Bad Girl Thesis

After he is ridiculed for eating a different lunch than others, he contemplates, “the pain and sadness seemed to spread to my soul, and I felt for the first time what the grown-ups call, la tristesa de la vida” (Anaya 59). Tony is no longer a child under the protection of his mother and goes to school to become a “man of learning.” He becomes lonely because his classmates do not understand his culture and vice versa. As Antonio goes through the process of coming-of-age, he experiences the pain, suffering, loneliness, and misunderstanding that comes with

As an example she cites the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding story. “After the original attack on Kerrigan’s knee, news stories focused on the rivalry between the two skaters instead of portraying Kerrigan as the victim of the attack.”

(26) he feels his soul grow under Ultima guidance. One of Tony’s obstacles in life is to become a man. His mother does not want him to become a man but his father argues saying “everything Tony sees and does makes him a man”(37) but Maria says that it is a sin for a boy to grow to be a man by saying that “life destroys the pureness God gives”. (36) but this is not the only diction Tony has to make. His first dream portrays his insecurity about his identity. He has to choose between the two is he a “fine vaquero” or a “farmer-priest”(9) He is confused, on one side its his mother and on the other its his father. Who should he become? He is also confused about which God to believe in. the golden Carp, who he marvels at the “bright golden-pagan God”(114) on the other side the catholic God “who could not forgive”(120) He does not understand why God cannot forgive Narcisio who is a good man while the Virgin Mary can forgive the evil Teronio. Tony is confused throughout most of the novel. Tony believes that the women always forgive, therefore in his child’s logic he thinks women in general do not judge but always forgive. He has a lot of decisions to make. He remembers his dream where he sees Andrew at Rosie’s and remembers what Andrew had told him in his dream that Andrew “will wait and not enter until (Tony) looses (his) innocence”.(85) Tony’s belief that

My movie is Mean Girls. I have probably watched this movie more times than I would like to admit. This is a great movies because any high school girl can relate to it. Mean Girls is about a teenaged girl names Cady that movies from Africa after being homeschooled for all theses years, and she goes to a public school and eventually ends up part of “the plastics” and completely changes from who she was. (Waters 2004) This movie really hits close to home being a teenage girl at one point. Mean girls has a lot to do with adolescence development such as: peer pressure, self-esteem, moral identity and observational learning.

Macaria relinquishes her role as a monstrous mother, beating her daughter into feministic submission. She enlists Tony‘s compliance to Mexican machismo to safeguard Marcela’s feminine virtue and supposed “goodness.” Tony exerts control over Marcela through the continued threat of domestic violence. Initially modernity defines Tony’s relationship with his wife, Marcela Polk, and he does not beat his wife as Macaria wishes, but showers her with cheap gifts as his paltry pay provides.

In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.

At the 1994 Olympic trials Harding implemented her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly to assault her teammate, as well as her best competition, Nancy Kerrigan. Gillooly seriously bruised Kerrigan’s quadriceps tendon and kneecap, essentially keeping her from competing (Tonya Harding Biography). Unfortunately, Tonya’s jealousy interfered with her career. In addition, Harding possess impulsiveness, which ultimately lured her to act so quickly to eliminate her competition. Tonya most likely felt pressured to do well at the tournament, therefore she felt she needed to take matters into her own hands. If Tonya had more confidence in her performance, then she may not be in regret today. But, like all people, she developed a human flaw, that inevitable lead to her downfall. In conclusion, Tonya Harding’s negative hamartia of impulsiveness and jealousy both follows the criteria of a Shakespearean tragic hero, as well as leads to her

Tony’s first trial, the death of Lupito, changes him. Ultima helps him come to terms with this but reading the Act of Contrition changes Tony. As Tony grows up he starts to see the world as it really is witnessing the evil of Tenorio and the cruelty of his classmates. As he grows he continues to read the Act of Contrition over the friends he sees killed. Tony starts to take a priests role as he confronts the evil in the world.

He grows up recognizing this and struggles with this when coming to terms with his own individuality. The father’s family was restless and came from a seafaring culture. This particular side of the family sought out exciting journeys and was more free spirited. On his mother’s side of the family they were religious farmers and tended to seek life working the land. The strength that the parents have presented Tony with is two different ways of life so he can see firsthand two different perspectives of living.

In Remote Control, written by Sarah Marshall it talks about Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, two well-known figure skaters, and their relationship at the 1994 US Figure Skate Final Championship. Nancy grew up in a warm kind-hearted family around her and felt the love and importance of being in a family. Nancy was admired and praised by being elegant “without being sexual, strong without being intimidating and vulnerable without being weak, and in the end she embodied no quality quite so perfectly as she did the set of draconian contradictions that dictated a female athlete’s success” (Marshall 283).

The term is often related with negative meanings of powerlessness, passivity, and some victims could be even perceived as inferiors. It is also important to note that when the word ‘victim’ is gendered, it is biased towards the female sex. Therefore, assumptions that females are passive and weak also coincide with the assumptions of victims. The alternative term ‘survivor’ is sometimes preferred, particularly by feminists, as it places emphasis on their strength and the severity of the experience with crime. In addition, groups may also be victims; usually involving a type of hate crime such as racism or homophobia.

While I am not one to enjoy movies with any kind of blood and violence in them, I cannot say I did not enjoy this movie. Watching it from analytical point of view, I was able to gain a message from Maggie. Man or woman, it doesn’t matter where you come from or how anybody else feels, if you want something bad enough, you should never let anyone take that dream away from you. Like Scrap explained to Frankie Dunn, in the end you don’t want to be thinking I should have, you want to be thinking I did a damn good

At the end of the movie the two girls make peace and Susanna leaves wanting an eventual full recovery for Lisa. This serves as the best example of “a pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation”.(2)

After watching the movie about the figure skater Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan should that in some sports that you need to have a certain look and some people will try to do whatever they can to get money. In the movie we saw that both of these women were different from each other on the way they were raised. Tonya Harding had a rough background and she also didn’t have the look of a figure skater. She did work hard to be good at what she did but she didn’t have the look that Nancy Kerrigan had.

Tony is an indian. In the beginning, you get the impression, that he is a sweet, innocent and caring boy. He’s very helpful but also very naive. Through the story, it gets more and more clear, that there is something mentally wrong with Tony. He keeps believing, that the cop is something that his parents warned him about in his childhood, wich he calls ‘a masked dancer’. His parents told him not to look into the eyes, so in Tony’s head, the cop’s sunglasses equals the masked dancer’s mask. And Tony ends up killing the cop, and telling Leon that everything is O.K., it’s killed, they somethimes take on strange forms. He also compares the cop’s raised billy club to the witch’s raised human-bone in his dream.