ragtime
Most people have had a person or specific experience in their lives that has caused them to change or transform into someone new, someone stronger, someone better. To have such influences are important because they ultimately mold us into who we are. In E.L. Docotrow’s Ragtime there are more than one characters who were influenced by certain persons or encounters that helped them grow and open their minds. The story traces the ways in which the events and people enter and affect the lives of an upstate New York family. Unlike Doctorow's best-selling novel Ragtime, the movie concentrates on just one of the several important stories. Instead of telling dozens of stories and how each one somehow relates to another, like in the novel, the film is mostly concerned with the story of Coalhouse Walker, Jr., a black piano player who insists that justice be done after some white volunteer firemen insulted him. The movie traces the ways in which Coalhouse Walker enters and affects the lives of an upstate New York family. A young black woman gives birth to Coalhouse's son, and then the family takes in both the woman and her son, hiring her as their maid. Coalhouse comes calling. He wants to marry the mother of his child. He has earned en
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Approximate Word count = 1169
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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