Character Analysis Of Mr. Hoodhood In The Wednesday Wars

Did you know that everybody has influences in their life, even you. Holling Hoodhood had a lot of influences in his 7th grade year. Holling Hoodhood is a 7th grade boy that lives in Long Island and goes to Camilo Junior High, in the book The Wednesday Wars. The Baseball Signing, Mrs.Baker, and Shakespeare, are just some of the influences in Holling Hoodhood’s 7th grade year.

A teacher not only enforces academic material in a student, but life lessons and important virtues as well. Gary D. Schmidt portrays Mrs. Baker, Holling’s seventh grade teacher, in The Wednesday Wars as an encouraging mentor who teaches Holling various values that help him prosper in his life. The novel begins by introducing Holling as the only Presbyterian in his class, and while the other students go to church, he is stuck with Mrs. Baker, who at first seems to detest his guts. However, throughout the course of the year, she becomes a guide to Holling by instilling values that will aid him to become a more ideal person not only as a student, but as an individual. Mrs. Baker molded Holling into a better person throughout his seventh grade

Holling hoodhood, man or gutless child? You decide after reading my strong statements on how I believe he has matured into a levelheaded, strapping young man. A middle school student, Holling Hoodhood trying to figure out his spirit, The Wednesday Wars shows his quest of finding himself. Mr. Hoodhood, Heather, and the waterfall all helped Holling in finding where he is in the world.

In the 1991 drama “Boyz in the Hood”, Written and Directed by John Singleton. He successfully attempts to portray what life was like and in some areas in America still is for African Americans living in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood. It displays a portrait of the harsh realities that plagues the black community and by displaying uninviting living conditions that is South Central L.A, Singleton aims to share to the world the self-destructive deviant behavior that is to this day, destroying the African American community. Some of the self-destructive deviant behaviors include gang life, selling drugs, and gun violence. Various issues are displayed in this movie involving the black community including deviance, poverty, gentrification, the importance of a father in a young man’s life and black on black crime. Singleton displays a tale of three friends growing up in the “hood”, plagued by drugs and violence and layers textures over rough and compelling visuals of black culture that shows us what it means to come to maturity, or die trying, as a black male. In this essay, I will be giving a thorough analysis of the film, as well as covering certain points from the movie from a sociological perspective to explain why singleton chose to write this film.

Mr.Hoodhood, Holling’s father, always treated Holling inappropriately. Throughout Holling’s entire life, Mr. Hoodhood had dealt with Holling as if he were 5 less important than his company, Hoodhood and Associates. This is proven multiple times during the story, specifically when Holling is sharing his first impressions of Mrs. Baker to his dad. In this situation, Holling claims that Mrs. Bakre has a detestation for him for absolutely no reason. In response, Mr.Hoodhood disregards Holling’s feelings towards his new teacher and says that although he does not like Mrs. Baker 5, Holling must keep a good reputation for himself and the Hoodhood family because of the possible job opportunity. This shows that Mr.Hoodhood cares more about his career than his son because he does not consider his own son’s feelings, and attempt to do something to help him. Instead, he recommends doing something that could benefit him and his company. Adding on, on pages 132 and 133, it states, “...how someday he hoped to leave a thriving and prosperous business in a thriving and prosperous town to his son to carry on the good name of Hoodhood and Associates.” This quote shows how the father doesn’t seem to give Holling a choice as to whether or not he wants to inherit his father's business. Instead, Mr. Hoodhood

Boyz in the Hood starts off with the character Tre Styles as a young man who lives in South Central, Los Angeles with his mom Rita. The social work student viewed this beginning portion of the movie portraying his young life as a social worker. The social work student noticed that Tre lived with his mother in an apartment in a rough neighborhood. Tre went to school but had problems acting out and being the class clown. Tre and the friends he hung around here had foul language and used profanity as young kids. This is just one example of how Tre’s surroundings influenced his life. According to Newman & Newman (2014), the Social Role theory suggests that a person learns behaviors from observing in their environments. Young Tre Styles learned profanity from somewhere in his rough environment and this is a method of learning socially. Rita, his mother was working on her Master’s degree and wanted better for Tre, so it is unlikely she promoted the use of profanity in her household. A contract between the two was drafter and Tre agreed with his mother that if he did not behave he would move in with his father. Rita stayed true to the contract they drafted and took Tre to live with his father Furious, so Tre could learn how to be a man.

