`` Slumdog Millionaire And The Great Gatsby By Wendy...

Good morning everyone, as I prepare this speech I prepared it with the same intense motivation that of my peers and myself would have devoted for an end of term assignments, so late last night I began with the assist of my trusty friend cafà ©ine. As I drifted into my thoughts, I found myself reminiscing in the past. My first breath of real words was consequently grammatically incorrect and not English; it was in my mother tongue, Bahasa Indonesian. I lived on white and red soil, so naturally, I grew the custom of learning my cultural ties that included immersing myself into Indonesian literature and the media which created the foundation of my identity. Learning literature and media wasn’t solely following the Indonesian current, but†¦show more content†¦In ‘Slumdog Millionaire, the director utilized the film sound technique to portray Jamal’s destiny in the form of a sound of a clock ticking. Throughout the movie, the audience is continually reminded/ aware of the clock ticking because it represents the countdown of Jamal ‘destiny’ in finding Latika. Boyle signified that destiny and time are a partnership, not a limitation. Nevertheless, people on a regular basis are constantly rushing towards their destiny/goal but soon failing because time/patience’s was thought as a limitation. Henceforth, the life lesson from ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ is that life is not just sailing to one distention and the next but the voyage of memories and challenges faced as well. ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ has shaped my perspective of the future and gifted me with the essential traits/lesson to assist me in the future. Our journey is what defines us, but something we lose for selves into luxurious things that cloud our true identity, like Gatsby. ‘The Great Gatsby’ novel by F. Scott Fitzgeralds is a novel that has symbolic life lessons that have shaped my values and realities of life. This novel is about Nick Carraway, the narrator, that tells the story of Jay Gatsby a millionaire purposing the American Dream at the cost of losing himself. A key quote in the novel demonstrated the reality of wealth doesn’t define a person. But consumes them was illustrated when Carraway first saw Gatsby. â€Å"I could have sworn he was