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He actually worsen the strain on his mother, and she regretfully has to push him away. Joe’s mother says to Joe, “Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger me or harass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here” (89). These mutual hardships creates a stronger bond between Joe and his family and allows the family members to support each other in this hard time. Through this experience, Joe learns how to deal with people in need and have empathy for those around him. Living with a family develops the social skills to exist in the outside world. Joe’s parents provide the familial love and support that is necessary for Joe to mature into a responsible adult.

Throughout the novel, Richard Blanco experiences many events I may identify with. However, the event that reflects my life the most was the death of Julio. Julio was Ricky’s best friend. Late at night, while his parents had been

According to Jim Piper, “Films aren’t just about people; they are also about the relationships people make…Often, in fact, a relationship is the movie” (159). It is Rick’s relationships that make this movie.

     Rodriguez's parents think they are doing the best job possible raising their three children. Being a lower class family, money was not something that was always available. His mother and father can always supply them with love and nurturing. The way they let their children know they are special and close is to talk to them in their private language. His parents could not speak good English; they could not translate their terms of endearment for the children without the saying losing its meaning. "Using Spanish, he (the father) was quickly effusive...his voice would spark, flicker, flare alive with varied sounds.? Only speaking English, the father is a completely different person.

Eventually Richard Rodriguez develops bitterness towards his parents. For being uneducated and ignorant, His thirst for knowledge has transformed him into someone who holds a distain for those without knowledge or esteem. Then he transforms into someone who feels guilt over his success. His family life has turned into an atypical situation where there is very little closeness between him and the other members of his family. This is caused by his increasing want to distance himself from what he believes to be uneducated.

The book, The Midnight Zoo by Sonya Hartnett is a fable. Hartnett weaves a story about two Romani boys who find themselves in a zoo, which has talking animals. One of its most essential themes, even more so than freedom, is trust. The last line of The Midnight Zoo emphasises this, as the eagle trusts who he sees is Alice. Hartnett expresses the importance of trust by showing how it can impact us and make us peaceful with ourselves.

Ricky displays determination as he does not attempt to receive help from the child service. The climax of the film is when Ricky and Hec crashed their truck, causing authorities to surround them because of Ricky and Hec’s encounter with the three hunters. Ricky gave the characteristics of a molester to describe Hector. The three hunters had a stronger impression of Hector being an molester. Hec was ready to be imprisoned, while Ricky did not want to give up. Ricky’s use of gestures, allows him to display determination to not give up without trying.

As Rodriguez became more involved with his academics he drifted further away from his family. The intimacy once shared between them was disappearing. “He takes his first step toward academic success, away from his family.”. His family also understood the importance of education, as his siblings did well in school, but were never “so anxious about their schooling”. Upon making sure that her children learned English, Rodriguez’s mother would tell them to maintain their Spanish. This was obviously a hint to the children to remember their culture. While soaking in all his academics, Rodriguez intentionally abandons his culture. He makes it obvious that he wants nothing to do with his heritage by imitating the accents and diction of his teachers. He also doesn’t participate in family gatherings, which is evident when he tells us, “Nights when relatives visited and the front rooms were warmed by Spanish sounds, I slipped quietly out of the house”. Rodriguez actually uses his academics to move further away from his culture. He believes that being educated in academics will truly make him successful, and “like his teachers”.

Richard Rodriguez was born in Sacramento, California and his parents are immigrants from Mexico. He went to a private catholic school and was a scholarship boy which means that the other parents that had their kid there had to pay a little extra for Richard to stay. Richard read a lot in his classes and he never understood why reading was so important when it came to his education, but

One particular moment that sticks out is how Rodríguez’s family is looking for a place to eat our because they don’t have the heat to cook, and he doesn’t want to go inside. When his mother gets upset and asks why, he

Ricky as a character displayed the effects of understanding the traumatic human development and normal human development. Traumatic human development is when one is open to danger and violence. One can be open to traumatic development directly or indirectly on a centered foundation. Ricky environment exposed him negativity. A majority of the negativity that Ricky is exposed to is gun violence, gangs, drugs and other negativity as well. Due to his environment being looked down upon and him being an African American male from a certain area of Los Angeles town he was viewed upon negatively by society. For instance, a scene from the movie dictates Tre and Ricky is pulled over by cops. The cops, one African American the main cop posed Tre and Ricky as a threat to society. Being harassed by the cop made Tre and Ricky feel as though they had no place in of belonging in that part of Los Angeles town. By Ricky being an African American male it was difficult enough for him to be successful in his environment. Ricky was not as fortunate to have the resources he needed. He was limited to many resources but, his limitation did not interfere with him having normal development. The theories that can mainly be relative to this movie, as well as the character Ricky, are person-in-environment, systems theory, and cultural theory (Newman and Newman 2012).

Ricardo completed three camp programs, before his last at Camp Gonzales. Ricardo states what kept him heading back each time was the “nonsense” in the streets. Growing up in Compton with a single mother, it was difficult for Ricardo to find a safe, healthy outlet outside of school. While his mother was his greatest sense of support, his homies were his biggest challenges. But during his time at Camp G, Ricardo used his time positively and met with camp staff to develop a plan to pursue a career in the trades. Now, a year later, Ricardo is enrolled at LATTC with long term goals to become a general contractor. He also has his own apartment as part of an independent living program through Jovenes, and works part time with CHOPE as a youth navigator.

In other words, when “marriage and divorce quickly follow” there is no peace in the relationship (2). This lack of peace is made evident in Rick’s life through his fear of what his wife, Iran, will say (Dick

During the pinnacle of his bittersweet life, Rodriguez eventually realized that he had sacrificed one of the biggest things in life to do what is best for himself, his family. Being from a different

The film, Hunt for the wilderpeople was a really good movie, because the film director Taika Waititi made the movie memorable and hilarious with the characters of the movie. For example, the main character, Ricky Baker in the beginning of the film portrays of pain as an orphan, as the movie goes on he made it really hilarious delivering the funniest lines. There are a lot of themes in the movie but one that stood out to me was family, Ricky Baker is an orphan and goes to live with his aunt Bella and uncle Hec, but when his aunt passed away Ricky runs away into the woods. And instead of abandoning the boy Hec follows him to an unforgettable route, although in the beginning of the film he’s seen as a hateful character but as the movie progresses