Boyz N the Hood and Higher Learning Guidance from right and wrong is a vital tool necessary in shaping a young man/woman’s life. It is important to have positive guidance from our elders such as parents, teachers, and family in order to grow and mature in life. Bad guidance or no guidance as well can lead us on the wrong path because we will not be aware of our consequences of doing wrong or making mistakes. Two films that illustrate these principles are Boyz N the Hood and Higher Learning both directed by John Singleton. Boyz N the hood primarily revolves around 3 primary characters: Tre, Ricky, and Doughboy.
We were nineteen. We were bad"(130). Yet, these boys had no idea what a bad boy was; they were not born in the slums, and were not self-sufficient tough guys who live on their own protocol. The boys are suburban teenagers are defiant and lean towards opposition in every aspect. The narrator, Tom describes his friends as "two dangerous characters", although Digby attends Cornell by "allowing his father to pay his tuition", Jeff contemplates Meeker 2 withdrawing from school to become a painter, and Tom drives his mother’s station wagon; clearly these boys have
Character Analysis Structure From the social cognitive perspective Antwone’s structure is his beliefs, standards and goals. Antwone believes he is in the world on his own and left to take care of himself since he was a young boy. Antwone was abused sexually and physically by his foster parents and babysitter. During this time Antwone turned to the streets as an escape and was left to take care of himself alone. To Antwone this became the norm throughout his life, thinking that constantly fighting and anger would be the answer to all problems and conflict.
Who’s to Blame? In the Nineteen-Forties the father was the head of household and his life’s works were passed down to the sons. It was a patriarchal era and it was essential to have a strong relationship between a man and his sons to sustain a strong family. In the Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman the protagonist, Willy Loman, is depicted as an incompetent father to his two sons Biff and Happy. Willy has no reminiscence of his own father; he lost his father during the early years of his childhood.
He starts to devise a plan, so that he could bring his family back together without having to worry about being caught. Explaining to Jim, Huck shot down his idea; “Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat- footed and saying he would steal his children-children that belonged to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm”(Twain 67). Huck feels as if Jim is doing wrong by wanting to “steal” his children back, some other man bought Jim’s children, so therefore Huck feels as if they are not Jim’s property any longer Works Cited Hamlin, Annemarie, and Constance Joyner. "Racism and Real Life."
From that moment on, Beah gives up hoping for a return to his childhood surroundings. Beah's drafting into the Sierra Leone military further desensitizes him as he is trained to kill men in the field of battle. His trainers use emotional manipulation--teaching the boys to picture their targets as the men who burned their villages and killed their families--to push the boys to acts of violence agains the rebels. Beah finds that he must suppress his emotional reaction to the atrocities he commits or lose his focus and, thereby, his life. This emotional isolation is a barrier to Beah's recovery; only the
In the famous novel, Rule of the Bone, Russell Banks shows us the life of a young teenage boy who goes through struggles and conflicts to find the family that he always wanted but never had. Bone is a fourteen year old boy living in the streets of New York in search for a family of his own. Growing up with an alcoholic mother and an abusive step-father was not his idea of a happy family. Being kicked out of his house and having nowhere to turn to but the streets, gives him the chance to go find people he can call his family. Bone and his friend Russ decide to find a place to stay when they meet some biker guys.
Jim was more of a father figure in Huck’s life rather than his actual father. The opening of the book displays a series of events for Huck, " Huck awaits the arrival of his father, escapes him, rushes off in a blaze of ambivalence with his alternate father, Jim." (Segal 20) Just like any child, Huck was in need of a father in his life. He couldn’t talk to the Widow about everything and she wasn’t really his “family.” Huck was extremely rebellious growing up because he didn’t have a father figure tell him right from wrong. The only person Huck could relate to was his friend Tom Sawyer; unfortunately Tom wasn’t the best role model for Huck.
In “A Bronx Tale” Sonny can be considered both a positive and negative influence on “C.” Sonny, being the hardcore gangster that he is, does a lot of bad things. And with “C” living just doors down from Sonny’s headquarters, experiences the bad influence of Sonny from the very beginning of the picture. As a young boy, “C” witnesses Sonny murder man just feet away. If Sonny hadn’t started treated “C” like a son the shooting may have deeply impacted “C’s” life. As the picture progresses and “C: matures and becomes a young man he again witnesses another incident in which Sonny annihilates a gang of bikers.
Because of the needless gang fighting, three teenagers are killed in the novel, clearly pointing out the negative aspect of belonging to a gang. Hinton is obviously trying to warn the reader against participation in any gang. Minor Themes Related to the major theme of the book is the theme that a teenager can rise above his circumstances through hard work, patience, and determination. Pony is the proof of this theme. Even though he is born into poverty, loses his parents in a car accident at an early age, and participates in the Greasers, by the end of the book, he is determined to better his plight in life, largely due to the encouragement he receives from the deceased Johnny in a letter.