... of a crowded street, which seems to represent the outside world. The very next image is of Mr. Chu, the father of the family, in his own home kitchen creating an elaborate meal which his daughters later refer to as the "Sunday Dinner Torture Ritual". The daughters coming back from that busy outside world to their fathers home is ... keeping bottled up as she is cooking an elaborate meal for Raymond, her lover. She exposes how she had grown up admiring her father's skills in the kitchen and wanting to be just like him. She speaks very sentimentally about all of the things they used to do...

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... informs Hal's mother that her husband is dying. Hal's mother wants her son to say goodbye to his father. Hal, a sensitive, chubby nine year-old boy walks into his father's room and stands by the bed. He is a little afraid and unsure of himself. His father is heavily sedated to relieve his pain ... he is not his usual self. When he realizes that Hal, his son, is at his side, the reverend shares some "pearls of wisdom" with the boy. He tells Hal the Bible says that true happiness can only be found in the arms of a young, beautiful woman. The terms used by the reverend ... to describe the ...

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... already. In American Beauty there are a few examples of when people get to close and break their invisible barrier. One scene of this is when Jane's friend goes into the kitchen to flirt with her dad. She starts the small talk and then she reaches up for his shoulder. The cinematics of the movie give it great feeling, it makes you ... to him because of what she thought was love, but I think it was out of lust for him. And lust never lasts quite as long as love. As for the boy next door his view of success was to get away from his father. He loved his estranged mother very much but to ge...

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... wife. At the dinner table, very little conversation takes place, and when Caroline tries to start up a conversation, neither Lester nor Jane take any interest. After Jane goes to the kitchen, Lester makes the comment to his wife about Jane, "you treat her like an employee." Lester was prompted to say this after Caroline expects Jane to clean up the table ... . After the game, Jane introduces Lester and Angela, at which point Lester has trouble coming up with something to say and he stares directly at Angela. The scene resembles a teenage boy looking at a beautiful woman, not a grown, mar...

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... of their sons, Preston and Robert, had died on D-Day and that their oldest son, Edward, was missing in action and presumed dead in the Pacific. Meanwhile, the youngest Niland boy, Fredrick, a paratrooper, was fighting somewhere in Northern France." The Army began to a search for Fredrick, and sent him back to the U.S. But he was in a Japanese POW camp. "He was ... he's truly bi-racial. However, anyone who had skin as naturally tanned and dark as his would likely have been considered a black man and he would have been assigned to kitchen duty with the other African Americans. It's a sad ...

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... already. In American Beauty there are a few examples of when people get to close and break their invisible barrier. One scene of this is when Jane's friend goes into the kitchen to flirt with her dad. She starts the small talk and then she reaches up for his shoulder. The cinematics of the movie give it great feeling, it makes you ... to him because of what she thought was love, but I think it was out of lust for him. And lust never lasts quite as long as love. As for the boy next door his view of success was to get away from his father. He loved his estranged mother very much but to ge...

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• Grade Level: High School