1. “A Bronx Tale” is a story about a young man, Cologero, who grows up in the Bronx during the 1960’s where the streets were filled with violence and racism. He was raised by his two parents. His father was a working man, a bus driver and his mother was a homemaker. They tried their best to shelter Cologero and keep him from falling victim to the hard streets of the Bronx. However, at the age of nine, Cologero grew to admire the neighborhood mobster, Sonny. One day Cologero witnessed Sonny murder a man, but once the police asked him to identify the murderer, he told the police that the guy was not a part of the lineup. Sonny was impressed by Cologero’s actions and eventually took him under his wings and introduced him to his mafia lifestyle. …show more content…
I think that choice theory is more appropriate regarding Cologero for the reason that he often thought about the consequences of his actions. He often weighs the consequences and benefits of his intended actions and makes rational decisions. An example of when Cologero made a decision where he perceived that the chances of gain outweighed any punishment or loss was when he decided to get into a stolen car with his friends with intentions of attacking the local African-American teenagers with Molotov cocktails. Another example is when he decided to spend time with Sonny and engage in his criminal lifestyle even though his parents warned him not to …show more content…
Hirschi suggested that people who strongly believe in these norms are less likely to deviate from them. In the film, Cologero’s friends participated in a lot of deviant acts that went against societal norms such as attacking innocent people and stealing. He did not participate in many of the activities his friends were into. In fact, when his friends attacked the teenagers on the bicycles instead of attacking one of the teenagers, he tried to protect him. 6. I observed a few examples of labeling. 7. I really enjoyed the movie. It was entertaining and very informative. The reason I said it is informative is because of the information I have learned in this class. It caused me to pay close attention to the characters, especially Cologero and think about his actions and the reasoning behind them. I feel that this film is definitely related to subject material discussed in class. The main character is a juvenile who engages in a lot of delinquent behaviors and activities, much like the ones we focus on in class. While watching the movie, I was easily reminded of the information we went over in the previous class which made the movie more enjoyable. Especially since I was able to view the film from a different
The narrator had a judgemental, stereotype, predetermined way of thinking when it came to his past. The narrator's thoughts and feelings were cruel and hard for the drug addict childhood friend of Sonny's when he told him he did not want to hear his "sad story"(81). Yet, he realized they both have something in common. The narrator has Sonny's drug addiction and the friend has his own addiction to deal with. The narrator realized that everyone has a sad story.
For the most part, reviews are positive and praise this film. I completely agree with them, this film informed me of an issue I wasn’t even aware had occurred. Before watching this film and taking this class, I was naive, I believed that after we had gained our supposedly “equal rights” everything was okay. Now, I have realized the struggles Chicanos have had to face, my eyes have been opened to these injustices and made me aware that many are still occurring today. This film and class has inspired me to take action against these injustices and stand up for what I believe in.
The narrator of this story had thought that his brother Sonny was safe. Or at least, that was what he had made himself believe. "I told myself that Sonny was wild, but he wasn't crazy. And he'd always been a good boy, he hadn't ever turned hard or evil or disrespectful, the way kids can, so quick, so quick, especially in Harlem. I didn't want to believe that I'd ever see my brother going down, coming to nothing, all that light in his face gone out, in the condition I'd already seen so many others" (48). But Sonny hadn't been safe from drugs, or the streets, or any of the things his brother had been sure he was immune to. He had been arrested for using and peddling heroin. Sonny's friend, the boy we meet later, had thought the same thing as Sonny's brother had. " 'I thought Sonny was a smart boy...too smart to get hung'" (49). But they were both wrong.
Cyrano De Bergerac is an inspiring play based on a tragic love. The characters are revealed within unique backgrounds, creating life and depth between our imaginations. There are a variety of important characters throughout the play besides Cyrano De Bergerac. The play consists of more important characters than Christian De Neuvillette, although he is the most admirable. Three admirable qualities that Christian possessed are courtesy, modesty and bravery.
