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This remake provides examples of:.: David is born without a counterpart, and thus is left vulnerable to emoting with other humans and gaining empathy. He eventually pulls a to save his mother, avoiding the same fate with the others like in the original. Female child Mara takes the role of the ringleader instead.: The janitor is an who drinks on duty and is heavily implied to abuse the schoolchildren.
When he crosses the children, he winds up.: Reverend George is A) played by, B), and C) nearly kills Mara.: When the janitor, for whatever reason, decides to harass the children by swinging around a broom. He hits one of them.: All the mutant children, and specially their leader Mara. One of the boys (the son of the local schoolteacher Jill) loses his female counterpart in childbirth, and thus learns empathy.
And he's still kinda creepy.: Reverend George.: If the children take any pain inflicted upon them, accidentally or otherwise, they force the adults to experience it taken. The little girl who is accidentally given too hot soup, and coincidentally is the leader of the group? She makes her mother Barbara stick her arm into a boiling pan of water. And then makes her commit suicide via jumping off a cliff. Another little girl has an acidic substance accidentally dropped in her eyes during an exam. The ringleader of the children then makes the optician until she's left permanently blind.: A majority of the adults introduced are killed by the children, and by the end the audience is left with 1 adult and 1 child (David and his mom Jill).: In the final shot, it is implied there was a sequel in the works involving David.: David is the only one of the children to develop empathy.
He is consequently the only one who survives.: Reverend George is one of the kindest characters in the film, and nearly Snipes Mara.: Reverend George is pretty quick to realize that the children are dangerous despite not being involved in Dr. Verner's study, and knows that they are in fact behind the recent string of deaths. Eventually, he takes matters into his own hands and tries to kill them.: Zig-zagged. Verner says that it is everyone's individual choice whether to keep or terminate the babies, both are valid options, and the government will pay all medical expenses either way, every woman carries to term. However, the dream sequence all the pregnant women share immediately after this, combined with Jill's friend's initial desire to abort (as it can't possibly be her husband's), makes it pretty clear that they didn't get to make the decision.: Reverend George is softspoken, kind, and cares about the safety of the town.: The children forcing Reverend George to shoot himself with his sniper rifle.: The children mind-whammy a police helicopter pilot into making a rather abrupt and explosive crash-landing.: David spends the last half of the film lingering between the cuckoos and his mother.
Eventually when the kids mind-attack Jill during the climax he snaps and pushes down Mara so she can escape.: Specially if they're mutated children with no empathy.: The film has everyone dying except for the teacher girl and her son aka one of the alien children, the only one to have developed human emotions.: In the original story and the 1960 film based on it, all the children were villains uncaring of humanity. The girl who was destined to be David's mate is stillborn, and as a result, David has some emotional vulnerability. To balance it out however, the other children are even more vindictive and graphic in action than in the original.: The schoolteacher Jill refuses to believe that her son David is evil, and risks the children's wrath to rescue him. This seems to play a lot into David's.: The minister's wife, Sarah, leads a group that tries to attack the kids while holding a torch. It's easy to guess what happens.: Zigzagged.
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David lacks a counterpart, leaving him vulnerable to experiencing emotions and bonds with humans, in particular his mother. While David is still far from normal, he exists as proof cuckoos can partway achieve human sentience under certain circumstances.: Everyone falls asleep at once in the middle of whatever they were doing? There are consequences, many gruesome and fatal.: The one child who refuses to use his powers for harm survives.: The story now takes place in California instead of English countryside.: Unlike the 1960 movie, David survives.: Mara speaks softly and coldly, and is the ringleader of a bunch of horrible kids.: David, in spite of the cuckoo's nature, slowly grasps onto emotions to some degree. Mara is a darker example. For someone who refutes the idea of having emotions, she has a for most of the movie.: When the State Police and National Guard attempt to confront and kill the children, the children hypnotize them into killing eachother instead.: Mara states David to be inferior due to his more evident emotions and conscience.: David becomes this when he begins to develop human feelings and a conscience.: All the alien children are killed except for David.
