Post by: Sofia Ricra Out of many “baptism scenes” the one I will analyze is from one of my favorite films, Titanic. An iconic scene from the film is when the boat had gone done and all the passengers were floating on the freezing waters of the ocean. Jack and Rose were hanging on for support on some wooden piece. Because it can only support the weight of one person, Jack gives up his life for his love, Rose, so that she can go one and live her life, live to an old age. Towards the end, Rose realizes Jack gave her the gift of, excitement, freedom, and of course love. Before Jack, she wasn’t happy with her life. First, she was in a forced engagement to a man named Cal. Then, she was sick of her controlling mother. She came close to suicide, but was stopped by Jack, who saves her. Anyways, Once she let go of Jack and said goodbye, she was rescued from the ocean where she resurfaced as a new person. She became a much happier person and lived her life just how Jack wanted her to.
I completely agree. Even though viewers don't get to see into her life after the Titanic too much, we can still tell how the events affected and changed her forever.
In a popular TV series known as “The Vampire Diaries,” Elena Gilbert, a teenage girl who is in love with a pair of vampire brothers Stefan and Damon, has a terrible accident. She and her friend Matt wreck and their car is driven off of the Wickery Bridge. Stefan comes to their rescue, but only has time to save one of them from drowning. Elena insists that Stefan save Matt first, so he does.
Elena doesn’t come out of the water alive. Well, she survives the accident, but does not escape death. Luckily, she had vampire blood in her system so she was “reborn” as a vampire. After the accident and her transition from human to vampire, Elena Gilbert was a lot different. All of her feelings and senses were heightened, and she began making decisions that she was too afraid to make as a human.
Before the accident, Elena told Damon that she couldn’t be with him because she still loved Stefan. However, after the accident, Elena chose Damon over Stefan, something she was too afraid to do as a human. This “act of baptism” changed her character dramatically. She was no longer afraid to follow her heart and she was a lot more independent. Elena was reborn a strong, vibrant vampire, as opposed to a teenage girl trapped between what she wants and what she believes is right.
In a popular lifetime movie called "Triple Dog," a group of teenage girls are at a party when the game triple dog is brought up. Chapin, who is the bad girl of the bunch, decides that the group will go all around town and do different dares.
Along their journey, they run into a girl at her work who used to hang out with Chapin but stopped after an incident that occurred a few years ago.
As the night goes on, secrets unravel. All through out the town, people had talked about Liza, a girl who had an accident on a bridge a few years ago. Rumors were that she jumped, she was pushed and a lot of other different things.
The night was closing when the girls made it to the bridge when one of the girls dared Chapin to jump off the bridge and even though people tried to stop her, she did it anyway. As first all of her friends didn't see her and thought the worst. After a few minutes Chapin surfaced and the thought of what happened that night with Liza haunted her. She finally told everyone what happened. That jump off the bridge and into the water really showed her how haunting that secret she was holding was.
I love that movie! I must has seen it ten times and it is a great example of a baptism scene. She changes a lot after being submerged in the water and realized what she had done.
What comes to my mind would be Dragon Ball Z Kai when the main character Goku is on the planet Namek and he is battling Frieza who threatens to destroy Earth along with everyone Goku loves. While fighting, Frieza submerges Goku in the water and Goku cannot escape Frieza's hold. He eventually losses consciousness while drowning and starts thinking of how everything would be with him gone and starts thinking of his son and all of his friends while they scream his name in a pit of fire being fueled by Frieza. He keeps screaming their names and they keep calling Goku and eventually Goku awakes in the water with an adrenaline rush shooting Frieza into the air. Frieza is surprised and Goku says that he will defeat him within a few minutes. Goku is different after this event due to him really knowing his true purpose so he feels more confident to defeat Frieza and overall protect the people he loves and cares for.
What comes to mind through Foster’s description of a “baptism scene” is the movie Highlander. The part most reminiscent of Foster’s description of a baptism scene is the around the time Ramirez attempts to teach Connor balance. He does this by making Connor stand up in the back of a rowboat as Ramirez rows across the lake. While this is going on, Connor complains that he can’t swim and that if he were to fall off, he would drown. In reaction to this claim, Ramirez deliberately causes Connor to fall in, afterwards rowing off and saying to Conner, “You can’t drown, ya’ fool, you’re immortal.” After Connor finds his way out, he accepts Ramirez’s teachings much more readily. -Jared W.Godwin
Almost every sailing novel likes to incorporate some instance of a baptism at some point; in particular, "Kensuke's Kingdom" comes to mind. Our story begins with our protagonist exploring the world by sea with his family, but one stormy night destroyed life as he knew it. Waves and hurricane speed winds ravaged the average sized boat on the open sea. while trying to tend to a mast, the boy and his dog were washed off into the ocean in one great wave. They were submerged into the dark, dreary see and lost sight of the ship in mere instants. Within a incredibly short float to a nearby island, the boy and his dog were forced to adapt in order to survive. This piece of the story exemplifies the case of death and rebirth. Their entire lives were spent with a family, protection, and easily obtained nourishment, but those lives temporarily died once they were plunged into the sea. The new way of life revolved around desperation. In the baking sunlight he boy trudged to find anything to live off of whether it was fish or berries. In due time, they faced another death and rebirth. The parents eventually located the island,and the boy and his canine companion hustled through the shallow water to reach their savior. Their second trip of the water killed their harsh lives, and thus their easy lives were returned to them.
The one thing that popped into my mind when I read this chapter is a scene from Arrow. In this show there is an organization called The League of Assassins. The league is ruled by a man names Ra's al Ghul. Ra's al Ghul murders one of our favorite characters, Thea Queen, the main character's sister. Ra's did this to punish the main character, Oliver Queen, but if Oliver agreed to a few conditions set in place by Ra's then Ra's would bring Thea back using something called The Lazarus Pit.
The Lazarus Pit had special healing abilities, which kept Ra's al Ghul young and healthy for so many years. The pit changes people though. Especially if the pit is being used for resurrection, which in Thea's case it was. Oliver agreed to Ra's al Ghul's offer, so Ra's started the resurrection process. Thea was placed into the pit and she came up. Well, she didn't just come up, she jumped out of the water like something was possessing her.
The thing about the pit that Oliver was unaware of is that once someone is resurrected using the pit they will come out with a vengeance for the person who killed them. Until Thea kills Ra's then she will be blood thirsty. She will want to kill, and she will be this way until she kills Ra's.
Thea came out of the pit changed, not for the better, but it was still a baptism.
I completely agree with you. When Thea was placed into the Lazarus Pit, she underwent a sense of baptism. I never thought of baptism being a bad thing. This is a very interesting connection.
Posted by: Caleb Costner In the movie "The Age of Adaline" a woman's life is changed forever. During the movie you see Adaline going through old film reels, and the one she pulls out explains her life story. She was born on January 1st, 1908, and married a man and had a daughter. Her husband died, allowing Adaline to become a widow. Years later, she is driving down a curvy road and then suddenly swerved her car off a cliff during a freak snowstorm, and died in the freezing water. Seconds after a lightning strike suddenly revived her. From that moment on, she was unable to age and has remained twenty-nine years old for decades.
