Character Analysis Of Buddy In The Movie Elf

Bud Cardwell is a ten-year-old boy who lives in an orphanage and goes to bad foster homes, as he grew he became tired of these places. He decided to search for his lost father, in which little clues were left about

When you think of a hero, is the first character to pop in your head a little hobbit named Bilbo Baggins? In most cases, people think of Superman or Hercules, but in The Hobbit, an unexpected hero emerges and changes the name for all heroes to come. The Hobbit is a novel about Bilbo Baggins and his journey, with thirteen dwarves and a wizard, seeking the treasure stolen by the dragon, Smaug. While on this unexpected journey, Bilbo and his companions overcome many obstacles to eventually get to the treasure and retrieve it. Throughout the story, Bilbo develops into a courageous man, who indeed, is a hero. Richard Tyre wrote an article, “You Can’t Teach Tolkien,” and he explains his theory in which he connects multiple story’s plot with six elements. The Hobbit, is assuredly a prime example of Tyre’s theory because it follows all six steps throughout the story simultaneously. The six elements are; “(1) those who hunt for treasure, (2) must go alone, (3) at night, (4) and when they find it, (5) they must leave some of their blood behind, (6) and the treasure is never what they expected” (Tyre 19). These elements are steps in which a character must take to emerge into a hero in the end. Bilbo Baggins is the hero in The Hobbit, but he doesn’t start off as the hero. He has always had heroic traits but throughout the novel, he pursues those six steps and in the resolution, he is transformed into an actual hero.

Elf revolves around a premature human named Buddy, played by Will Ferrell, who was misplaced in Santa’s sack on a Christmas night many years ago. As he grows up Buddy starts to ask more and more questions about his real family. His adopted father then sends him to New York City, where his real family lives. As Buddy arrives to the Big Apple, he encounters multiple challenges such as his father, his new job, and his love life. When Buddy arrives his biological father is constantly a scrooge because it’s Christmas time and he is having trouble writing a children’s book. Buddy doesn’t help his situation because all he wants to do is have quality time, but to his father he is being an annoying child. Buddy also has to find a way to cope with a job. As he wanders into a mall, Buddy is mistaken by

He is a crippled boy who walks on crutches. Despite his condition Tim is always happy. Concerned, Scrooge asks if Tiny Tim will be alive in the future and the Spirit says it doesn’t look like he will. All gathered at a table, Mrs. Cratchit starts to speak poorly of Scrooge, but toasts to him for Bob’s sake. The spirit then shows him miners and lighthouse men who are happy about Christmas. At Fred’s house, Scrooge’s nephew, are laughing about how Scrooge called Christmas a humbug. Fred says he feels sorry for Scrooge and will keep asking him how he is doing despite that he always answers the same way. At this house Scrooge participates in the Christmas games and is very happy.

As the story moves along Sam out the elder in different situations to see if he would eat the green eggs and ham, but to Sam’s dismay the elder wouldn’t. Finally after trying and trying and trying Sam gets the elder to try the Green eggs and ham. One of the most popular stories by Dr. Seuss is the classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas. This story became so popular that Universal Studios not only picket it up for a movie, but also a whole theme for their Christmas season theme park. In this story the Grinch loathes Christmas and the who’s with every fiber of his being. The Grinch presents himself as socially cut off from the who’s down in whoville. He lives on top of Mt. Crumpit with his dog Max. All of this hate is because his heart is two sizes too small (and this time he’ll keep it off). He finally had enough of the Who’s bangboozaling and clangclangaling so he devised a plan to steal Christmas. After Santa Clause came and delivered all the presents to the houses he would sneak in, in his Santa Clause suit and steal every present, every light, every decoration, every tree, and all of the food for the feast. He even stole the roast beast! He would empty the houses one by one and he didn’t leave anything. Not even a crumb big enough for a mouse. So as he got done with emptying the houses and was about to dump everything over Crumpit he heard a noise, a weird

The film Elf (Berg et al., 2003) follows the adventures of Buddy, a human adopted into Elf culture, as he journeys from the North Pole to find his human father in New York City. As an orphan waiting to be adopted, Buddy was accidentally taken to the North Pole in Santa’s sack. Buddy grew up immersed in the Elf culture and way of life, and was not told of his human origins until he was well into adulthood. Upon learning this, Buddy travels to New York City to find his birth father Walter, a grinch-like publisher at a children’s book company. Unwelcomed by his father, Buddy befriends Walter’s son Michael and begins to make a life in New York, dating a shy, Elf-portraying department store employee named Jovie.