The narrator is a teacher in Harlem, which is a dark place where many blacks face obstacles and hardships. In the beginning of the story, the narrator learns from reading a newspaper that his younger brother, Sonny, has been arrested for selling and using heroin. As he begins to teach his class, he suddenly realizes that his own innocent, young students can someday end up in devastating situations like his brother. The narrator and Sonny have had a difficult relationship throughout their lives. Many times the narrator would go months without talking to Sonny. The narrator contiplates whether he should write to Sonny in prison. Later, the narrators daughter, Grace, dies. This tragic event finally leads him to write a letter to Sonny. Suprisinly, Sonny writes a letter back to him which allows them to have a civil relationship. They continue to stay in contact with each other and right when Sonny gets realeased from prison, the naraartor takes
This Story takes place in Harlem, New York in the 1950’s, but is also set in a smaller world developing around the nightclub where Sonny plays. Although the story takes place in Harlem, New York, it is as much a character in the story as any of the actual people. When Sonny and the narrator head back to the narrator’s apartment when Sonny gets out of jail, he really starts to think about the street he and Sonny had grown up: “We hit 110th Street and started rolling up Lenox Avenue. And I’d known this Avenue all my life, but it seemed to me again, as it had seemed on the day I’d first heard about Sonny’s troubles, filled with a hidden menace which was its very breath of life” (292). Sonny is whom the narrator goes on about in this story and is probably one of the most important characters in this story. In this passage Sonny tries to explain his inner turmoil to the narrator: “I was all by myself at the bottom of something, stinking and sweating and crying and shakin...
Throughout the story, the narrator learns how important it is to Sonny for him to care and listen to him. Sonny is vulnerable and in a state where he is getting into trouble with drugs and alcohol perhaps because he feels as though no one cares enough to help him. The narrator lives his life as a teacher while Sonny spends his days using drugs hoping someday to pursue his dreams of music. Both characters end up in a place they are meant to be; acting as family and leaning on each other for support, which is the true importance of an older brother.
Harlem is the setting of this story and has been a center for drugs and alcohol abuse. The initial event in this story shows that Sonny is still caught in this world. Sonny says that he is only selling drugs to make money and claims that he is no longer using. In the story the brother begins to see that Sonny has his own problems, but tries to help the people around him by using music to comfort
The Godfather is the “dark-side of the American dream story” (Turan, pp2). The film follows the practices of a fictional Italian mafia family, the Corleone’s. Though most Americans do not condone the practices of the Italian mafia, they cannot deny that Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather is a cinematic masterpiece. This film gave insight to a mysterious way of life that the average person does not have knowledge of. As the audience is educated about the mafia they also are introduced to many stereotypes.
1. Cyrano de Bergerac Cyrano de Bergerac is a classy, intelligent man who writes for a living and his role is that he serves as the gateway for Christian to be with Roxane. Cyrano is so significance because he is stuck in a love problem where he has to help Christian, through his writings to get him and Roxane together but Cyrano also loves Roxane in which he can’t be known that the letters Roxane thinks Christian wrote are actually Cyrano’s feelings. Cyrano is a very intelligent, noble, skillful swordsman who is full of knowledge and creativity to allow him to write his writings. Cyrano shows loving character because he delivers a letter to Roxane every day, of his own feelings and helpful when helping Christian and his struggles with
The story begins with the narrator’s brother, Sonny, being arrested for using heroin. When the narrator discovers what has happened to his brother, he slowly starts to relive his past. Up to this point, the narrator had completely cut his brother and his childhood from his life. He disapproves of the past and does everything in his power to get rid of it. The narrator had become an algebra teacher and had a family who he moved to get away from the bad influences on the street. As a result, it is shown in the story that he has worked hard to maintain a good “clean” life for his family and himself. Readers can see that he has lived a good life, but at the toll of denying where he came from and even his own brother. For years, his constant aim for success had been successful. However, as the story progressed everything he knew started to fall apart.
First, the exposition of this story starts with the narrator who discovers Sonny in the newspaper for using and selling heroin. As he reads the paper on the subway he couldn’t believe what he had read. This made him reminisce the days that
Although I enjoyed the main portion of the movie, there were some obvious likes and dislikes in my opinion. I believe that I learned from this movie and it helped me understand more of what the people of that time were feeling.
The book and the movie were both very good. The book took time to explain things like setting, people’s emotions, people’s traits, and important background information. There was no time for these explanations the movie. The book, however, had parts in the beginning where some readers could become flustered.
New Boy is a short film that envelops the viewer into a third person character and leads viewers to experience how it feels to be an outsider “The New Boy”, the audience experiences this feeling through the Protagonist 's mind in this case “Joseph.” This short film not only focuses on the idea of bullying but also the idea of being an outsider.The positioning of the title “New Boy” on the left-hand side of the frame indicates that the new boy will be powerless.