The movie goes on to show that Adaline had to keep running away from the FBI, and was never able to settle in one place. Adaline is unable to fall in love because every love interest she had would soon pass away and she would be alone again. Even though Adaline made this promise, she falls in love with Ellis Jones played by Michiel Huisman. Long story short she meet his parents and the father of Ellis knows exactly who Adaline is, and finds out her secret about never aging. After she tells the father, Adaline gets in the car a drives down a curvy road and and then suddenly swerved her car and was hit by a truck and was pushed off the embankment during a freak snowstorm, and died in the freezing cold. When the paramedics came they used the defibrillator to shock her heart to bring her back to life. At the end of the movie Adaline and Ellis are going to a New Years Eve party, and while leaving she stops to notice something in the mirror. Her first grey hair, proving she has begun to age naturally again.
The way this represents a baptism scene is that when she was struck by lightning, and revived, she came out of the water as a new being. Yes she was still Adaline but time had no hold on her, so she could never grow old. Near the end when she died the second time and the defibrillator brought her back to life she was able to age again and have a true love relationship with a man that cares about her.
I am not familiar with any scenes in a literary work that are particularly “baptism.” However, in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” there is a scene that somewhat feels like a sort of baptism. Harry Potter is searching for Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Horcruxes are what anchors Voldemort’s soul to the Earth, so even if his body is destroyed, he has an anchor to come back and avenge himself. Harry ventures off on a search for the four remaining Horcruxes. Albus Dumbledore accompanies him on one of his quests through the cave where Lord Voldemort had hidden Salazar Slytherin’s locket (one of the Horcruxes). The locket resides in the water contained inside the cave. This water is guarded by Inferi’s that drag any intruder of the water underneath it to drown them. Harry is dragged down by the Inferi’s but he is saved by Albus and brought to the surface, he is greatly impressed by Dumbledore’s actions, despite his actual weakness, and holds a great value of respect. After this experience, Harry realizes that it will not be an easy task to obtain the rest of the Horcruxes, but he praises Dumbledore for his courage and abilities.
This chapter in the book makes me think of baptism because it was a realization for Harry that Dumbledore was greater than he had ever imagined before, and that Harry would have to work long and hard to find the other Horcruxes.
Posted by: James Lynn One example of a baptism or rebirth case that I can think of is from Star Wars. In the first three movies, one major character in the film is named "Obi-Wan Kenobi." He is one of the main characters, and is known for being the teacher to Anakin Skywalker, or Darth Vader. After the events that occurred in the third movie, Obi-Wan survives order 66, and goes into hiding. When he is in hiding, he chooses to change his name from Obi-Wan Kenobi to "Ben Kenobi." When he changed his name, he also changed how he acted; he used his lightsaber less, and stopped acting like how a Jedi should act.
Posted By: Anna K-S When thinking of a baptism scene where the character comes out acting different is in the TV series “Supernatural”. Sam was going through trials to close the gates of Hell, while doing so he progressively becomes more sick. Sam and Dean go to a hotel in the mountains to look for an angel named Metatron. When Sam and Dean get to their room Sam is acting out of his mind talking about Dean in childhood, Dean notices the way Sam is acting and tells him to get some rest, Sam wakes up and starts looking for signs of Metatron around the hotel when his ears start to ring, the lights get blurry, and he starts to get dizzy, therefore, Sam decides to call his brother Dean. Sam tells Dean he knows where Metatron is then passes out. When Sam wakes up he is in an ice-cold bath to drop his temperature, therefore, changing crazy Sam into in his right mind Sam. Sam changing from crazy into in his right mind Sam is due to the bath also know as baptism.
Post by: Hannah Cribby When I thought about a baptism in a movie it took me a while to find an example. In the movie 'The Orphan' there is a scene at the end where the ice breaks and the two main characters fall in the water. This is what I am calling the baptism. After they stop fighting under the water they start to get out and this is where things change. The orphan starts asking for forgiveness, but the other person ends up killing her instead. The Orphan was pretending to have changed for the better after getting out of the water. That was the best I could think of for this example.
In the popular supernatural series Teen Wolf, there is quite a few scenes that involve water, sometimes the people drown, sometimes they don’t. I’ll focus on when they don’t.
In the high school that the characters go to, they have a pool for swim team purposes and in one of the episodes, Derek and Stiles have to jump into the pool to escape from a dangerous creature. Derek, the older and more powerful of the two, is unable to swim, so Stiles has to tread water for nearly two hours while holding Derek up so he doesn’t drown. That scene was very important to character development because after that, Stiles and Derek didn’t hate each other as much as before.
Another time that someone in Teen Wolf nearly drowned but didn’t was when the group went and stayed at a spooky hotel that messed with the werewolves there. Boyd, one of those wolves, almost unintentionally drowned himself in a bathtub but Lydia and Stiles, two mostly human teens, saved him. After that experience, Boyd trusted Scots, the main character, friends a lot more than he did before.
In Divergent, there are things called Fear Simulations. The test determines your number of fears and what they are. One of Tris', the main character's, fears was drowning. In her Fear Simulation, she finds herself trapped in a glass box with water slowly filling the space. Tris panics and tries to get out. The water eventually fills to the top and Tris reminds herself that she isn't in real life and she taps the glass, making it shatter. Once the Fear Simulation is completed, she learns that she is divergent. This is an important scene because in a way she is becoming aware of who she is.
Makes perfect sense due to her knowing who she is but multiple scenes show she is divergent but her breaking the glass proved she was since she understood and had control when in the water tank. Good job
Posted by Maria McDonald: The term baptism means that someone is put under water and when they come up, they are reborn. They start a transformation, such as Landon from "A Walk to Remember." At the beginning of the film, it shows a group of friends who are recruiting a new member into their group by daring him to jump off a water tower at an old factory as a prank. Upon doing so, the boy hits his head on a pipe when he lands in the water. Landon, the group's leader, takes action by jumping in after the boy and pulling him out. A security guard comes out and all the members of the group flee but since Landon is the last one to flee, he gets caught. As punishment, he has to join after school activities and community service. As an after school activity, he has to be part of a school play and this is where he meets a girl named Mary. While Landon is a rebellious, misbehaving teen, Mary is the opposite. After a while they fall in love and he finds out that she has cancer. She has a list of things she wants to do before she dies, and he helps her accomplish all of them. Before going in the water, Landon was a mischievous boy who didn't care if he got in trouble, but after going in the water and saving the boy, he was able to meet the love of his life and getting to experience love. He transformed into a much happier person and was able to spend his life with his now wife Mary.
In Supernatural, Season 1 Episode 3, "Dead in the water" Dean and Sam investigate the drowning of 18 year old, Sophie Carlton. Sophie is the third drowning victim whose body was never discovered from lake Manioc. Same and Dean research the lake and and find that 6 people have died in the lake in the last 35 years. The boys end up solving the problem but Sam and Dean are just starting their journey in the series and both being more in touch with his humanity rather then later in the series, must have some sadness for the family and friends for the lost ones as for the victims, they aren't feeling anything.
