Hairspray Freeland Analysis

In this novel Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson It talks about a little nine-year-old girl Theo, and her mother Rae who are living together and are a very poor and un-wealthy family. Theo is not your typical child during her spare time, she likes to be alone and curl up to a good book if not she is always daydreaming about unrealistic things. Even if Theo tried making friends they wouldn’t last long since she always moved schools and switched apartments. Her mother was a smoker and waisted all their money on clothing and expensive accessories. There was nothing about Theo’s life that was normal no loving parents to come to after school, no clean clothes, and no toys so she made up her own fantasy. The perfect functioning family she had 2 loving

When I saw Hairspray the Musical there were three things that I noticed that were important in making the theatrical performance. Those three things were the acting, production, and how the actors made us, the audience, feel. Each of these things contribute greatly to any performance. I feel that this production of Hairspray hit each of these notes very well.

The other Wes’s mother, Mary, was dating a married man who interacted more with her son and cared to check up on him more than she would. Wes said, “When Wes got to the house his mother’s boyfriend, who was living with them when he wasn’t back home with his wife, was sitting in the living room, directly next to the front door (61).” Mary was being a bad influence by setting the example to Tony and Wes about not having standards if she was dating a married man. When a young adult is in

Joan’s family was selected for this because she has experienced parenting, marriage, and divorced at the tender age of twenty-five. She has also taken on other significant responsibilities such as purchasing a home and a vehicle in addition to raising two children solely on her income. Joan is driven and motivated to pursue and finish her education; rear her children in a stable home environment, despite facing the challenges of single parenting. She does not receive any type of financial spousal or child support from her ex-husband. Joan’s ex-husband is currently employed as a police officer and lives with another woman. The ex-husband rarely interacts with the children; he sees them only when his mother keeps them for Joan. Joan heavily relies on her parents and other family members to assist her with finances and childcare.

The children's mother (Tricia) lights and water are off in the home. The lights have been off for two to three months. The lights bill is over five-hundred dollars. It is unknown how long the water has been off. The lights and gas are always getting cut off. Three of the children (Myra, Chrisitan, and LA) go over their grandmother's (Mrs. Tean) on Sunday to take a bath. Anthony goes to the reporter's home. It is unknown how the toilet is being flush. The reporter brings Anthony food, and the other children's grandmother (Mrs. Tean) feed them. One time, Myra stated to Anthony that, "It is good you eaten. We have not eaten anything." It is unknown when this occurred. Tricia does not work. Tricia just lay in bed all day and do nothing. Tricia gets food stamps,

In an attempt to protect and make life ‘better’ for his family, David gives up on his daughter: “I'm trying to spare us all a terrible grief" (Edwards, 19). As a result, David never had the chance to see Phoebe and all that she has become, much like adults who focus on their careers in order to make life ‘better’ for their family. But in consequence, they spend less time interacting with their family, creating a distance that is extremely hard to overcome in the future. As American author, Jim Rohn, says “Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money but you cannot get more time.” And without time, money is meaningless. Family, whether biological or not, can be filled with love. In Phoebe’s case, she is raised by her surrogate mother, Caroline and later on, her surrogate father, Albert Simpson. But, she still leads a wonderful life, one where she “liked herself and she liked her life; she was happy” (Edwards 390). Phoebe lived an amazing life, with people that love her, yet everything would have been different if she went to the institution. This shows us that family, even an incomplete and unbiological one, can mean a lot. Children do not necessarily need an abundance of fancy toys, they just want someone who can play with them, talk to them and love them; children do not only grow up well if all their materialistic needs are fulfilled, but they do grow up well with love and care from those around them. Therefore, more time should be spent with family rather than at the office. The two families while significantly different, are just that; a family. Although they may be very messed up or untraditional, in the end they are able to work out their conflicts, to come together to form a bigger family. In a similar fashion, as a society, it must be understood that families come in all shapes and sizes, whether or not connected by blood, by race or by

Slight Deterioration. . The client has been displaying negative interactions towards his mother for the past couple of weeks. These behaviors seemed to increase when the client was unable to receive a wanted object from his mother, even after the client was provided therapeutic tools of understanding the differences between needs and wants.

Hairspray is a fantastic film and the version that I watched was the newest adaptation. It contained an all-star cast and numerous other awesome performing artists. The musical numbers were an incredible touch to the film, as they regularly served to get a strong message across. I discovered it exceptionally rousing how Tracy Turnblad was unaffected by individuals provoking her overweightness. She utilized the teasing as inspiration to demonstrate the world that she was a decent artist and that she could make it onto the Corny Collins Show. Another aspect of the film that I really enjoyed was the mix of characters. They were in all different shapes, sizes, colors, and financial backgrounds. This made Hairspray more relatable and in addition sensible, which is good because it did brought up some realistic topics relating to racism and obesity.