The characters: Tre Styles and Mookie are two young African-Americans in the films “Boyz N The Hood” and “Do The Right Thing” respectively. Both films were released around the same time period, with DO THE RIGHT THING being released in 1989, and BOYZ N THE HOOD in 1991. Both films are coming of age tales for Tre and Mookie, they both reside in a low-income, predominantly black neighborhood. Both films share a common theme: the idea of hopelessness and survival as a young black male in the “hood.” Both men are a product of what can only be described as “urban decay;” they are trying to find their place in a society that doesn’t care much for their well being or success. BOYZ N THE HOOD and DO THE RIGHT THING have a common

Imagine you are a lawyer tasked with an impossible case, and everybody in your community is against you, but still there is a shred of hope you cling to. What might that be you ask? That to which you cling are your morals. In To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus Finch had been given the Tom Robinson case, where a black man was convicted of raping a white woman. As a single father of two children, he continues to reinforce his values throughout the trial and during his daunting task of raising his children. In To Kill A Mockingbird what Harper Lee suggests about the nature of morals is that you should try to stand up for what you believe in even if people oppose or reject your ideals. Even when faced with an insurmountable opposition you should stand up for your morals because in the end if your don't follow your beliefs you are just contributing to the problem. We should try to create a voice for what we believe in and impress that upon the next generation so they can continue to exercise their beliefs to make the world a better place.

Thief-a person who steals another person's property, especially by stealth and without using force or violence. In the book “The Wednesday Wars” by Gary D Schmidt, there is a thief. This thief stole something precious, not a diamond or one million dollars, but a very good idea. It all started when the Camillo Junior High decided they wanted to redo the school and needed to hire an architect. There are two architects who qualify for the job and both desperately need the job. However, there plans weren’t a secret. Their kids knew what their designs looked liked,but little did they know the consequences that would lead from sharing them with one another. Therefore these plans were passed to opposite sides of the competition.

Boyz in the Hood is a statement of how urban youth have been passed a legacy of tragic indifference, and the writer has shown that it is an almost inescapable fate for those born into racism and poverty to repeat the patterns they wish to escape. The movie’s characters are clear representations of how the system fails young black youth in the United States, and the difference one mentor can make for these kids. During segregation young black children became targets for white brutality. This movie reflects what the European mentality and what it has done to the African American culture.

John Singleton’s Boyz N the Hood is an American teen drama film released in 1991 that focuses on three black teens who live in the dangerous neighbourhood of Crenshaw, Los Angeles. The main characters Doughboy, his half-brother Ricky, and their friend Tre grow up together but meet drastically different fates as young adults. As Swanson (2011) points out, it is important to understand the tension within black communities in Los Angeles at the time of the film’s release; the Rodney King beating had taken place only months before and LA’s gang wars were reaching a peak. As a Los Angeles native, Singleton’s goal with the film was to alert people about the situation around them, as he said: “I couldn’t rhyme. I wasn’t a rapper. So I made this movie” (Swanson 2011). To reflect the environment as accurately as possible, the film was shot on the streets of South Los Angeles, so the crew was just as on edge as their characters would be; there were even threats of gun violence from local gang members.

Throughout the book, “Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom, the main character, mitch seems to undergo many changes. After college, he began to pursue a career in the music industry, but has reassessed his choice to have a more stable career as a news reporter. However, as work gets too overwhelming and strike outbreaks begin at his workplace, Detroit Free Press, he decides to take a break. One late night when he was skimming through television programs, he stumbled upon an interview of his old college professor, Morrie. Planning to catch up and fulfill an empty promise of how Mitch promised that he would visit Morrie after college, they start to meet on Tuesdays in order to rekindle the class about the meaning of life. Through those Tuesdays, Mitch realizes that he is not creating a fulfilling life and changes his perspective on what to value in life.

When the Joyner starts to rap, he first sets the tone of the song. “Woke up at 7, my day seemed more than I prayed for, Got dressed to head out and ride to school on my skateboard” while the line seems to be very basic to others, Joyner tells the listener this to give a sense of innocents to the character throughout the story. Right after Joyner shows innocents of the high school kid, he follows the two lines with “New kid in class I sat alone takin' notes while the hoodlums were makin' jokes at the clothes that my momma paid for”. By now Joyner has also told us what type of neighborhood and kids that the innocent kid is dealing with in his school. Using the term “hoodlums” tells

In all the stories that have come to be known none of them have broken from the foretold path. They all draw on the same element or at least a few to achieve a greater level of connection with the audience. The best stories say they are alive, polarized, catharsis, invoke the wisdom of the body, and always trust the path. For Hoodwinked, Little Evil, and Meet the Robinsons there is no difference, they each play along to the audience so that they may continue to live and grow.

Furthermore, Boyz N the Hood also offers an honest and realistic portrayal of a father's absence in urban America. This is best exemplified by Tre's boyhood friends, who lack a strong fatherly influence, end up involved in gang violence, selling drugs, and other societal traps. More specifically, a close friend, Doughboy, lacks a father in his life. And although Doughboy's mother ties to lead him in the right direction, she favors Doughboy's brother Ricky over him, and Doughboy ends up spending time in prison and dealing drugs. Doughboy experiences gang-related violence first-hand and ultimately becomes a neighborhood victim. Without a strong father figure, Doughboy never valued responsibility, dedication, respect for women, or morality. Resultantly, he succumbs to his neighborhood's social ills.