Post by: Sofia Ricra The show, Hannah Montana, is the first show that came to mind when I read the question. Miley, or Hannah, and her best friend, Lilly, are supposed to be heading to college. We all know that her secret has been revealed on the show of her double identity. Hannah gets a fabulous offer to star in a movie alongside Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg. So now Miley has to choose if she wants to star in the movie in Paris or get the chance to go to college with her best friend. During the episode Miley is also seen saying goodbye to Hannah, and she sits and remembers all of the great things that have happened to her because of Hannah, all the memories she’s made. Now that the world knows who Miley was and she is seen saying goodbye to her alter ego, it’s a sign that Miley will leave Hannah behind. Towards the end, Lilly heads to college at Stanford and Miley goes to Paris where she was supposed to start filming. For both Miley and Lilly I think it means escaping from that part of their lives. Their older now and starting a new chapter of their lives, and the flight that Miley took definitely means that. In the very end, Miley ends up flying back to Stanford where she surprised Lilly, now they’re both going to go to college, together!
Spoiler, off topic they never seemed nerdy enough to get into Stanford! But, good example, people often view college as freedom. For many kids this means leaving their parents house, taking charge of their lives, and being independent.
The closest that I can think of is Peter Pan, because the children are escaping the hardships of home and leaving for a place of flying, magic, pirates, and freedom to do what ever you want like stay up all night and fly where ever in Nederland you want to fly in, and getting to explore with Tinkerbell and peter pan into the starry night and then later to beat up some pirates and free Tinkerbell. On the Video game side of it I know for sure what can express freedom more than being set free from a inter-dimensional prison like how the Eidolons are and Rydia must set free in final fantasy IV the after years and there fore it represents Escaping and freedom Simultaneously.
I believe this is an excellent example of how flight signifies freedom. Peter Pan could fly to the land where people never age, go to school, or live by their parents rules. These children are much more free than anyone would be in the normal world.
The TV show series, known as “Lost,” tells the story of a plane full of people who crash in a mysterious, unknown island. There, they are forced to work together to fight their inner demons as well as the dangers the island brings. Over the course of 6 season, viewers see how the main characters of this captivating TV show grow and battle with the problems of their past.
In the pilot episode, the plane crashes and those who survive the crash ban together to help build some sort of civilization and try to find a way home. However, the plane that they were all flying in before the crash is a symbol for each character. It symbolizes something different for each one, but nevertheless, each character was using the plane ride as some sort of freedom/escape route from problems in their life.
Kate, the main female character on the show, was on her way to prison. Ironically, when she crashed, the court marshall looking over her incarceration died, and she was granted freedom.
Claire, an expecting mother at the time of the plane crash was on her way to meet the parents who were going to adopt her unborn baby. The travel for her character symbolizes the escape of impending motherhood and freeing herself from a responsibility she was not ready for.
Boone, a male character played by actor Ian Somerhalder, was traveling on the plane to help his step-sister, Shannon escape from an abusive boyfriend.
John Locke, a wise character on the show, was flying home after being denied an opportunity on a “Walkabout” through the Outback due to a disability. After the crash, he realized that while on the island, he was no longer disabled and was able to walk freely. The flight and crash served as a symbol of his journey to freedom from his past disabilities.
Finally, one of the main male character by the name of Sawyer was traveling after being deported because of a bar fight. He was originally looking for the con artist responsible for taking his parents money, which drove his father to kill his mother and then himself. Sawyer’s traveling is a little different than other characters. Instead of traveling to benefit, his travel harmed his search. Due to his deportation, Sawyer was escaping the only lead he had at avenging the death of his parents.
What first came to my mind when I read this was the movie "Taken." Bryan Mills' daughter Kim just wants to go to Paris with her friend for vacation. The scene at the airport really shows that her dad is letting her have more freedom because it is just her and her friend going on this trip. While the movie isn't very happy, this one particular moment is a happy time for Kim because she is finally getting to set her own path and travel and be a free soul.
A great example would be the movie Argo starring Ben Affleck and directed by Ben Affleck. This movie was based on a true story in an event in 1979 where 66 Americans were being held hostage after the US embassy in Tehran, Iran was attacked by militants and 6 Americans slipped away and find refuge with a Canadian ambassador. The Americans knew it was a matter of time before they were found and possibly executed if found. A man was called by the US government named Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to extract them out of Iran. Mendez's plan was to act as a Hollywood producer who was finding locations in Iran for his film and the Americans were to pose as his film crew. These people wanted to get out of this country due to being persecuted for being US citizens so they were lucky enough to escape with fake passports, a movie made from scratch and were able to fly away in the airport before the Iranian military found out they were Americans but they took off in a airplane from the airport right when they were trying to stop the flight. These Americans were lucky enough to make a movie that convinced the Iranians of their intentions and they flew away to freedom. Iran was the country they were going to get persecuted in for their citizenship in a specific country but they were able to get away and the plane signified in this movie as their way out to freedom.
The end of "Ender's Game" definitely signifies freedom in flight. Ender's entire life was just that of a pawn; every scenario for him was planned from his his birth as a third born child. He very much so resembles bird trapped in a cage that never saw the light of day. His descent into space let him reach higher than earth's sky ever could. For once Ender was able to make his own goal in life rather than be pawn in the military's game; he knew that the bugger queen needed his help in finding a new home. Life in space was completely uncertain for him, but he was never one to care for life on earth. After a life like his, space was the only place left that would really fit Ender. He had no home on earth, so he made a new free place for himself in the stars.
I love the movie 'Ender's Game' and that scene is a great example of flight being used as freedom because he is finally free to do what he wants and live his life.
Posted by: Caleb Costner (Before Note: Sorry this movie is a children's movie, but it was the first literary work I thought of when it asked for a fling scene for escape.)
In the movie "Chicken Run" by Nick Park, and Peter Lord, a chicken named Ginger lives on a farm and looks for the chance of escape in every way possible. This farm is a failing chicken farm and Mrs Tweedy, (The farm owner) orders a pot pie machine to start a new business. One day a rooster is spotted flying over the farm, and crashed into one of the coops breaking his wing. This rooster is named Rocky, and everyone looks up to him because he promises to help teach the hens how to fly. The day comes to teach them after Rocky’s wing has healed. The pie machine arrives the very same day and Ginger is the first chicken that the machine is used on. Rocky comes to her rescue, and while he saves her, he manages to damage the machine.
Rocky manages to escape on a telephone wire that connects to the barn with the pie machine and going through the front doors the night after without telling anyone that he is leaving. The next morning Ginger finds a piece of a poster that shows Rocky as a circus chicken that was shot out of a cannon nearby. (In other words he cannot fly on his own). While Ginger and the other hens are upset and mad, Fowler the farms rooster tries to make the hens happy but telling them stories about his days as the RAF (Royal Air Force) mascot. The stories give Ginger the idea to build an airplane to escape the farms. All the chickens secretly construct the plane from the materials from the coops while racing against Mr. Tweedy's repairs on the machine. Meanwhile, Rocky, traveling the countryside, spots a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pot Pies, and is inspired to go back to help and save Ginger, and the others.
