The Storm

"The heavens sense our burden:
The threat of future downpours
I carry on my back
We are drunk on wine vinegar.
The nearing storm rouses me,
It makes me want to shake the world

We are an assembly of misery.
If our hands are bloody
It is from the blood of our own wounds.
The grotesque scars
We bear on our bodies
Testify to battles fought
That went unrecognized

But then next storm will unfurl our flag
And uproot the rotted trees!
Then we together with the gusting wind,
Will scale spilberks heights,
And stand in victory on the peaks of the cliffs,
Our hair blowing freely in the wind"

Life is Beautiful

         In the movie Life Is Beautiful, there are many similarities to our readings. For example, they showed how the prisoners were put to work, how older women and younger children were killed in the gas chambers, as well as older men. In our readings it explained how anyone that was Jewish, was put into a camp to either die, or to work. In the movie, It showed how each and every prisoner was put to work, while the Nazis watched them suffer.
          The moods of the film stayed kind of the same. In the beginning, everyone was very happy and excited about life. They lived in a town where everyone seemed happy, and no one was ever sad. As things started changing over the years, People's moods started to be come negative. The only person who stayed positive was Guido Orefice. He stayed positive for his son who was still a small child. He didn't understand all of the things going on around him, like the internment camps and all of the guards. So Guido told his son it was a game, whoever got to 1,000 points first wins a tank. Comparing this to everything we learned before Is very different. Moods of the poems we read were always sad and depressing. But The movie is always happy but sad only at certain times. There is always humor throughout the whole movie. This is because Guido is trying to be strong and keep things fun for his son who is still a young boy.
          The film shows life is beautiful by always having good times out of the bad. Guido tried to keep his son happy and not frightened by the bad things going on around them. They even gave little hints to the mother to show that they were safe and still alive. At the end of the film, I think it was the part where it really showed life is beautiful. The young boy reunited with his mother after they survived all they went through. They were all happy and worried about nothing else but each other. Another example is when Guido would always come back to the cabin and explained how the points worked to his son. He made sure his son was following the "rules" and was never scared that something bad would happen. So throughout the whole film, it really explains how you should always have good times out of the bad and try to always stay positive.