A Beautiful Boy is based on a true story about a married couple who is devastated based on what their son has done. Their only son was a college student who decides to go on a rampage and shoot everyone at the school including himself. He ends up shooting 12 students and a professor. With his parents worried watching the news they don’t think much of it, they are just worried their son might be in trouble or scared. The parents, Kate and Bill get a visit from a detective, letting them know their son was the one causing the ruckus at school. Kate Carroll the mother, feels like the whole situation that her son caused was her fault. She blames herself for not loving him enough. Kate always thought that they weren’t responsible for his actions, …show more content…
she thought she gave her son everything. Bill Carroll the father on the other hand, knew there was something wrong, but he mentioned that maybe they were terrible parents. Feeding into what the media had said about them, he feels like they made him depressed and angry. He felt his son was a murdered, but he was angry based on what the media had said about his son and himself as a parent. While Kate and Bill argue about their son, they both blame each other on their son’s actions. While on the verge of both almost divorcing each other they still wonder why their son did what he did. Some aspects of disenfranchised grief that was shown in the film was a disaster because it was a mass shooting at the school.
His parents more than anything went through emotional problems such as anger, afraid, shocked, sad to name a few. The parents mostly felt angry about the situation. The mother had self-doubt about her son. While the father felt angry, there were parts in the film where he was angry because of what his son did. For example, when he was arguing with his wife Kate, he mentioned that maybe it would have been better if they never had him. In another part of the film, when he goes back to work he sees everyone staring at him and all he is thinking about is what his son did, and he sees his co-workers whispering to each other and looking at Bill like if it was his fault. He’s angry when they break into his son’s room while no one was home. The mother was also angry when she was trying to sell the home people had just came into the home to take pictures of her son’s …show more content…
room. A secondary loss that Katie and Bill (Sammy’s parents) suffered from is the loss of their son.
For others that might have not been shown in the film was the students and professor who lost their life. There was a sudden death because it was a moment that came to a shock for everyone, but mostly the parents. They didn’t know what to think or say about the shooting. They were distressed because they would have never thought their son could be capable of going on a rampage. Another secondary loss was their home. After the shooting the media found out where they lived and there were reporters crowding their home. They had to leave their home for some time and isolate themselves to not be bothered with what was going on because they didn’t know themselves. Their marriage was also going into shambles, not knowing what to do or say to each other all they did was blame each
other. None of the parents were responsible for Sammy’s actions. Not because they didn’t show him enough love or because they weren’t around. Sammy was responsible for his own actions because the parents didn’t know what he was going through. He never talked to his parents or anyone about how he felt. Sammy was the only one responsible because he was old enough to know what he was doing. His dad felt like he knew something was wrong because something felt off by the tone in his voice the night before the shooting. His parents showed him unconditional love. But he was suffering from depression and it was his decision to not tell anyone. In conclusion, the film was great way to show a background story of a disaster. No one ever gets to hear what the parents go through when tragic events like this happens. Especially when it’s from a mass murder. It’s normal to have the parents feel angry and feel like they didn’t do enough for their son, but they will always get attacked personally from others especially the media. The media will always try and portray something different and will always make something bigger then what it is. In this case, it was a huge event that happened, but when saying that the parents had everything to blame for, was wrong to say.
Pretty Boy’s early life was normal, he had a loving family. He was born on February 3, 1904 Adairsville, Georgia. He had multiple brothers and sisters. His family moved to a farm in Oklahoma, and were very poor. Because his family were going through a depression, as most of the farmers were during the “Dust Bowl”, he turned to crime to get money. Pretty Boy robbed a post office and stole $350 in pennies; later getting caught. He then realized he liked the life of getting quick, easy money. When Pretty Boy was 20 years old, he married Ruby Hardgraves and moved to St. louis. His son was born while he was in prison for 4 years for
He continually shows his inability to accept blame and fully believes his problems are a result of another person’s actions, with the first person possibly being the one who gave him his name. He was very rebellious and would not listen or cooperate with anyone. An example of this was his mother's concern over what was becoming of him and her decision to take him to church. “When he saw the big lighted church, he jerked out of his grasp and ran”. It was clear his mother had lost all control of him at this time.
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction is a best selling book written by a famous journalist David Sheff. After the book was published in 2008, Starbucks Company chose Beautiful Boy to be one of the books that can be bought in its coffee shops. Beautiful Boy is a memoir written by David Sheff, who is a father of a substance-addicted son Nic. This book shows the perspective of a parent who struggles with son’s addiction and wants to bring him back to the family, along with father’s desire to protect family from destructive behavior and influence of drug-addicted son.
The columbine massacre the day where no one is safe in school or out of school. The columbine massacre is about two students named Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris both seniors 17 years old both two weeks before graduating they killed 12 students, one teacher, and 21 injured to their shooting on April 20, 1999. Both Dylan and Eric were some believe they were bullied by the sport teams in their school so they planned to kill the people who bullied them and other mostly anyone who gets in their way but that wasn’t really why the FBI he said that there target was everyone no one in pacify we will not get in to more details now. Dylan and Eric were both intelligent boys with solid parents and a good home and both had brothers younger than them. They played soccer, baseball, and both enjoyed to work on computers. Both boys were thinking on commit suicide on 1997 but instead started to plan a massacre in 1998 a year before it happened. Then the two boys had got into some trouble for breaking into a van on January 30, 1998 trying to steal some fuses and wires for bombs for them to make, but they got caught in trouble. So the court put them in a program called the juvenile diversion program, but even if they were there they were still planning the massacre and the court also put Eric in some angry management classes and people believe it worked but it didn’t he just did it to look like it work and both boys made it look like they were really sorry but they weren’t. Dylan and Eric both really hated everyone in their school and the court as well after they got caught breaking in to that van that’s when they really started to plan the massacre more and that’s when Harris started he’s journals no one really knows way but they didn’t hate a hand...