With the machine fixed, Mrs. tweedy demands Mr. Tweedy to get all the chickens ready for the machine, however the chickens don't seem to be prepared for escape. They manage to tie up Mr. Tweedy to complete working on the plane. Just before they are about to take off, Rocky returns and joins them. As they're taking off, Mrs. Tweedy chases them down and catches onto a Christmas light strand caught within the wheels. Mrs. Tweedy climbs the strand, in the attempt to chopping Ginger's head off, whereas Ginger races to untie the strand. Ginger does so in time, and sends Mrs. Tweedy falls straight into the vent of the pie machine, inflicting it to explode, the force of the escaping gravy destroys the entire farm. Later, the chickens have found a quiet clearing where they will enjoy their freedom and raise their chicks, and Ginger and Rocky have developed a romantic relationship.
As soon as I read the question the first thing that popped into my head was a series written by James Patterson, Maximum Ride. This series is about six children/teens that were taken from their families when they were born and used as test subjects by scientists. The six kids in the novel were the most successful specimens. The children's DNA was altered until they grew wings. These wings allowed the children to escape from the scientists.
Their wings gave them the ability to escape the scientists, who tortured and held them captive. A man named Jeb helped the children escape, but later in the book the children have to fly away from Jeb. Their wings helped them escape from many situations, including the one that helped them gain freedom.
Their flight may have been given to the people who stole their freedom, but it also gave them their freedom. Their flight gives them the ability to go wherever in the world they want, but they have to watch out for the other science experiments trying to catch them.
I also used this example, though I had a difrent take. I love how you said the ones who gave them the wings that lead to freedom, first stole their freedom. Never though of it that way but, it is true.Good job! :)
As I have mentioned in previous posts, I very much enjoy the book “Every Day” by David Levithan. This story revolves around a character named “A” who has neither identified as a male or female. Every day, A wakes up in a different person's body and has to live their life in their shoes. This story has a huge foundation of flight, which signifies escape and freedom.
Being in the body of a person whom you don’t know can be quite difficult, according to A. It is unfortunate that A cannot recall a day that hasn’t been like this, where A lived their own life as a male or female and went to school like a normal 16 year old. Thankfully, if one life doesn’t work out, A has the ability to leave that life and start a completely different one the next day.
With every story comes a conflict. In “Every Day,” the protagonist happens to live in the body of a guy named Nathan. While living in Nathan’s body, A stays out and pulls over on the side of the road where he falls asleep, and eventually Nathan wakes up on the side of the road, wondering how he got there. Upon finding A’s personal email address, Nathan sends threats in claiming that he was possessed by the devil and has contacted police.
A is questioned and tracked down by Nathan, which is the most intense conflict A has dealt with in the story. And even if Nathan contacted the authorities, A would eventually switch bodies and be able to escape the conflicts that he has to deal with. Even though A doesn’t live a consistent life, they are able to experience the freedom of living in a different life everyday and escape a possibly bad moment that A may have experienced beforehand.
Posted by: James Lynn I don't know many stories that have cases of flying to escape or as a symbol of freedom. The closest I can think of is Star Wars. When it comes to Star Wars, I constantly think of Order 66. Order 66 is a command that Chancellor Palpatine issued to the clones in order to kill the Jedi. This took place in the third movie. In "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," which was a spin on the original series with more characters, there were quite a few clones who didn't obey the order. Instead, they rebelled, but were outnumbered. Many of them were killed, while others flew away. They flew away in order to be free from the Sith and their controlled brothers. For example, Captain Rex, who is probably the most iconic clone in all of "The Clone Wars," flew away with two other clones and became a wanderer on a sandy planet.
Posted by: Anna K-S When thinking of characters who take flight Harry Potter comes to mind. Harry Potter is a boy in the movies “Harry Potter”. In the first “Harry Potter” movie Harry learns he is a wizard and goes to the school Hogwarts. Hogwarts is a school for wizards, thus, it is full of wizards in training including Harry. Harry learns many things such as how to get to Hogwarts, spells, and means of transportation. The main way to get around at Hogwarts is by broom. Harry has to learn how to ride a broom but when the teacher is called out and the bully Draco took Neville Longbottoms remembrall and flies off with it Harry decides to take up for Neville and go after Draco, when Harry is flying you can see in his facial expression he was scared at first but that was because he had never flown before, after Harry got the hang of flying you see his face become overjoyed like he was free for the first time. Harry flying was not only a symbol of freedom but it was actual freedom because he had been locked up in a house, under the staircase by his aunt and uncle for the first few years of his life.
I really liked your connection with Harry Potter. Now that I think of it, I remember when Harry was locked in his room and his aunt and uncle forbid him from going to Hogwarts. He was able to escape his room and go back to school when Ron arrived at his window with his father magic flying car. There are many examples in Harry Potter where flying is a symbol of his freedom.
Posted by Maria McDonald: When I see a bird flying, I usually think "I wish I was as free as that bird who can fly anywhere they want." Flying is a perfect expression of freedom or escape, and that's the case with one of my favorite childhood movies, Peter Pan. Peter Pan is a boy that never grows who resides in Neverland. He and his fairy best friend Tinkerbell can both fly. Peter Pan's flying to Neverland represents the escapade from reality and the freedom from growing up. Peter Pan represents a young boy with the way he is a very daring and has childish selfish desires, like never growing up. He befriends Wendy Darling and helps her escape from reality as well in Neverland.
Peter Pan is a great example of flight being used as freedom because he gets to go wherever he wants and do as he pleases. The whole movie is about him making his own decisions and doing what he wants.
Post by: Hannah Cribby When I think of flight being used as an escape or freedom in a literary work I immediately thought of 'Catching Fire'. In 'Catching Fire' when Katniss Everdeen gets picked up by the Plane she is escaping the prison that is the hunger games. In this scene Katniss destroys the barrier around the game and gains her freedom. On the flight they head to a district that is not under the control of the Capitol and devise a plan to destroy the Capitol once and for all. That is why I think that flight in this scene from 'Catching Fire' is used as an escape for her freedom from the Capitol.
Post By: Karmen Scruggs In works of literature, flying can be a symbol of escaping or being set free of something less desirable. This can happen in a number of ways. The actual character can, on their own, fly. The character could have wings or be supernatural, or the character could simply get into a plane and fly away.
In Catching Fire, Katniss, the main character, escapes the arena before everyone has died. She is flown out of there and to District 13, a safe place for her to be. This is an example of Katniss being set free and the flying symbolizes exactly that.
I think at some point in our lives we all just want to escape or fly away. Flight in works of literature can be very symbolic of freedom, escaping or moving on with life. In The Fault In Our Stars, there is a very symbolic flight that happens in the story. Through the Make a Wish Foundation, Augustus Waters uses his wish to go on a trip to Amsterdam with Hazel. This flight is symbolic because at first, Hazel was restricted from travelling by her doctors. The flight in a way is breaking free and having some freedom to go on an adventure. The flight allows the pair to escape from their illnesses and to have fun together while they can.
I love this movie so much and it has allowed me to get a better understanding thanks to your connection!! I agree with kalynne that Hazel was able to feel free to go. ~ Caleb C.
