big revelation trope essay draft 4

This semester we are basing out class around Revelations. In my opinion , a Revelation is something that causes a change in someone, a slogan that you live by. its a new insight that changes the world and how you see it. in some cases, its something that has been covered from the "divine". Some examples that i came up with about Revelations is; experiencing death, childbirth,Martin Luther king, and many more.

A Revelation that i experienced is... when my dad found out that he had skin cancer, it changed everything. the doctors told him that theres a huge chance that i am immune to get it too if I'm in the sun too much. so it changed the way i see my dad and the way that i am when i go to tropical places, or anywhere with sun. this changed my life , and the way i see things.

In most Revelation stories, theres a Trope. A trope is the element in a story that creates the story...it sets the tone... something the repeats itself.Some elements that build up for a Revelation trope are; the reveler,the leader, the profit,the dumb masses...aka silent majority, the oppressor, the oppressive situation, the obstacles to the Revelation, the message, ETC. For example , in a movie Foxfire we saw a clip in class, and in this movie, Rita is the "silent one", she doesn't speak up for herself, shes the typical silent person that most movies have. Some other movies that have Revelation tropes are; Notes from Underground, Matrix, 1984, The Odyssey, Breakfast Club, most Disney movies, ETC.

Something that i would like to quote is, Andy's version of the key element of a Revelation trope... " the ignorant are in a unacceptable/oppressive situation when a prophet/reveler tries to share the message that connects the dots in a new way and offers a vision of a redeemed world but there is an opposition to the message/prophet drama occurs." I like this because it sets out everything and the elements in a Revelation trope in a simple way..that i can understand it .

RANDOM THOUGHT: In class when we talk about Revelations and tropes, its so weird to think about it. its weird to think about it because it makes it feel like the worlds changing so much and so fast. it makes it feel like that in a couple years who knows where we'll be. it feels like theres so many different Revelations popping up that slowing changes the way people view the world. i just hope that everything wont get TOO out of hand !

One thing that i noticed about profits , is that they are usually attractive, or look different, catches someones eye. i think they make the profits like this in movies and books, etc . because in real life, most people wouldn't exactly look up to an un-attractive normal person. [ as rude as that sounds ... its true :/ ]

I think that i look at the Revelation in THE MATRIX a little differently then others. i think that the Revelation in this movie , is just overall how Neo has to make the biggest decisions on his own . the fact that he had to pick either one or the other pills, which would change the way he saw EVERYTHINg in his life, was a huge decision that he had to make. Just watching him make that decision kind of made a Revelation in my mind. that part of the movie stood out to me because i tried to put myself in his shoes, and think "what would i do", to tell you the truth , i have no idea what i would do , i would be in a very difficult position. It made me realize that everyone around you are giving you SO MANY different opportunities to you, they are opening so many doors for myself, but i don't do anything about it, i don't make action . this reminds me of a quote in the MATRIX " I'm trying to free your mind from you, I'm showing you the door but you have to walk through it ...." this fits perfectly with the situation because hes giving him an opportunity but YOUR the one that has to take it in and walk through the door !

Another connection i made to Revelation tropes, is to the book THE WAVE. This book about a small town school, in this school theres a teacher that decides that he wants to do an experiment since the kids don't get the whole Nazi era. This experiment was called the wave, and it ended up going wrong. all the kids in this cult group named THE WAVE became like Nazi's and didn't know their way out. This story is a Revelation because everyone thought that its impossible to start a cult group as bad as the Nazi's , that it wouldn't repeat its self in history. But in the end, it did happen and everyone was shocked ! it was definitely a Revelation to everyone in the story, and even to me because it scared me , that it can actually happen , it was very realistic! in this book , Ben is Profit/Leader, Robert Billings is the silent masses/Outcast, Laurie is the popular one, and the rest of the school is the followers. I mention this because it shows that in most books its like this, theres the different characters and where they stand in the book, and most of the time is always the same!


In the famous story "Emperor's New Clothes" , its about this emperor who needs this amazing new suit of clothes made for him . These tailors tell him that " it is invisible to anyone who is too stupid and incompetent to appreciate its quality". They are talking about the fabrics of the clothes, if you cant see them , your stupid. So the emperor goes out to greet everyone, and he is naked. Only one little boy says something. he screams out saying "the emperor is naked! ". And that's when the Revelation starts. This was a Revelation for the emperor because he realized in the end how stupid he was , and that he couldn't believe that he believed those tailors. This story opens up my eyes , and makes me realize that there are so many people that wont say anything, if its out of their place, or makes them look stupid. they would rather keep quite that save someone from embarrassment or maybe something even worse.

