In the essay “The Wonderful Lousy Poem” Budd Schulberg talks about his experiences when he was a child. He wrote his first poem and showed it to his mother who was founder and prime mover in various intellectual projects, helping the Hollywood community to see something new. In addition, his mother said to him that the poem was wonderful and beautiful and she was proud of him. The little boy, nicknamed Buddy, was waiting for his father to show him the wonderful poem according to his mother. He made his poem even better and he put it right on his father’s plate on the dining room table.
His mother and father were educated. Additionally, he hoped that his father would say the same thing as his mother had said. However, his father arrived at home; he was angry and walked back and forward, saying bad words at the same time. Then he read the poem and he said, “What is this?” He said that the poem was lousy. A few years later, Buddy had to agree with his father’s harsh judgment. Then he was 24 and wrote his first novel. At this time his editor was like his father and mother when he wrote his first time because his editor encouraged him and at the same time criticized him too. At the very end, Buddy said, “I try to follow my true course.”
This essay is very important and interesting to me because the author gives many ideas and details about his experiences. Those experiences are related, just like some experiences that I have experienced them before. In addition, this essay shows us that to be successful in our life, we need someone who encourages us and at the same time we need someone who criticizes us because motivation can help you to stand up and do something with self-confidence. However, when someone criticizes you, you will not commit the same mistake again.
In the essay “Discovery of a Father” the author Sherwood Anderson describes his childhood experiences and his father. He says that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be and vice versa. He says that for every doctor, shoe-clerk in a small city, there is always a comedian or a clown, it is his father. On the one hand, many people think that his father is funny. On the other hand, he thinks that his father is terrible, ridiculous. Therefore, the little boy does not want his father. Additionally, many people love his father because he knows a lot of stories even though those stories are invented.
One day his father arrives at home and says to the little boy that they have to go outside to swim in a pond. That day it is raining and there are flashes of lighting followed by thunder. His father says, “Take off your clothes.” Naked, they go to the pond. He and his father are swimming, his father takes him on his back and he holds onto his father’s shoulders. The little boy realizes that he father was sad and he paid attention to him. Therefore, the little boy also realizes that his father is a good person and he decides to have him in his whole life.
This essay is a good story about father and son. This essay has taught me that sons want their fathers to do something that they cannot do and vice versa. Also, when fathers pay attention to their sons, then sons begin to love them and sons begin want their fathers as long as their lives.
The film “Cinema Paradiso” won the special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. It was also nominated for Best Foreign Film Academy Awards. “Cinema Paradiso” is set in an Italian village in the 1940s and 50s. The main characters are Salvatore, better known as Toto, and Alfredo, Toto’s father-like friend. They have a great relationship with each other. Their relationship is based on mutual love and fascination with films. In addition, Cinema Paradiso is a theater where many residents of the village go to see the movie. It also is the only entertainment in the village.
Later, Alfredo gets blinded by an accident; as a result, Toto gains knowledge and becomes the official projectionist of the Cinema Paradiso. He has to remove all kissing scenes as Alfredo did. Soon after, Toto falls in love with a blue-eyed girl named Elena. Then Alfredo realizes that in order for Salvatore to grow, Salvatore have to leave the village. The last words that Alfredo Says to Toto is that Salvatore must not look back once he leaves Giancaldo. Alfredo dies and Toto returns to the village 30 years later. Furthermore, the residents decide to destroy Cinema Paradiso Theater. Moreover, at the end of the film, Alfredo left a video to Salvatore which has all the kissing scenes. I think that Toto learned from his relationship with Alfredo that we need someone who give us advice and at the same time show us what is bad and good to grew up.
I sincerely say that this movie is one of the best films I have ever seen because it relates to me and many people. I say so because Toto has a friend who was like his father, and I also had one. When I was a child he gave me a lot of advice that helped me to grow up. This movie has taught me that when you are a child and you love your livelihood like Toto loves Cinema Paradiso, later on you become successful in business.
Furthermore, these two essays and the movie have a lot of similarities and differences. For example, in the essay “The Wonderful Lousy Poem” the author referrers to his childhood just like in the essay “Discovery of a Father” and the movie “Cinema Paradiso.” Additionally, in each one the main characters realized that they needed someone who encourage them and at the same time criticize them. Moreover, they have a great relationship with their father, in the case of Toto with his father-like friend, which made them to be successful later in life.
In contrast, in the essay “Discovery of a Father” the author did not have love to his father because of his father’s behavior. However, in the movie “Cinema Paradiso” Toto have a wonderful friendship with Alfredo and therefore Toto considered him as his father. Likewise, in the essay “The wonderful Lousy Poem” the author loved his father even though his father sometime had a strange behavior with him.
In conclusion, many people have a lot of experiences, especially during their childhood. When become to understand those experiences that can help you to be successful in your life. Also, being successful in you life you need someone who criticizes you and at the same time someone who motivates you. Writing this essay has helped me understanding even better my experiences. I suggested you to fallow some ideas you think that caught your attention. I also learn that in your childhood, you need love to grow up beneficially.
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