This Analysis Paper is an analysis of social problems an issues presented in the film. The film under analysis in this paper is "What 's Eating Gilbert Grape" (1993). The topics used as a lens for analysis are family, social roles, deviance, and social groups. This paper will present numerous examples of these social issue topics as they are displayed in the film. Gilbert Grape is the protagonist and also the narrator in this film. He lives in a town where nothing ever happens. The only time that the police have something to do is when his developmentally delayed brother climbs the water tower. Gilbert 's mother is obese and a recluse ever since her husband killed himself in the basement of the house he had built. Gilbert holds down a job …show more content…
In the beginning of the film, we are introduced to everyone by the narrator. Gilbert, who is the main protagonist, is the primary caretaker of his younger brother who is mentally impaired. He is the one responsible for keeping up with the repairs on the house that his father built. Gilbert has two sisters and a brother. He says that his older sister, Amy, is more like a mother than their real mom is. She does all the cooking and takes care of their mom who is morbidly obese. Every year, Gilbert takes Arnie to watch the silver campers drive by; it is their own little brotherly tradition. It seems as if only one who knows how to handle Arnie and is able to take care of him properly. They have developed a deep bond that no one is able to understand; this bond is a large part of their lives. Gilbert bathes him every night and brings him to work with him. Throughout the whole movie, Arnie follows Gilbert around. However, once in a while he is able to sneak off and climb the water tower. The first time we witness Arnie climb the water tower in the film, the only way that he would come down was if Gilbert sang a short phrase to him. This phrase was, "Match in the gas tank. Boom, boom." I 'm not sure why this made Arnie want to come down, but it did. After the incident, Gilbert explains to the police that it will be the last time that Arnie climbs the water tower. As they are walking away, a few kids are standing around poking fun at …show more content…
The first deviant act that we witness in the film is the affair that Gilbert has with Betty Carver, who is a married woman with two children. She sends a note to the grocery where Gilbert work saying that she needs a delivery. Gilbert already knows what this means; she wants him to come over because her husband isn 't home. When Gilbert gets there, she tells the children to go outside and then the kissing commences. Their affair continues until about halfway through the film, when Gilbert meets Becky. The second deviant act happens right after Gilbert and Betty get interrupted by her husbands unexpected arrival; Arnie snuck off and climbed the water tower. This is deviant because you can get in serious trouble if you were to climb the water tower in our town. Another example of deviance is when Gilbert and his friends Tucker and Bobby are sitting at the diner. Bobby is a coroner and Tucker asked him if he ever thought about fooling around with the dead bodies. This is deviant because necrophilia is a crime in America and pretty much all around the world. Throughout the entire movie, except for the end, Gilbert makes snide remarks about his mother and lets other make fun of her as well. This is deviant because it is disrespectful and hurtful to his mother, even though she doesn 't know that it is happening. You don 't go walking around disrespecting your mom and making fun of her because of her weight, it 's not right.The
George constantly reminds Lennie that he would not be struggling if he wasn’t taking care of him (STEINBECK, 1977). Similarly, in the film What's Eating Gilbert Grapes, Gilbert is a teenager struggling to provide for his family consisting of two sisters, a mentally handicapped brother and an obese mother. Gilbert is held up with responsibilities making him have no time for a social life (DEWIS, 2011).
Mr. Leo wrote this piece not only for informative purposes, but also to convince a particular audience that, whether intentional or not, characters have taken on harmful images some may find offensive. He is not speaking only to his fairly educated, loyal readers, but also to those who may have taken part in producing the movie. Mr. Leo makes visible to his readers what he believes to be stereotypes in the film. People may not have noticed these before, so he makes clear definitions and comparisons. To the rest of the audience, those who had a hand in making the movie, he makes a plea not to redevelop these characters in future films.
The film that interested me for this assignment was “Boyz n the Hood”. The movie was about a Los Angeles neighborhood expanding of drug and gang culture, with increasingly tragic results. It was about how one teen had family support to guide him on the right path in life regarding the social problems around him. The other two teens in the film wasn’t as fortunate and fell into the social problems of drugs, violence, and gangs; where one ended up dead.
After watching the movie “What’s eating Gilbert Grape” it focuses more on Gilbert Grape than any other characters in the movie. Gilbert Grape is a young man who resides in a small community called Endora. Gilbert at the beginning of the movie states “Describing Endora is like dancing to no music”. Gilbert’s youngest brother Arnie is soon to be 18 years old and has a developmental disability that never was disclosed in the movie. Furthermore, Bonnie Gilbert’s mother has been locked in her own home since her husband committed suicide seven years ago. Moreover, Bonnie is at the stage of stagnation. She is over-weighted and doesn’t think of doing anything for herself or for any of her children. Therefore, leaving Gilbert with the full responsibility of caring for his family especially Arnie.
