Essays on Film Page 47

Sherman Alexie’s essay, “Superman and Me,” employs repetition and extended metaphors to shift from a personal to social perspective, effectively portraying his impoverished upbringing and emphasizing the transformative power of reading in his life and the lives of others. The essay begins with a discussion of how the Superman comic books helped Alexie learn to…

In the film Titanic, women are seen as below men and are told what to do by men. Women are deemed as helpless without the support of a man, which the main character, Rose DeWitt Buster, defies throughout the film. Rose breaks many of the traditional “rules” of the time period in which the film…