Q Task: In a 4-¬7 page, 12 pt. font, double-¬?spaced, MLA formatted, thesis driven essay, address the topic below. Topic: Howard Suber suggests that the power of film lies in its ability to convey to audiences some key concepts we share as humans and that influence our behavior and how we view ourselves. He says that films can help us understand how we try to hide essential truths about ourselves but that unmasking these truths can lead to personal growth and acceptance. He argues that movies mirror our need to see justice, truth, compassion, and sacrifice rewarded and honored. Suber claims that movies help us reflect and understand more about the roles happiness, loss, and decision-making make in shaping who we are as individuals and as a society. Suber notes too that mentors are frequently depicted in films because, just as in life, key people serve as role models and shape many of the decisions we make and the people we become. Ultimately, Suber is saying that fictional characters typically develop by learning something important about themselves, about who they are and who they can become, by understanding more about the people around them, their families, the place they grew up, the social and cultural norms and traditions they participate in. In both short stories assigned, Joyce Carol Oates and Herman Melville also touch on how the formation of our identities and our understanding of the world are powerfully influenced by the people, situations, traditions, and values we’ve experienced over time. Write a reflective essay about how a character in one of the films you watched comes to understand who he/she is in the world and how he/she has come to be that way. What are some of the ways his/her identity becomes more clearly formed, more changed over time, or more revealed and revealing? Is something unmasked in this character or some crucial decision made or mentoring experienced? Does this character come to understand something more deeply about justice, truth, compassion, happiness, or sacrifice? Use your opening paragraph to introduce your overarching ideas about why the character you’ve chosen reveals essential truths about how human identity is formed over time and influenced by people, situations, traditions, and values experienced at key moments such as those depicted in the film. Use analyses of the character and key scenes involving the character as the body of your paper, taking care to relate how specific dialogue, scenery, costumes, camera angles/movement, and body language depict how the character is evolving. Your concluding paragraphs should relate your chosen character to insights you gathered from Oates or Melville and to your own experience. By your conclusion, the reader should understand why you think the changes the character experiences are so important in understanding human behavior and in understanding something about how you view your own identity and relationship to the world around you.