An
Analysis of a Film
The Pursuit of Happyness
By
Gabriele Muccino
- Setting
Setting of Place :
San Francisco
Setting of Time :
1981-1987
A Socio-cultural
Setting :
A modern life.
- Character:
Main Character :
Chris
Gardner.
Christopher:
Chris Gardner’s son.
Supporting Character :
Linda :
Gardner’s wife.
Charlie :
The owner of the lodging house.
Ralph :
The owner of the lodging house.
Deborah
: She is another owner of a lodging
house.
Driver : The taxi driver and other characters to
complete the story
- Plot
Exposition :The story began in 1981. There was a
small family of
Chris Gardner, Linda, and a five year old
boy,
Christopher, their son. Chris Gardner was a
salesman of a
bone density scanner machine.
Complication:
The problem started when Chris Gardner could not
afford enough money for
paying taxes, for their family’s
daily needs, day care of
their son.
Crisis :The crisis happened when Linda,
Chris Gardner’s wife
could
stand living in poverty, so she left Chris Gardner. Then, Chris Gardner received
a letter of obliging to pay taxes while he did not have enough money in the
bank.
Falling Action:
In his hopeless condition, Chris Gardner got
Opportunity to
have training/work as a stock broker after
passing
the test without any salary in Dean
Witter
Reonolds. Meanwhile, he
was expelled by
Deborah, the owner of
the lodging house because Chris
Gardner could not pay
for the rent. Chris Gardner and
Christopher stayed in
Glide Memorial without any fare. At
the same
time, he stands their life by selling the
broken bone scanner machine. In order to get money
to fix
the machine
Chris Gardner sold his blood as a donor.
Resolusion : Chris Gardner was accepted as the permanent employee. He achieved his success as a stock broker.
Shortly, Chris Gardner established his own stock broker company, Gardner Rich.
Success was his. He could sell some of his own company’s stake in 2006 and he
could achieve millions dollar.
- Point of
View: First-Person Point of View.
The narrator/story teller is the doer of the
story.
- Symbol : Love, sadness, struggle, and
happiness
Love:
Chris Gardner love his wife and their son. It shown by “struggling” to get better life.
Sadness:
Quarrels, Poor, Hard to stand their life.
Struggle:
“Run”. Hard work to maintained their life.
Happiness:
Established “Gardner Rich” stock broker company and achieve millions dollar.
- Tone : Touching and deep compassion
7.
Theme : Family Life
8.
Message : Life is a struggle.
Responsibility is everything for a family.
A husband and a wife must support each other
for the
success of the family.
A good wife should be always next to her
husband whatever,
whenever and wherever, means in either good
or bad
condition.
- Comment : This story is written based on
the true experience.
It is
valuable for everyone in building their good
characteristics.
We have to be able to learn to be
responsible
and well-trusted.
The word is
typed “happyness” instead of “happiness”.
- Summary/Synopsis
This
story is taken from a true experience .The story started in 1981.
A small family
of Chris Gardner with his wife, Linda and his five year old son, Christopher
lived in small apartment. Chris was a salesman of a bone scanner machine while
Linda worked for a laundry service. However, Chris could not make money as much
as Linda hoped because the machines are expensive enough for doctors to buy.
Quarrel often happened when they had
much burden for daily life and for paying the apartment rent as well as taxes.
Chris also had to pay the fine of his careless parking. They did not have
enough money to pay. In the hopeless situation, Linda could bear the poverty.
She finally decided to leave Chris.
In hopeless, still he had to face
the problem that Christopher and him had to leave the lodging house because
Chris could not pay for the rent. Yet, surprisingly, Chris met a successful
stock broker. It made Chris want to be a stock broker too.
Chris got an opportunity to work/training
for Dean Witter Reynold,
a stock broker
company although without any salary. In the very difficult situation, again
Chris was expelled from his lodging house. So, he finally decided to stay in
Glide Memorial without any rent. At the same time, for the daily needs he only
had to be able the only broken bone scanner machine. To repair the machine,
Chris sold his blood for donor.
Fortunately, Chris was accepted as
the permanent employee of dean Witter. Having made a lot of money on stock
broker, Chris was able to establish his own stock broker company, Gardner Rich.
Later on, he was able to sell his company’s stocks and made a lot of money. He
had enjoyed his success ever after.
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