Vampire Diaries Analysis

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a supernatural drama series lasting from March of 1997 to May of 2003 was a popular television show created by Joss Whedon. The show is considered one of the top fifty shows of all times for many reasons including the fact that it is deeply rooted in the literary tradition, the episodes always having deeper meanings and metaphors. The show was so successful despite being on a small network that it led to hundred of tie-in products such as novels, comics, and video games according to Wikipedia. The show went as far as winning many awards and achievements including a total of three Emmys including Outstanding Writing for the episode of “Hush”. In the episode of “Hush” there are monsters called the “gentlemen” who appear in the town and steal everyone’s voice. Buffy and her friends, who already lacked communication had to defeat those monsters using a source to interactive way in order to get it done. The episode “Hush” shows the significance and effectivity of having good communication which is something that is taken for granted.

Have you ever felt alone? Did you feel separated from the rest of society? As human beings, everyone has experienced this at some point in their lives. There are many factors to take into account when trying to figuring out why people seem to feel so marginalized or alienated. A group of people who feel they are marginalized is immigrants. The experience of entering a new and unknown country is difficult and can make the experience a struggle for different reasons. One reason is the lack of feeling welcomed by the residents of that country. The biggest decision immigrants face, when entering a new country, is whether they will be able to hold on to their own culture and heritage or if they will adaptor the new culture they are being exposed to. Books tell a story and often time authors decided to incorporate their own experiences into their novels. Two of these authors are Cynthia Ozick and Henry Roth, both of whom have touched upon the “Jewish American Experience.” Ozick created characters who handled the events from The Shawl in different ways throughout Rosa. Henry Roth incorporates his childhood experiences and inner thoughts in Call It Sleep through the eyes of (name of main character), the main character.

The different aspects of life in a different world she experienced had created more than a life times of suffering, and she had managed with the help of Ashoke and many new friends she had made in her new life. Friends that came together to celebrate the birthdays of her children, with eatings and old practices such as deciding the future through plates of dirt, money, and writing utensils. How she passed time with writing christmas cards to her family in Calcutta, and how she sent more parts of her life to them through letters about how different life was. Lahiri pictures the dramatic life adventures of immigrants how they feel all around the world. These immigrants are distraught because they recognize that they do not gain anything even through their sufferings that have plagued them for so many

Buffy the Vampire Slayer directed by Joss Whedon was an American television series which came to air on March the 10th, 1997 until the last season in May, 2003. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was based on a young woman named Buffy Summers, who battled against vampires and demons in her hometown Sunnydale. Buffy was depicted as a strong female role model who was extremely loyal to her sister Dawn and her best friend Willow. She also gained a lot of power through fighting the vampires and demons, again showing her strong female role modelling in the series. Buffy was also a good listener to Giles her watcher/mentor and surrogate father figure, many of the techniques he taught her helped with her strength when fighting against the demons. Some of the features and film devices used to describe Buffy as a character included the camera angles and shots as well as the lighting techniques. These film devices and techniques were used throughout the series to help present Buffy as a strong female character. Buffy can also be compared to other strong fictional female role models such as, Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games (22ndMarch 2012), and a slightly weaker character, Elle Woods from Legally Blonde (11thOctober 2001). Consequently, Katniss was presented as a great role model because her qualities were admired and she was hard to like by other characters in the story, she also comes across as tough and hostile, whereas Elle was able to face challenges of being labelled as ‘the dumb

In the story “Mrs. Sen’s”, Lahiri presents the struggles of assimilating into a new country and portrays how lonely and restricted immigrants can feel. She is able to do this through her use of the character, Mrs. Sen, a woman who is originally from India. Throughout the story we see how difficult it is for Mrs. Sen to assimilate to the lifestyle in America. Her days, usually consist of staying in an apartment while her husband teaches at a nearby university. Mrs. Sen’s Indian lifestyle still seems very prominent, all her furniture is still wrapped in plastic, the shoes are all lined in a bookcase by the front door, she refuses to purchase fish from the supermarket and she uses an abnormal blade to do her cooking. All of this illustrating how perhaps she is not ready to let go of her Indian lifestyle and assimilate. Mrs. Sen is representative of the struggles of assimilation, which often include feeling lonely and restriceted. She always relies on Mr. Sen, she barely knows anybody, she often misses her family and she cannot seem to make America feel like home.

