Unit 1 - Drama Exploration of the theme ‘Peer Pressure’ - Documentary Response To present the theme of Peer Pressure, I’ve used the stimuli of the 1953’s Case of Derek Bentley. He was a 19-year-old with a mentality of a 11-year-old, due to the bad injury he experienced during the Blitz in WWII. This lack of mentality gives him the innocence of a child with the physical features of a man. He was unable to think as an adult and often gets aid from his sister to go through his daily life. Due to his parent’s very strong will for him to go out and explore the outside world, Derek often kept himself in and sat around in his room, smoke and read comics, isolating himself from the outside world because he was afraid of it, showing the amount of stress he receives from his parents and peer pressure in such ways.
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
Joe’s father falls into a deep black hole of no return and in the end takes his own life in his shed. As a result, Joe learns nothing from his father except for the feeling of abandonment and how suicide is the ‘easy way out’. Joe feels cheated by his father too. Elijah and Walt, having both experienced Post Traumatic Stress have come to forgive themselves and have used Joe and Thao to finally let themselves free and in Walt’s situation something that has been bottling up for years and years. From this, both young boys learn about courage, the preciousness of life and about forgiveness.
There is nothing he can do about it until Monday, leaving him the whole weekend to contemplate his possibilities. This situation makes his reminisce about his own fathers passing of cancer harder because all he remembers is how much pain he suffered and the guilt that he wasn’t there while he was dying. When he mentions this to his mother her reaction is the most important quote in the film, “It doesn’t matter how he died, your father’s death was not the sum of his life, it doesn’t matter how life ends it matters how it was.” Nick’s life had been carefree, his work as a photographer had enabled him to travel around the world with no responsibilities. This changed when he had come back home to help out his mother and as he mentions, “I hung round cose I was a bit worried about mum, I even brought a place as an investment for the future. I thought I would live in it for awhile before I go back overseas.” This quote lets us know that in truth Nick is really looking for someone to share his life with and offer his him support whilst dealing with his cancer.
His teachers would say he would go nowhere in life, his parents would fight continuously and he found it very difficult to make friends. Tim Burton dropped out of school when he was 15 years old. Despite all of Tim’s childhood problems, Tim has managed to incorporate them and his life values into his films, which is how he has had such a long term success as a movie director. One of Burton’s most successful films is the movie Edward Scissor hands. The movie is about a man named Edward who has scissors for hands and tries to fit into the ‘perfect society’.
He got the real experience of joy and devastation instead of just seeing it behind the protection of his castle walls. Lastly, Gilgamesh learned how much his people worked and had to suffer because of him. At the end of the book, he looks at the wall his people have built for him and sees how much effort is really put into everything that seemed so small and easy to him before. The elders also supported him, gave him good advice and moral support. Gilgamesh never thought about how hard his people had it, and he would have continued to think that they had it easier than they really did.
I fought with my classmates on a daily basis. They wanted me to stay quiet when the non-Indian teacher asked for answers, for volunteers, for help. We were Indian children who were expected to be stupid.” At such a young age being different can be tough. By referring to himself in the third person Alexie was able to pretend that all the ridicule he had gone through, had happened to someone else, ironically repressing his memories of being an Indian boy on a reserve. With perseverance and dedication Alexie was able to save his own life and break down the doors of the stereotype of being just another uneducated Indian boy.
One of the characters in the novel “There Are No Children Here” did a lot of bad things that his mind didn’t accept just for the purpose to be accepted by his team. “Terence wanted to fit in, to be accepted by his peers “and the meaning of that is all of Terence intention in doing the stuff he did was for fitting in. Terence Lafayette older brother who grow up in the projects wanted to confirm to what other people in there did so he started doing armed robbery, joined a gang, and gave into the peer pressure because his desire was to belong to that place and that group of people. However he knew that the route he wanted to take wasn’t the best for him but he still took it anyway and the reason was his desires to be accepted by others. In 2000’s teenage society most of the teenagers confirm too many things because they want to fit in.
So, it is no surprise that the same process happened over and over. The settlers took advantage of the Native Americans and their ways because the Europeans thought the natives were handing it all over to them. It is hard to believe that the natives trusted the whites in the first place, but they basically helped the settlers conquer the land they inhabited. When children are taught about the battles fought against the Native Americans, they are made to seem barbaric, but they are far from that. They are kind and gentle people that have respect for
He was once a newspaper boy but being unable to read he wouldn’t know how to advertise the news. He also went into the match business but he would end up burning all his matches just to survive a cold winter night. As time went on he finally settled in with a shoe shining business. Through Dick’s personality and charm he meets many different people that inspire him and change his life. The earliest person that impacts Dick’s life is a young lad named Frank.