Having faith in something other than one’s self is necessary to survival in trying situations, resigning to a life without a greater purpose results in the loss of hope.
I was watching TV with my friends kids and attempting to find a movie they might enjoy. Unluckily for the children I had to pass by consecutive news channels. At first I passed by quickly through the first three channels but then I noticed the rest of the news channels that I did happen to glimpse had headlines saying school shooting. I couldn't help but watch the news for a bit to fully understand the situation. I discovered that many young children at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut had been shot and died. I was saddened because of those children and parents who had to live through that experience.
Because of him working in the warehouse and having to put his dreams on hold, it seems to make him bitter and rude to his mother. His mother puts a lot of pressure on him with working and making the money to pay the bills. Also his mother is always getting mad when he goes out. In the play Tom snaps at his mother one night after she’s nags him about going out, some of the stuff he said wasn’t necessary, but we all say things we don’t mean when we are upset. His mother does work by trying to sell magazines, but during this time period the Great Depression was going on so it was hard on everyone with money.
There are many different types of school violence. The one that gets the most public attention is school shootings. The term school shooting is basically defined as an act where a student, school staff member, or intruder from the outside commits an act on the school campus. One of the most well known school shootings took place at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colorado. On a Tuesday April 20,1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, students at Columbine High School, took the lives of thirteen other students before taking the lives of their own. When we think of events like this, we have many questions that go through our mind. Thoughts like why did this happen, could it have been prevented, and how did impact the individuals involved just to name a few. There are probably several more thoughts that go through the minds of a nation when we hear about traumatic evens such as a school shooting.
This film has had an enormous impact on me. In the span of roughly four years, my parents divorced, I lost a cousin, an uncle, my grandmother, and our family pet. I was in a lot of emotional pain. At that time, I had an adolescent understanding of love and relationships and was confused and hurt about what was happening in my life. Part of me wanted to erase all discomfort I was feeling. I talked about this film for weeks and it rapidly became one of my favorites.
When the shooting started the faculty tried to evacuate the school before anyone was injured and it was said that it was utter chaos by some of the students and some off the students had no idea what was going on. One student, Alicia Zimmer said "there was a girl near her that was covered in blood and another that had blood on her arm." She also said "when the shots were being fired it was almost like a cap gun."
For example, his mother. In the text, it says, “This time, struggling with the shaking of her voice, she said, ‘Darling, you do not know what it has been like, all these years.’ By which he understood, finally, that he was not important to her. Not that important” (66). Ian always assumed that his mother’s personality was nothing more, and when she announces that she will be leaving with another man, Ian feels betrayed by her. He does not accept her for putting her own happiness before family, an action he expects any good mother should. Ian also knows that his father wants Ian to stay with him in Struan, even if he says he wants Ian to do what he wants and does not want to tie him down. He thinks to himself, “He looked exhausted. Was he ever going to get over it? And if he didn’t, how could Ian leave him? The thought swamped him with guilt, and the guilt made him angry. You shouldn’t have to feel pop guilty about living your own life. You shouldn’t have to be responsible for your parents’ happiness. It wasn’t fair” (110). Although Ian knows his father is trying his best, he still feels burdened by the pressure his father needs to endure and blames his mother for leaving him. Ian tries his best to do his part and help out at the clinic, but he feels like his own happiness is obstructed by the need to help his
For the past few weeks in class we have been focusing on the topic of gender and sexism. Gender is what traits an individual identifies with. Sexism is prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination that is typically against women. Through the films Boys Don’t Cry and Courage under Fire we explored how gender and sexism can be a reality and struggle for some every day. The films did a respectable job of showing different versions of sexism. In Boys Don’t Cry we saw sexism against an individual who is transgender and in Courage under Fire we saw a female officer in the military that experienced sexism.
On April 20th, 1999, two students, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, launched a deadly assault on Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado. Armed with a rifle, shotguns, and numerous explosives they wreaked havoc on their school. In the end twenty-four people were injured and fifteen, including the shooters, were dead. It was a tragedy that echoed around the country and will be remembered as the worst school shooting in American history. Gus Van Sant took this incident and decided to interpret it in his own artistic vision. “Elephant” is not a drama; it is not a documentary. It is just a free-floating meditation on the tragedy. The film puts you right in the moment, in real time, with the victims and the killers while doubling back on itself, making chronological jumps and repeating its narrative from different perspectives. It is purposely made to be vague so as to leave the viewer perplexed but, at the same time, st...
One flashback is “I (the boy) was drunk as a skunk when I heard the old pickup pull up and saw him jump up and head for me. […] He (the father) shoved me several times toward the front door. […] He handed it (the glass of salt water) to me and ordered me to drink. I drank. I vomited.” In brief, the boy gets drunk and his dad hurts him and forces him to throw up. This flashback gives some interesting backstory on the relationship between the father and son. They clearly do not have a harmonious relationship, as the father was not at all kind or supporting, quite the opposite actually.
Social contrasts and gender boundaries create oppression and injustice amongst the characters in Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy. This injustice affects the composure and behaviour of the characters throughout the novel and it appears in every aspect throughout Funny Boy. Oppression emerges within the Chelvaratnam family, who are displeased by Arjie's "tendencies", and the likelihood that he will grow up "funny." Oppression also surfaces between the Sinhalese and Tamils with ethnic riots in Sri Lanka's society. Even when Arjie is not involved, he still manages to appear at the center of every oppressive and unjust situation.