You have a good point comparing Lahiri's point of view with immigrant families and their customs and how they can derive in an identity crisis. However, this assignment referred to points-of-view from a literary perspective. This means if the narrator is in first person, third person or omniscient, and the effectiveness of them through the story. Like Asa Newsome did, try again.

When adapting to a new culture, many find it hard to assimilate into their new world while still holding on to their past life. Finding yourself in a new place with a new language and unfamiliar faces is challenging for immigrants. Jhumpa Lahiri, an immigrant herself, sheds some light on the Indian culture in her book, Interpreter of Maladies. She conveys many challenges that immigrants face when moving away from their homeland in a myriad of short stories. These short stories introduce similar themes of immigration and adaptation through different experiences. Two of Lahiri’s short stories, “A Temporary Matter” and “Mrs. Sens”, do a great job in showing similar challenges of cultural differences in two different ways. They introduce characters

The upheaval accompanying displacement, refugee women often demonstrate remarkable flexibility, adaptability and resilience. According to Hamilton, (1999), far from being simply passive victims or recipients of aid, refugee women are capable of acting as agents of change in support of their families and their community. As heads of households, they are able to provide for their families without traditional social networks even in the absence of their male relatives often take on new economic and social

In what’s become a most unwelcomed trend of season seven, The Vampire Diaries sidelines its far more interesting material, yet again, to focus on a boring old game of cat-and-mouse. Which is something this show typically does well, even if it’s only because they do it so often. Almost immediately in this case however, the stakes are lowered when we discover from Fake Stefan that his soul could easily hop into the body of a transitioning vampire, leaving Stefan’s body safe. So while it’s not ideal, – what with having to sacrifice a human life and all – if it really came down to the wire Stefan could jump out of Marty’s dying body and live to fight another few days.

The T.V show The Vampire Diaries is a CW teen drama series that involves danger, romance, action and suspense. The show is not just about vampires and werewolves, but it also has other supernatural elements such as hybrids, witches and vampire hunters. Let’s just say that even though it’s compared to the Twilight movies, The Vampire Diaries is an old fashion love story where you can expect the unexpected. Where the audience can also connect with the character’s situations. Even though it’s a fictional show, it involves real life situations that an ordinary person can go through. The producer Julie Plec did a beautiful job with the plot, the relationship of the characters, how the show itself connected with the audience, and the setting.

Being in a situation where one has no choice but to change their entire lifestyle around is never a desired experience. This normally occurs as the aftermath of immigrating into a new country that one may not have too many familiarities with. In the award winning novel, The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri has successfully captured and portrayed the reality of the struggles and difficulties one would face through immigration. This was done so through the use of emotions and challenges that the character,

Jhumpa Lahiri’s characters in her anthology ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ do face moments of unhappiness, however her characters are not always isolated in darkness. Many of Lahiri’s characters suffocate on their migrant experiences, struggling to let go of their home culture; India. Despite this, Lahiri suggests that the light can indeed be found in migrants’ lives if they maintain their connections with their birth place and accept their new fates, evident by incorporating and exploring happy moments for her characters who do so. In Jhumpa Lahiri’s short story Mrs. Sen’s, character Mrs Sen is Lahiri’s study of the classic case of a migrant who fails to adapt to their new life and fit into new culture; experiencing the inability to let go of the old culture.

American immigrants live a double life balancing two different cultures. In a collection of short stories, Jhampa Lahiri, author of Interpreter of Maladies, illustrates Indian-Americans caught between two identities. First, in Lahiri’s “Temporary Matter”, she uses commonplaces such as death, divorce, and pain in a story about an Indian couple living in America. In order to show that people of different cultures share similar issues, she writes about experiences commonly felt by a given audience. Shukumar and Shoba’s marriage is failing due to the loss of their child at birth.

Savannah Newton is your typical Sophomore. She does everything a normal girl her age would do;like, Pretty Little Liars, chasing life, and.... The Vampire Diaries. Savannah finds her self in a mysterious town and soon finds out its her favorite show! How would she react? What should they do?

Through her tasteful selection of contemporary Indian influenced prose pieces, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the unique journey of Indian families established in America. Focusing on the intergenerational aspect of traditional households, Lahiri conveys the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies a person who is branded as a foreigner. In America, there exists a common misconception that immigrants who arrive in this country fully assimilate or seek to assimilate as time progresses. The category I chose was "The Dot of true Happiness." The dot which signifies the bindi, a traditional red mark worn by Indian people, is the source of true happiness among these immigrants.