Film Review: Uncovering Life Insurance To The Black Community

Naturally, the narrator feels the pressure of being a minority. At first, he wants to be like everyone else, to be a part of white society. Then, he realizes that such society is not what he imagines it to be. As a result, he wants to reconnect with his family, this time appreciating them as his own. Nevertheless, the narrator is afraid of what his father

The film has several ethnicities within a small area along a time line of one day. The film has many, informative methods in which it describe the various diversity issues of all the characters within the movie. For example, Sal’s pizzeria which is owned by an Italian American has pictures of famous Italian Americans on the wall and plays Italian music. One character named Buggin Out is always upset. Bugging out hates the fact that there are no black people pictures on the wall especially since the pizzeria is in a black neighborhood. His perspective represents the people in the African American community that always protest, but usually don’t work to improve the community. The

it retells the story too much and needs fixing but i think that i have almost done this with my final copy, please e-mail me on kippa_dog@hotmail.com if you can think of a better way of putting it.also, make sure that

One scene I would like to change is the part where Dally died because when he got shot he got back up and got shot and got back up. And I thought it was unrealistic. The gun sounds sounded fake to. You saw the guns shoot and a second later you hear the sound of the gun and the sparks fly out of it.

Exposition : The Younger family has recently lost their head of the family, Mama’s husband, and are going to be given 10,000$ from their insurance. They are an African American family in the working class that lives on the South side of Chicago and struggling with financial difficulties.

life in the mid to late twentieth century and the strains of society on African Americans. Set in a small neighborhood of a big city, this play holds much conflict between a father, Troy Maxson, and his two sons, Lyons and Cory. By analyzing the sources of this conflict, one can better appreciate and understand the way the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work.

Many tragic events happen in this short story that allows the reader to create an assumption for an underlying theme of racism. John Baldwin has a way of telling the story of Sonny’s drug problem as a tragic reality of the African American experience. The reader has to depict textual evidence to prove how the lifestyle and Harlem has affected almost everything. The narrator describes Harlem as “... some place I didn’t want to go. I certainly didn’t want to know how it felt. It filled everything, the people, the houses, the music, the dark, quicksilver barmaid, with menace; and this menace was their reality” (Baldwin 60). Another key part in this story is when the narrator and Sonny’s mother is telling the story of a deceased uncle. The mother explains how dad’s brother was drunk crossing the road and got hit by a car full of drunk white men. Baldwin specifically puts emphasis on the word “white” to describe the men for a comparison to the culture of dad and his brother.

They are a family of 5 squeezed in a two-bedroom apartment, they are restricted socially and financially with Walter (the father) working as a chauffeur for a white was the only bread winner for the family, he dreams of opening a liquor store and his sister Beneatha his sister studies to become a doctor despite the strain it puts on the family. The Youngers get a new chance when ten thousand dollars comes in the mail and Lena (Walter’s mother) decides what to do with it. She decides to buy a house for the family in a white neighborhood, gives the rest to Walter who lost it all in a Liquor store scam. Dreams of buying a new house, going to school and opening a business are shared by many Americans but for the Youngers those dreams were harder to achieve than most families. Being African American and poor in the 50’s meant they had to deal with racism, unequal opportunities, financial restraints and even housing segregation when trying to improve their living conditions.

Set in 1959 Chicago in the first act, the neighborhood association is trying to prevent a colored family from buying a middle-class white family’s home. As the second act comes around, the story is set in the 2000’s in the same neighborhood, but now the neighborhood is predominately black. A white family is buying back into the neighborhood and change that home to counter what has come of the neighborhood.

There is an on going struggle for power in the multicultural but mostly Black community. Mookie, the young minded protagonist represents the working class Black community. Employed by the Italian pizzeria owner Sal, Mookie works for pennies on the dollar and claims to be saving up his money to move out of the apartment he shares with his sister. Mookie’s peers are young, most likely teen aged, Black kids who throughout the movie are seen tormenting and heckling their neighbors, listening to music on their stoops, parading the block and even breaking open a fire hydrant to relieve themselves and other kids from the sweltering heat. Sal on the other hand represents the lower middle class of Bed-Stuy. He is painted as a hard working entrepreneur and business owner with a strong sense of cultural identity and family. Tensions boil between these two groups for numerous reasons leading to an explosive and disheartening climax and ending of the film. The issues of race between Mookie and Sal, and the demographics they each represent, distract the characters in this movie from the

Setting is an important feature of novels. This narration takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1960. A time that saw the segregation of black people and the dominance of white people in the southern United States. In this novel the setting of 1960’s Jackson, Mississippi exposes significant themes such as racial discrimination, social partiality. The setting also supplies decisive insight into character inspirations and views.

Imagine living the life of a black man, in the South Side of Chicago with a job going nowhere and hopes of living the American Dream. “The American Dream is the belief that in the United States of America, hard work and determination can lead to better life, usually through the earning of money”(American Dream). Walter, his wife Ruth and son Travis, lives with his sister Beneatha and Mama in a crowded apartment. Walter’s days are occupied with frustration and hatred, being a chauffeur to Mr.Arnold , a white guy, his employer. Walter Sr, Mama’s husband was a proud man, who passed on, and left Mama with insurance money. Money that can help buy a nicer house, money that caused Mama to be cautious. Walter’s dreams were to start a business with

The first half of the book is set up. You flash from character to character in order to get an understanding for who they are what they will go through. During these open chapters you applaud the author for creating a cast of unique

The story, for the most part, centers upon an African-American family, their dreams for the future and an insurance check coming in for death of the eldest man. Stirring into the mix later is the hugely oppressive,

As a kid, being there when my friend’s dad’s wallet got stolen and then going to the police station was much more exciting than it is looking back on it. When I realized how boring it is, I wanted to make the parts from the rising action to the end more appealing to read. By the time the action is supposed to pick up in my original anecdote, it really just plateaus. Adding fictional elements eliminated the plainness of what really happened and I decided to embellish everything that happened starting from when Gary left our spot at the pool to get us ice