The question is, how are we defining our worth these days? It's a Wonderful Life leaves us with a clear message about that. Learning to fully appreciate the blessings we have is a daily struggle for most of us, but most of today's pop culture only reinforces consumerism and naked ambition. This is not to say that we shouldn't strive to better ourselves, but that maturity requires finding a balance. George's ambition to be more than he is creates a lot of his problems, and is the cause of much restlessness and unhappiness. "Well, what's the matter with our car?" George snaps. But the final example, writes Bob Welch in his book 52 Little Lessons from It's a Wonderful Life, comes when George's son announces that the neighbors have a new car. Keeping up with the Joneses is for sapsThis message is subtly sprinkled throughout the film. tonight, Earth time, that man will be seriously thinking of throwing away God's greatest gift."Ģ. As the angel Franklin notes, "At exactly 10:45 p.m. Aside from serving others, our lives should be viewed as a gift. The point is, we have no idea how significantly our lives affect others.īut that's only part of the reason to value your life. Years later, Harry would become a war hero, saving the lives of others. "George saved his brother's life that day," says the angel Joseph, recalling when George's brother Harry fell through the ice of a frozen pond. Of course, Zuzu and the other children would never have been born.īut the impact would have stretched far beyond this small town. We learn that Bedford Falls, for example, would have been Pottersville. One of the obvious points of the film is that, without George around, so many things would have been different. Your life has purpose"Each man's life touches so many other lives, and when he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?" says the angel Clarence to George Bailey. And in contrast to Love Actually, it's chock-full of terrific lessons, ranging from moral to financial to practical. The Atlantic's Christopher Orr recently penned an excellent takedown of the former, calling it the "least romantic film of all time." Among the pernicious lessons imparted, Orr says, is the notion "that love is overwhelmingly a product of physical attraction and requires virtually no verbal communication or intellectual/emotional affinity of any kind."įortunately, It's a Wonderful Life is still around. Let’s revise this content within the section that shows its use within a context.If you're looking for proof of the decline of values, comparing two holiday movies - Love Actually and Frank Capra's timeless black-and-white classic It's a Wonderful Life - is illustrative. With irregular verbs: do ⇒ does, go ⇒ goes, be ⇒ is, have ⇒ has… With a consonant + -y, change -y to -i and add -es: “ Try” ⇒ “ Tr ies“.
With suffixes -ch, -s, -sh, -x, -z, add -es: “ Catch” ⇒ “ Catch es“. There are some exceptions for the third person singular, depending on the ending of the verb. “ She works on important projects.” = The subject is she, so we add -s to the base form of the verb to work ( works). “ I work on important projects.” = The sentence is in the present simple affirmative, so we use the base form of the verb to work ( work). In the third person singular, we add an –s.
When we use the present simple in its affirmative form, we start with the subject followed by the base form of the verb. We use the present simple, in its affirmative form, to confirm situations that regularly, repeatedly or always occur.
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