Quotes On The Hallway Hangers

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

The film also did a very good job in the way they tie racial issues in with the portrayal of Derek's character as a strong and bold leader. The things that make Derek such a powerful and frightening character is not the fact that he is racist, it is the fact that instead of choosing a somewhat regular, backwoods, unintelligent racist as the films central character, Derek is well spoken and bright. It is these qualities that allow him to recruit the youths of Venice Beach and form, with the help of his mentor Cameron Alexander, the entire white supremacist culture permeating the area. Instead of just telling them to hate black, Hispanic, and Asian people because they are of that race, he makes speeches, telling them charismatically and passionately how these people are stealing their jobs, causing Americans to suffer a poor standard of living. He tells them "America needs to take care of Americans before dealing with immigrants." And his speeches clearly incite this hatred in the young people of that area and flare up their tempers, causing behavior, such as we see in the movie when they destroy a grocery store because it was bought by a Korean immigrant who employs, "40 fuckin' border jumpers"

Throughout the 1992 film, “Boyz in the Hood,” John Singleton takes a closer look at urban black America in South Central Los Angeles. Doughboy, Ricky and Trey, along with their parents are chronicled from childhood to adulthood. Each person, though living in the same neighborhood chooses different paths in life. These characters were raised in a very deviant community, however there were many causes as to why they did not all become deviant. Deviance is defined as behavior that goes against what is socially acceptable. It is when a person disregards what is normal in a specific society and acts upon it. Throughout the movie these characters had many chances to engage in deviant behavior, as some did while

Regarding the labeling theory, the theory holds that behaviors are deviant only when society labels them as deviant. As such, conforming members of society, who interpret certain behaviors as deviant and then attach this label to individuals, determine the distinction between deviance and non‐deviance. Influential people within society—politicians, judges, police officers, medical doctors, and so forth—typically impose the most significant labels. Labeled individuals may include drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, delinquents, prostitutes, and sex offenders, to mention a few. The relation to the movie is that, the stakeholders used to, or maybe still label the people of color have higher tendency to do criminal activities compared to Caucasians, and that’s what the media portrayed back then, thus the case of mass incarceration of people of color, seemed not to be a big deal for the States in which the majority of individuals who resides here are the whites. Compton and other majority black areas that considered dangerous might arise because of this labeling

The decision that Frankie made had a huge impact on his relationship with God, self and others. First, after helping Maggie die, Frankie felt a disconnection from God. His relationship with God would never be the same again, since he had knowingly committed sin. Secondly, Frankie’s relationship with himself changed as he felt guilty for what he had

Despite today’s societal beliefs of reaching maturity at the age of eighteen, coming-of-age generally describes various religions that signifies an individual’s transition from childhood to adulthood. S.E. Hinton’s young adult fiction, The Outsiders, describes the life of fourteen-year-old Ponyboy Curtis, the main protagonist, in his internal struggle towards an identity other than one marked by his gang, the greasers. He lives with Darrel “Darry”, his oldest brother who holds all of the responsibility ever since their parents died and Sodapop, his older, easygoing brother in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In the midst of a gang rivalry between the greasers, an East Side gang known to be poor trouble makers, and the Socials “Socs”, who are known to be the rich and commendable of the West-side of town,

Have you ever wondered how the 1960’s was like? Would you have been fearful, jovial, or melancholy? In the book, The Outsiders, by S. E. Hinton the main character Ponyboy Curtis lives with his two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and is involved in a gang called the “greasers.” Ponyboy realizes what it is to be a kind person instead of being violent, he is always on top of his studies and is very observant of others.

Do soceital expectations and living conditions affect how people view someone? Ponyboy Curtis, Cherry, and Johnny are all people who are affected by soceital expectations because people expect them to conform to what they think of similar people, since they do have similar living conditions. Ponyboy and Johnny are part of a social group called the Greasers, who are the poor people in the town, and since many others think of poor people as people who steal, are thugs, and are parts of gangs, as Dally does, Ponyboy and Johnny are not. The Socs are the rich kids of the town, and most people expect them to be snobs who do not care about anything, but Cherry is not. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Cherry are Outsiders

In comparison the Curtis boy home is what you would call a pig sty, for the gang members would often crash the night there and they didn’t have the parents to nag them about their unkempt rooms. Additionally the families differentiate by their statistics. “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave.”, is stated by Ponyboy who is explaining his family’s situation, while he is walking home from the movie theatre (Hinton 3). This quote shows that Ponyboy and his brothers are dependent on each other, because they are all that they have. Also, their family relationship and relationship with their fellow gang members prove that all they need in life is each other, and not the newest TV or a ford mustang convertible. Unlike the Hoodhoods who find joy in success and wealth and sometimes feel that they do not need their family. Obviously, the Hoodhoods and the Curtiss have different views on life, which makes seem like polar opposites, but behind all of their differences are similarities.

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.

In the novel the society was divided into two groups, those who were the socs and others who were greasers. The greasers were looked upon as if they were outsiders because they were the lower class according to their social status. For example, in Document B when Ponyboy pulls out a switchblade in his biology class a socs girl sitting next to him stated, “They’re right. You are a hood.” Hood being one of the stereotypical names used to describe a greaser that was adapted through their society.

When writing the book Uglies, the author, Scott Westerfeld, used a sufficient amount of details to emphasize the differences in social classes and how each class is distinctly separated. By labeling the citizens in the colonies, Westerfeld was able to show how each class was viewed. The novel follows a character named Tally, who is a teenager living in a time set ahead of our own. In this community there are different stages a person goes through while growing up. All citizens first start out as "littlies," or kids younger than twelve. Once over twelve the kids move to their own town, called Uglyville, away from their parents and are

At this point in the scene, Frankie was few up with Anita Bryant. I could tell she wanted to scream at the top of her lungs, about the facts of homosexuals. Instead Frankie thought to herself, “It pissed me off that people put the rap on us for what pedophiles did. If you paid attention to your stats, or the neighborhood grapevine…about the husband down the street, you’d know that damn there all the pedophiles were heterosexuals” (Lennon 160). This was a sarcastic yet frustrating comment that left Frankie feeling aggravated by the ignorance of her peers. I could definitely relate to Frankie’s emotions, we cannot judge others when we are not perfect ourselves. This was not the “safe” time to openly express her sexuality to others.

In part one, Frankie so desperately wanted to still be able to play with her younger friends, but in part two, Frankie refers to these friends as merely "swarming children" (49). By stating her prior friends are now just children, represents how Frankie now feel superior to them. Yesterday she wanted to be a child, but today she feels they are inferior to her grown up self. Another example of Frankie specially separating herself from children, was when she enters the Blue Moon Bar. The narrator expounded on how Frankie has never entered this bar because "she had known in an unworded way that it was a forbidden place to children" (53).

Filled with self-loathing, Frankie’s character is afraid and disconnected in this passage. The author conveys a depressing tone through character description, syntax, and subject matter.