Baptism in literature doesn't necessarily have to be religious. In "Nim's Island," a little girl, named Nim, lives on an island with her father. They are the only two people on the island. One day, her father Goes out on his boat for a few days to collect something for his research. His boat is destroyed by a bad storm and he is stranded in the middle of the ocean for a bit longer than he had planned to be gone. All this time, Nim is alone on the island. It just so happens that her favorite author, Alex Rover, want's her father to tell her aboutvolcanoes so that she can write her next novel. Nim eventually needs help after being alone, and the storm coming through, so she asks Alex. Alex is an extreme agoraphobic, and is terrified to leave her apartment. She decides that she must, to help Nim. Alexandra has to travel across oceans and in the rain to reach Nim. After she comes out of this watery situation, she is much stronger and no longer obsesses with things because of her agoraphobia. Because she traveled through the water, she changed as a person.
Hanna, Spencer, Aria, and Emily all get charged with murder, even though they’re not guilty, and go on a mission to prove their innocence. They go to the beach where they believe they can find Ali, but end up finding nothing and decide to stay in a motel for the night. Spencer, Hanna, and Aria soon fall asleep and Emily finds this a perfect time as ever to do what she’d been planning on doing for awhile now. She quickly writes a note to the girls saying she now in the water where she can truly be happy. Emily walks down to the beach, which is about to be home to a horrible hurricane, and walks into the ocean. Back in the motel room Spencer and the girls find her note and rush down to the beach. Spencer dives into the water in an attempt to save Emily, but ends up hurting herself. A rescue team is sent out, but Emily is nowhere to be found and is pronounced dead.
Further along in the book Emily shows up, surprising everyone. She is a new person in a way. Before she used to be really depressed, anxious, and paranoid all the time, but when she gets back she’s found a way to deal with everything in a way that they don’t bother her as much anymore. -Piper Colangelo
You have made an interesting connection. Emily has always felt connected to the water. It is interesting to see how that connection was able to change her and baptize her.
Posted By: Adison Costner Most movies have a baptism scene in it. They may not all be represented the same way but they might still be considered a baptism scene. One baptism scene that I can think of is in “Toy Story”. Yes, I said Toy Story, even animations have baptism scenes in them. The baptism scene in Toy Story is when Andy Writes his name on the bottom of Woody’s shoe. This is considered as a baptism scene because after that moment, Woody felt like he had a family. He wanted to make sure that he was there for Andy. He felt like he was a part of Andy and that made him wanting to strive and be the best toy Andy could have. Woody felt like he finally belonged to someone who cares about him and someone who will love and play with him unconditionally.
When I hear the words “baptism scene” I think about the film “Bourne Ultimatum”. In this film, Jason Bourne could not do what was asked of him. All he knew how to do was what he had learned in the past and this was not good for the job that he had to complete. In the film he was dunked in water countless times until he learned what he was supposed to do. After this baptism scene took place, he was a different person. His whole perspective changed and he was then able to murder countless people without a worry.
I think of the scene in Percy Jackson can be seen as "baptism". Percy is just an another unidentified half blood until he step into the water. After he step into the water, he got claim by his father and now after that scene, he is a different person because now he is claim by his father and have to go on a request after they discovered who he is.
By:Kalynne Helms Jonah and the Whale. This is one story from the bible that reminds me of baptism. Jonah had a task from God, to travel. Instead of doing the task he decided to run away on a boat. A big storm came while him and his crew were traveling and they all knew who sent the storm. God. The crew then decided to throw Jonah into the water and watch him get eaten by a whale. While he was in the whale, Jonah realized how selfish and disloyal he was. But after three days in the whale Jonah was saved and reborn. He then continued on the journey, God have given to him.
Baptism in Literature isn’t always religious. There are many scenes of baptism that sparks the new life of a character. I have witnessed this through the character Oliver in the television series Arrow.
In the beginning, Oliver Queen was a privileged and vain man. His family was very rich, therefore, he lived in a carefree world. One day, he went on a trip with his father on a yacht. The yacht ended up crashing and Oliver was flung into the water. After swimming to stay afloat, he then spotted the life raft that held his father and helm. The two men later died, leaving Oliver the only survivor. After surviving, he ended up on an island, Lian Yu. He later returned to his family after five years.
I believe that this scene was a form of baptism. When Oliver was flung into the water, he was given another chance at life. After his “baptism” Oliver learns the importance of justice and morals. He had to put his old life of vanity away and become a new man. A new man that was to right the wrongs of himself and his father.
I always thought Oliver falling in the water was just something to drive the plot but that's a really cool interpretation, I've never thought about how it actually changed him. Great job!
In thinking about a “baptism” scene, I had to think for a while but, I finally found an example; the movie The Vow. The Vow is about a woman who has an accident and forgets everything about herself and her life, including her wonderful relationship with her husband. The man is devastated, she is the love of his life but, she cannot remember him. So, of course he does all kinds of things to jog her memory but, it doesn’t work. However, one night in the winter he convinces her to jump into a lake in her bra and underwear with him and when she does they have a lot of fun and she starts opening up to him. I believe it symbolizes baptism because after this, no the girl doesn’t remember him but, it marks a fresh start where she wills herself to fall in love with him all over again. The girl never regains memory sadly, however, the couple gets to start fresh. It’s bittersweet, being the guy has all these great memories about them. For example their wedding, but she will never be able to share those memories with him. Instead, they get this chance to make new memories and have more adventures.
When I think of a baptism scene, I think of Divergent when Tris was trapped in a box filling up with water. This was happening because she was in a Fear Simulator and this was one of her fears. When she finally realized that this was not real she tapped the glass and the glass broke. This scene is also where she had found out that she was divergent.
Elizabeth Suarez. I have never actually read a true baptism scene in a book or seen one in a movie so it took me awhile to figure out a scene that could be cleansing in the same way. After looking through many of the books I've read and such, I managed to see that there is a part of Fahrenheit 451 that is somewhat like a baptism.
In this book the main character, Guy Montag, is walking in the rain with Clarrise. During this part of the books it's as if he is being cleansed by the rain just like a baptism.
Because people stole my examples from Arrow, I’ll use one from the flash. In the comic series, Barry Allen is a forensics analyst and is working with an odd mixture of chemicals when he is struck by a bolt of lightning. The chemicals get all over him and the bolt causes a reaction with the chemicals, and he was knocked out. When he woke up he discovered that the chemical reaction had given him super speed.
He became a superhero, using his speed to help people in more ways than he could as a forensics analyst, but he still kept his job to keep up the appearance of a normal life.
An example of a baptism scene is in Finding Nemo when Nemo goes through the filter to place a rock and stop the filter. He goes into the filter as a scared, disabled baby fish with no real place in the dentist’s fish plan to escape. After he comes out he is hailed as Sharkbait and gets included in more of the aquarium fish’s plans to escape from the aquarium and escape the clutches of Darla. He seems to have grown up after coming out of the filter, and even after coming out of the aquarium and out into the ocean.