MY 1st REVELATION STORY IDEA (not final one..scroll down for final one):
In class you asked us ; what Revelation story would make a good film? so we thought of different ideas. at first i thought that the story of The Wave would make an interesting movie, but then when i thought about it , its so chiche to make a movie about teachers and students, i wanted something different. i have another story in mind, but I'm not sure what exactly the Revelation is going to be and the profit, but its definitely a story that would open up teenager's eyes. the story is about this small suburban high school, with the jocks and teenagers, and all the clicks. in the story there is this one guy who is the most popular of them all, and is a huge player. It turns out that he has HIV , but doesn't tell anyone . he continues to have sex with all the girls in the school , and gets away with it all . in the end the girls in the school come to find out that they had gotten HIV, and then that's where i am at . like as i said, I'm not sure what the Revelation is , but if i saw a movie like this it would really open my eyes and change the way i see things. because i feel that so many people these days are getting diseases and dieing at very young ages, sooner or later every ones going to catch something from someone , then we are going to pass it on to our children, and everyone will be dieing at the age of 20 . i think that's a Revelation right there.

MY FINAL REVELATION STORY :
here are some notes on my final story.
- its going to be about a troubled boy coming from New York City and goes to a small town in Montana to find his mother but finds out that she died years ago.
- spends the nights sleeping in the town because he came with out money to go back home.
- gets taken in by the "perfect" family , he learns alot from them.
- the father of the family is the prophet , teaches this troubled boy alot.
- their son also learns alot from troubled boy, that life's not always supposed to be perfect.
- son turns out to be a little troubled himself. learns bad from the boy
- troubled boy learns alot and turns out to be a good boy, learns alot about life.
- fathers prophet by spending a day together, talk alot, ask questions,
- i think that my story will be a sneaking revalation because since hes a "bad" boy this idea of him turning good sneaks upon him but he really doesnt take it in.
- prophecy- "WE ARE ALL ONE" . this message is going to be sent by the father . telling the boy that even if you homeless and we are rich, we are still one. you can become like me, we are all capable to be a better person.



"WE SLEEP,THEY LIVE"
--In class we watched a movie called "They Live", and it had the prophecy of "we are all one" , in this case that all colors are one.
-- the trope in this movie is about the homeless people that the society's trying to put down. that they are put last AFTER everyone else. this trope reminds me of "The Matrix" because they are similar in the since that its "THEM" against "EVERYONE ELSE". [ "NEO" against the "WORLD".... "HOMELESS" against "EVERYONE ELSE IN SOCIETY"].
--in the movie the sunglasses reveal the truth, which is the revalation. When you look through the glasses everyone looks black, meaning every ones one.
-- one thing that i realized while watching this movie and the matrix is that right before the person has its Revelation, , they freak out. Neo threw up in the matrix, and the man in "they live" killed all the police.
-- the American flag being hung everywhere in the scenes i think connects back to the fact that every ones one. they keep on wanting to remind everyone that they all live in ONE country and that even if your Spanish, french , etc. that you are all AMERICAN because you in AMERICA now , not Mexico, France, Brazil, etc.
-- in the movie whenever the character would take off the glasses it would hurt. it shows that Revelations are thrilling but once you take it off, stop it, its hard and rough to go back to your old life, your everyday life before you realized this Revelation.

A TROPE:

* THE AWAKE VS. THE ASLEEP
*THE AWAKE= the people who are aware of whats going on , they know "whats up"
*THE ASLEEP= the people who are clueless about whats going on. they don't know "whats up".
* In "They Live" the people that are asleep are the people of the town...everyone that doesn't know about the glasses, the truth, are asleep. Then the people that are awake are the ones who use the glasses, that know the revelation.
* there are the masses that slowly increase in awakeness as everyone helps them realize the "truth". its not always just the prophet who gets everyone to realized this revalation!

To connect this to another story... in the WAVE, i thought the awake was the girl and the asleep was the whole school including the prophet; Ben. they were all asleep cause they all didn't realize that this experiment was like the Nazi's. And this girl was the only one against it.

JAIL MOVIE/GEORGE CARLIN:

Jail Movie--> In this jail movie that Andy showed us in class, There is a prisioner that is a comeidian and jokes about life. the one thing that he said that was the revelation was ; " its a new millinium". it kind of remindes me that one person can go into jail one year and not know what its like on the outside decades later. Hes stuck in the year that he arrived at jail in.

George Carlin--> George Carlin is a comedian that mocks America and the society. The quote that he said that stood out to me was ; " life is worth loosing". His message is that America's nice but we have these flaws. Some of these flaws is that America is like one BIG shopping mall, and every ones overweight. Everyone just shops and eats, and the one place where they have that 2-in-1 is a shopping mall, which in Carlin's words "is America". Carlin makes it funny by relating it to the way people act and even the way i act. its like a reality check , but in a hilarious way somehow. It like people are living this life that they don't even realize, and then theres the people like George Carlin that actually TALKS about their lives, and its shocking, you have no other way to react but to laugh, even ifs its the sad truth.