Alice is battling alcoholism and this has a great impact on the familial structure. The family focuses on everything other than Alice’s drinking until it becomes a life or death situation. In particular Michael Alice’s husband enables her drinking and feels that she is more fun when she is drinking. It is as if he has turned a blind eye to her outlandish antics such as locking herself out of the house at four am due to hiding alcohol outside. Throughout the film Alice expresses her loneliness. When Alice expresses her loneliness to her husband he brushes her feelings off and she continues to drink. Michael blamed his absence on his career as a pilot and simply expected Alice to understand that he had to provide for the family. Unfortunately, it appears that Michael’s absence in the home was a great factor in the increase of Alice’s drinking.

Michelle a 35 year old women has four kids ages from twelve to five. There are many false accusations that welfare mothers are “immoral, that welfare mothers are lazy, misuse their paychecks, are stupid and incompetent” (Abramovitz). In Michelle’s journey with poverty, all she wants to prove to herself and her family is that there is more into life than what they are going through in the moment. All she wants is an opportunity to grow and be comfortable with life. Nadya, the oldest child of the family is the only one with a different father from the three younger siblings. Arnold, the father of the other three children has been out of the family picture all throughout their life due to severe drug problems (Springer). Arnold and Michelle had a cohabitated

The Parks’ Family: “All American” white upper middle class, live in Bexley, Ohio. Both parents work. Paul works as an attorney for family law, mostly divorces and custody cases. Sharon works as administrator of All God’s Children, a private religious preschool-5th grade. Paul and Sharon have been married 28 years, have two children and a labradoodle. They are good people who regularly attend the local Christian church, participate in community service projects where the need is great, in the neighborhood on the other side of downtown Columbus, known as Franklinton. It is better known as ‘the bottoms’ to the residents, which include mostly low class, poverty single parent homes, drug houses, prostitutes and homeless. They love both of their children, although they are both very different. Their son Michael is following in both of their footsteps, working hard at a good education, worshiping God and giving back. Michael is a junior at Stanford University studying to be a biologists. He is an excellent student and is also active in the local church and is one of the youth group leaders. He has been dating Corry for two years at college, they are in love and things are going well but both are focused on school right now.

In Sociology there are four main theoretical perspectives: conflict, interactionist, functionalist, and feminist. The perspective that stands out to me in the movie I chose, Hairspray, is the conflict perspective. The conflict perspective focuses on the conflict between classes and how to overcome it. The movie Hairspray is a movie that takes place in 1962. It is about a pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad, and best friend Penny Pingleton, who are obsessed with a segregated dance show “The Corny Collins Show” and the beautiful heartthrob star of the show Link Larkin.

Melinda’s relationship with her parents has affected her decision to tell them about the party because her mom is never home and when she is she is working or she is fighting. When her dad is home he is arguing with her mom or they yell at Melinda. Melinda and her family do not talk; they leave notes instead and leave them on the counter. It states on page 14,” We communicate with notes on the kitchen counter,” (Anderson 14). Her family is not like any other family, most families talk to each other face to face not by not. Her family does not communicate with each other in a healthy way, a family should talk to each other not leave a note. Melinda has problems opening up to her parents about what happened because her parents always yell at

Another game he liked to play was making Jane or Mum start fights with people who live near them.. These kind of situations put them in a difficult positon because they are placed in a situation where their mindset is thinking cause pain to others so no pain is inflected on me. Jane showed signs of posttraumatic stress disorder when she moved out. She was always scared of leaving her place because she didn’t want Richard to find her (Elliott, 2005). She was scared of him spending so much time with her daughter because she didn’t want her daughter to go through what she did with Richard. The posttraumatic stress disorder would also effect her relationship since she was scared to trust others or get to close to others (Elliott, 2005). One of the ways Jane coped with her posttraumatic stress disorder was by substance abuse. She drank whenever Emma was at daycare (Elliott, 2005). It would start out with a glass of wine or two and then it would be bottle after bottle of wine (Elliott, 2005). Jane started seeing a doctor, who she would constantly tell that she needed help. Her doctor didn’t understand why she needed help, so a counselor was not recommended immediately. Once the counselor was recommended, Jane started to attend, but then

Then around noon she eats her lunch, punches out, and uses the bus to go to her second job being a waitress at Applebee’s. At Applebee’s she is paid twenty dollars an hour plus the tips she make from her tables, which is an average thirteen dollars. During her work, Carla’s lovely neighbors pick up Carlos from daycare and watch him in their apartment until Carla returns in the evening. She leaves his dinner in the fridge every morning so it’ll be ready for the neighbors to give Carlos. On the weekends Carla spends less time at work to see her son, however it is not always easy to get some time off from her jobs and will have to make up the time later on in the week. We also get child support from the government which is about one thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars a year. For food shopping we go to Stop and Shop because we get an employee discount, however with other shopping we try to buy things from Goodwill stores and Dollar trees. Although Carla works two jobs and barely has time to see her son Carlos, she is working hard towards a bright future for