The Kid
The Kid - Charlie Chaplin - 1921
Part A (Our Opinion): In The Kid I think Chaplin did a good job of making a comedic film, but also, I think he did a decent job of also making the audience have sympathy for the poor. The movie is filled with quite a bit of comedy. Examples of comedy in The Kid are: when the kid goes throwing rocks at windows so that his "father" (Charlie can fix them for money, also when Chaplin first finds the baby, he tries to get rid of it by putting it in another woman's stroller a couple of times. Also when the kid fights with the neighborhood "bully" there are many funny parts when Charlie tries to intervene. As for sympathy, it really lies between the Mother who gets rid of the boy and the boy himself. For one, you can easily feel sympathy for the boy because he was abandoned ultimately Also when Charlie finds the boy doesn't even know that Chaplin is his real father. Another example is, when the police tried to take the boy to orphanage, the boy i clearly very sad and upset. But Charlie did rescue the boy. Also when the Woman who got rid of the boy in the first place, when she notices her writing on the note she knows that it's her boy. So at the end of the movie when Charlie meets up with the woman with the kid everything is kind of resolved. But ultimately the sympathy really is between the kid, for being abandoned and being raised in a poor area, and the woman for getting rid of the baby. The sympathy with the woman also comes with the fact of that the woman's sin was motherhood.
Part B:The Three main reasons:
Number 1): Charlie Chaplin executed sympathy quite well.
Number 2): Chaplin also put in a good amount of comedy to balance comedy and sympathy.
Number 3): The sympathy ultimately lies between The Woman and The Boy.
Part C: The Thesis Paragraph (Hook, Thesis, and Main Reasons):
In the movie, "The Kid", Charlie Chaplin does a good job of making a comedic movie while also creating sympathy for the poor. There are many examples of comedy in the movie, which makes the movie funny, but there are also quite a few examples of sympathy for the poor. Some examples of comedy are: when the kid goes throwing rocks at windows so that his "father" (Charlie can fix them for money, also when Chaplin first finds the baby, he tries to get rid of it by putting it in another woman's stroller a couple of times. As for the sympathy for the poor, there is a little sympathy towards Chaplin, but not much. The only sympathy we see directed towards Chaplin, is that he has to raise the boy while being poor and living in a poor neighborhood. Mainly the sympathy is between The Woman and The Boy. In one of the first slides it says that the woman's motherhood was a sin. The woman knew this and this is why she got the boy off her hands. Then with the boy, people can feel sympathy for the boy because, he was abandoned by his real mother and when Chaplin finds him and starts to raise him the boy doesn't even know that he is his real father. He is also being raised in a poor neighborhood and in a very dumpy looking house (but that is because Chaplin is depicting poor people in the film). So, overall, i think Chaplin did a decent job with balancing the comedy and trying to create sympathy for the poor.
Part A (Our Opinion): In The Kid I think Chaplin did a good job of making a comedic film, but also, I think he did a decent job of also making the audience have sympathy for the poor. The movie is filled with quite a bit of comedy. Examples of comedy in The Kid are: when the kid goes throwing rocks at windows so that his "father" (Charlie can fix them for money, also when Chaplin first finds the baby, he tries to get rid of it by putting it in another woman's stroller a couple of times. Also when the kid fights with the neighborhood "bully" there are many funny parts when Charlie tries to intervene. As for sympathy, it really lies between the Mother who gets rid of the boy and the boy himself. For one, you can easily feel sympathy for the boy because he was abandoned ultimately Also when Charlie finds the boy doesn't even know that Chaplin is his real father. Another example is, when the police tried to take the boy to orphanage, the boy i clearly very sad and upset. But Charlie did rescue the boy. Also when the Woman who got rid of the boy in the first place, when she notices her writing on the note she knows that it's her boy. So at the end of the movie when Charlie meets up with the woman with the kid everything is kind of resolved. But ultimately the sympathy really is between the kid, for being abandoned and being raised in a poor area, and the woman for getting rid of the baby. The sympathy with the woman also comes with the fact of that the woman's sin was motherhood.
Part B:The Three main reasons:
Number 1): Charlie Chaplin executed sympathy quite well.
Number 2): Chaplin also put in a good amount of comedy to balance comedy and sympathy.
Number 3): The sympathy ultimately lies between The Woman and The Boy.
Part C: The Thesis Paragraph (Hook, Thesis, and Main Reasons):
In the movie, "The Kid", Charlie Chaplin does a good job of making a comedic movie while also creating sympathy for the poor. There are many examples of comedy in the movie, which makes the movie funny, but there are also quite a few examples of sympathy for the poor. Some examples of comedy are: when the kid goes throwing rocks at windows so that his "father" (Charlie can fix them for money, also when Chaplin first finds the baby, he tries to get rid of it by putting it in another woman's stroller a couple of times. As for the sympathy for the poor, there is a little sympathy towards Chaplin, but not much. The only sympathy we see directed towards Chaplin, is that he has to raise the boy while being poor and living in a poor neighborhood. Mainly the sympathy is between The Woman and The Boy. In one of the first slides it says that the woman's motherhood was a sin. The woman knew this and this is why she got the boy off her hands. Then with the boy, people can feel sympathy for the boy because, he was abandoned by his real mother and when Chaplin finds him and starts to raise him the boy doesn't even know that he is his real father. He is also being raised in a poor neighborhood and in a very dumpy looking house (but that is because Chaplin is depicting poor people in the film). So, overall, i think Chaplin did a decent job with balancing the comedy and trying to create sympathy for the poor.