The Present

            When I was trying to find other films that we watched in class, I found this one, called The Present.  It is about a boy who gets a dog that is missing a leg, but we don’t find out until a little while into the film.  When the mom comes, and gives the boy the dog in a box, the boy is so involved in his video game that he barely notices that she got something for him.  At first I thought that this was going to be about people that are too into their games and the internet.  As I thought about this idea, the film showed the dog with only three legs and this is when I became clueless. 

            When the boy realizes that the dog only has one leg, he throws it on the ground and I was very confused.  Why is this boy throwing a dog around, even if it different?  Then the boy starts to smile a little bit and he eventually gets up and the viewer can now see that the boy only has one leg also.  This definitely made my heart warm and it made me realize what the theme was, and I think that there can be many different ones.  First, the obvious is that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.  Second, we shouldn’t judge people because of how they look.  Third, I think that a big part of the story was the fact that the boy and the dog both had a leg missing, which led the boy to think that he was treated different when he got a dog with one leg.  I’ve never been in that situation, so I can’t tell you how I would feel about it, but I think that the boy might have felt bad about himself.  The fact that the dog kept trying to run and would fall, then would get up and keep running provoked another thought.  I think this gave inspiration to the boy to try his best in everything he does and really try to focus on not getting down on himself because of his missing leg.

            I think this is true for normal people today because there are a lot of us that just give up or don’t give it our all when we have the ability to do it.  For others, with different issues, it can be hard to write or do everyday activities.  We need to do our best to give our all no matter the circumstance.