*Spoilers* In the movie “Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III” The Hawks (a band of mercenaries) leader Griffith is in critical condition when the horse cart he is in suddenly runs and crashes into a shallow lake where Griffith finds his necklace. He picks up the necklace and mouths “I need power” and the necklace stamps The Hawks with the stamp of sacrifice the necklace also brings The Hawks and Griffith to Hell where Griffith becomes a demon and all but 2 of the hawks are murdered by demons. Guts and Casca return to Earth with the help of someone/something (not telling). Casca leaves Hell with no memory of the event. Guts on the other hand becomes the lost 5th Angel. This may not be a normal baptism but it leaves Guts and Casca completely different.
In the show Avatar: The Last Airbender, there is an example of a baptism. In the show, there are benders who can control one of four elements, water, earth, air and fire. Then there is the avatar who can use all four, they are seen as a keeper of peace who is reincarnated throughout the years. When Aang was young it was discovered that he was the avatar, but afraid of responsibility, he decided to run away on his flying bison but was caught in a storm over the sea. They fell in and almost drowned but he used his powers to encase them in an iceberg for one hundred years. When he awoke he discovered that while the avatar was gone the fire nation had raided the other 3 nations. Realizing what he had caused, he decided to train his powers and stop the fire nation to restore peace to the world.
Something I kind of considered a baptism is when the airplane in "Hatchet" crashes in the lake. He was changed because when it crashed, he was an innocent boy going to visit his parents, but he almost drowns and when he escapes the plane, he changes into someone who knows he's going to have to fight for his life. He has to use his instincts in order to survive on that island and him having such a close to death experience is like an eye opener. He definitely changed after the crash and was more prepared to fight.
In the film Bourne Ultimatum. Jason remembers how he came to be how he is. He remembers all of the training he has done. It showed him being dunked into a tank of water, they keep doing this to him until he is forced to change and takes on the new ways he needs for a job. This is symbolic of a baptism in the way that he is a changed person afterward. Jason Bourne wasn’t himself before the baptist, he was just some random person. After the baptism, he took on a new name, Jason Bourne, and he became a tool for the government.
The book Horns by Joe Hill has multiple baptism scenes. The first being when Ig, the main character, wakes up and has horns on his head. I would say this a baptism scene because after growing these horns he becomes a different person, a evil demonic man. He starts to learn the true extent to his powers and focuses on his anger. Another one is later in the book Ig gains the cross that brought him and his dead ex-girlfriend together and the horns disappear. The cross is cleansing him of the evil that comes with the horns.
some thing I consider Baptism is in the TV series “Hart of Dixie” season 4 Zoe admits she never stopped loving wade and does everything she can to get him back and everything hasn’t been enough. Finally she jumps in the lake that is right beside her house in the attempt to get wade to be with her. She jumps in and to create noise to wade would go check it out then he remind her of the slugs and bug and she gets out in a sensual matter, well it worked he went over to her house later and they talked. She later realizes his intentions and denies him, she realizes what she did wrong and learns from it.
In the 80s movie “Labyrinth” Sarah, the main character, is fed a peach that causes her to have a hallucination of a ball filled with the Goblin King’s subjects. She is in a beautiful gown and dances with the king. At this ball Sarah is in a very hazy and confused state, not remembering her goal or what she was there to do. When she comes out of this vision she is back in her home and really realizes what she needs to do and why. She finds that she doesn’t need to succumb to the Goblin King and that she can save her brother if she puts her mind to it.
One work that Foster would classify under “geography” is the book “The Call of the Wild.” In Jack London’s book the incompetent Hal and Charles purchase the sled dogs in Buck’s team to carry themselves and a woman to their destination. After weeks of travel with little food and less breaks they stop in a place where they meet John Thornton and they say that they were told the ice would break under them. Thornton replies that they won’t if they keep going and when Buck is beaten because he won’t stand Thornton sets him free. While the dogs were sledding they had known that they were literally traveling on thin ice and that they might not see another day because of the ice breaking, lack of food, or no rest. The rotten ice that his master was trying to beat him back onto did not appeal to him. After Buck was set free, the sled continued on anyway while he and Thornton watch. When Hal and Charles get to the frozen portion it suddenly drops out from under the sled, taking the humans and dogs with it. The geography consisting of rotten ice shows how futile and pointless the situation is.
Riley Kiefer I just started watching the tv series One Tree Hill and in One Tree Hill, there is many different things going on with the show and all of it’s drama. When I read this chapter and this question, it made me think of one of the main characters named Peyton. One day Peyton's mother was running late to pick her up, so she ran a red light. This one decision ended up killing her. Later once Peyton gets her license and her own car, on the week of her mother’s death date, she goes and runs all of the red light on main street, wanting to understand why it doesn’t kill her to run all of them at the same time, but just one killed her mother. Peyton is depressed in a way and wants answers, but can’t get them. It impacted her negatively, and she misses her mother every day.
An example of a “baptism scene” can be found in the literary work, Lord of the Flies. The first thing Ralph does after the plane crashes is take off his clothes and bathe in the nearby pool of water. This shows that Ralph is prepared to change. By bathing in this pool he is letting go of his life before the plane crash and focusing on his new life. For the rest of the book he is a new and changed person. The baptism is a way of cleansing his mind from the crash and preparing him for his battles ahead.
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ReplyDeleteOut of many “baptism scenes” the one I will analyze is from one of my favorite films, Titanic. An iconic scene from the film is when the boat had gone done and all the passengers were floating on the freezing waters of the ocean. Jack and Rose were hanging on for support on some wooden piece. Because it can only support the weight of one person, Jack gives up his life for his love, Rose, so that she can go one and live her life, live to an old age. Towards the end, Rose realizes Jack gave her the gift of, excitement, freedom, and of course love. Before Jack, she wasn’t happy with her life. First, she was in a forced engagement to a man named Cal. Then, she was sick of her controlling mother. She came close to suicide, but was stopped by Jack, who saves her. Anyways, Once she let go of Jack and said goodbye, she was rescued from the ocean where she resurfaced as a new person. She became a much happier person and lived her life just how Jack wanted her to.
I completely agree. Even though viewers don't get to see into her life after the Titanic too much, we can still tell how the events affected and changed her forever.
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DeleteI've actually never seen or read "Titanic," but this is a very interesting baptism scene.
DeleteMakes sense due to her living her life and not letting anyone else control it after Jack gives his up for her.
DeleteThis is a prefect example of baptism. I love this movie and have never caught on that it was like a baptism.
DeleteI have never read the book or watched the movie but this does seem like an interesting baptism scene.
DeleteI never would have thought of this, clever!
DeleteThis is a great one that I've never thought about. Good job!
DeleteI can see the example, I would say that left changed indeed.
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DeleteI love your comparison. I honestly never thought about it that way.
DeleteI love your comparison! I would had never thought of it.
DeleteI would of never thought of this as a baptism scene.
