COTD2. Watch "Harold & Maude" and write up 3-5 paragraphs analyzing the significance of the theme of funerals and death in the lives, practices, and beliefs of the three main characters.
Maude:Is an old lady goes to funerals of people she does not know as well and that is how she meet Harold. And as a old lady she does things as if she was young. She steals and has fun as if there is no punishment in the world that could affect her. Just like Harold she looks as death as something entertaining. She talks more then Harold. Loves flowers because they grow die and become something new and different. She very honest and lives life to the fullest. "Earth is my body and my head is in the stars". "Everyone has a right to make an ass out of them selves. Don't let people judge you". She takes pills that is going to kill her self. This shows that she lived her life and that she is okay with dying.
Harold: Is a young man, and he looks at death as a joke at the beginning he fakes to hang his self. When his mother walks and sees him she just look at him and keep doing what she has to do and walk out the room. Through out the movie he does different death pranks on his mother. He also goes to funerals just to go just to be around people as they cry. From the pranks of death that he does in front of his mother makes it seems as if he wants her attention and she not giving it to him. He also goes to a psychologist and said that he has done more then 50 fake deaths. Harold is more quiet then Maude. "Should not get attach to anything"." I want to be a daisy because they are all the same". Before meeting Maude lived life forcing on death, but after meeting Maude he tries to live life to the fullest. He has not live he has die a few times. After the cops told his mother that he was dead and she fell out. And from there he saw that he like being dead. Does anything to not so people do not want to talk to him besides Maude. He threw his car off a cliff showing that he left his pass behind and that he is moving on in life.
Harold mother: The mother just talks. She does not really listen to people she just talk. She doesn't even pay attention to her son from the smallest to the biggest things. Controlling and things that what she thinks is the best and knows what people do with their life. Once again because she does not believe in what Harold is doing she tries to make him change but making go the the army.
Harold and Maude don't really think about what they do, they just do. They go where every the wind takes them and see things that most people don't. They are the same but yet they are different. They see the same thing but read it differently. " If you want to be you be you because there are a million things to be and you know there are......"
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