Essay on Gender Relationships in the Film Love Jones

Melina Marchetta conveys the theme of family and relationships through dialogue. Josie and her mother, Christina relationship can be described as good mother and daughter relationship.

She escapes the police for a few important seconds, to admit that she washired to betraythem. “He put me in your cell to betray you.”(138). This shows that Nina had a change of heart, and would rather save three people who helped others, than to hurt them all. This is important, because this final motion helped the children realize that she was a good person, that helped save her lives. Also, on pg. 134, when she was requested to tell the truth, she refused. “The only thing Nina could hope for now was the somehow Percy, Matthias, and Alia could avoid being caught, too.” This line proves that people helping others can lead to an overall betterworld. Trust, not betrayal, leads to an overall better world where people do not get hurt, either physically or

Mora uses “Elena” to demonstrate the hardships and cultural battle non-English speaking Americans face while raising their children. They feel they have to compete with American customs in order to have a relationship with them. Mora gives the reader plenty of visuals and symbolic meanings that let you see into the mind of Elena and her journey on learning English.

Nina had freedom. She lived in New York alone, worked as a tour guide in China. She lived away from her family and with their complicated pasts. She’s a sister of three and is the youngest and most independent. Leila the oldest sister and Ona the middle child. All three sisters had their own kind of way of dealing with the family. Ona one of the quieter child committed suicide and that might’ve been her way of escape.

Throughout the book, Nadia’s experiences showed how she identifies herself and who she is as a person. In chapter two, Nadia was talking about what

“‘I loved Matt. And I hated him. I hated myself for loving him, but if I wasn’t with him, I wasn’t anyone anymore.’ ‘I don’t understand . . .’ ‘How could you? You’re perfect.’ Josie shook her head. ‘The rest of us, we’re all like Peter. Some of us just do a better job of hiding it. What’s the difference between spending your life trying to be invisible, or pretending to be the person you think everyone wants you to be? Either way, you’re faking’”(447). In this passage from the novel Josie and her mother,Alex, are speaking after Josie’s testimony to the court, where she exposed herself as the shooter of her boyfriend, Matt. This passage greatly brings light to the truth about Josie, and her hidden feelings. For she states that even though Peter lived his life in the shadows, trying to be invisible, they were the same because she lived her life trying to be like everyone else, they were both living a lie. Society had so greatly influenced their lives that they could not escape the mold’s build for them. Josie also believes her mother is perfect because Alex looks like she has her life together, she does not seem to be falling apart, trying to find her identity. This is where the biggest struggle is revealed . . . Josie does not have everything together, she may have had the guy, be going to the parties, was in the popular

Nina and her young son, IBRAHIM, flee from the plantation with the Baker brothers pursuing them. She falls and becomes separated from her son. Then she sees Woody. He has a rope around her son’s neck.

The significance of her being the youngest gives her the attitude of being careless. Nina sees how Leila acts towards their parents and believes Leila shouldn’t be listening to them. For instance, when Nina and Leila were discussing about how Mason and Leila should get married, Nina insisted to, “Do it the way you want” (Fae Myenne Ng 31). Nina has the urge to not listen to her parents because she feels that she doesn’t need them in her life. Her carless attitude results in her actions of traveling to New York.

‘Looking for Alibrandi’ written by Lina Marchetta, involves talking about how Josephine Alibrandi is the child of a single mother, Australian, female and being Italian which affects Josephine in all these points. Lina Marchetta portrays Josephine to be struggling with all these issues in her life and how she manages to overcome them. Josephine Alibrandi is an Italian girl with one parent of whom is her mother. Josephine and Christina, Josephine’s mother, are really close due to it only being those two living together for 17 years. It is often that the two of them argue and don’t get along well.

During Nina’s practice for the Black Swan, Thomas notices what an effective white swan she is, but for her to become the black swan will be a major challenge. However, soon she observes and figures that her peer Lily is dancing with passion and is more adequate for the seductive and impulsive role of the black swan. And when Thomas notes that she is not faking it and knows how to express herself, Nina becomes suspicious of Lily to the point of apparent paranoia. But as a viewer it is challenging to determine whether Lily is really out to take away Nina’s role or if this is Nina’s paranoid delusion.

In the movie “Bella” by director Alejandro Gomez Monteverde, Nina one of two main characters, gets fired from her job as a waitress. She then comes in contact with her co-worker and former professional soccer player, Jose. He invites Nina to his home because she tells him the she is pregnant, and he sympathizes with her. During the time they spend together they tell each other their deepest secrets. Jose tells Nina that he had a car accident with a little girl, which resulted in her death.

To begin, Nina’s mother has Nina placed in a bedroom made for a young girl and has no sort of privacy. In order to attain piracy from her over-controlling mother, she uses a

Katarina (Kat) and Bianca Stratford are being raised by their overprotective father. While Bianca is seen as extremely popular and sweet, Kat is considered as overly opinionated and intimidating by her classmates. In order to keep Bianca from dating, their father, developes the rule that Bianca can only go on dates if Kat does so too. Meanwhile, the new kid at school, Cameron, falls in love with Bianca, and in order to date her develops a plan to pay someone to date Kat. The only person that does not seem to be too intimidated by Kat is the mysterious bad boy at school, Patrick, who is surrounded by intrigue and seems to be just as feared as Kat. However, Cameron does not possess the money to pay him. Therefore, he tricks Joey, a male model who is also

Traditional gender roles as the first theme I will exploring. In the movie there are a

In the pieces Wet Road (2006) and Bridge of Sighs (2008), Weare focuses on the intimacy that occurs in heterosexual relationships. In both of the pieces, her dancer’s movement reflects tenderness, vulnerability, and desire. Although these emotions are present, aggression also tends to be an emotion presented as well; displaying that violence is also present relationships. But the way aggression is portrayed in the pieces vary among sexes. Weare portrays male and female aggression differently in both pieces by either having the males in her pieces reinforce or disrupt the dominant and aggressive stereotypical roles society depicts men of having. Thus in order to do so, Weare has the males in her pieces physically express how aggression and dominance are portrayed and relationships are the basis of this dominating