Freedom Writer Name: Chase Faulkner
I am comparing Bennet high to Wilson high. I am comparing these because they both have their relevance’s and their differences. They are both a high school and they both have problems. Throughout the essay you will be learning the differences and the common parts of the two schools.
Gangs- In the school, “Wilson High School” there is a lot of gang activity. Most of the school was infected by multiple different types of gangs there. Mostly they were either Latinos or they were Korean/Chinese. The two gangs were battling and fighting back and forth. In the movie, the two gangs started fighting during a riot/fight. Throughout the movie the problems slowly started to decrease and by the end Eva and Sindy
Swat team type police arrest Haroon and Azeem thinking they are terrorists. They are the 2 only Arab kids there and without questioning they are accused of being a part of a terrorist group that are planning to bomb schools throughout the country. When the police realize they have mistakenly arrested Haroon they send him back but that doesn’t stop people from spreading rumours. People were
Seven years later all the boys are in high school. Ricky the one who wants to become a football player has a girlfriend and a baby boy. Ricky wants to become a football player because he does not want to become like his brother Doughboy, who doesn’t do anything with his life. Ricky and Doughboy are half-brothers, they have the same mother. Tre moved in with his father when he was younger so his dad can teach him to become a “man”. Tre learns life lessons from his father, there is one part in the movie where Furious, Tre’s father, says “a black man has no place in the military.” Doughboy who is Ricky’s half-brother doesn’t have any plans for his life. All he does in the movie is hang out with 3 other people on his mom’s porch drinking beer, selling drugs, carrying guns and driving around. Doughboy has been in and out of jail. Doughboy, his girlfriend
Marcus Brown and Eddie Russo are best friends and stars of the basketball team at Long Island City High School. Marcus is black and Eddie is white, and everyone call them Black and White. They’ve found strength to break through the racial barrier, or at least they believe so themselves. They are inseparable, always having each other’s backs, both on and off the basketball court. With the ability to get whatever scholarship they want, their future is looking good. Their plan is to get sports scholarship to a prestigious university and go on to play professional basketball. When the boys turn to crime, their friendship is put on the line along with the
A major conflict in this novel is between the greasers and the Socs. These two gangs are made up of complete opposites. The two rivals fall into conflict because of how they view each other and their roles in society. Greasers are poor hoods from the East side that “wear our hair long and dress in t-shirts and blue jeans… and wear leather jackets
At the beginning of the story “The Outsiders”, the two groups/gangs of people called the Socs and the Greasers hated each other. The Greasers would typically try to mind their own business
For this segment, you will compare and contrast two different pieces of writing in preparation for eventually writing a compare-contrast essay. You will
Have you ever read a very hard hitting and the phenomenal story about rival gangs and the effect it has on the lives of the people and the society. In The Outsiders, is a story of 14-year-old Ponyboy Curtis and his two older brothers, Soda and Darry. The boys are orphans and struggle to stick together in their lower-class neighborhood, known as the East Side. They and their friends are part of a gang of tough street boys called the Greasers. Even though other people might think you're unimportant and below them. You will always have your friends and family. In The Outsiders, we see the idea of the difference in the society based on the economic level of the characters, honor among the lawless and violence among the youth.
Boyz N the Hood shows the challenges black men face due to their home life and the conditions of the area their community. In the film, we see the difference in how Tre, Darren, and Ricky live. Ricky and Darren are brothers who have different fathers and who are both different as day and night. The film shows how important it is to have a male role model in the home. This is evident in Tre life because he has male leadership.
The narrative allows for the idea of segregation to act as an aspect of the hardship faced by the characters. It distinguishes the differences between those who are separated, identifying their different lifestyles and values as factors, which has caused this disconnection. The segregation and major personality differences between the two families are highlighted in the quote, “Sometimes they squared off at one another like opposing platoons.” The metaphor of comparing the two sets of children to “platoon”, a word commonly used in war, parallels the separation caused by the war. This emphasizes a key aspect of the contextual features of the storyline, as the war has a major impact on the lives of the characters. This also exaggerates the level of separation between the two families, suggesting they have a war-like standing against each other, caused by different views and opinions. The notion of segregation between the families is an obvious cause of hardship, as the two families share so much, whilst being completely different.
On the west side of Manhattan two groups compete for turf, the Jets, a group of white juveniles, and the Sharks, a group of young Puerto Rican men. The conflicts that arise from racial and cultural differences are what lead to West Side Story’s message. The Jets do not like the Sharks because they came from a different part of the world. They don’t want them in their neighborhood because they are worried that they will change things, take their jobs, and make the neighborhood dirty. People have always and still have this fear for immigrants because they can’t accept change. When Tony and Maria fall in love, it makes the two gangs’ rivalry even more complicated.
This film shows us how easy it is to get caught up in gang life when living in the barrio, especially for women socially and emotionally. This film also shows us how gangs went from being all male to now having female gangs as well. This film shows us what exactly these home girls have to do to survive daily in Echo Park, and not just their survival, but the survival of their children as well. This film shows how these women are pushed to make ends meet, without any outside help, without the help of boyfriends, baby daddies and even their families. After Ernesto’s death, Sad girl and Mousie become each other’s support system, once they realize how to work together through their differences. The film shows gang life from a women’s point of view, and how these women not only prove their gang loyalty, but identity as well. In this film you see the women break gender roles and barriers, at first you have them playing the gender role of a female being dependent of a man, but towards the end you see them realize that gender roles and rules don’t have to be followed, which is when the female gang themselves begin to deal
Chris and Doughboy, two brothers in gangs, live with a single mother. Chris is headed for an athletic scholarship and there is hope he will escape gang
The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at
Their mutual love and hatred for one another, and for themselves, provides an intensely dark comedy that exposes their inner conflicts, their racial bigotry and their low self-esteem, as they struggle to survive in a contrived culture to which neither will ever really belong.
This summed up their sense of belonging, ensured by having their own territory and being with their own race. The need for belonging stemmed from their perception and actual experiences not only in school but the community as a whole. There was always the fight for one’s own turf. This was emphasized during this scene that showed the two Latinos who had to run from the group of Cambodians who were chasing them and the attack on these Latinos that necessitated them to split up. Unfortunately the woman made a wrong turn and bumped into another group which caused her to be physically harmed. This scene highlighted that though they belonged to one community, they did not quite see themselves as part of that community and sub-groups or tribes abounded because it was in these smaller groups that they found security. They needed to form groups based on their race and color. They stuck together and supported each other because they found comfort from one another just like members of a family caring for each other. They became so distrusting of other groups because of the past painful events that happened in their lives. Every race needed to establish that they were not inferior over the others. But all of these initial behavior and attitude changed because their English teacher paved the way for them to trust and support each other. As Eva said “It’s a sign of respect... for you”,