hope theme
A character feels that events they wish for may come about.
44 total · 6 choice · 20 major · 18 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Children of Men (2006) | choice | Kee's baby was a symbol of hope in an otherwise hopeless world. |
| movie: Of Mice and Men (1939) | choice | The story follows two itinerant laborers, George and Lennie, who, despite their lives of hardship, clung to a dream of one day owning their own farm. The old man Candy overheard them and got caught up in the dream as well. |
| movie: Stalker (1979) | choice | The Stalker explained how the magical room in the Zone gave people hope and that the Professor would be wrong to blow it up even though it would be dangerous if some unscrupulous person made it to the room and was granted their wish. |
| movie: The Wandering Earth (2019) | choice | The main characters in the story never gave up hope that the earth could be saved first from an expanding sun, and then from colliding with Jupiter in spite of the odds being slim to none against humanity's surviving these existential risks. |
| novel: Never Let Me Go (2005) | choice | they hoped to delay their donations because of love |
| rbt1985e4x08 | choice | Stiles considered that, by bringing hope to the world, he inspired society to reform its ways and narrowly avert environmental disaster. |
| as1985e1x05 | major | Static had lost all hope of saving Jonathan and was about to spare him some misery by putting a bullet in his head. However, Static couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger. In a miraculous turn of events, cartoon wheels emerged from the plane, and Jonathan was saved. This aptly illustrates that one should never give up hope. |
| movie: 2019 After the Fall of New York (1983) | major | Some people kept up hope that a fertile would would be discovered, and the human race perpetuated. |
| movie: Arcadia of My Youth (1982) | major | The Free Arcadia resistance movement radio urged people to maintain hope in a new and beautiful future over and over again, even though prospects for such a future looked grim. |
| movie: Dead Mans Letters (1986) | major | At the conclusion of the film Professor Larsen left the orphans with this message of hope for the future: "For while a man is on his way, there is still hope for him". |