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situation in the movie or perhaps the real world which is difficult to find freedom in this day.
Symbolism somehow also alludes about the event that happens in the social currents events or alludes to other works from our cultural heritage such as
ancient history and literature and works of the British and American traditions. Sometimes understanding a story may require knowledge of politics and currents
events Robert and Jacobs 2001: 430
4.3.3 The Potential of Mutant Characters
In this movie many mutants have potentials especially in education, technology, medical and engineering field. Because of their differences in power, it seems that
all the potentials of mutant have been ignored. However, the mutants’ potential in the field they expertise on may be useful for both humans and mutants life in
order to live in harmony. In education, for example, Professor Xavier built Xavier School for Gifted
youngsters to mutants who do not know how to control their powers and to teach them to be more responsible in their powers. So they will not endanger themselves
and people around them. In technology, Professor Xavier with the help of Erik
Lehnsherr as known as Magneto built a Cerebro to locate mutants with great
power and do not know to control it. X-Men have a jet plane that has stealth mode technology to help them undetected while they are in mission. And Magneto
manages to build a machine that can force the human’s gene into mutant.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 Conclusion
Based on the analysis on the previous chapter, the writer presents the conclusion related to the mutant power symbol in the X-Men movie toward the American
Dream that reflected in this movie as follows: 1.
American dream is a belief that unites the people of America, but in this movie there are two ways the people of America as both human and mutant
sense it. First, there is belief that human and mutant can share and live cooperatively because they think that mutant and human have the same
ancestor as the X-men believe it. Second, there is belief that human or mutant cannot live in the same field because both mutant and human think that they
are in the lower level than themselves. As Senator Kelly believes that mutants are dangerous because of their god-liked power. And Magneto believes that
there are no tolerances in the world and he also believes that mutant is more superior than human.
2. In this movie, there are two types of mutant power. Those are Physical mutant
power and physics mutant power. The type of physical mutant power means that the power deals with the strength, ability, and function of the body. For
example, Wolverine who has claws in his both hands and healing factor which makes him regenerate damages or destroyed areas of his body far