In "James And The Giant Peach," The peach is attached to flying birds for most of the movie. This signifies escape and freedom for James. Before the peach came along, he was stuck with his horrible aunts. They never let him have any freedom, and he was treated like garbage. Once James decided to crawl into his gaint peach, he met new bug friends who lived inside, and he began his journey. The peach rolled away, and went through some trouble, and eventually, James and his new friends were flying over the ocean in their peach. James had finally escaped from his aunts. He was free. James flying in the peach is how he was able to escape and gain this freedom.
Everyone wants freedom in Jurassic Park. Dr. Grant and other paleontologists are sent to an island and get chased by dinosaurs while trying to open up a dinosaur park where they took a mosquito's body that was in some tree sap, they found some dinosaur blood in the mosquito's body and decided to clone it and make a park. At the end, the a helicopter (symbolizes freedom) comes and picks the people up. This often occurs in the movie series, since there is now four movies. But another example would be in the third movie. The movie starts with a plane flying and crashing on the island. There was people on the plane who was in the first movie and have fought against the dinosaurs before. Throughout the whole movie they try and escape
When thinking about flying and freedom I instantly thought of the TV show “Gossip Girl.” In one of the later seasons two best friends Blair and Serena get on a jet and go to Paris for the summer. This gives the freedom to be worry free for the summer and escape whatever problems they were dealing with back in New York. Both girls don’t have to deal with Gossip Girl, so have the freedom to do what they want and not worry about everyone finding out about it. Serena gets a chance to be away from Dan, who she’s had a complicated on and off relationship with and gets away from her family issues. Blair gets a chance to be away from Chuck, who recently just traded her for a hotel.
I think Blair and Serena’s flight to Paris gave them freedom in multiple ways: they got the freedom to do what they wanted without it being put all over the internet, they got the freedom to just hang out and enjoy themselves without drama, and even the freedom to find a new love interest in Blair’s case when she meets a charming Prince. -Piper Colangelo
Posted By: Adison Costner The movie “Hairspray”, expresses freedom. This movie expresses freedom of expression in my opinion. The main character Tracy, shows off her moves and style in a hit tv show. Tracy didnt look like all the other dance contestants. She was thick and wasn't afraid of what people thought of her. She would dance with other races and she tried her best. She changed the standards of what you had to be to get on the show, she proved that anyone could dance, representing her freedom. She thought that everyone had rights to be on this show. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression so that's what she did. She expressed herself by dancing and not being afraid of what other though of her.
When I first think of a flight that signifies escape or freedom, I automatically think of the film “Castaway”. Whenever Chuck Nowland who has been stuck on an island for an extremely long time, he is then rescued out at sea by a ship. Afterwards, he boards a plane to go home. I feel as if by getting on the plane to go home, he is finally escaping the loneliness and the island that has become all he knows. Also, by boarding this plane, he is able to hopefully go back to how things used to be and enjoy his life once more.
Elizabeth Suarez. When I first saw this chapter I thought of Howls Moving Castle so that is what I will be using as my example. The main character, Howl, was cursed and is now more of a 'dark' version. He can also have wings, meaning he could fly. I see him flying as more of an escape from normal people.
The only example I could think of is the story Tangled. Rapunzel is girl trapped in a tower with no ways of escaping except her long hair,which is impossible. She has never seen the anything beyond the tower or any people expect for the witch. It was that until Flynn come along and free her from the tower and she discovered many new things.
Flight has been most commonly used to signify the idea of freedom. I have seen this idea in the novel Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.
The novel is about a young girl, Tally, who is stuck in a corrupt world where everyone is turned “Pretty” at age 16. Before you are turned “Pretty” you are considered “Ugly” and live in a town away from the Pretties, Uglyville. This is where Tally lives and dreams of becoming a Pretty. This is until she meets Shay, who teaches her about the corruptness of the government and shows her how to rebel.
The novel takes place in a high tech world with advanced technology, that includes hoverboards. Hoverboards are skateboard like boards that hover on the ground due to magnetic energy. Shay teaches Tally how to ride a hoverboard and takes her to the outskirts of the city. This is where Shay shows her a big roller coaster where they ride their hoverboards along the tracks.
As Tally is riding, she feels a sense of freedom. She is away from all the corruptness of the government and does not worry about being a Pretty. As she rides, she is rid of all worries and can clearly think. She thinks about the government and about Shays words about rebelling. Further in the novel, she uses this freedom to rebel from the corrupt government.
By: Kalynne Helms I absolutely love Lord of the Rings so I am going to use this movie/book for this one. At the end of The Return of The King, Sam and Frodo throw the ring inside the volcano. When they did this, the evil was killed or destroyed. One way this shows freedom is because Sam and Frodo have been carrying that ring throughout the whole journey and it has done some terrible things to them. Throwing it in the volcano freed them from the burden. The ring caused them to face trolls, elves, and many other creatures. It was a big responsibility getting that ring to the volcano because if they didn't then evil would have taken over the whole land. After they throw the ring in and try to get out, the volcano erupts. Now Sam and Frodo can't escape because lava is everywhere and it is surrounding them. While they are talking about their last moments, here comes Gandalf on huge eagles. The eagles scoop them up in their talons and save them. That is how Sam and Frodo escaped the lava.
Maximum ride, by James Paterson was the first example to come to mind. In the book five kids escape from a place called “The School”. Tee School is a lab where they were locked in cages and experimented on because they were not just humans, they were hybrids created by the workers inside the school. They could fly, that is how they escaped, how the reached freedom. Maximum ride, the main character is the leader of the group. Having escaped, Max hears voices. Following them leads the crew to “The Institution”, a place much like The School and there they find information on their unknown parents. So they fly off free, for now in search of their parents. I believe the flying represents freedom because one, it is their mode of transportation from “The School”. I also think it represents freedom because at the school they were in cages, preventing them from flying and freedom is having what you haven’t had before, or what was taken away. They were taken away the right to fly, to leave and by flying they got both of those things, they got freedom.
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the beginning of the novel is with a bunch of boys being on a plane and that plane crashing. This flight, and crash, symbolize freedom because in the plane crash on island kills all the adults and the boys are all alone to survive and civilize the group. The boys were free from the adults and could do what they wanted on the island, even though that freedom comes with many consequences. Freedom and flight are both short lived, which is shown in Lord of the Flies. Just like the flight within the airplane, the freedom the boys feel eventually turns into mayhem and disaster.
When I think of freedom I think of the movie Tangled because she had been trapped in a tall tower and had been lied to and was not allowed out of the tower. That was until a guy came and saved her and they were chased down at first. In the end she cut her long, long, hair and after she cut it, her hair changed colors to brown and she went to a village and found her parents. She was free in the end.
In the original Star Wars, Luke wants to go to the Imperial academy to be a pilot. This longing to take flight can be viewed as his desire to escape the boring moisture farm on Tatooine (the planet farthest from the bright center of the universe).
Later in the plot, Luke meets Han Solo and sees him (accurately) as a free spirit who is not tied down. This is evidenced by the fact that Han has his own ship meaning that he can fly anywhere that he wants to. If that isn't freedom, I don't know what is.
At the end of the movie Grease, Danny and Sandy get in a car and fly off into the sky while their friends wave goodbye below. This a representation of their freedom of the troubles and hardships of highschool and love that they faced in the past year. It is also freedom from their respective stereotypes since they both change their mannerisms for each other in the end. They are seen leaving their friends waving on the ground as they leave, possibly signifying that they have moved on from their cliques and grew up, moving away to another city.
