"Sweet Home Alabama- was written by C. Jay Cox and based on a story by Douglas J. For this paper, I chose to write about this movie by describing the characterization of the main character. This movie is about a small town girl who flees her hometown from boredom, leaving everything and everyone behind to start a new and exciting life. Some marital issues arise and she is forced to go back home and deal with the entities that she had never ended or finished. When this happens, she finds herself in a difficult position and is forced to choose her past or her present, which will determine her future.
The main character, who was also the girl who ran away, was Melanie Carmichael, who was played by actress Reese Witherspoon. She was content with her mediocre life surrounded by her "low class- family and friends, until she realized there was possibly a better place to be and live. She was married to her childhood sweetheart, Jake, and they had a pretty pleasant life, until her change in plans. By her running away from home, it showed that she was a person who was very weak when it comes to confrontation. She seemed to be quite timid when it came to telling people the truth, probably because she feared hurting their feelings, but who isn't? When she did move, she went to New York City in hopes to become a designer. With that profession, she quickly changed from this sweet girl into a busy, snobby fashion designer who just cared about material things. She started to be the typical person who was involved with fashion. Then when she was faced again with Alabama, she took along her New York attitude, but when she was faced with what she left behind, she quickly changed back to the person she was and adapted to her roots. Witht hat change, she showed just how dominant an environment can be on a person and how quickly it transforms them. Then when her fiancé and her ex-husband met, she was left with no choice but to choose.
If you are like most people and have never seen a miracle, see Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama. ... Witherspoon plays New York fashion designer Melanie Carmichael, who escapes the traditional country life of her hometown in Alabama. ...
Here she informs the reader of the setting; in these two lines the reader establishes that the setting is Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. ... The daughter "bathed sweet rose petal", rose petals here creates images of beauty and fragility for the reader (Line 18). ... The child represents the innocent people who were killed in Alabama during the Civil Rights Movement. This proves that Alabama was not safe for innocent people. ... These emotions give the reader the sense again that Alabama was not a safe place because the sweet little girl is killed by the force of evil. ...
King grew up in a two-story Victorian house located in "Sweet Auburn," the centre of black Atlanta. ... During the years spent in his home, in the middle of all the hate and violence, King had learned tolerance of others, and began developing his morals on Christian love. ... On June 18, 1953 the young couple were wed at Coretta's parents house in Alabama. Soon after the wedding King accepted the pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Alabama. ... When Rosa Parks, a forty-three year old black woman, refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, she...
To seek the real beauty, or real deformity, is as fruitless an enquiry, as to pretend to ascertain the real sweet or bitter. According to the disposition of the organs, the same object may be both sweet and bitter; and the proverb has justly determined it to be fruitless to dispute concerning tastes (Solomon 610-612). ... First of all being from a small town in south Alabama most of the men who grew up in my environment find women who have more classic looks and aspire to be homemakers, beautiful. This probably stems from the role of the women in the south Alabama culture. Most women wher...
For about six weeks the author, who is from Texas, hitchhikes, walks, or takes a bus to four Southern states: Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Georgia. ... Then conniving, sweet-toned, "there's plenty white women who would like to have a good, buck Negro"(P.92). ... In Montgomery, Alabama, the way of a Negro is different. ... Upon his return home, Griffin is ecstatic to be reunited with his family. ...
Along with his older sister, the future Christine King Farris (born 1927), and younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King (1930-1969), he grew up in the city's Sweet Auburn neighborhood, then home. to some of the most prominent and prosperous African Americans in the country (History.com). ... While in Boston he met Coretta Scott (1927-2006), a young singer from Alabama who was studying at the New England Conservatory of Music. The couple wed in 1953 and settled in Montgomery, Alabama, where King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. ... He had also become a target for whi...
He told me that he and his friends would drink until they, "literally had to carry each other home." ... Ed realized that the alcohol got him nowhere and he ended up without a home, a family, or money. ... Mobile is from Alabama, and he constantly told me of his plan to get back to Alabama. ... Immediately Matt began to hand out plates of turkey and stuffing, and pour glasses of sweet tea. ...
Everything was going fine for George until one night when a raiding group of people came breaking into there home. ... With this news George left home on his own to attend a single room schoolhouse for colored children in the community of Neosho. ... He set up a program where he could go to Alabama once a month to give farmers instructions on planting and other techniques to keep their crops growing. ... Carver also found one hundred new ways to use the sweet potatoes and pecans. ...