XTRA CREDIT HAROLD AND MAUDD

Three charactes
Harold
Maudd
Mother

Harold -I feel that harold enjoys flirting with death he gets pleasure out of viewing death. He goes to funerals of random people and drives a hearse for a car, I feel that harold embodies death as a character. What makes harold such a unique character is the fact that in our culture and society death is looked upon as such  negative thing but he uses it as a positive so he can have something fun to do when he is bored or seeking attention from his mother. Significant scene: Is when harold is in his therapy session lying on the couch like he was in a casket and when the therapist was talking to him he wasn't responding. The reason why it was important to me was because I thought he only put that front up infront of his mother.

Harold's' mother-  she doesn't care about the death games that he try's to play on her, Eevn tough she can't deal with it  she still loves him because he is her son. As a mother you would think she would show more concern but even as the movie goes on and Harold's theatrics become more and more elaborate she still responds to him in a very nonchalant fashion.

Maudd- I feel that maudd is the same as harold but what is different about them is that maudd actually flirts with death for her it is not  game she would not mind dying, but for harold its just a facade he puts up to gain attention. I noticed that maudd really likes harold and she is trying to turn harold into a person that thinks like she does.

I feel that in this moving it shows how certain people look at death as an art, especially with harold he mad it seem normal like death was suppose to be apart of your daily life. I really felt that A Million Ways To Be by Kat Stevens played such a huge in the movie because the line "If you want to be you be you and if you want to be free be free" connects so well to the plot of the movie and the characters because it shows there is nothing wrong with accepting death and embracing it because by doing that you can become more comfortable with it. What makes this movie so powerful is at the end when maudd dies and it what that shows is how death came into his life but nt to take him but someone he loves so now he knows what his mother feels like.