In the “The Hunger Games” there are several examples where a character tries to flee from the capitals or districts. One character that tries to flee is the avox girl that tried to run away from her district with her boyfriend but the capital kills the boyfriend and cuts the girls tongue out. However, later in the series Katniss and a few others flee from district 12 where she is free from the overpowering rule of the capital where she can finally feel free.
In the beginning of the book “The Angel Experiment,” the first book in a series about humans genetically engineered to have the genes of birds, the main character Max has a dream that she is being chased by wolf-human hybrids and when she gets to the edge of a cliff, she is able to fly away out of reach of the ones chasing her. This signifies her dream that she and her family of hybrids can have a life free of the people chasing them and trying to return them to the lab where they will be cruelly experimented on and tortured in the name of science. She wants to be able to not worry about the safety of her siblings or when they will be uprooted from their home again. She wants to be free of the scientists chasing them.
The literary work, “The Catcher in the Rye” is a great example of flight signifying escape or freedom. The main character, Holden, runs away to escape his situation. He runs away because he doesn’t want to tell his parents that he was kicked out of school. He thinks that fleeing from his situation will grant him freedom. Holden’s freedom is actually stopped when he runs out of money. Throughout the whole book he believes that leaving town will give him freedom, but his sister thinks differently. It is questionable whether flight is the right thing to do or if you can find freedom by staying where you are.
In the newest Star Wars installment, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the movie starts with Finn on his first mission as a Stormtrooper. After seeing what The First Order is capable of, murdering a whole village of innocent citizens, decides to flee from the army. He releases a captive that they caught from the village named Poe. Poe was one of the best Resistance pilots and with Finn's help they steal a TIE Fighter and fly away from the First Order to the planet of Jakku. In this case, they are both becoming free from The First Order, one of them being a member in their army and the other being a war captive.
Flight symbolizes freedom and escaping. A good example of this that I'd like to use is Aladdin. Aladdin makes a wish to become a prince so he can win the hand of Princess Jasmine and marry her. To impress her, he decides to take her on a flying carpet ride. She uses this ride to escape reality because she hates how she's being forced into marriage and she hates how alone she feels. They take a ride around the entire city and they escape for a little bit, but all good things must come to an end when Aladdin brings her back to the palace where she is brought back into reality, but slightly happier than before Aladdin took her on the magic carpet.
Flight can represent freedom and an example I choose is from the movie "X-Men The last stand." There was a mutant born with wings but his dad is against mutants and is disappointed. Then there is a cure being made and his dad is working on the vaccination and so the dad has his son cured first. The child does not want to be cured but can not stand up against his father. Then at the last minute he spreads his wings and soars across the sky. He has finally stood up against his father and has broken free from the restraint his father had on him.
“Rio” is definitely the first thing I thought of when I first saw the question. Blue is a blue Macaw who happens to be the last of his kind, there is an female and they are expected to mate so they can make more little Blue Macaws and repopulate their kind. At the end of the story blue finally flies for the first time since he never learned because he was in captivity. In my opinion I think that Blue flying for the first time signifies him being free from captivity for the first time. If you look at his entire life he was in captivity literally for most of it. He was found in an box when he was like 2 weeks old because the moment he stepped out of his nest he gets stolen a found by a girl who herself didn't live life until she went to brazil with Blue and the moment he's left alone he learns to fly and she find love. I think they both were finally free and it also send an message to be more adventurous. That’s why I think that Blue flying for the first time signifies freedom.- stephanie Martinez
My first response to the idea of flight in combination is the story of Daedalus and Icarus. Starting out as a friend of King Minos and doing several architectural works for him, Daedalus eventually falls out of the king’s good graces and is imprisoned within the labyrinth along with his son, Icarus. Daedalus, knowing his own invention, knew that there was no hope of escape through the labyrinth and that even if they could get out, they would never make it past the shoreline defenses of Crete. With escape on land and by sea out of the question, Daedalus knew that the only remaining option of escape was to flee by way of the sky, the realm of Zeus. In order to escape that way, Daedelus makes wings for him and Icarus and they leave the island of Crete. With this not only being an escape from the clutches of Minos, but also an escape from a great limitation put upon the human race as well as an escape from their reality, Icarus flies to high and his wings start to fall apart. This story is an exemplification of the natural limits of humanity: no matter what we might make, no matter how hard we try to escape, we are bound by the rules of the world that created us.
Riley Kiefer In The outlandish adventures of Liberty Aimes by Kelly Easton, a young girl named Liberty Aimes has horrible parents. She has to do everything around the house, she gets abused mentally and physically, they never feed her and they named her after a brand of peas. He father never lets her go into the basement because he is an “inventor”. One day Liberty sneaks into the basement in order to run away, but a potion falls onto her and she ends up flying away. She meet some bad people on the way and gets into trouble, who she flies away from. In the end she finds where she belongs and ends up happy and figures out how to stop flying.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton is a great example of flight. The Outsiders is a book about a young boy who is struggling to cope with his parents death. Since he is the youngest Soc he is an easy target for his opponents the greasers. One night the greasers and the socs get into a fight and Ponyboy kills one of them. Automatically his first thought is to run away so no one gets in trouble. They stop by his house to grab some money and cloths. Dally gives them directions to a hideout. Ponyboy and Curtis soon arrive to a convenience store to buy some cheap hair dye to change their appearance so no one anywhere will recognize them.
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ReplyDeleteThe show, Hannah Montana, is the first show that came to mind when I read the question. Miley, or Hannah, and her best friend, Lilly, are supposed to be heading to college. We all know that her secret has been revealed on the show of her double identity. Hannah gets a fabulous offer to star in a movie alongside Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg. So now Miley has to choose if she wants to star in the movie in Paris or get the chance to go to college with her best friend. During the episode Miley is also seen saying goodbye to Hannah, and she sits and remembers all of the great things that have happened to her because of Hannah, all the memories she’s made. Now that the world knows who Miley was and she is seen saying goodbye to her alter ego, it’s a sign that Miley will leave Hannah behind. Towards the end, Lilly heads to college at Stanford and Miley goes to Paris where she was supposed to start filming. For both Miley and Lilly I think it means escaping from that part of their lives. Their older now and starting a new chapter of their lives, and the flight that Miley took definitely means that. In the very end, Miley ends up flying back to Stanford where she surprised Lilly, now they’re both going to go to college, together!
I loved this part of Hannah Montana!
DeleteThis is a really good example on freedom.
DeleteI use to love Hannah Montana as a kid and at the end where Miley say goodbye to Hannah is good example.
DeleteThis is a great example!
DeleteSpoiler, off topic they never seemed nerdy enough to get into Stanford! But, good example, people often view college as freedom. For many kids this means leaving their parents house, taking charge of their lives, and being independent.
DeleteI remember that scene, I can see the freedom of that.
DeleteUnique example, I love it
DeleteI love Hannah Montana. I love this example.