For this particular assignment I have chosen the movie Django Unchained, which is a fantastic movie and I recommend it to anyone who has not yet seen it. I chose the movie Django Unchained because I believe that it exhibits the sociological theories we have covered in many different ways; and I believe that every person would apply these specific sociological theories in their own ways. The two sociological theories that I plan to apply to the movie Djano Unchained are, social conflict theory and symbolic interaction theory.
Deviance is the term that s used for the type of behavior that does not comply or rather, goes against the norms of the society. Crime is an evident example of deviance and this has been used in a great way in this film. The film revolves around Derek who chooses to leave the path of deviance
We’ve gone over many sociological concepts in class, but the three that I believe apply the most to this film are socialization, deviance, and resocialization. “What sort of world is it at
...family, could genetic discrimination really affect our future? Why did Gerome kill himself finally at the end, could he find reasons to live for a prejudiced society? Why did Gattaca present only white males as ‘in-valid’, how does this reflect stereotypes? Why society didn’t have pity for Vincent, where were the ethics and morals of society? to allow students think critically about the social justice issues presented in the movie. After class discussion, students can form into groups of four. Each group of students can identify a particular issue that they find interesting such as new type discrimination evolving “genoism”, ethics and morality of society, stereotypes, inequity between the two brothers and also consider the effects of discrimination of the characters. Students can present their chosen issues through role plays or an oral presentation to their peers.
In my sociology analysis essay I will be discussing Menace II Society. There are five concepts that I will define and use to show a broader vision of scenes from the movie which are: master status, differential association, self-conflict, stereotyping, and street crimes. Also, there will be two theories I will be discussing about the movie which are symbolic interaction theory and social conflict theory.
However, regardless what the subjects are, the definition of them are changing as the era changes. By listening too much negative information from the mass media, people's abilities of thinking, feeling are losing gradually. Babette's naively idea on challenging the whole family of preparing for the world; people's self-comfort move of buying SUV for "safety"; Jack's family buying their own satisfaction and the conversation between Jack and Murray on taking position on viewing death; they all mislead by the lopsided balance of their physical and psychological life. All those "plots" that cause those people to form the wrong perspective in life, are hocusing people from finding the truth of themselves as though providing people the psychological comfort from materiality; and it becomes the most common life type in this society.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze a movie and list five sociological concepts outlined in our textbook, Sociology A Down-To-Earth Approach, 6th edition by James M. Henslin, which was published by Pearson Education, Inc in 2015, 2013, and 2011. I have chosen the movie, “The Breakfast Club.” This is a 1985 movie directed by John Hughes. It is about five high school students that have detention on a Saturday for nine hours. The five students are played by, Emilio Estevez, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, and Anthony Michael Hall. These five students are deviant in their own particular ways and have different stereotypes. Eventually the students share personal information about their
Society is faced with various problems that hinder the development of its communities. These issues affect the society in a numerous of ways and has a major effect on the citizens of the community as well. Social adversities causes grief and is also the cause of crimes and other miscellaneous activities that occur in inequitable areas. In the film, Fruitvale Station, there are abundant amounts of these adversities and societal issues that are illustrated. Fruitvale Station is a great example of a film that shows accurate social issues that occur in today’s society. The movie demonstrates issues of inequality, racial prejudice, gang involvement and also unemployment. It also shows how the people who are forced to live with these issues, fight for survival to maintain to see another day.
The movie utilized for this assignment was What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. This movie explored the life of the Grape family consisting of Gilbert, Ellen, Arnie, Bonnie and Amy. (Hallström, Blomquist, Matalon, Ohlsson, Teper 1993). The movie reveals the struggles that the family face while raising Arnie who had a chronic mental illness (Hallström et al., 1993). This paper will discuss the priority concerns and corresponding interventions that are pertinent for the Grape family based on thorough use of the Calgary family assessment model. The focus of this papers assessment on the family will be on the functional aspect; however the structural and developmental aspects have been assessed.
As a society there are a lot of qualities that men have been socialized to uphold when it comes to how they act or react, what they support, and what they suppress. This movie produces a harsh critique of male socialization early on and continues
In this paper I am going to write about the movie “Grease.” Specifically, on the two main characters Sandy and Danny. I will be describing and analyzing their interpersonal communication, but mainly on the conflict of their communication.