Things Fall Apart is about the tragic fall of the protagonist, Okonkwo, and the Igbo culture. Okonkwo is a respected and influential leader within the Igbo community of Umuofia in eastern Nigeria. He first earns personal fame and distinction, and brings honor to his village, when he defeats Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling contest. Okonkwo determines to gain titles for himself and become a powerful and wealthy man in spite of his father's weaknesses.Okonkwo's father, Unoka, was a lazy and wasteful man. He often borrowed money and then squandered it on palm-wine and merrymaking with friends.
Consequently, his wife and children often went hungry. Within the community, Unoka was considered a failure and a laughingstock. He was referred to as agbala, one who resembles the weakness of a woman and has no property.
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Unoka died a shameful death and left numerous debts.Okonkwo despises and resents his father's gentle and idle ways. He resolves to overcome the shame that he feels as a result of his father's weaknesses by being what he considers to be 'manly'; therefore, he dominates his wives and children by being insensitive and controlling.Because Okonkwo is a leader of his community, he is asked to care for a young boy named Ikemefuna, who is given to the village as a peace offering by neighboring Mbaino to avoid war with Umuofia. Ikemefuna befriends Okonkwo's son, Nwoye, and Okonkwo becomes inwardly fond of the boy.Over the years, Okonkwo becomes an extremely volatile man; he is apt to explode at the slightest provocation.
He violates the Week of Peace when he beats his youngest wife, Ojiugo, because she went to braid her hair at a friend's house and forgot to prepare the afternoon meal and feed her children. Later, he severely beats and shoots a gun at his second wife, Ekwefi, because she took leaves from his banana plant to wrap food for the Feast of the New Yam.After the coming of the locusts, Ogbuefi Ezeuder, the oldest man in the village, relays to Okonkwo a message from the Oracle.
The Oracle says that Ikemefuna must be killed as part of the retribution for the Umuofian woman killed three years earlier in Mbaino. He tells Okonkwo not to partake in the murder, but Okonkwo doesn't listen. He feels that not participating would be a sign of weakness.
Consequently, Okonkwo kills Ikemefuna with his machete. Nwoye realizes that his father has murdered Ikemefuna and begins to distance himself from his father and the clansmen.Okonkwo becomes depressed after killing Ikemefuna, so he visits his best friend, Obierika, who disapproves of his role in Ikemefuna's killing. Obierika says that Okonkwo's act will upset the Earth and the earth goddess will seek revenge. After discussing Ikemefuna's death with Obierika, Okonkwo is finally able to sleep restfully, but he is awakened by his wife Ekwefi. Their daughter Ezinma, whom Okonkwo is fond of, is dying. Okonkwo gathers grasses, barks, and leaves to prepare medicine for Ezinma.A public trial is held on the village commons. Nine clan leaders, including Okonkwo, represent the spirits of their ancestors.
The nine clan leaders, or egwugwu, also represent the nine villages of Umuofia. Okonkwo does not sit among the other eight leaders, or elders, while they listen to a dispute between an estranged husband and wife. The wife, Mgbafo, had been severely beaten by her husband. Her brother took her back to their family's village, but her husband wanted her back home.
The egwugwu tell the husband to take wine to his in-laws and beg his wife to come home. One elder wonders why such a trivial dispute would come before the egwugwu.In her role as priestess, Chielo tells Ekwefi (Okonkwo's second wife) that Agbala (the Oracle of the Hills and Caves) needs to see Ezinma.
Although Okonkwo and Ekwefi protest, Chielo takes a terrified Ezinma on her back and forbids anyone to follow. Chielo carries Ezinma to all nine villages and then enters the Oracle's cave. Ekwefi follows secretly, in spite of Chielo's admonitions, and waits at the entrance of the Oracle. Okonkwo surprises Ekwefi by arriving at the cave, and he also waits with her.
The next morning, Chielo takes Ezinma to Ekwefi's hut and puts her to bed.When Ogbuefi Ezeudu dies, Okonkwo worries because the last time that Ezeudu visited him was when he warned Okonkwo against participating in the killing of Ikemefuna. Ezeudu was an important leader in the village and achieved three titles of the clan's four, a rare accomplishment. During the large funeral, Okonkwo's gun goes off, and Ezeudu's sixteen-year-old son is killed accidentally.Because the accidental killing of a clansman is a crime against the earth goddess, Okonkwo and his family must be exiled from Umuofia for seven years.
