Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Akeelah and the bee

Do you ever notice those small kids able to perform better than our expectation towards them? This seems that their thinking had been matured and they able to perform better as their elders and can say even much better than them. This is the thing we usually refer s as special gift that receive by selected people from god. There are also have other factors which could make a person to be intelligent, here are some of the factors where it involve determination, courage and interest also hardworking for sure could lead a person to be a great person one day.
Akeelah and the bee is about a girl who is eleven year-old named Akeelah Anderson's where her life is not easy: her father is dead, her mom ignores her, her brother runs with the local gangbangers. She's smart, but her environment threatens to strangle her aspirations. Responding to a threat by her school's principal, Akeelah participates in a spelling bee to avoid detention for her many absences. Much to her surprise and embarrassment, she wins. Her principal asks her to seek coaching from an English professor named Dr. Larabee for the more prestigious regional bee. As the possibility of making it all the way to the Scripps National Spelling Bee looms, Akeelah could provide her community with someone to rally around and be proud of -- but only if she can overcome her insecurities and her distracting home life. She also must get past Dr. Larabee's demons, and a field of more experienced and privileged fellow spellers. Here the situation is Akeelah, already feeling isolated from many in her school because of being perceived as a "brainiac", feels that participating in such will make her feel even more isolated. But her joy in learning new words at least gets her started in the process. After easily winning the school's spelling bee, she meets and befriends Javier Mendez, a competitor at the Los Angeles district bee where most of the competitors come from primarily white middle class to wealthy families. There, she learns about the nature of spelling bee life in all its good and bad, the latter which includes the cutthroat world of competitor parents. Akeelah learns she needs a coach, hers to be in the form of former spelling bee competitor and UCLA English Department Chair Dr. Joshua Larabee, who teaches Akeelah not only the rote memorization of typical spelling bee words, but how to use English in all its glorious facets. Akeelah progresses further and further into spelling bee life without telling her widowed mother Tanya, who sees the bees as impinging into time in her other school work. Other challenges that Akeelah faces are trying to balance working on her spelling against time with her friends, and handling the hopes and dreams of all of South Los Angeles on her shoulders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0437800/plotsummary)
This movie inspires me a lot where it tells me that every students is equipped with some special talents so it’s actually depend on the teacher how the teacher find out their talents and take the responsibility to brush up the student to be a successful person in the field they are talented in.

2 comments:

  1. This is indeed the best movie out of the rest we watched in the class! I enjoyed it very much. Akeelah is lucky to find a great tutor for her Spelling Bee. The movie is indeed inspiring, especially the quote from Marianne Williamson. Very touching indeed!

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  2. yes this is the best movie that we have watched...i love the way they portrayed the main character...she is a great girl with determination to success...as a teacher,we should know that students have different talents and abilities...I'm gonna play this movie to my students...

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