DeleteThe closest that I can think of is Peter Pan, because the children are escaping the hardships of home and leaving for a place of flying, magic, pirates, and freedom to do what ever you want like stay up all night and fly where ever in Nederland you want to fly in, and getting to explore with Tinkerbell and peter pan into the starry night and then later to beat up some pirates and free Tinkerbell. On the Video game side of it I know for sure what can express freedom more than being set free from a inter-dimensional prison like how the Eidolons are and Rydia must set free in final fantasy IV the after years and there fore it represents Escaping and freedom Simultaneously.
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I believe this is an excellent example of how flight signifies freedom. Peter Pan could fly to the land where people never age, go to school, or live by their parents rules. These children are much more free than anyone would be in the normal world.
DeleteGood example, Peter is quite the free spirit type.
DeletePeter pan is a great example for this.
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ReplyDeleteThe TV show series, known as “Lost,” tells the story of a plane full of people who crash in a mysterious, unknown island. There, they are forced to work together to fight their inner demons as well as the dangers the island brings. Over the course of 6 season, viewers see how the main characters of this captivating TV show grow and battle with the problems of their past.
In the pilot episode, the plane crashes and those who survive the crash ban together to help build some sort of civilization and try to find a way home. However, the plane that they were all flying in before the crash is a symbol for each character. It symbolizes something different for each one, but nevertheless, each character was using the plane ride as some sort of freedom/escape route from problems in their life.
Kate, the main female character on the show, was on her way to prison. Ironically, when she crashed, the court marshall looking over her incarceration died, and she was granted freedom.
Claire, an expecting mother at the time of the plane crash was on her way to meet the parents who were going to adopt her unborn baby. The travel for her character symbolizes the escape of impending motherhood and freeing herself from a responsibility she was not ready for.
Boone, a male character played by actor Ian Somerhalder, was traveling on the plane to help his step-sister, Shannon escape from an abusive boyfriend.
John Locke, a wise character on the show, was flying home after being denied an opportunity on a “Walkabout” through the Outback due to a disability. After the crash, he realized that while on the island, he was no longer disabled and was able to walk freely. The flight and crash served as a symbol of his journey to freedom from his past disabilities.
Finally, one of the main male character by the name of Sawyer was traveling after being deported because of a bar fight. He was originally looking for the con artist responsible for taking his parents money, which drove his father to kill his mother and then himself. Sawyer’s traveling is a little different than other characters. Instead of traveling to benefit, his travel harmed his search. Due to his deportation, Sawyer was escaping the only lead he had at avenging the death of his parents.
This is great; I like how one event has a different meaning for each character.
DeleteThis was a good example, and I may have to start watching this. It seems interesting. Great example!
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Your application of how the flight frees multiple characters is cool as well as insightful.
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ReplyDeleteWhat first came to my mind when I read this was the movie "Taken." Bryan Mills' daughter Kim just wants to go to Paris with her friend for vacation. The scene at the airport really shows that her dad is letting her have more freedom because it is just her and her friend going on this trip. While the movie isn't very happy, this one particular moment is a happy time for Kim because she is finally getting to set her own path and travel and be a free soul.
I agree, I think her travel to Paris shows the freedom she has recently gotten from becoming an adult.
DeleteYes that can be considered a type of freedom from parents monitoring her buts sucks she got Taken.
DeleteThis is a great example. I agree with the trip signifying a moment of freedom for because her dad trusts her enough to let her go.
DeleteI love that movie!
DeleteA great example would be the movie Argo starring Ben Affleck and directed by Ben Affleck. This movie was based on a true story in an event in 1979 where 66 Americans were being held hostage after the US embassy in Tehran, Iran was attacked by militants and 6 Americans slipped away and find refuge with a Canadian ambassador. The Americans knew it was a matter of time before they were found and possibly executed if found. A man was called by the US government named Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to extract them out of Iran. Mendez's plan was to act as a Hollywood producer who was finding locations in Iran for his film and the Americans were to pose as his film crew. These people wanted to get out of this country due to being persecuted for being US citizens so they were lucky enough to escape with fake passports, a movie made from scratch and were able to fly away in the airport before the Iranian military found out they were Americans but they took off in a airplane from the airport right when they were trying to stop the flight. These Americans were lucky enough to make a movie that convinced the Iranians of their intentions and they flew away to freedom. Iran was the country they were going to get persecuted in for their citizenship in a specific country but they were able to get away and the plane signified in this movie as their way out to freedom.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to have not only escaped death but also avoided some of the worlds other perils like discrimination.
DeleteTheir escape seems to be from fear as well as persecution and death.
DeleteThe end of "Ender's Game" definitely signifies freedom in flight. Ender's entire life was just that of a pawn; every scenario for him was planned from his his birth as a third born child. He very much so resembles bird trapped in a cage that never saw the light of day. His descent into space let him reach higher than earth's sky ever could. For once Ender was able to make his own goal in life rather than be pawn in the military's game; he knew that the bugger queen needed his help in finding a new home. Life in space was completely uncertain for him, but he was never one to care for life on earth. After a life like his, space was the only place left that would really fit Ender. He had no home on earth, so he made a new free place for himself in the stars.
ReplyDeleteI love the movie 'Ender's Game' and that scene is a great example of flight being used as freedom because he is finally free to do what he wants and live his life.
DeleteThis is one of my favorite book series.
DeletePosted by: Caleb Costner
ReplyDelete(Before Note: Sorry this movie is a children's movie, but it was the first literary work I thought of when it asked for a fling scene for escape.)
In the movie "Chicken Run" by Nick Park, and Peter Lord, a chicken named Ginger lives on a farm and looks for the chance of escape in every way possible. This farm is a failing chicken farm and Mrs Tweedy, (The farm owner) orders a pot pie machine to start a new business. One day a rooster is spotted flying over the farm, and crashed into one of the coops breaking his wing. This rooster is named Rocky, and everyone looks up to him because he promises to help teach the hens how to fly. The day comes to teach them after Rocky’s wing has healed. The pie machine arrives the very same day and Ginger is the first chicken that the machine is used on. Rocky comes to her rescue, and while he saves her, he manages to damage the machine.
Rocky manages to escape on a telephone wire that connects to the barn with the pie machine and going through the front doors the night after without telling anyone that he is leaving. The next morning Ginger finds a piece of a poster that shows Rocky as a circus chicken that was shot out of a cannon nearby. (In other words he cannot fly on his own). While Ginger and the other hens are upset and mad, Fowler the farms rooster tries to make the hens happy but telling them stories about his days as the RAF (Royal Air Force) mascot. The stories give Ginger the idea to build an airplane to escape the farms. All the chickens secretly construct the plane from the materials from the coops while racing against Mr. Tweedy's repairs on the machine. Meanwhile, Rocky, traveling the countryside, spots a billboard for Mrs. Tweedy's Chicken Pot Pies, and is inspired to go back to help and save Ginger, and the others.
With the machine fixed, Mrs. tweedy demands Mr. Tweedy to get all the chickens ready for the machine, however the chickens don't seem to be prepared for escape. They manage to tie up Mr. Tweedy to complete working on the plane. Just before they are about to take off, Rocky returns and joins them. As they're taking off, Mrs. Tweedy chases them down and catches onto a Christmas light strand caught within the wheels. Mrs. Tweedy climbs the strand, in the attempt to chopping Ginger's head off, whereas Ginger races to untie the strand. Ginger does so in time, and sends Mrs. Tweedy falls straight into the vent of the pie machine, inflicting it to explode, the force of the escaping gravy destroys the entire farm. Later, the chickens have found a quiet clearing where they will enjoy their freedom and raise their chicks, and Ginger and Rocky have developed a romantic relationship.