In the Christmas film, Elf, Buddy the elf is suffers from being “throw under the bus” by his biological father, Walter. Throughout the film, Walter’s goodness was damaged by his son because he was an elf. Buddy has lived his entire life in the North Pole as a human sized elf, technically a human who thinks he is an elf. The first time Walter and Buddy met was in his office when Buddy wandered around the city to find his father. The first jab that Walter initiated towards Buddy was, “Who sent this Christmas gram?” when Buddy stated, “It’s me your son, Susan Wells had me, and…and she didn’t tell you, and and and but now I’m here. It’s me, Buddy” (Favreau, 2003). After Buddy told him he was his son, he questioned Buddy as if he was just as irrelevant as a Christmas gram by the condescending tone of his voice. During this scene, Buddy has been “thrown under the bus” because he was being serious and genuine in telling his biological father that he was his son and his father completely disregards him and calls him out for being a foolish Christmas gram. The reference of comparing to Buddy to the Christmas gram was taken in a negative way because Walter was stating how Buddy was a joke. This situation damages Walter’s goodness of normalcy and having an ordinary life with a typical family because Buddy enters his life as his son with the unusual fact that he is an elf in different attire and

Santa and the elf named Sylvester, the village wizard, had just completed trying out and approving the new, hold everything, toy bag. Sly, Santa, the tailor, and some other elves loaded and unloaded the bag several times. Each time they had the same success as before, it worked great.

Bud is a well-mannered and well-read young boy for the age of ten. He would also go to the library to visit Ms. Hill. Ms. Hill was the librarian who would always help him find books and she sometimes had a snack for him in a brown paper bag. When he ran away from his foster parents, the Amoses. Bud ran to the library to sleep in the basement. However, when he got there the windows were locked so he slept under the Christmas tree with his suitcase with all his belongings and his blanket. While sleeping, his friend, Bugs jumps on him and asks him if he wants to get on a train and head

Bilbo’s archetype can be recognized as the hero. This can be seen on page 256 which states, “As Thorin carefully explained, Mr. Baggins was still officially their expert burglar and investigator.” (The Hobbit, Tolkien, page 256). This means that the dwarves are counting on Bilbo to help them get through the adventure. On page 4 , another example is shown that says, “ This hobbit was a very well-to-do hobbit, and his name was Baggins.” (The Hobbit, Tolkien, page 4). Mr. Baggins was a hobbit that hated adventures, but Gandalf knew that he was the one that was destined to go on it. Another example is on page 33 that says, “Thinking it unnecessary to disturb your esteemed

J.R.R. Tolkien's “The Hobbit” is a literary masterpiece full of details, songs, and, most importantly, characters. The protagonist, Bilbo Baggins, is forced into a journey with Thorin and his other dwarven friends to defeat Smaug, a dragon who brought the demise of an old dwarf town named Dale, and take back their stolen treasure. With all these characters comes archetypes, a function or role that a character plays in a story, movie, or play. There may occur a hero, a trickster, and a herald. Strangely enough, there are characters in “The Hobbit” that fit into these three archetypes. Bilbo, Thorin and company, and Gandalf are all archetypes in the fictional book, “The Hobbit”.

As Bilbo Goes on his journey, he gets attacked by goblins and wolves. Thorin’s company gets imprisoned by elves, and thrown in a river. Thorin’s company gets attacked by a dragon, and put in the middle of a war. Throughout his hardships, there are many archetypes that they met. He makes many friends, and many foes. Archetypes are different types of characters , and the three main archetypes in “The Hobbit” are Bilbo, who played as the hero, Gandalf, who played as the mentor, and smaug, who played as the shadow, all of these characters helped shape this story.

In this book The Hero archetype, or at least one of them, belongs to Bilbo Baggins. “We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures…”(The Hobbit, Tolkien, page 7) This shows that the hobbits don't like adventures, which is contrary to the book considering it is about a long adventure. Towards the end the hobbit has learned to like adventures, which is one aspect of The Hero archetype. “...till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it.”(The Hobbit, Tolkien, page 76) Another aspect of The Hero archetype: they have some sort of magical tool to help them on their journey. “ ‘Now we are all here!’ said Gandalf, looking at the row of thirteen hoods…”(The Hobbit, Tolkien, page 13) A hero has a loyal band of companions, much like Bilbo does.

Bilbo Baggins is one of the main characters of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Being a main character in a story, especially an adventure story, typically comes with some pretty hefty responsibilities. More often than not, the main character is also the hero. A hero is defined as “a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities,” and these are not necessarily qualities readily attributed to Bilbo Baggins (oxforddictionaries.com). This essay will look at three ways in which Bilbo contrasts the traditional characteristics of a hero and what transformations he ends up making to fit the mold more closely. It will examine his lineage, his strength, and his attitude as well as the changes he makes throughout the story.

In 2005, ten-year-old Belle Adams had her dreams crushed after learning the truth about Santa Claus. Her mother, Nicki Adams, admitted to lying about Santa Claus being real. Belle never felt so betrayed. She reacts by writing an offensive note and sliding the note under her mother’s door. The note read, “You have no idea what you just did. I really tried to believe. Everyone told me it’s your parents. I can’t believe you anymore. Is the Easter bunny real, how about the tooth fairy, huh? You just ruined a 10-year-old child’s Life! Thanks! Nothing will make me feel better because you lied to me about something I Loved that Broke my Heart!” As we all know, Santa Claus is the one of the most famous mythologies of all time. Every Christmas Eve,