Summary Of The Gangs Of New York Movie

The book that I am nominating for the NCTE Orbis Pictus Book for Outstanding Nonfiction for children is Ghettoside: A true story of Murder in America. I nominated this book based on four key factors accuracy, organization, design, and style. These factors were inspirational in creating a piece of literature that will amaze and inform its reading audience. Ghettoside was published January 15, 2015.

The movie Gangs of New York seemed almost as if summarizing everything into one piece. The books held facts, details, truths that the movie just couldn’t cover in two entire hours. The authors, Gilfoyle, Asbury, and Anbinder showed us just what exactly urban history is like which was honest, not overdramatized, factual, and real. While admittedly a good movie, the Gangs of New York is a great recommendation for fun, but if comparing it with history the movie is just pure fiction. An overdramatized, thug life of a man in past New York seeking revenge for the death of his father by the hands of Bill the Butcher. Understanding history, even if its urban history is no great feat in itself. For example, at the end of the movie there was the grave of the father of Amsterdam Vallen who was the leader of the Dead rabbits. The scene changed and fast forwards through time where the graves began to be covered in grass and weeds till eventually the graves were gone. That scene is just like history, until history is told, it will just sit and eventually be forgotten never to be found again making them details of the

Gangs of New York (2002), a bold and violent movie directed by Martin Scorsese takes us back to a New York without skyscrapers and modern-day lavishes that shows the rise of violent gang power and political corruption. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis, the film features a personal struggle placed within the context of gang warfare between Nativists and immigrants, which is set in the larger context of the Draft Riots and the Civil War. It is a reconstructed historical narrative that uses interlocking events filled with gang violence and political corruption to show how the modern New York was born.

The Gangs of New York was a movie based on a book written by Herbert Asbury. Five points

Picture Manhattan in 1860, a time before the city had been dolled up and gotten ready for the silver screen, before the glamour and allure took over. Amsterdam Vallan (DiCaprio) is a young Irish man that migrates to the USA at a young age. Amsterdam’s story takes place in Five Points District of New York, a filthy and dangerous part of the city before it was deleted form history. As a young boy Vallan witnessed his father’s murder at the hand of William Cutting or Bill the Butcher (Day-Lewis) during one of their many gang wars. As Amsterdam’s story progresses along side The Butcher they become inseparable, but Amsterdam had ulterior motive. Ultimately, Amsterdam attempts to betray his new found ally in order to avenge his father’s death.

   Throughout There Are No Children Here, a continuous, powerful tension always lurks in the background. The gangs that are rampant in the housing projects of Chicago cause this tension. In the Henry Horner Homes, according to Kotlowitz, one person is beaten, shot, or stabbed due to gangs every three days. In one week during the author's study of the projects, police confiscated 22 guns and 330 grams of cocaine in Horner alone (Kotlowitz 32).

In gangs, there are many jobs that must be done. The jobs in the gang can be done by any ages, such as adolescents, young adults, or even children. The children that work in gangs can be so young that they are still in elementary school (AACAP). The kids do easy and dangerous jobs that would not bring any attention to them. For instance, being a lookout for cops on the corner would most likely be a job a child does. These jobs put them in harm's way. They could be arrested, or they could be killed by another member of rival gangs. children are small in size and do not look threatening, which in turn keeps them out of the police sites. This also makes them a good asset on a team since they can get away with more than an adult can. Having children in gangs is a big issue, even today and the book The Other Wes Moore shows an insight of how children in gangs work and how they act to each other.

Gangsters Without Borders by T.W. Ward is an ethnography about the El Salvadorian gang Mara Salvatrucha. Wards spent years earning the trust of these youth in order to complete his research. Starting out Ward had three broad goals in mind to develop a clear view of gang members and gang life. The second objective of Wards, “To observe how gang members changed over time as they matured into adulthood,” peaked my interest in this ethnography.

Gangs have existed in the United States for over 200 years. It all started when the first immigrants came to the U.S.A. Most of them came for a better life but many of them ended up in poverty. The first gangs were formed among poor adolescents who grouped together for the sake of socialisation and protection. They were of the same race or the same ethnic background. The first known gang specialized in crimes was called "The Five Points". They consisted of Irish immigrants and was established in New York City. They dressed in a specific way and used monikers or nicknames. Another early gang were the "Forty Thieves". Their gang leader was Edward Coleman and they formed in 1826. New York City's early gangs had an easy time of it because of

Many say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but Le Thi Diem Thuy can paint a picture in her readers’ minds with less than twenty. She uses detailed imagery to construct a mosaic of five stories in The Gangster We Are All Looking For, a novel inspired by her own immigration to America. She takes on the role of a young girl who narrates the struggles she faces alongside her mother and father (also known as “Ma” and “Ba”) to adapt to their new environment and move on from past memories and failures. Through the use of intense imagery and figurative language, Le evokes vivid images and feelings in her readers to expose her characters’ dispositions, experiences, and emotions.

“You can hire half the poor to kill the other half.” Boss Tweed spoke these words in reference to the Draft Riots. It shows that you can easily turn the poor against each other, if you bring money into the situation. Gangs of New York is about the separation of the Irish and the Natives, which eventually led into larger conflicts. In this film there are two important characters, Amsterdam Vallon and Boyle McGloin, who were both Irishmen in the Five Points. Amsterdam was the son of Priest Vallon and he became a positive Irish Leader who was looked up to by many. Boyle McGloin was an Irishmen who was a Dead Rabbit, but later joined Bill “The Butcher” Cutting and became a “Native”. The character

“Gangs have morphed from social organizations into full-fledged criminal enterprises” (Thomas, 2009, para 5). Gangs are highly sophisticated and more dangerous then ever. The number one reason to join a gang is money; and 95 percent of gangs profit comes from drug dealing

Gangs have been occupied New York City for hundreds of years. In the 1950s, the city saw a rise of Latino immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, and notably Puerto Rico as well as a rise in gang violence. Leonard Bernstein’s musical West Side Story uses the real-world subject of gang warfare in New York City to depict a modern-day adaptation of Romeo and Juliet by playing into the ethnic divide between the two gangs, but in doing so it simultaneously acts as a medium through which the uninformed public can learn about the culture of the gangs from this time.

The movie Gangs of New York takes place in mid-19th century in the Five Points district located inside of New York City. The Five Points area was built on what was known as the Collect Pond; the Five Points was a very important part of the movie because this is where everyone got their fresh water. Eventually, overtime due to the amount of people immigrating here the water started to become contaminated in a short period of time. In other words, it stunk, and the place was filled with disease. Nobody wanted to live there except the poorest of the poor.

Eilis leaves Ireland with the clothes on her back and a single trunk of clothes in her hand. For her, America is a shining beacon of opportunity. The movie Brooklyn (2015) captures the emotional struggle of wondering where home is. Eilis feels her heart is in Ireland while her body is in Brooklyn; characters such as Tony help bring her heart over to America.