Written in 2006 by a Lehman graduate, Angel Dillemuth, this play has to do with Cain, a younger brother to Andrew who drew Cain into using drugs just because Andrew’s girlfriend, Marissa uses drugs. Well Cain got hooked to drugs and rehabilitation couldn’t stop him from going back to his old habits. Until he finally tried living reality and leaves off his imagination-- that he’ll never be a better person without drugs, Cain insists that he and his big brother will stay in the hood for the rest of their lives. The stage production made by Chaunice Chapman is a great reflection of a lower class family renting a one bedroom apartment during the new millennium, which transmits the lives of two brothers: the younger one is a drug addict and
In one of the most powerful quotes of my selected paragraphs, Frank says a few words that carry a strong emotion: “Dad, that’s Eugene’s coffin…Wait outside another few minutes Francis. No. Don’t be a bad boy. No.”. In Frank’s younger years, he has been very obedient with his parents.
This input from the boy helps build the father and son's relationship that the whole novel is based on. Another aspect of the father and son relationship is their love they have for one another. Many of the fathers actions help exemplify the love he has for his son. Throughout the novel there a countless number of times when the father puts his son before himself. For example, the father gives his son the last of the food and water.
He is raised to act based upon what he sees and knows. Since the father is dealing with the fact of losing his loved one, it is consequently the same for the son. The father and his son are similar in the fact that they do not know how to react to each others actions. The boy does not even flinch when his father speaks to him about the dirty wig upon his head. The eight year old putting his smooth arms around his father's neck proves that the boy's strange behavior is partially due to the father's behaviors.
The author writes this story about the two brothers that grow up together into two different ways of other. The two completely different lives of two brothers contribute to the story as being safe and taking risk. The narrator is the older brother who grows up into a good future. He lives in a good house and has a stable job as being a math teacher. Also, the older brother is one of the respectable family men who always put his family as one of the top priority of his life.
Adam has finally has his father and son moment with one of his children that he is grateful to express himself to his son Cal. By saying he trusts Cal he has gain even more love and forgiveness for not being with his children for many years. Plus, Adam is able to not be like his father but instead be the opposite with just one of his children. Cal – “He though sardonically of telling him about his mother, to see how he would handle I, but he withdrew the though quickly. He didn’t think Aron could handle it at all,” (Steinbeck 586).
A major character in this story is Charles Trask. What motivates his actions is the fact that he thinks their father, Cyrus, loves his stepbrother more than him. An inner conflict that Charles has is jealousy. He would always beat Adam up when they were young teenagers but once Adam left for the Army, Charles realized that he actually missed him. Once Adam comes back, he tells Charles that he escaped from jail which makes Charles feel better about himself.
Boyz n the Hood Tre Styles lives with his mother in Inglewood, California. When Tre gets in a fight in his school one day, his teacher calls his mother and tells her she thinks Tre is inmature and lacks respect towards his fellow teachers and classmates. His mother was concerned about his future, so she decided to send Tre to live with his father in Crenshaw, California, hoping his father can teach him to become a good man. Moving in with his father wasn’t the ideal situation for young Tre. His first night at his father’s house, someone broke into the house.
I was unable to describe to Mary that her father will no longer into the room and pick her up or even tell her stories at bedtime. I also urged her brother, Edward Jr. to not try to mention it to her, but support and take care of her as best as he can. Mary was growing up and meanwhile this whole time I was telling her stories of her father and everything that happened between him and me inclusive the part with Bertha and how she burned the house down. Edward Jr. looks a younger version of his father, finally happy and married to a wonderful wife who is expecting her first son within this year. Mary enjoys going out with her friends to parties and even brings my cousin’s daughters with her.
Bullet Boy was released in 2004, it is about a young man who was recently let out of prison, Rickey the main protagonist’s body language and attitude towards getting released shows he does not want to go back to ways things were before his imprisonment. Also Rickey has a friend however does not want around no more, but feels obliged to help him because he took a scar for him. This is England is about a poor boy who lives in 1980’s England, he has a fight at school and is sent home, on his way home he meets a ‘Skinhead gang’ they make him feel better, they become good friends over time, his father died, and in my opinion Shaun see’s the head male as a father figure. From the first 10 minutes alone I can see that both of these films are social realism films and, this is because they show a realistic portrayal of what happens in Britain, and a British society. It is not futuristic or action pact however you become attached to the characters even though it was only 10 minutes I felt that the two main protagonist had a troubled road ahead.