Tre Styles In Boyz N The Hood

Black On Black
John Singleton director of “Boyz N the Hood” is trying to give a parallel description that explains how life was like in the projects. Throughout the movie “Boys in the Hood”, real life forms of discrimination are brought about. There is discrimination against women, mothers being discriminating against their children just because of who their father is, and African Americans being discriminating against African Americans, which is what I would like to focus upon.
In the beginning of Boys in the hood, we are introduced to character “Tre Styles”, who is known in real life as “Cuba Gooding Jr.”. Tre Styles was a very smart kid, but was constantly in trouble because of his boredom within the classroom. He would do things such as goofing off,

or day dream, or even make jokes during class. After his teacher was rudely interrupted during her lecture by tre’s joke. She asked Tre if he would like to teach the class and Tre said “ sure”. Tre was under the impression that every single living human being originated from Africa, and became physically confrontational with one of his fellow classmates. Tre began fighting the student because the student claimed he was not from Africa and threw insults at tre shortly after his statement. Tre had created a contract with his mother that stated that if he were to get into any more trouble that he would have to go and live with his dad. Due to Tre breaking his contract, he is forced to go live with his dad Furious Styles also known as in real life “Laurence Fishburne”. Shortly after arriving at his dad’s house tre is ordered to rake, the leaves off of his dads front lawn and put the leaves in two black trash bags. After he was finished raking the leaves he then went inside where his dad laid down the house rules. Once tre is informed of the household rules, he then questions his dad as to what he has to do around the house. Furious Styles then states that his job is to pay the bill, provide food for tre, and put clothes on tre’s back. Furious then explains to Tre that he is not being hard on him that he is just trying to teach him how to be responsible. After talking to tre, his father tells him that he needs to go to sleep. While tre and his father are sleeping, an intruder enters their home.

Tre gets up having to use the bathroom, not knowing that the intruder was in the home. Furious Styles hears the intruder, grabs his gun, and begins to load it. The intruder hears noise coming from the back of the house and begins to walks casually out of the door. While the intruder walks casually out of the door, Furious styles fires two rounds through his front door, that leave two huge holes within the front door. Furious styles then walk out the front door to see if the intruder was dead outside. Instead, he walks outside only to find a converse shoe from the intruder and that was it. After this incident had occurred, Furious styles called the cops hoping to receive immediate assistance. Furious Styles received the total opposite. Police officers did not arrive on scene until an hour later, one of which was eating and drinking a beverage in front of Furious styles as if he did not even care. After showing up an hour late, the officer states that they received a call about a burglary at this particular location. Furious Styles then states “yeah that was about an hour ago”. Officer Coffey also know as “Jessie Lawrence Ferguson” stated “Whoa no one

asked you about that”. Furious styles then told the office that someone had broke into his home and he shot at the intruder with his gun but the intruder got away. Officer Coffey then stated, “You mean you didn’t kill him”. Furious replied by stating that if he would have killed him that the intruder would have been in front of him. Officer Coffey then stated, “ It is a shame you didn’t kill him, it would be one less nigga out here in the streets that we would have to worry about”.
The last quote of the paragraph is an example of what is seen in our everyday life. The form of discrimination that is being portrayed is a black man discriminating against the black race. Due to the actions of others, Office Coffey has labeled the whole entire black race as bad, which is why he is discriminating against Furious Styles.

Work Cited
Boyz N the Hood. Dir. John Singleton. By John Singleton. Perf. Larry Fishburne, Cube Ice, and Cuba Gooding. Columbia Pictures, 1991.