Whats Eating Gilbert Grape

Personal identity is much like the blueprint for mankind, like a house, it is built and shaped after its design. If not built properly the house will eventually fall apart from how it was built or by the causes of nature. In the case of someone's identity if built properly by an individual it will last and stay strong, however adversity acts like a force of human nature and can either take a positive rebuilding role on a person’s identity or a negative destructing role. In the film, What's Eating Gilbert Grape and from the excerpt in the novel of the same title, the director and author directly suggest personal identity as a key issue in the story.

What’s eating the good Gilbert is laid out for us, like a feast. The title from the author further suggests we consider not only what’s eating Gilbert (the forces preying on him) but also what’s eating at him – his ways of handling those forces. Living in Endora is like “dancing to no music”. The lame tone of Gilbert’s voice over creates a feeling of nothingness and the movie opening, with a track back along the road, suggests a sense of withdrawal. If Endora itself is nothingness, what is life out in the sticks, at the

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Approximate Word count = 1175
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)