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ReplyDeleteIn a popular TV series known as “The Vampire Diaries,” Elena Gilbert, a teenage girl who is in love with a pair of vampire brothers Stefan and Damon, has a terrible accident. She and her friend Matt wreck and their car is driven off of the Wickery Bridge. Stefan comes to their rescue, but only has time to save one of them from drowning. Elena insists that Stefan save Matt first, so he does.
Elena doesn’t come out of the water alive. Well, she survives the accident, but does not escape death. Luckily, she had vampire blood in her system so she was “reborn” as a vampire. After the accident and her transition from human to vampire, Elena Gilbert was a lot different. All of her feelings and senses were heightened, and she began making decisions that she was too afraid to make as a human.
Before the accident, Elena told Damon that she couldn’t be with him because she still loved Stefan. However, after the accident, Elena chose Damon over Stefan, something she was too afraid to do as a human. This “act of baptism” changed her character dramatically. She was no longer afraid to follow her heart and she was a lot more independent. Elena was reborn a strong, vibrant vampire, as opposed to a teenage girl trapped between what she wants and what she believes is right.
I love the show! I liked that after the "baptism" scene she became more independent and strong.
DeleteThis is a good example of how baptism can completely change a character.
DeleteI think the "baptism scene" did cause many changes in the show, but they were definitely for the better.
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She definitely changed after this. Great example.
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ReplyDeleteIn a popular lifetime movie called "Triple Dog," a group of teenage girls are at a party when the game triple dog is brought up. Chapin, who is the bad girl of the bunch, decides that the group will go all around town and do different dares.
Along their journey, they run into a girl at her work who used to hang out with Chapin but stopped after an incident that occurred a few years ago.
As the night goes on, secrets unravel. All through out the town, people had talked about Liza, a girl who had an accident on a bridge a few years ago. Rumors were that she jumped, she was pushed and a lot of other different things.
The night was closing when the girls made it to the bridge when one of the girls dared Chapin to jump off the bridge and even though people tried to stop her, she did it anyway. As first all of her friends didn't see her and thought the worst. After a few minutes Chapin surfaced and the thought of what happened that night with Liza haunted her. She finally told everyone what happened. That jump off the bridge and into the water really showed her how haunting that secret she was holding was.
I remember watching this movie! I agree, Chapin was different after coming up from the water where Liza drowned.
DeleteI love that movie! I must has seen it ten times and it is a great example of a baptism scene. She changes a lot after being submerged in the water and realized what she had done.
DeleteWhat comes to my mind would be Dragon Ball Z Kai when the main character Goku is on the planet Namek and he is battling Frieza who threatens to destroy Earth along with everyone Goku loves. While fighting, Frieza submerges Goku in the water and Goku cannot escape Frieza's hold. He eventually losses consciousness while drowning and starts thinking of how everything would be with him gone and starts thinking of his son and all of his friends while they scream his name in a pit of fire being fueled by Frieza. He keeps screaming their names and they keep calling Goku and eventually Goku awakes in the water with an adrenaline rush shooting Frieza into the air. Frieza is surprised and Goku says that he will defeat him within a few minutes. Goku is different after this event due to him really knowing his true purpose so he feels more confident to defeat Frieza and overall protect the people he loves and cares for.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a cool baptism scene and really interests me.
DeleteWhat comes to mind through Foster’s description of a “baptism scene” is the movie Highlander. The part most reminiscent of Foster’s description of a baptism scene is the around the time Ramirez attempts to teach Connor balance. He does this by making Connor stand up in the back of a rowboat as Ramirez rows across the lake. While this is going on, Connor complains that he can’t swim and that if he were to fall off, he would drown. In reaction to this claim, Ramirez deliberately causes Connor to fall in, afterwards rowing off and saying to Conner, “You can’t drown, ya’ fool, you’re immortal.” After Connor finds his way out, he accepts Ramirez’s teachings much more readily.
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This experience seems to have somewhat humbled character; the baptism made them change their ways and ideas for the better.
DeleteAlmost every sailing novel likes to incorporate some instance of a baptism at some point; in particular, "Kensuke's Kingdom" comes to mind. Our story begins with our protagonist exploring the world by sea with his family, but one stormy night destroyed life as he knew it. Waves and hurricane speed winds ravaged the average sized boat on the open sea. while trying to tend to a mast, the boy and his dog were washed off into the ocean in one great wave. They were submerged into the dark, dreary see and lost sight of the ship in mere instants. Within a incredibly short float to a nearby island, the boy and his dog were forced to adapt in order to survive. This piece of the story exemplifies the case of death and rebirth. Their entire lives were spent with a family, protection, and easily obtained nourishment, but those lives temporarily died once they were plunged into the sea. The new way of life revolved around desperation. In the baking sunlight he boy trudged to find anything to live off of whether it was fish or berries. In due time, they faced another death and rebirth. The parents eventually located the island,and the boy and his canine companion hustled through the shallow water to reach their savior. Their second trip of the water killed their harsh lives, and thus their easy lives were returned to them.
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ReplyDeleteThe one thing that popped into my mind when I read this chapter is a scene from Arrow. In this show there is an organization called The League of Assassins. The league is ruled by a man names Ra's al Ghul. Ra's al Ghul murders one of our favorite characters, Thea Queen, the main character's sister. Ra's did this to punish the main character, Oliver Queen, but if Oliver agreed to a few conditions set in place by Ra's then Ra's would bring Thea back using something called The Lazarus Pit.
The Lazarus Pit had special healing abilities, which kept Ra's al Ghul young and healthy for so many years. The pit changes people though. Especially if the pit is being used for resurrection, which in Thea's case it was. Oliver agreed to Ra's al Ghul's offer, so Ra's started the resurrection process. Thea was placed into the pit and she came up. Well, she didn't just come up, she jumped out of the water like something was possessing her.
The thing about the pit that Oliver was unaware of is that once someone is resurrected using the pit they will come out with a vengeance for the person who killed them. Until Thea kills Ra's then she will be blood thirsty. She will want to kill, and she will be this way until she kills Ra's.
Thea came out of the pit changed, not for the better, but it was still a baptism.
I agree with you, I think that it was a form of baptism.
DeleteEven though I never seen none of the both movie, I have to agree that it was baptism.
DeleteI completely agree with you. When Thea was placed into the Lazarus Pit, she underwent a sense of baptism. I never thought of baptism being a bad thing. This is a very interesting connection.
DeleteThis is a very good example of a baptism scene because when Thea came back she had a totally different personality.
DeleteI've never seen Arrow but this is a great example.
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ReplyDeleteIn the movie "The Age of Adaline" a woman's life is changed forever. During the movie you see Adaline going through old film reels, and the one she pulls out explains her life story. She was born on January 1st, 1908, and married a man and had a daughter. Her husband died, allowing Adaline to become a widow. Years later, she is driving down a curvy road and then suddenly swerved her car off a cliff during a freak snowstorm, and died in the freezing water. Seconds after a lightning strike suddenly revived her. From that moment on, she was unable to age and has remained twenty-nine years old for decades.
