When reading the book Billy Budd by, Herman Melville, You use your mind to create the setting, characters and the meaning of one thing to another. When one let's someone else tell you what is happening: who a character is, and what a ship looks like, they then are forfeiting a large part of a story. As one reads a book, you are the director, the staring actor and the producer. As I watched the movie, my brain was now at the mercy of the director of the movie version of Billy Budd. Now that I have seen the movie, I can not go back to the way it was. As the director made this movie, he decided to leave out a large portion of the book. The last ten pages. Why would one do that? Did he feel it wasn't important? Why would you let an ignorant man make that decision for the rest of the world. He makes what he wants everyone to see. We are at the mercy of a corporate world, which has a say in everything and anything we do. The author obviously wrote the final 10 pages for a reason. He wasn't done saying everything that he wanted to say in the story Billy Budd. I find the poem at the end o

Good of the chaplain to enter Lone Bay And down on his marrowbones here and pray For the likes just o' me, Billy Budd.-But look": Through the port comes the moonshine astray!(94).

f the book to be the most interesting part in the end. The poem seems to be a summary of who Billy was as a person. I feel its not a 1st person thing, but more of someone talking about him as a person.

At the same moment it chanced that the vapory fleece hanging low in the East was shot through with a soft glory as of the fleece of the Lamb of God seen in mystical vision, and simultaneously therewith, watched by the wedged mass of upturned faces, Billy ascended, and, ascending, took the full rose of the dawn"(80).

This says to me that one of the characters writing this after his death. I feel the entire poem especially the beginning is stating that Billy has the Christ-like figure in him. I am always confused when it comes to poems what one person is trying to say. When I write poems, they don't always make sense. Now why would the director of the movie not include this poem in one way or another? Well he probably just doesn't care. He is part of the corporate America, so I can't really exp

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