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Senior Quooooooote

Bring me to my knees, Lord I lay me down. Rid me of myself, I belong to You.

- Hillsong United

American Pie Worldview

1. God in the Universe -
"the father, son, and the holy ghost/ they caught the last train for the coast"
- no God
- but acknowledges other people believe in a God

2. Humanity and Identity -
"bad news on the doorstep"
"a generation lost in space"
"I asked her for some happy news/ and she just smiled and turned away"
- humanity is all bad news
- the world is ugly and won't be changing
- we are simply material
- the power over the universe is the power to revive music

3. Conflict -
"the day the music died"
"this'll be the day that I die"
- when the music dies, he will too
- music is everything
- the universe is flawed when the music dies

4. Hope or Redemption -
"music used to make me smile...
they'd be happy for awhile"
- hope in the music staying alive

5. Values -
"can music save your mortal soul"
"I knew I was out of luck/ the day the music died"
- music is value and the meaning of life
- so music is prized and the death of music is greatly feared

6. Truth -
"something touched me deep inside/ the day the music died"
- w/o music - the world is nothing
- people are lost w/o music


Conclusion: Secular Humanism

Oz vs Narnia

So we now know that Oz displays cosmic humanism. Well... I think it uses both postmodernism and cosmic humanism. Like i've said, the dream itself is the postmodern view of creating your own reality, but within the dream Dorothy decides her personal "truth" is within the wv of cosmic humanism. She seems to think she can do anything herself... good luck with that, Dorothy.
As for Narnia... we all know it is supposed to exemplify the idea of Christianity. Aslan is supposed to be Christ who came to earth (Narnia) to help his people (Lucy, Edward, etc.) to realize he is the one they should ultimately follow and trust in. He later is sacrificed on a stone table which models the death of Christ on the cross. And the evil White Witch... whatever she is called... is supposed to be Satan with all her temptations and evil tricks while having the ultimate goal of seeing Aslan fail and ruining Narnia forever.
There you go. Wizard of Oz = cosmic humanism with a splash of postmodernism just to be fancy
Narnia = Christianity
woohoo.

Mammon in Paradise Lost

Mammon... oh what a name. Apparently he's the least established Spirit that fell from Heaven. He seems to have lead some kind of league of Pioneers. When he was in Heaven, his focus was on the gold that covered the streets. This is probably why he was banished from Heaven... his sight was set on the possessions he could have in Heaven instead of honoring God. Did he continue to try to look for gold even outside of Heaven after his fall? I don't know.

Wizard of Oz

Well, the Wizard of Oz is like the distant voice that Dorothy and all her fellow friends listen to. And there's a "bad guy" - the witch, who I guess is some kind of evil force in relevance to a worldview. But don't they find out at the end of the movie that the "Wizard of Oz" is in fact a pathetic little man that speaks through a microphone? So whatever this worldview is has either realized there is no God, or at least proclaimed that people are being mislead in life when listening to some kind of supernatural force.
BUUUTTt, Oz is also a magical land that Dorothy... OH... okay, Dorothy dreams up this place of "Oz", so maybe the movie is putting across that there really is no supernatural world, but that people just dream it up.
OR it could be postmodern in saying that for Dorothy, this supernatural world with "the Oz" is true for her, but not necessarily true for anyone else.
But whatever the case, she has the infamous yellow brick road as a guiding pathway in order to find the all-powerful Oz.

I'll stick with postmodern. Maybe.