Decision Making In Mean Creek

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Many people question other people’s beliefs or doings. Is what they do the right choice? Is what they do good or bad? To me, this question is addressing that what makes someone’s decision right and what makes that decision the best choice for everyone around them. Not only does if that choice was bad or good but is that choice forgivable. But the problems it brings up for me is that it makes people think too hard about each choice they make. It also makes people think that if they made a bad decision it will affect them for the rest of their life. My answer to this question is that you must always choose your decision with the perspective and beliefs of everyone around you and to always stick with that choice no matter what. Many situations …show more content…

The film Mean Creek was very interesting and different. The film really displays really strong points to the question of decisions and the amount of choices that each character has to make makes this film a very good picture to help my argument. Throughout the film, we see the choice of either going with the plan to prank George or to call the prank off. They decided to stick with the plan and to me, it feels like the director was trying to make it so most of the group felt like they shouldn't do it but one person should. It supports my question because it turned out to be the wrong decision because it helped no one except for the revenge Marty wanted on George for what he said about his dad. Furthermore with Marty, we see throughout the film he is always making poor decisions. I think that the director made his character very stubborn and always made his choices so that it is always influenced by either his brother or his dad. Marty role to the movie and question is that he is the character that always make the poor decision because of people around him and that he never thought about how it would affect the people around …show more content…

In the beginning of the film we see Sam getting bullied and to get his bully back him for what he did him and his brother’s friend plan to prank his bully. This decision right here may be a great decision at first since we see that Sam’s bully is very mean and that he deserves it, but what we find during the film is that he has mental issues. This prank that Sam made up is now trying to be called off because of Sam trying to make a good decision based on what he thinks will happen to the people around him. To close this, Sam ends up thinking of the right decision of not trying to prank George but the final outcome is Marty sticking with the plan and ends up affecting the group of people around him with the death of

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