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Essay / Literary Analysis of the Film - 889
Literary Analysis of the FilmWhat's it like to start over in a completely new place? In the movie "The Karate Kid", Daniel, the main character, and his mother moved from New Jersey to California because of his mother's new job offer. Daniel started going to school in California and met a girl named Ali, whom he grew to like. He started dating her. Daniel was getting beaten up by bullies; one of them was Ali's ex-boyfriend. They knew karate very well, but Daniel did not. So Daniel decided to learn karate. Daniel and his mother lived in an apartment and one day he discovers that the handyman in his apartment, Mr. Miyagi, knows karate very well. He asked Mr. Miyagi to teach him karate, and Mr. Miyagi became his karate teacher. It was hard for him to make new friends in a new place and he thought Mr. Miyagi would be the only best friend he had ever met. Have you ever tried to figure out who you are? Everyone's perspective on identity is different. To me, identity means the things that best describe me as who I currently am. In the movie "The Karate Kid", Mr. Miyagi is identified as a great karate teacher. Likewise, tennis coaches offer different exercises to teach their students how to play tennis. In the film, Miyagi forces Daniel to do jobs, such as painting fences, washing and waxing cars, and sanding a wooden floor using different karate moves to teach him karate. Daniel in the film is a growing teenager and a hardworking student. He followed what Miyagi had told him: "Teacher says, student does." As a result, he won the All Valley Karate Championship and became a karate champion. In my opinion, when teachers teach students to cheat, students learn to cheat. When the student......middle of paper......the son with whom I completely identify. I thought of the line Miyagi said in the movie, "Teacher says, student does", which made me realize that a teacher makes the students' future brighter, if the students do what they say. Watching this movie, I discovered that cheating is not the way to victory. Moving to a new place is not child's play. But after having good friends and learning life lessons, it is easier to settle into a new place. Rafael Nadal's world was destroyed last year and now Roger Federer mercilessly put to the sword, Swede Robin Soderling is clearly the undisputed champion of Paris. As rain fell from a dark Parisian sky on Tuesday, Soderling dominated the darkness, unleashing lightning serves and ferocious forehands to leave the Swiss defending champion reeling and silence a pro-Federer crowd on Court Chatrier..