I love this movie and I think that this is a good example of freedom.
DeleteThis is a really great example
DeleteGreat example! I wouldn't thought about Chicken Run until now.
DeletePosted by: Aleigha Letterman
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I read the question the first thing that popped into my head was a series written by James Patterson, Maximum Ride. This series is about six children/teens that were taken from their families when they were born and used as test subjects by scientists. The six kids in the novel were the most successful specimens. The children's DNA was altered until they grew wings. These wings allowed the children to escape from the scientists.
Their wings gave them the ability to escape the scientists, who tortured and held them captive. A man named Jeb helped the children escape, but later in the book the children have to fly away from Jeb. Their wings helped them escape from many situations, including the one that helped them gain freedom.
Their flight may have been given to the people who stole their freedom, but it also gave them their freedom. Their flight gives them the ability to go wherever in the world they want, but they have to watch out for the other science experiments trying to catch them.
Poor kids but yes that signifies freedom by flight due to them being held against their will, good job
DeleteI've never read the series but knowing they fly really makes me want to.
DeleteIt's a really awesome series, I definitely recommend it.
DeleteI also used this example, though I had a difrent take. I love how you said the ones who gave them the wings that lead to freedom, first stole their freedom. Never though of it that way but, it is true.Good job! :)
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ReplyDeleteAs I have mentioned in previous posts, I very much enjoy the book “Every Day” by David Levithan. This story revolves around a character named “A” who has neither identified as a male or female. Every day, A wakes up in a different person's body and has to live their life in their shoes. This story has a huge foundation of flight, which signifies escape and freedom.
Being in the body of a person whom you don’t know can be quite difficult, according to A. It is unfortunate that A cannot recall a day that hasn’t been like this, where A lived their own life as a male or female and went to school like a normal 16 year old. Thankfully, if one life doesn’t work out, A has the ability to leave that life and start a completely different one the next day.
With every story comes a conflict. In “Every Day,” the protagonist happens to live in the body of a guy named Nathan. While living in Nathan’s body, A stays out and pulls over on the side of the road where he falls asleep, and eventually Nathan wakes up on the side of the road, wondering how he got there. Upon finding A’s personal email address, Nathan sends threats in claiming that he was possessed by the devil and has contacted police.
A is questioned and tracked down by Nathan, which is the most intense conflict A has dealt with in the story. And even if Nathan contacted the authorities, A would eventually switch bodies and be able to escape the conflicts that he has to deal with. Even though A doesn’t live a consistent life, they are able to experience the freedom of living in a different life everyday and escape a possibly bad moment that A may have experienced beforehand.
I like that flying for you wasn't in an airplane or flying like a bird or Peter Pan but it was switching bodies and escaping most conflict.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know many stories that have cases of flying to escape or as a symbol of freedom. The closest I can think of is Star Wars. When it comes to Star Wars, I constantly think of Order 66. Order 66 is a command that Chancellor Palpatine issued to the clones in order to kill the Jedi. This took place in the third movie. In "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," which was a spin on the original series with more characters, there were quite a few clones who didn't obey the order. Instead, they rebelled, but were outnumbered. Many of them were killed, while others flew away. They flew away in order to be free from the Sith and their controlled brothers. For example, Captain Rex, who is probably the most iconic clone in all of "The Clone Wars," flew away with two other clones and became a wanderer on a sandy planet.
Interesting Example, James. The flying away in "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" definitely shows freedom and escape.
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ReplyDeleteWhen thinking of characters who take flight Harry Potter comes to mind. Harry Potter is a boy in the movies “Harry Potter”. In the first “Harry Potter” movie Harry learns he is a wizard and goes to the school Hogwarts. Hogwarts is a school for wizards, thus, it is full of wizards in training including Harry. Harry learns many things such as how to get to Hogwarts, spells, and means of transportation. The main way to get around at Hogwarts is by broom. Harry has to learn how to ride a broom but when the teacher is called out and the bully Draco took Neville Longbottoms remembrall and flies off with it Harry decides to take up for Neville and go after Draco, when Harry is flying you can see in his facial expression he was scared at first but that was because he had never flown before, after Harry got the hang of flying you see his face become overjoyed like he was free for the first time. Harry flying was not only a symbol of freedom but it was actual freedom because he had been locked up in a house, under the staircase by his aunt and uncle for the first few years of his life.
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DeleteLove Harry Potter and this example!
Delete-Piper Colangelo
I love Harry Potter so much and I never realized how the flying actually had more meaning than just transportation.
DeleteI really liked your connection with Harry Potter. Now that I think of it, I remember when Harry was locked in his room and his aunt and uncle forbid him from going to Hogwarts. He was able to escape his room and go back to school when Ron arrived at his window with his father magic flying car. There are many examples in Harry Potter where flying is a symbol of his freedom.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I see a bird flying, I usually think "I wish I was as free as that bird who can fly anywhere they want." Flying is a perfect expression of freedom or escape, and that's the case with one of my favorite childhood movies, Peter Pan. Peter Pan is a boy that never grows who resides in Neverland. He and his fairy best friend Tinkerbell can both fly. Peter Pan's flying to Neverland represents the escapade from reality and the freedom from growing up. Peter Pan represents a young boy with the way he is a very daring and has childish selfish desires, like never growing up. He befriends Wendy Darling and helps her escape from reality as well in Neverland.
Peter Pan is a great example of flight being used as freedom because he gets to go wherever he wants and do as he pleases. The whole movie is about him making his own decisions and doing what he wants.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I think of flight being used as an escape or freedom in a literary work I immediately thought of 'Catching Fire'. In 'Catching Fire' when Katniss Everdeen gets picked up by the Plane she is escaping the prison that is the hunger games. In this scene Katniss destroys the barrier around the game and gains her freedom. On the flight they head to a district that is not under the control of the Capitol and devise a plan to destroy the Capitol once and for all. That is why I think that flight in this scene from 'Catching Fire' is used as an escape for her freedom from the Capitol.
I agree with you, I also think that "Catching Fire" is an example of freedom.
DeleteI like how you use "Catching Fire" as an example. I enjoy the book a lot.
DeletePost By: Karmen Scruggs
ReplyDeleteIn works of literature, flying can be a symbol of escaping or being set free of something less desirable. This can happen in a number of ways. The actual character can, on their own, fly. The character could have wings or be supernatural, or the character could simply get into a plane and fly away.
In Catching Fire, Katniss, the main character, escapes the arena before everyone has died. She is flown out of there and to District 13, a safe place for her to be. This is an example of Katniss being set free and the flying symbolizes exactly that.
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Delete"Catching Fire" was my favorite book in the series!
Delete-Piper Colangelo
I completely agree. When she was lifted away from the arena, she was freed from the government hold on her. Great connection!
DeleteThis was a major scene in the movie and it's a perfect example!
