School Ties By David Green, Charlie Dillon, And Rip Van Kelt

People can lose a lot when they are ashamed or afraid to be themselves. In the movie School Ties David Green, Charlie Dillon, and Rip Van Kelt are all motivated by not being themselves. All of these characters struggle with wanting to get into a certain school for themselves and their parents. They also don’t want to show who they are or how they feel about people so others won’t think differently of them. If these people would have just talked to or told people who they were they wouldn’t have made it worse when they found out. They just dug deeper into the hole until they couldn’t get out and buried themselves. The characters all have different problems with not being themselves ,but their lies all tie together in the longer run. The characters show how this could help people who struggle with life, new to a school, and don’t have many friends. David Green is the first character to show how he hide his faith. Saint Matthew recruited David to become the quarterback of their football team. When his friend Charlie finds out he is a jew from a drunken alumni at the bar he makes a money grubbing jew joke in the shower to show David he knew. If David

All these boys hiding who or what they are caused major problems towards the end when they could have just had small problems in the beginning. People who are ashamed or afraid to be themselves end up acting like someone they are not. Struggling students in school who have problems making friends could have these problems and have worse problems or turn out different. Showing students this movie could show them to be themselves and to help them make friends on their own. Like a quote from Oscar Wilde “Be yourself because everyone else is taken.” This means everyone is unique and have their own way of acting or being. With this essay, teachers could help their students with their day to day life with friends and be