The family moves to Okonkwo's mother's native village, Mbanta. After they depart Umuofia, a group of village men destroy Okonkwo's compound and kill his animals to cleanse the village of Okonkwo's sin. Obierika stores Okonkwo's yams in his barn and wonders about the old traditions of the Igbo culture.Okonkwo is welcomed to Mbanta by his maternal uncle, Uchendu, a village elder. He gives Okonkwo a plot of land on which to farm and build a compound for his family. But Okonkwo is depressed, and he blames his chi (or personal spirit) for his failure to achieve lasting greatness.During Okonkwo's second year in exile, he receives a visit from his best friend, Obierika, who recounts sad news about the village of Abame: After a white man rode into the village on a bicycle, the elders of Abame consulted their Oracle, which told them that the white man would destroy their clan and other clans.
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Consequently, the villagers killed the white man. But weeks later, a large group of men slaughtered the villagers in retribution. The village of Abame is now deserted.Okonkwo and Uchendu agree that the villagers were foolish to kill a man whom they knew nothing about. Later, Obierika gives Okonkwo money that he received from selling Okonkwo's yams and seed-yams, and he promises to do so until Okonkwo returns to Umuofia.Six missionaries, including one white man, arrive in Mbanta. The white man speaks to the people about Christianity.
Okonkwo believes that the man speaks nonsense, but his son, Nwoye, is captivated and becomes a convert of Christianity.The Christian missionaries build a church on land given to them by the village leaders. However, the land is a part of the Evil Forest, and according to tradition, the villagers believe that the missionaries will die because they built their church on cursed land. But when nothing happens to the missionaries, the people of Mbanta conclude that the missionaries possess extraordinary power and magic. The first recruits of the missionaries are efulefu, the weak and worthless men of the village.
Other villagers, including a woman, soon convert to Christianity. The missionaries then go to Umuofia and start a school. Nwoye leaves his father's hut and moves to Umuofia so he can attend the school.Okonkwo's exile is over, so his family arranges to return to Umuofia. Before leaving Mbanta, they prepare a huge feast for Okonkwo's mother's kinsmen in appreciation of their gratitude during Okonkwo's seven years of exile.When Okonkwo returns to Umuofia, he discovers that the village has changed during his absence. Many men have renounced their titles and have converted to Christianity. The white men have built a prison; they have established a government court of law, where people are tried for breaking the white man's laws; and they also employ natives of Umuofia. Okonkwo wonders why the Umuofians have not incited violence to rid the village of the white man's church and oppressive government.Some members of the Igbo clan like the changes in Umuofia.
Brown, the white missionary, respects the Igbo traditions. He makes an effort to learn about the Igbo culture and becomes friendly with some of the clan leaders. He also encourages Igbo people of all ages to get an education. Brown tells Okonkwo that Nwoye, who has taken the name Isaac, is attending a teaching college.
Nevertheless, Okonkwo is unhappy about the changes in Umuofia.After Mr. Brown becomes ill and is forced to return to his homeland, Reverend James Smith becomes the new head of the Christian church. But Reverend Smith is nothing like Mr. Brown; he is intolerant of clan customs and is very strict.Violence arises after Enoch, an overzealous convert to Christianity, unmasks an egwugwu. In retaliation, the egwugwu burn Enoch's compound and then destroy the Christian church because the missionaries have caused the Igbo people many problems.When the District Commissioner returns to Umuofia, he learns about the destruction of the church and asks six leaders of the village, including Okonkwo, to meet with him. The men are jailed until they pay a fine of two hundred and fifty bags of cowries. The people of Umuofia collect the money and pay the fine, and the men are set free.The next day at a meeting for clansmen, five court messengers who intend to stop the gathering approach the group.
Suddenly, Okonkwo jumps forward and beheads the man in charge of the messengers with his machete. When none of the other clansmen attempt to stop the messengers who escape, Okonkwo realizes that they will never go to war and that Umuofia will surrender. Everything has fallen apart for Okonkwo; he commits suicide by hanging himself.
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