The Pursuit of Happiness

Chris Gardner Christopher Linda Jay Twistle ……….

The main character

Chris Gardner is the main character of the film. 《The

Pursuit of Happiness》 is a motivational film which is based on a true biography. The whole story related his own tone, around that when struggling salesman Chris Gardner loses his job, his wife and all of his assets (including the house, bank account and credit cards), he becomes determined to find a job to support him and his son, Christopher. The father-son duo experience homelessness and many other trials and tribulations together, but through Gardner's sheer willpower he manages to get his family-of-two back on track.

The mirror character

Christopher is the son of Chris Gardner and he is the mirror

character of the film. Christopher is only five years old, but He accompanied Chris Gardner in the trouble and Communicated with him in immature tone becoming his spiritual pillar.

The romance character

Linda is Chris Gardner’s wife who is the romance character

of the film. She can't understand her husband, finally chose to leave.

The opposition character of the film

Including the thieves of medical equipment, the landlords ,

The traffic police and so on . They opposed the intentions of the protagonist , antagonists stand in the way of protagonists and create obstacles for Chris Gardner .

Character Archetypes 角色原型

Hero 英雄

Chris Gardner 克里斯.加德纳

He resolved to change his life and build a happy life for his little son Through the difficulties and obstacles, he made his dream come true and finally he became a successful investor. His firm faith to happiness touches us all. Mentor 导师

Jay twister 杰.托斯特尔

He offered an opportunity of interview to Chris and encouraged him not to give up the internship. Herald 使者

Christopher 克里斯托夫 The happiness 幸福

Chris has nothing but his son’s love and support . In the

encouragement of his son, Chris is increasingly strong and burst out of the amazing spirits.

The pursuit of happiness drove him forward and he never gave up Shadow 影子 Linda 琳达

In the face of the difficult life, she chose to escape,

she walked out on Chris , leaving him with a five years old son.

She has a selfish side of human nature. Trickster小丑 Homeless gun 流浪汉

A little insane people, naively think that the portable bone-density scanner(手提式骨质密度扫描仪) in Chris’ hand is a time machine（时光机） and he wants to travel in the past to see JiMi Hendrix do the guitar on fire（吉米.汉卓克表演激情吉他.）It brings relief to the film.

Character Growth 角色成长

The story of Chris Gardner is divided into six part

Part one : Riding the bus “搭公车”

It was in San Francisco 1981, Chris spent all his money on buying medical equipments , but later he found that they were unpopular among doctors ,because they were expensive and almost useless . Everyday he did his best to promote the equipment to doctors ,but he can’t earn enough for the rent and kindergarten , his life was not easy .

Part two: Being stupid “冒傻气”

In this part ,Chris had to apply for a work as a stock woker ,so he left

the medical equipment with a girl ,but the girl took it away ! what a accident !

Part three : Running “追赶”

He ran after the girl who had stolen the equipment ,finally ,he took it back ,another situation is that he had no money for the taxi ,so he escaped Third ,he was sent to the prison for owing the taxes ,and the next morning ,he ran to the stock company for a interview with paint stains on his body .

Part four : Internship“实习”

Chris got the job as a internship for six months without salary ,,it was really a hard time for him ,he had to sell the equipment while working as a internship. After

all , he earned some money from the medical equipments. Part five : Paying taxes “纳税”

In this part ,there was a big hit to him ,the government took $600 from his account and he only had $21.33 left ,he was broke again .this part was the most impressive but inspiring one .During that time ,he and his son spent a night in the WC ,and lived in the church hospice for many days ,although there were many barriers ,he carried on seeking for the happiness.

Part six : Happiness “幸福”

It was an exciting part ,Chris was succeed ,and he did it finally ,he became a successful stock worker!