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ReplyDeleteI think at some point in our lives we all just want to escape or fly away. Flight in works of literature can be very symbolic of freedom, escaping or moving on with life. In The Fault In Our Stars, there is a very symbolic flight that happens in the story. Through the Make a Wish Foundation, Augustus Waters uses his wish to go on a trip to Amsterdam with Hazel. This flight is symbolic because at first, Hazel was restricted from travelling by her doctors. The flight in a way is breaking free and having some freedom to go on an adventure. The flight allows the pair to escape from their illnesses and to have fun together while they can.
I love this connection so much. I agree with it letting Hazel feel free to go on an adventure. Great job.
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I love this movie so much and it has allowed me to get a better understanding thanks to your connection!! I agree with kalynne that Hazel was able to feel free to go. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI agree with you, this was a good connection. Thank you for this, it helped me see that this was more than just a plane ride.
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In "James And The Giant Peach," The peach is attached to flying birds for most of the movie. This signifies escape and freedom for James. Before the peach came along, he was stuck with his horrible aunts. They never let him have any freedom, and he was treated like garbage. Once James decided to crawl into his gaint peach, he met new bug friends who lived inside, and he began his journey. The peach rolled away, and went through some trouble, and eventually, James and his new friends were flying over the ocean in their peach. James had finally escaped from his aunts. He was free. James flying in the peach is how he was able to escape and gain this freedom.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants freedom in Jurassic Park. Dr. Grant and other paleontologists are sent to an island and get chased by dinosaurs while trying to open up a dinosaur park where they took a mosquito's body that was in some tree sap, they found some dinosaur blood in the mosquito's body and decided to clone it and make a park. At the end, the a helicopter (symbolizes freedom) comes and picks the people up. This often occurs in the movie series, since there is now four movies. But another example would be in the third movie. The movie starts with a plane flying and crashing on the island. There was people on the plane who was in the first movie and have fought against the dinosaurs before. Throughout the whole movie they try and escape
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DeleteWhen thinking about flying and freedom I instantly thought of the TV show “Gossip Girl.” In one of the later seasons two best friends Blair and Serena get on a jet and go to Paris for the summer. This gives the freedom to be worry free for the summer and escape whatever problems they were dealing with back in New York. Both girls don’t have to deal with Gossip Girl, so have the freedom to do what they want and not worry about everyone finding out about it. Serena gets a chance to be away from Dan, who she’s had a complicated on and off relationship with and gets away from her family issues. Blair gets a chance to be away from Chuck, who recently just traded her for a hotel.
ReplyDeleteI think Blair and Serena’s flight to Paris gave them freedom in multiple ways: they got the freedom to do what they wanted without it being put all over the internet, they got the freedom to just hang out and enjoy themselves without drama, and even the freedom to find a new love interest in Blair’s case when she meets a charming Prince.
-Piper Colangelo
I love Gossip Girl and this is a great point!
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ReplyDeleteThe movie “Hairspray”, expresses freedom. This movie expresses freedom of expression in my opinion. The main character Tracy, shows off her moves and style in a hit tv show.
Tracy didnt look like all the other dance contestants. She was thick and wasn't afraid of what people thought of her. She would dance with other races and she tried her best. She changed the standards of what you had to be to get on the show, she proved that anyone could dance, representing her freedom.
She thought that everyone had rights to be on this show. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression so that's what she did. She expressed herself by dancing and not being afraid of what other though of her.
I love this musical, and I think that this is a good example of freedom. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI love hairspray! I think you explained the freedom aspect very well. Good job!
DeleteWhen I first think of a flight that signifies escape or freedom, I automatically think of the film “Castaway”. Whenever Chuck Nowland who has been stuck on an island for an extremely long time, he is then rescued out at sea by a ship. Afterwards, he boards a plane to go home. I feel as if by getting on the plane to go home, he is finally escaping the loneliness and the island that has become all he knows. Also, by boarding this plane, he is able to hopefully go back to how things used to be and enjoy his life once more.
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Elizabeth Suarez.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this chapter I thought of Howls Moving Castle so that is what I will
be using as my example. The main character, Howl, was cursed and is now more of a 'dark' version. He can also have wings, meaning he could fly. I see him flying as more of an escape from normal people.
By: Ling
ReplyDeleteThe only example I could think of is the story Tangled. Rapunzel is girl trapped in a tower with no ways of escaping except her long hair,which is impossible. She has never seen the anything beyond the tower or any people expect for the witch. It was that until Flynn come along and free her from the tower and she discovered many new things.
Flight has been most commonly used to signify the idea of freedom. I have seen this idea in the novel Uglies by Scott Westerfeld.
ReplyDeleteThe novel is about a young girl, Tally, who is stuck in a corrupt world where everyone is turned “Pretty” at age 16. Before you are turned “Pretty” you are considered “Ugly” and live in a town away from the Pretties, Uglyville. This is where Tally lives and dreams of becoming a Pretty. This is until she meets Shay, who teaches her about the corruptness of the government and shows her how to rebel.
The novel takes place in a high tech world with advanced technology, that includes hoverboards. Hoverboards are skateboard like boards that hover on the ground due to magnetic energy. Shay teaches Tally how to ride a hoverboard and takes her to the outskirts of the city. This is where Shay shows her a big roller coaster where they ride their hoverboards along the tracks.
As Tally is riding, she feels a sense of freedom. She is away from all the corruptness of the government and does not worry about being a Pretty. As she rides, she is rid of all worries and can clearly think. She thinks about the government and about Shays words about rebelling.
Further in the novel, she uses this freedom to rebel from the corrupt government.
By: Kalynne Helms
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love Lord of the Rings so I am going to use this movie/book for this one. At the end of The Return of The King, Sam and Frodo throw the ring inside the volcano. When they did this, the evil was killed or destroyed. One way this shows freedom is because Sam and Frodo have been carrying that ring throughout the whole journey and it has done some terrible things to them. Throwing it in the volcano freed them from the burden. The ring caused them to face trolls, elves, and many other creatures. It was a big responsibility getting that ring to the volcano because if they didn't then evil would have taken over the whole land. After they throw the ring in and try to get out, the volcano erupts. Now Sam and Frodo can't escape because lava is everywhere and it is surrounding them. While they are talking about their last moments, here comes Gandalf on huge eagles. The eagles scoop them up in their talons and save them. That is how Sam and Frodo escaped the lava.
Maximum ride, by James Paterson was the first example to come to mind. In the book five kids escape from a place called “The School”. Tee School is a lab where they were locked in cages and experimented on because they were not just humans, they were hybrids created by the workers inside the school. They could fly, that is how they escaped, how the reached freedom. Maximum ride, the main character is the leader of the group. Having escaped, Max hears voices. Following them leads the crew to “The Institution”, a place much like The School and there they find information on their unknown parents. So they fly off free, for now in search of their parents. I believe the flying represents freedom because one, it is their mode of transportation from “The School”. I also think it represents freedom because at the school they were in cages, preventing them from flying and freedom is having what you haven’t had before, or what was taken away. They were taken away the right to fly, to leave and by flying they got both of those things, they got freedom.
ReplyDeleteThis is one of my favorite series because James Patterson is my favorite author. This is a great example! Good job!
