PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTION!! ANSWERS IN NEED!?

I would lead with a thesis sentence on how, in giving, we help to create ourselves and influence other's realities for the better. In the film `Contact' you start off with Ellie's father who clearly gave all he had to his daughter and, essentially, made her who she later became. You then have the Christian character of Palmer Joss who, through putting faith into action, gives to others when Ellie first meets him and continues to do so throughout the film. Finally you have the `aliens' Ellie meets on her flight who appear to her in the form of her dead father and give her hope to believe in their existence and the continued existence of those who have `died'. In all these instances of giving the giver doesn't seem to be thinking of himself/themselves as much as the one being given to. This action of giving then defines the giver, makes that person who he/it is. In the act of giving one cannot `not give' and so one is defined by what one does. At the end of the film Ellie herself becomes a `giver' as she lectures school children on the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. One could claim, in fact, that the whole of the film `Contact' is precisely about giving and that aliens are actually a secondary concern/interest in the film.

Giving wasn't actually appreciated or accepted until the end of the movie, but a respect for what others believed was what was the motivator, behind the movie.

INDEED.!