"Animal House" Film Analysis Report

Summary and Analysis
Kent and his friend, Larry, are two college freshmen. They were trying to get in a fraternity at their college. At first, they went into Omega house. The people there were mean to freshmen, they did not show respect to Kent and Larry. Then Kent and Larry tried the second fraternity house, Delta house. The Delta members were having a house party, drinking alcohol, playing music out loud, and taking drugs in the house. Differ from the members of Omega fraternity, the Delta members were friendly to freshmen. They invited Kent and Larry passionately into the house and introduced everyone to them. Afterward, Kent and Larry were given fraternity names as “Flounder” and “Pinto.” They were having fun in that house.
However, Dean Vernon Wormer was trying to remove Delta from campus because they violated campus rules over and over again. Although Delta fraternity was ranked as “Double Secret Probation,” they still acted as usual. One day, two of Delta members, Bluto and D-Day, found the answers of an upcoming test in a garbage can. All Delta students were using that answers cheating on the test. Unfortunately, the answers were revised by the Omega students. Eventually, all Delta students got extremely low grade points. Moreover, they all failed on the midterm exam. Therefore, they are all expelled from school by Wormer. In the end, Deltas gave rise to a chaos on the school annual parade.

Relation to Case Study
In chapter three, Maria was a college freshman that it was her first time being away from home. She was excited to have a college life in the United State and looking forward to have a great dormitory life. When she met her roommate, Jenny, she felt lucky that Jenny was a friendly and lovely person. However, getting to know each other deeply, Maria could not stand that Jenny usually brought her boyfriend back to her room and messed the room up. Finally, she wanted to move out. Compare with the spot in the movie-Animal House- the same situation happened with Kent and Larry. They were excited about joining into a fraternity. To determine from two fraternities, they went to those two fraternity houses. Just like choosing a suitable roommate, Kent and Larry finally joined the Delta fraternity.

Reaction to the movie
It’s not easy to find someone match us in any aspects, especially in life habit. If there’s any conflict between others and us, we should talk with each other and settle the problems with an agreement. Reduce the conflicts to the least.