Thunderpants+IV

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The main connection that I was able to identify between Thunderpants and The Overcoat is that every person is always going to encounter obstacles during life. It is up to that that person to work towards overcoming that obstacle correctly like Patrick Smash did in the movie Thunderpants. He was still able to retain his character and uniqueness while doing this. Akakiy Akakievitch's problem was that he tried to relate to people by wearing the coat, but he lost his individuality while trying to do this. It is important to maintain that sense of individuality when trying to overcome problems. -Ryan Kenskibetterthananyoneeverintheworldperiod

 The major connection between Thunderpants and The Overcoat was the strength and ability of a gift. A gift can make you who you are or in that case, who you’re not. In Thunderpants, Patrick Smash had the gift that you wouldn’t maybe want, but it made him famous. Yet, he also had a hard life with few friends because of it, but in the end he was better off. In the Overcoat Akakiy Akakievitch was happy with a simple, old gift, but when he received a new one he gained a lot more friends and he was a entirely different person. How is it that one gift has the strength to change your life? Any gift, no matter how old it is, the size, the strength, or maybe the smell, it could make you who you are. You should cherish any and every gift. - Jessica Sitter

Sara Foessett turned in hard copy.

Karen Granahan turned in hard copy.

RJ Fucci turned in a hard copy.

In the movie, the color green is very prominent. It could possible represent the toxic attitude of the people who view Patrick as a freak. This attitude is very suffocating and repressive, eventually forcing Patrick to believe that he was useless to society. Once Patrick was transferred to the United States, the color scheme immediately changed. White became more prevelent, and there were hints of red. The white represents the purer attitude of the USSC and the red reflects the red hair of Allen, who was the only person in England who did not judge him. - Jacob Lichtinger

In Thunderpants, Patrick Smash is convicted of a murder that he did not purposely commit. The people around him throw him under the bus in order to cover up their own guilt. This is similar to Edmond Dantes in the Count of Monte Cristo who is found guilty of treason by Villefort who wants to hide his own family's involvement. Patrick can also be compared to Nikolai, who takes the blame in Crime and Punishment; Ivan, who is wrongly convicted of murder in God Sees the Truth, But Waits; and Dostoevsky, himself. In reality, Dostoevski was convicted of a crime and lined up to be shot, just as Patrick was taken outside to be shot. In both cases, they were saved at the last moment. -Marisa Fryer

In the recently watched movie, “Thunderpants”, a young boy has an ambitious dream of becoming a spaceman as he says. The boy has a flatulance issue where he has rapid chronic farting. He discovers that he has a gift; the gift of two stomachs. In our modern-day society people may see this as more of an issue than a gift. Rather than giving up, the boy holds his head high and uses what many see as a problem for a good cause. In life, you cannot judge or limit yourself because of the perceptions others may have on you. You are who you are and when it comes down to it, you are the one who will be defining your reality, not someone else. - Sean "The Bulldozer" Christie

Logan Weichler turned in a hard copy of doom 3

In the movie "Thunderpants", there were many connections that could have been made. One that stood clear and to me and was a common theme throughout the entire movie was the structure and ambiguity. When Patrick was in England and not pursuing his dream of becoming a “spaceman”, the world was plain. Everyone wore green, and everyone followed by a certain code. That life seem extremely boring to me, but when Patrick began to pursue his dreams the world became bright. To me this said that the world is trying to break you into a certain code and a certain structure, but when you chose to follow your dreams your world becomes bright. You have a meaning to your life that is all yours and even if you don’t get your dream you at least tried and you broke the structure. –Nick "Raskolnikov" Szobody <--- Little girly man i <3 my flow

I think that a connection between Thunderpants and The Overcoat is prejudice. The "civilized" officers in Akakiy Akakievitch's department picked on Akakiy because of the way he looked. Patrick Smash was also misjudged because of his..."gift" and the fact that he was just different. Those who misjudged Akakiy and Patrick didn't get in trouble due to their popularity; but as shown through Patrick and Akakiy, popularity isn't everything. Patrick fulfilled his dream by using his gift of having two stomachs. Akakiy got his revenge by haunting people with nice cloaks and taking the cloaks to make up for his stolen cloak. People need to look passed prejudice and see others for who they really are, not for their appearance and social standard. Popularity won't get a person ahead of the game, motivation will. - Danielle Russell

The connection that I see is between Thunderpants and Crime and Punishment. InThunderpants, Partick Smash is only a kid that has a particularly odd case of chronic flatulence and in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov is just some poor guy that most people don't even notice. The connection between the two of them is how they both end up becoming the unlikely hero. Patrick Smash ends up accomplishing his dream of going into space and saves a bunch of astronauts when all his life he believed he never would. Raskolnikov ends up being a hero in a few ways to a couple of different people by giving money to Katerina Ivanovna for a funeral when she clearly couldn't afford it, by breaking up Dunya and Luzhin, and by setting Dunya up with Razumikhin. In these ways both Patrick Smash and Raskolnikov are unlikely heros. - Jake Sturm <--- Cutie

The connection i see in Thunderpants is that of Patrick Smash, and the Count of Monte Cristo, Patrick was wrongly accused of murder, and so was Edmond Dantez. This connects the corrupt society, and how unfairly they can treat any one human being, just because they are told something untrue, but in the end both of these hereos came out on top - Ryan Bardwell

There are many connections that I made from the movie "Thunderpants." Patrick Smash is a one of the kind kid that has a special gift that he got when he was a baby. The special gift that he received was that he has two stomachs and that he can flatulance whenever he needs too. He grew up with an apsiring dream to become a spaceman. He faced some problems and one thing that stood out to me was that everyone and everything was covered in green. I took this as symbolism that everyone there were simple and plain and Patrick was different from everyone else and that made him look like a strange person. - Bryan Chiffon