Chaplin's Own Life example essay topic

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One of the greatest themes I have picked up from the few Charlie Chaplin movies that I have seen is that he always has the things that he cherishes most taken away from him and I, and how his life so much reflects his cha rectors, because at a young ageChaplins mother went mad and for a time he and his brother had to live on the streets until they were put into an orphanage. It directly relates to him because he was and you see how he sees the world even in the silent movies he made In 'The Kid' Chaplin " The Tramp' looses the child that he took in as his own, and raised they boy as if it were his own, and when the boy gets sick 'The Tramp' is forced to call a doctor and when the doctor asks if this is his son he shows the doctor the note tha the relieved when he found the baby and the doctor leaves and say's, that this child needs proper care. So later comes the orphanage to take away the boy, and 'The Tramp' puts up a huge fight but looses and then tracks them down before they can reach the orphanage and this goes on with the 'bad guys' taking the boy and him retrieving him until they reach the boys biological mother who takes them in. This movie relates to Chaplin's own life very closely because, at the beginning the women has to give up her baby because she is not fit to be a mother and almost the same thing happened in Chaplin's own life. In 'City Lights' Chaplin also has something taken away from him that he most cherishes. In this movie the thing he most cherishes is seeing the blind girl he loves, and when charlie is wrongly accused of stealing money from a drunk frei nd he is put in jail but not after he gives her plenty of money to be well off and get a cure for her blindness.

Chaplin's movies may have this theme but, always at the end he ends up on the upper hand because he always gets back what was taken away from him, in the end of " The Kid' he and his son go back to, the boys biological mother's house, but you dont know what happens it he gets to keep the child. Also in 'City Lights' he gets out and sees the girl but you dont know if she will stay with him because he is not who she thought he was.