The movie goes on to show that Adaline had to keep running away from the FBI, and was never able to settle in one place. Adaline is unable to fall in love because every love interest she had would soon pass away and she would be alone again. Even though Adaline made this promise, she falls in love with Ellis Jones played by Michiel Huisman. Long story short she meet his parents and the father of Ellis knows exactly who Adaline is, and finds out her secret about never aging. After she tells the father, Adaline gets in the car a drives down a curvy road and and then suddenly swerved her car and was hit by a truck and was pushed off the embankment during a freak snowstorm, and died in the freezing cold. When the paramedics came they used the defibrillator to shock her heart to bring her back to life. At the end of the movie Adaline and Ellis are going to a New Years Eve party, and while leaving she stops to notice something in the mirror. Her first grey hair, proving she has begun to age naturally again.
The way this represents a baptism scene is that when she was struck by lightning, and revived, she came out of the water as a new being. Yes she was still Adaline but time had no hold on her, so she could never grow old. Near the end when she died the second time and the defibrillator brought her back to life she was able to age again and have a true love relationship with a man that cares about her.
I would love to see "The Age of Adeline" and your post makes me more intrigued in wanting to view this story. This a very interesting baptism scene.
DeleteI have seen that movie and it amazing. She basically gets baptized twice in the film.
DeleteI had heard of this movie but I wasn't able to go see it, it sounds super good and I must watch it now! I agree with the baptism scene.
DeleteThat was an amazing movie!
DeleteI completely agree with you on your perspective of Harry's "baptism." Well done!
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ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with any scenes in a literary work that are particularly “baptism.” However, in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” there is a scene that somewhat feels like a sort of baptism. Harry Potter is searching for Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Horcruxes are what anchors Voldemort’s soul to the Earth, so even if his body is destroyed, he has an anchor to come back and avenge himself. Harry ventures off on a search for the four remaining Horcruxes. Albus Dumbledore accompanies him on one of his quests through the cave where Lord Voldemort had hidden Salazar Slytherin’s locket (one of the Horcruxes). The locket resides in the water contained inside the cave. This water is guarded by Inferi’s that drag any intruder of the water underneath it to drown them. Harry is dragged down by the Inferi’s but he is saved by Albus and brought to the surface, he is greatly impressed by Dumbledore’s actions, despite his actual weakness, and holds a great value of respect. After this experience, Harry realizes that it will not be an easy task to obtain the rest of the Horcruxes, but he praises Dumbledore for his courage and abilities.
This chapter in the book makes me think of baptism because it was a realization for Harry that Dumbledore was greater than he had ever imagined before, and that Harry would have to work long and hard to find the other Horcruxes.
I think that this scene definitely changed Harry's perspective of hunting down the rest of the Horcruxes.
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This is a great example, I wish I had thought of it.
DeleteThis is very interesting
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ReplyDeleteOne example of a baptism or rebirth case that I can think of is from Star Wars. In the first three movies, one major character in the film is named "Obi-Wan Kenobi." He is one of the main characters, and is known for being the teacher to Anakin Skywalker, or Darth Vader. After the events that occurred in the third movie, Obi-Wan survives order 66, and goes into hiding. When he is in hiding, he chooses to change his name from Obi-Wan Kenobi to "Ben Kenobi." When he changed his name, he also changed how he acted; he used his lightsaber less, and stopped acting like how a Jedi should act.
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ReplyDeleteWhen thinking of a baptism scene where the character comes out acting different is in the TV series “Supernatural”. Sam was going through trials to close the gates of Hell, while doing so he progressively becomes more sick. Sam and Dean go to a hotel in the mountains to look for an angel named Metatron. When Sam and Dean get to their room Sam is acting out of his mind talking about Dean in childhood, Dean notices the way Sam is acting and tells him to get some rest, Sam wakes up and starts looking for signs of Metatron around the hotel when his ears start to ring, the lights get blurry, and he starts to get dizzy, therefore, Sam decides to call his brother Dean. Sam tells Dean he knows where Metatron is then passes out. When Sam wakes up he is in an ice-cold bath to drop his temperature, therefore, changing crazy Sam into in his right mind Sam. Sam changing from crazy into in his right mind Sam is due to the bath also know as baptism.
This is a really good example to show baptism
DeleteYou know I love this show, and when I see these examples I just get a flashback to those episodes. I like this example.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I thought about a baptism in a movie it took me a while to find an example. In the movie 'The Orphan' there is a scene at the end where the ice breaks and the two main characters fall in the water. This is what I am calling the baptism. After they stop fighting under the water they start to get out and this is where things change. The orphan starts asking for forgiveness, but the other person ends up killing her instead. The Orphan was pretending to have changed for the better after getting out of the water. That was the best I could think of for this example.
I would never though about it but it make sense.
DeleteWow, in a twisted way it makes sense. Sad ending, considering she had finally changed for the better only to get killed.
DeleteIn the popular supernatural series Teen Wolf, there is quite a few scenes that involve water, sometimes the people drown, sometimes they don’t. I’ll focus on when they don’t.
ReplyDeleteIn the high school that the characters go to, they have a pool for swim team purposes and in one of the episodes, Derek and Stiles have to jump into the pool to escape from a dangerous creature. Derek, the older and more powerful of the two, is unable to swim, so Stiles has to tread water for nearly two hours while holding Derek up so he doesn’t drown. That scene was very important to character development because after that, Stiles and Derek didn’t hate each other as much as before.
Another time that someone in Teen Wolf nearly drowned but didn’t was when the group went and stayed at a spooky hotel that messed with the werewolves there. Boyd, one of those wolves, almost unintentionally drowned himself in a bathtub but Lydia and Stiles, two mostly human teens, saved him. After that experience, Boyd trusted Scots, the main character, friends a lot more than he did before.
I've never watched Teen Wolf but these seem really interesting!
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ReplyDeleteIn Divergent, there are things called Fear Simulations. The test determines your number of fears and what they are. One of Tris', the main character's, fears was drowning. In her Fear Simulation, she finds herself trapped in a glass box with water slowly filling the space. Tris panics and tries to get out. The water eventually fills to the top and Tris reminds herself that she isn't in real life and she taps the glass, making it shatter. Once the Fear Simulation is completed, she learns that she is divergent. This is an important scene because in a way she is becoming aware of who she is.
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DeleteMakes perfect sense due to her knowing who she is but multiple scenes show she is divergent but her breaking the glass proved she was since she understood and had control when in the water tank. Good job
DeleteThis is a great movie to show a baptism scene. ~ Caleb C.
DeleteI never thought of this. This was a really good example of baptism.
