Adrift College Essays Samples For Students

Kamal Hussein’s Thartharah fawqa al-Nil (Adrift on the Nile, 1971) is the film adaptation of the 1966 novel by Naguib Mahfouz. The film was released in 1971, four years after the Six-day War and a year after the death of Gamel Abdel Nasser, the second president of Egypt and the man behind the Revolution of 1952. The movie stars some of the most iconic actors of the time including Emad Hamdy, Ahmed Ramz and Adel Adham. The film focusses primarily on the protagonist Anis, a civil servant, and his experiences with a group of men who have created ...

Question: 3. Compare and contrast the underlying themes in another youth/coming of age film from any period with the underlying themes in The Graduate.
Coming-of-age stories involve a main character's inner growth change. In the literature, these changes can be described by any narrator. However, in a film, it is not easy to portray an action of a character that is internal rather than external. Identify a scene that is viewed in a film showing the main characters internal change is through observation of his/her action. It, therefore follows that the list of themes flows through the coming-of-age story. Each category of theme ...

The live music piece I attended took place in a music hall. It was brightly lit, and of ample size, with a stage that allotted for more than what was necessary for the small amount of players, ranging from brass to woodwind instruments. The audience was quiet and respectful, though it appeared that they shared the same responses as I did, ranging from contemplative to irritated, throughout the piece. The audience, as well as myself, were dressed in casually formal attire, as if we were attending a school recital or a semi-fancy restaurant. They did not seem generally enthused by the piece of ...