Family Guy- Sex Roles

Ilan & Ilana

If we got out of bed this morning, and headed for the bathroom to perform the first bodily movements of the day and realize we have changed physically to the other sex, the world would for sure come to its end. Several possible outcomes could occur. If we were able to remain mentally the same, meaning only a body swap, men and women would get to understand the troubles and sorrows of their counterparts. We would get to see her side of the story, and she would get to see ours. Gradually, our original mind would start fading away. We would start to assimilate our psychological side with our somatic one. Becoming our significant other in every way. But if our minds were to remain the same, we would go insane, living in the wrong body, most probably affecting any correct and healthy order of nature that was originally meant to be. Bikers, butchers, marines, builders. The toughest men would turn into skinny super models with pleasant physical attires.

Rats and Snakes

Huck and Tom's continuing plan to get Jim out of slavery just gets better and better, when it mixes with the picturesque ideas that the two boys have. Adding more fantasy to Tom's ideas, and books, he decides to add more creativity to the "grand escape". They make a mockery out of slavery, out of Jim (a human being) being held captive. This is the crude reality of he world at the time, but these there characters don,t see this way in the moment they are living. The boys are not fully aware of the seriousness of this matter, as Twain really did, and so contrasts this thought and situation with a more picturesque scene. Adding classic prisoner animals to Jim's shed, is an example of this.

Values and Theft: Tom's Moral Scale

After making plans to save Jim, and all of the tools, and goods they stole from Aunt Sally, they get away with it. It seems as if things were planned to work out. They fit perfectly together to lead Tom and Huck into success. This is not the first time this happens. When Huck steals the 6,000 dollars from the King and the Duke, he manages to blame some slaves, and get away with it, without much trouble or investigation by the royal frauds. the characters miss some obvious situations, giving the main characters way to make their plans succeed. "Ther's six CANDLES gone-that's what. The rats could a got the candles, and i reckon they did;.." (chp 37)

We can see the unclear moral values Tom expresses. After they steal all those things from Aunt Sally's basement, he has no problem with it. But when Huck stole a watermelon, he made him pay the slaves that were there a dime. He has some type of moral reasoning but does not apply it to what is really right, just to what he thinks is.

Escaping Slavery and Tom's Obstacles

In these chapters the reader can clearly identify a moral problem, and one very often concurred by humans. Theft. We always have this dilemma present in our lives. When to do it, why, and if it is correct. This is what Twain poses as a main theme in chapter 34. Huck needs to free Jim, but this means "stealing" him. “Didn’t I SAY I was going to help steal the nigger?” (chp 34). So this is a moral problem for them. But it is soon overcome by another obstacle that comes through, which is very interesting and is combined with Tom's quixotic way of thinking. Since he decides that the escape is fairly easy, he complicates it by going the difficult way. Situational irony is present when instead of just lifting the bed to get the chain that cuffs Jim out, he saws it off. This is not expected, and the point of stealing a slave is to do it quickly, but Tom decides to do it his adventure book way.

Sentence

Slapping each other for no important reason makes it funny and employs farce.

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I see old boy scouts cheering as if they were still kids. They are cheering and celebrating with a man because of an apparent accomplishment he made. He has a bust of a face in his hands.

Essay Topic: Farce

In The Three Stooges ( I Want my Mummy episode) we can see how farce is employed in comedy. The fact that Curly places a carpet over the well to prevent people from falling is a clear element of farce, and a hyperbolic cliché. This only worsens the situation since the well is hidden. It is obvious that this well is going to be key in the future, and it proves to be, since it is their way out.

Writing

"Writing is the outburst of our literary mind."

-Ilan Pinsky Farji