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ReplyDeleteThe term baptism means that someone is put under water and when they come up, they are reborn. They start a transformation, such as Landon from "A Walk to Remember." At the beginning of the film, it shows a group of friends who are recruiting a new member into their group by daring him to jump off a water tower at an old factory as a prank. Upon doing so, the boy hits his head on a pipe when he lands in the water. Landon, the group's leader, takes action by jumping in after the boy and pulling him out. A security guard comes out and all the members of the group flee but since Landon is the last one to flee, he gets caught. As punishment, he has to join after school activities and community service. As an after school activity, he has to be part of a school play and this is where he meets a girl named Mary. While Landon is a rebellious, misbehaving teen, Mary is the opposite. After a while they fall in love and he finds out that she has cancer. She has a list of things she wants to do before she dies, and he helps her accomplish all of them. Before going in the water, Landon was a mischievous boy who didn't care if he got in trouble, but after going in the water and saving the boy, he was able to meet the love of his life and getting to experience love. He transformed into a much happier person and was able to spend his life with his now wife Mary.
Cool example, good job explaining!
DeleteIn Supernatural, Season 1 Episode 3, "Dead in the water" Dean and Sam investigate the drowning of 18 year old, Sophie Carlton. Sophie is the third drowning victim whose body was never discovered from lake Manioc. Same and Dean research the lake and and find that 6 people have died in the lake in the last 35 years. The boys end up solving the problem but Sam and Dean are just starting their journey in the series and both being more in touch with his humanity rather then later in the series, must have some sadness for the family and friends for the lost ones as for the victims, they aren't feeling anything.
ReplyDeleteIt could be like a baptism gone wrong.
I love this episode! Cool connections.
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DeleteBaptism in literature doesn't necessarily have to be religious. In "Nim's Island," a little girl, named Nim, lives on an island with her father. They are the only two people on the island. One day, her father Goes out on his boat for a few days to collect something for his research. His boat is destroyed by a bad storm and he is stranded in the middle of the ocean for a bit longer than he had planned to be gone. All this time, Nim is alone on the island. It just so happens that her favorite author, Alex Rover, want's her father to tell her aboutvolcanoes so that she can write her next novel. Nim eventually needs help after being alone, and the storm coming through, so she asks Alex. Alex is an extreme agoraphobic, and is terrified to leave her apartment. She decides that she must, to help Nim. Alexandra has to travel across oceans and in the rain to reach Nim. After she comes out of this watery situation, she is much stronger and no longer obsesses with things because of her agoraphobia. Because she traveled through the water, she changed as a person.
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ReplyDeleteHanna, Spencer, Aria, and Emily all get charged with murder, even though they’re not guilty, and go on a mission to prove their innocence. They go to the beach where they believe they can find Ali, but end up finding nothing and decide to stay in a motel for the night. Spencer, Hanna, and Aria soon fall asleep and Emily finds this a perfect time as ever to do what she’d been planning on doing for awhile now. She quickly writes a note to the girls saying she now in the water where she can truly be happy. Emily walks down to the beach, which is about to be home to a horrible hurricane, and walks into the ocean. Back in the motel room Spencer and the girls find her note and rush down to the beach. Spencer dives into the water in an attempt to save Emily, but ends up hurting herself. A rescue team is sent out, but Emily is nowhere to be found and is pronounced dead.
ReplyDeleteFurther along in the book Emily shows up, surprising everyone. She is a new person in a way. Before she used to be really depressed, anxious, and paranoid all the time, but when she gets back she’s found a way to deal with everything in a way that they don’t bother her as much anymore.
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You have made an interesting connection. Emily has always felt connected to the water. It is interesting to see how that connection was able to change her and baptize her.
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ReplyDeleteMost movies have a baptism scene in it. They may not all be represented the same way but they might still be considered a baptism scene.
One baptism scene that I can think of is in “Toy Story”. Yes, I said Toy Story, even animations have baptism scenes in them. The baptism scene in Toy Story is when Andy Writes his name on the bottom of Woody’s shoe. This is considered as a baptism scene because after that moment, Woody felt like he had a family. He wanted to make sure that he was there for Andy. He felt like he was a part of Andy and that made him wanting to strive and be the best toy Andy could have. Woody felt like he finally belonged to someone who cares about him and someone who will love and play with him unconditionally.
I have never really thought about his as baptism, just as now he has a home and a family that loves him.
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It never crossed my mind that the writing could be a baptism scene but now reading your post my understanding has grown. ~ Caleb C.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I hear the words “baptism scene” I think about the film “Bourne Ultimatum”. In this film, Jason Bourne could not do what was asked of him. All he knew how to do was what he had learned in the past and this was not good for the job that he had to complete. In the film he was dunked in water countless times until he learned what he was supposed to do. After this baptism scene took place, he was a different person. His whole perspective changed and he was then able to murder countless people without a worry.
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I think of the scene in Percy Jackson can be seen as "baptism". Percy is just an another unidentified half blood until he step into the water. After he step into the water, he got claim by his father and now after that scene, he is a different person because now he is claim by his father and have to go on a request after they discovered who he is.
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DeleteI love how you connected that and I love Percy Jackson.
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I never thought much about how walking into water transformed Percy but that's a really cool thought.
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ReplyDeleteJonah and the Whale. This is one story from the bible that reminds me of baptism. Jonah had a task from God, to travel. Instead of doing the task he decided to run away on a boat. A big storm came while him and his crew were traveling and they all knew who sent the storm. God. The crew then decided to throw Jonah into the water and watch him get eaten by a whale. While he was in the whale, Jonah realized how selfish and disloyal he was. But after three days in the whale Jonah was saved and reborn. He then continued on the journey, God have given to him.
Baptism in Literature isn’t always religious. There are many scenes of baptism that sparks the new life of a character. I have witnessed this through the character Oliver in the television series Arrow.
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning, Oliver Queen was a privileged and vain man. His family was very rich, therefore, he lived in a carefree world. One day, he went on a trip with his father on a yacht. The yacht ended up crashing and Oliver was flung into the water. After swimming to stay afloat, he then spotted the life raft that held his father and helm. The two men later died, leaving Oliver the only survivor. After surviving, he ended up on an island, Lian Yu. He later returned to his family after five years.
I believe that this scene was a form of baptism. When Oliver was flung into the water, he was given another chance at life. After his “baptism” Oliver learns the importance of justice and morals. He had to put his old life of vanity away and become a new man. A new man that was to right the wrongs of himself and his father.
I always thought Oliver falling in the water was just something to drive the plot but that's a really cool interpretation, I've never thought about how it actually changed him. Great job!
DeleteIn thinking about a “baptism” scene, I had to think for a while but, I finally found an example; the movie The Vow. The Vow is about a woman who has an accident and forgets everything about herself and her life, including her wonderful relationship with her husband. The man is devastated, she is the love of his life but, she cannot remember him. So, of course he does all kinds of things to jog her memory but, it doesn’t work. However, one night in the winter he convinces her to jump into a lake in her bra and underwear with him and when she does they have a lot of fun and she starts opening up to him. I believe it symbolizes baptism because after this, no the girl doesn’t remember him but, it marks a fresh start where she wills herself to fall in love with him all over again. The girl never regains memory sadly, however, the couple gets to start fresh. It’s bittersweet, being the guy has all these great memories about them. For example their wedding, but she will never be able to share those memories with him. Instead, they get this chance to make new memories and have more adventures.
