Research Paper On Boyz N The Hood

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The movie I chose to watch was Boyz n the Hood, written and directed by John Singleton. Some of the main actors in the film include Cuba Gooding Jr., Laurence Fishburne and O‘Shea “Ice Cube“ Jackson. The director and a huge majority of the cast are African Americans, which is a minority group in most countries on earth.
Boyz n the Hood has been on my “to-watch“ list for quite some time now, but I never got around to watch it. I knew that the plot of the movie involved black characters dealing with the struggle that most black people living in the ghetto neighborhoods of Los Angeles have to go through. Such as racism, police brutality, robbery, same race violence and peer pressure. I am a big fan of 90‘s West Coast Hip Hop, Ice Cube being one of my favorite rappers. After I watched the movie Straight Outta Compton a friend of mine recommended this movie to me.

In the beginning of the film, we follow the main character as a ten-year-old boy called Tre. He lives with his single mother who puts a big emphasis on discipline in raising him. His mother sends him to his father to learn how to become a man. His father think‘s it‘s very important for Tre to learn the difference between right and wrong. The neighborhood they live in is very dangerous, full …show more content…

His father shot at the burglar three times but missed. The police showed up but they didn‘t even bother making a report. They talked to Tre‘s father in a racist manner and even called him the n-word. The most shocking fact is that the cop was actually black himself. That really shows you that it‘s not only white cops that cause problems for the black minority. Later on in Tre‘s life, he encounters the same cop again. The policeman stops Tre‘s car and orders him to get out of the vehicle. As the cop is searching Tre for drugs/weapons he pulls out a gun and pushes it into Tre‘s neck. He says some very atrocious things about Tre to make him

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