DeleteIn Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the beginning of the novel is with a bunch of boys being on a plane and that plane crashing. This flight, and crash, symbolize freedom because in the plane crash on island kills all the adults and the boys are all alone to survive and civilize the group. The boys were free from the adults and could do what they wanted on the island, even though that freedom comes with many consequences. Freedom and flight are both short lived, which is shown in Lord of the Flies. Just like the flight within the airplane, the freedom the boys feel eventually turns into mayhem and disaster.
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When I think of freedom I think of the movie Tangled because she had been trapped in a tall tower and had been lied to and was not allowed out of the tower. That was until a guy came and saved her and they were chased down at first. In the end she cut her long, long, hair and after she cut it, her hair changed colors to brown and she went to a village and found her parents. She was free in the end.
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DeleteIn the original Star Wars, Luke wants to go to the Imperial academy to be a pilot. This longing to take flight can be viewed as his desire to escape the boring moisture farm on Tatooine (the planet farthest from the bright center of the universe).
ReplyDeleteLater in the plot, Luke meets Han Solo and sees him (accurately) as a free spirit who is not tied down. This is evidenced by the fact that Han has his own ship meaning that he can fly anywhere that he wants to. If that isn't freedom, I don't know what is.
By: Aaron N
I love Star Wars! I have never analyzed this scene in the movies before.
DeleteAt the end of the movie Grease, Danny and Sandy get in a car and fly off into the sky while their friends wave goodbye below. This a representation of their freedom of the troubles and hardships of highschool and love that they faced in the past year. It is also freedom from their respective stereotypes since they both change their mannerisms for each other in the end. They are seen leaving their friends waving on the ground as they leave, possibly signifying that they have moved on from their cliques and grew up, moving away to another city.
ReplyDeleteI was hoping somebody would bring this up! Good job!
DeleteIn the “The Hunger Games” there are several examples where a character tries to flee from the capitals or districts. One character that tries to flee is the avox girl that tried to run away from her district with her boyfriend but the capital kills the boyfriend and cuts the girls tongue out. However, later in the series Katniss and a few others flee from district 12 where she is free from the overpowering rule of the capital where she can finally feel free.
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In the beginning of the book “The Angel Experiment,” the first book in a series about humans genetically engineered to have the genes of birds, the main character Max has a dream that she is being chased by wolf-human hybrids and when she gets to the edge of a cliff, she is able to fly away out of reach of the ones chasing her. This signifies her dream that she and her family of hybrids can have a life free of the people chasing them and trying to return them to the lab where they will be cruelly experimented on and tortured in the name of science. She wants to be able to not worry about the safety of her siblings or when they will be uprooted from their home again. She wants to be free of the scientists chasing them.
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Post by: Kayla Williamson
ReplyDeleteThe literary work, “The Catcher in the Rye” is a great example of flight signifying escape or freedom. The main character, Holden, runs away to escape his situation. He runs away because he doesn’t want to tell his parents that he was kicked out of school. He thinks that fleeing from his situation will grant him freedom. Holden’s freedom is actually stopped when he runs out of money. Throughout the whole book he believes that leaving town will give him freedom, but his sister thinks differently. It is questionable whether flight is the right thing to do or if you can find freedom by staying where you are.
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ReplyDeleteIn the newest Star Wars installment, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the movie starts with Finn on his first mission as a Stormtrooper. After seeing what The First Order is capable of, murdering a whole village of innocent citizens, decides to flee from the army. He releases a captive that they caught from the village named Poe. Poe was one of the best Resistance pilots and with Finn's help they steal a TIE Fighter and fly away from the First Order to the planet of Jakku. In this case, they are both becoming free from The First Order, one of them being a member in their army and the other being a war captive.
I never thought of helping Poe escaping and stealing a TIE fighter was a symbol of freedom It makes perfect sense to me now.
DeleteFlight symbolizes freedom and escaping. A good example of this that I'd like to use is Aladdin. Aladdin makes a wish to become a prince so he can win the hand of Princess Jasmine and marry her. To impress her, he decides to take her on a flying carpet ride. She uses this ride to escape reality because she hates how she's being forced into marriage and she hates how alone she feels. They take a ride around the entire city and they escape for a little bit, but all good things must come to an end when Aladdin brings her back to the palace where she is brought back into reality, but slightly happier than before Aladdin took her on the magic carpet.
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This is a perfect example of freedom of flight.
DeleteFlight can represent freedom and an example I choose is from the movie "X-Men The last stand." There was a mutant born with wings but his dad is against mutants and is disappointed. Then there is a cure being made and his dad is working on the vaccination and so the dad has his son cured first. The child does not want to be cured but can not stand up against his father. Then at the last minute he spreads his wings and soars across the sky. He has finally stood up against his father and has broken free from the restraint his father had on him.
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Delete“Rio” is definitely the first thing I thought of when I first saw the question. Blue is a blue Macaw who happens to be the last of his kind, there is an female and they are expected to mate so they can make more little Blue Macaws and repopulate their kind. At the end of the story blue finally flies for the first time since he never learned because he was in captivity. In my opinion I think that Blue flying for the first time signifies him being free from captivity for the first time. If you look at his entire life he was in captivity literally for most of it. He was found in an box when he was like 2 weeks old because the moment he stepped out of his nest he gets stolen a found by a girl who herself didn't live life until she went to brazil with Blue and the moment he's left alone he learns to fly and she find love. I think they both were finally free and it also send an message to be more adventurous. That’s why I think that Blue flying for the first time signifies freedom.- stephanie Martinez
ReplyDeleteMy first response to the idea of flight in combination is the story of Daedalus and Icarus. Starting out as a friend of King Minos and doing several architectural works for him, Daedalus eventually falls out of the king’s good graces and is imprisoned within the labyrinth along with his son, Icarus. Daedalus, knowing his own invention, knew that there was no hope of escape through the labyrinth and that even if they could get out, they would never make it past the shoreline defenses of Crete. With escape on land and by sea out of the question, Daedalus knew that the only remaining option of escape was to flee by way of the sky, the realm of Zeus. In order to escape that way, Daedelus makes wings for him and Icarus and they leave the island of Crete. With this not only being an escape from the clutches of Minos, but also an escape from a great limitation put upon the human race as well as an escape from their reality, Icarus flies to high and his wings start to fall apart. This story is an exemplification of the natural limits of humanity: no matter what we might make, no matter how hard we try to escape, we are bound by the rules of the world that created us.
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ReplyDeleteIn The outlandish adventures of Liberty Aimes by Kelly Easton, a young girl named Liberty Aimes has horrible parents. She has to do everything around the house, she gets abused mentally and physically, they never feed her and they named her after a brand of peas. He father never lets her go into the basement because he is an “inventor”. One day Liberty sneaks into the basement in order to run away, but a potion falls onto her and she ends up flying away. She meet some bad people on the way and gets into trouble, who she flies away from. In the end she finds where she belongs and ends up happy and figures out how to stop flying.
The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton is a great example of flight. The Outsiders is a book about a young boy who is struggling to cope with his parents death. Since he is the youngest Soc he is an easy target for his opponents the greasers. One night the greasers and the socs get into a fight and Ponyboy kills one of them. Automatically his first thought is to run away so no one gets in trouble. They stop by his house to grab some money and cloths. Dally gives them directions to a hideout. Ponyboy and Curtis soon arrive to a convenience store to buy some cheap hair dye to change their appearance so no one anywhere will recognize them.
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