see that he is a very good and honest person that has led a wonderful life. While Jack Campbell is given the opportunity to see what his life is missing and that their are things more important than money and power. Another thing is that George Baily was poor and had a hard time paying for things and Jack Campbell was filthy stinking rich.
     The character elements are the same because they have the same ambitions in the beginning to get rich and do whatever they have to stay that way. They are different because George Baily cares for other people throughout the film and Jack Campbell only cares for him and his business. Yes the themes are the same because in the end they both learn valuable lessons and try to fix the wrong they have done or the pain the may have caused people.
     They compare to Charles Dickens work by how they both are mad about something or don't realize what they are missing or have spirits visit them and try and tell them what they have or what they are missing and once they realize it they both try and fix it just like Scrooge.

     In both the movies "Reign over me" and "Extremely Close and Incredibly Loud" they both tell the stories of 2 different people in what happened before and after 9/11 and after 9/11. They both tell about how they lost their families or family member the difference is that they are told by an adult and the other story is told by a child.
     The first movie I'm going to talk about is "Reign Over Me".  This story takes place in New York City and it makes the most sense of 9/11 and its effect on people by showing the effect years later. The story begins when Alan was dropping off his daughter at a friends house and see's his old friend Charlie driving around on his little scooter. Alan tried to talk to him but Charlie couldn't hear him because he was listening to music. He disappeared for a while then Alan saw him again and stopped him and had some lunch with him. After Alan had some lunch with him Charlie wanted to hang out with him some more and from that point on he has been trying to help his old friend out.  But helping him isn't easy, Charlie has a few problems like how whoever brings up his family he explodes on them or if someone tries to get him to do counseling he'll think that his step-parents are trying to get his friend to try and make him do counseling so he'll explode.
     The final movie I'm going to talk about now is "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"  The movie also takes place in New York City and it start with Oscar and his dad having a good time with each other. But the next day wasn't such a good one because 9/11 happened that day. After 9/11 Oscar started to go down a long hard slide where he disrespected his mother and hurts himself when whenever he gets frustrated. One year passes by and then he finally gets the courage to go in his fathers closet and goes through his stuff. He finds the paper his dad gave him before 9/11 as he is pulling the box down a blue vase falls and shatters. as it shatters a paper sack falls out and he picks it up in the sack there is a key and that is what started the search.
     "Reign Over Me" appeared more powerful to me because the story of losing his family was very eye opening and the fact he took it so hard.

   Both the films "Saving Private Ryan"  and "1941"  that we have watched  are about war but have different ways of showing the seriousness of the war. The only difference is that one is a comedy and the other is a dramatic film. The meaning of "Saving Private Ryan" at least what I think it is that its supposed to show how the men in world war sacrificed their lives to protect there country and the brotherhood they developed to try and help one another in the most serious of cases. The meaning of the movie "1941" I think is that fear is a bad thing because fear makes us do some really dumb things sometimes.
     Now I'll talk about the films, like how in "Saving Private Ryan" Capt. John Miller was given the orders to bring a random guy that got to come home back so he could go home.  Through that time of the 8 men walking across the country to finally find Pvt. Ryan. He refuses to go home until reinforcements come and help his comrades finish their assignment which was to protect the bridge. After they developed a plan to protect their assignment Pvt. Ryan was reloading and didn't notice the tiger tank getting ready to shoot so another Pvt. ran out and pulled him behind  a building just before the tank fired and saved him.
   In "1941" There was a boy named Wally who didn't want  to join the military because he thought that they were just a joke. But when he visited his girlfriends house the father was talking to soldiers about putting a gun in his back yard. The soldiers were saying that it is for the dense of the U.S.A. Later on Belushi who was apart of the U.S.A. air force was following a plane he thought was a Japanese plane and started firing on that plane causing it to crash into the tar pits.
     The main reason why I think that "Saving Private Ryan" is a lot more powerful in meaning is that since I'm going to the military after high school it really opened my eyes to what could really happen to me.