ReplyDeleteWhen I think of a baptism scene, I think of Divergent when Tris was trapped in a box filling up with water. This was happening because she was in a Fear Simulator and this was one of her fears. When she finally realized that this was not real she tapped the glass and the glass broke. This scene is also where she had found out that she was divergent.
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ReplyDeleteI have never actually read a true baptism scene in a book or seen one in a movie so it took me awhile to figure out a scene that could be cleansing in the same way. After looking through many of the books I've read and such, I managed to see that there is a part of Fahrenheit 451 that is somewhat like a baptism.
In this book the main character, Guy Montag, is walking in the rain with Clarrise. During this part of the books it's as if he is being cleansed by the rain just like a baptism.
Because people stole my examples from Arrow, I’ll use one from the flash. In the comic series, Barry Allen is a forensics analyst and is working with an odd mixture of chemicals when he is struck by a bolt of lightning. The chemicals get all over him and the bolt causes a reaction with the chemicals, and he was knocked out. When he woke up he discovered that the chemical reaction had given him super speed.
ReplyDeleteHe became a superhero, using his speed to help people in more ways than he could as a forensics analyst, but he still kept his job to keep up the appearance of a normal life.
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An example of a baptism scene is in Finding Nemo when Nemo goes through the filter to place a rock and stop the filter. He goes into the filter as a scared, disabled baby fish with no real place in the dentist’s fish plan to escape. After he comes out he is hailed as Sharkbait and gets included in more of the aquarium fish’s plans to escape from the aquarium and escape the clutches of Darla. He seems to have grown up after coming out of the filter, and even after coming out of the aquarium and out into the ocean.
ReplyDeleteI love this movie and it is a very good example.
Delete*Spoilers* In the movie “Berserk: The Golden Age Arc III” The Hawks (a band of mercenaries) leader Griffith is in critical condition when the horse cart he is in suddenly runs and crashes into a shallow lake where Griffith finds his necklace. He picks up the necklace and mouths “I need power” and the necklace stamps The Hawks with the stamp of sacrifice the necklace also brings The Hawks and Griffith to Hell where Griffith becomes a demon and all but 2 of the hawks are murdered by demons. Guts and Casca return to Earth with the help of someone/something (not telling). Casca leaves Hell with no memory of the event. Guts on the other hand becomes the lost 5th Angel. This may not be a normal baptism but it leaves Guts and Casca completely different.
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ReplyDeleteIn the show Avatar: The Last Airbender, there is an example of a baptism. In the show, there are benders who can control one of four elements, water, earth, air and fire. Then there is the avatar who can use all four, they are seen as a keeper of peace who is reincarnated throughout the years. When Aang was young it was discovered that he was the avatar, but afraid of responsibility, he decided to run away on his flying bison but was caught in a storm over the sea. They fell in and almost drowned but he used his powers to encase them in an iceberg for one hundred years. When he awoke he discovered that while the avatar was gone the fire nation had raided the other 3 nations. Realizing what he had caused, he decided to train his powers and stop the fire nation to restore peace to the world.
Something I kind of considered a baptism is when the airplane in "Hatchet" crashes in the lake. He was changed because when it crashed, he was an innocent boy going to visit his parents, but he almost drowns and when he escapes the plane, he changes into someone who knows he's going to have to fight for his life. He has to use his instincts in order to survive on that island and him having such a close to death experience is like an eye opener. He definitely changed after the crash and was more prepared to fight.
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This is a very good example and I loved that book when I first read it.
DeleteIn the film Bourne Ultimatum. Jason remembers how he came to be how he is. He remembers all of the training he has done. It showed him being dunked into a tank of water, they keep doing this to him until he is forced to change and takes on the new ways he needs for a job. This is symbolic of a baptism in the way that he is a changed person afterward. Jason Bourne wasn’t himself before the baptist, he was just some random person. After the baptism, he took on a new name, Jason Bourne, and he became a tool for the government.
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DeleteThe book Horns by Joe Hill has multiple baptism scenes. The first being when Ig, the main character, wakes up and has horns on his head. I would say this a baptism scene because after growing these horns he becomes a different person, a evil demonic man. He starts to learn the true extent to his powers and focuses on his anger. Another one is later in the book Ig gains the cross that brought him and his dead ex-girlfriend together and the horns disappear. The cross is cleansing him of the evil that comes with the horns.
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some thing I consider Baptism is in the TV series “Hart of Dixie” season 4 Zoe admits she never stopped loving wade and does everything she can to get him back and everything hasn’t been enough.
ReplyDeleteFinally she jumps in the lake that is right beside her house in the attempt to get wade to be with her. She jumps in and to create noise to wade would go check it out then he remind her of the slugs and bug and she gets out in a sensual matter, well it worked he went over to her house later and they talked. She later realizes his intentions and denies him, she realizes what she did wrong and learns from it.
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DeleteIn the 80s movie “Labyrinth” Sarah, the main character, is fed a peach that causes her to have a hallucination of a ball filled with the Goblin King’s subjects. She is in a beautiful gown and dances with the king. At this ball Sarah is in a very hazy and confused state, not remembering her goal or what she was there to do. When she comes out of this vision she is back in her home and really realizes what she needs to do and why. She finds that she doesn’t need to succumb to the Goblin King and that she can save her brother if she puts her mind to it.
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One work that Foster would classify under “geography” is the book “The Call of the Wild.” In Jack London’s book the incompetent Hal and Charles purchase the sled dogs in Buck’s team to carry themselves and a woman to their destination. After weeks of travel with little food and less breaks they stop in a place where they meet John Thornton and they say that they were told the ice would break under them. Thornton replies that they won’t if they keep going and when Buck is beaten because he won’t stand Thornton sets him free. While the dogs were sledding they had known that they were literally traveling on thin ice and that they might not see another day because of the ice breaking, lack of food, or no rest. The rotten ice that his master was trying to beat him back onto did not appeal to him. After Buck was set free, the sled continued on anyway while he and Thornton watch. When Hal and Charles get to the frozen portion it suddenly drops out from under the sled, taking the humans and dogs with it. The geography consisting of rotten ice shows how futile and pointless the situation is.
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ReplyDeleteI just started watching the tv series One Tree Hill and in One Tree Hill, there is many different things going on with the show and all of it’s drama. When I read this chapter and this question, it made me think of one of the main characters named Peyton.
One day Peyton's mother was running late to pick her up, so she ran a red light. This one decision ended up killing her. Later once Peyton gets her license and her own car, on the week of her mother’s death date, she goes and runs all of the red light on main street, wanting to understand why it doesn’t kill her to run all of them at the same time, but just one killed her mother. Peyton is depressed in a way and wants answers, but can’t get them. It impacted her negatively, and she misses her mother every day.
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An example of a “baptism scene” can be found in the literary work, Lord of the Flies. The first thing Ralph does after the plane crashes is take off his clothes and bathe in the nearby pool of water. This shows that Ralph is prepared to change. By bathing in this pool he is letting go of his life before the plane crash and focusing on his new life. For the rest of the book he is a new and changed person. The baptism is a way of cleansing his mind from the crash and preparing him for his battles ahead.