Peter, who is African American, finds himself walking on the highway after running from a police chase where he and his friend Anthony (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) attempted to steal a Navigator truck from Cameron Thayer (Terrence Howard). Officer Hanson, who is Caucasian, pulled over and offered to give him ride to where he needed to go. Both men engage in a candid conversation that quickly becomes a life or death situation that gets out of line. Peter begins talking to Hanson about how he likes the country music that he is playing, but Hanson dismisses the notion by laughing, because he thinks that Peter is just trying to make conversation. Peter then looks at the dashboard where he sees a religious figurine, the Saint Christopher figurine, he begins to laugh because he carries the same Saint Christopher figurine in his pocket everywhere he goes for good luck.
The descriptions of the motorcycle and the “greasy character,” both produce the tough image that the narrator, Jeff, and Digby yearn for, whereas the narrator’s mother’s “whining” station wagon does not (125, 127). When the narrator, Jeff, and Digby retreat to the woods and the lake after their attempted rape, the narrator’s car is demolished and trashed by the angry greasy man, and two “blond types [wearing] fraternity jackets” that appear in a Trans-Am. The demolition of the narrator’s car symbolizes how weak and vulnerable he is, like a little school boy getting beaten up by an older, tougher bully, and takes away whatever “bad” boy image he had left. After emerging from their hide outs in the lake, the boys return to their car the next morning and are greeted by two
The man looked up through the smoky car and mouthed the word “what”? The man slowly rolled his window down and Lee spoke again except this time he only got as far as the word “you” before the man open fired on him. At first Lee thought it was fireworks with the 4th of July having just past but soon reality set in that he was actually being shot right in his driveway for no reason at all. Mostly everyone has heard about gangs and what they do and represent. Usually people think gangs are just society’s problems, and label them as killers and drug dealers.
Evelyn Cortes Crash The movie is about issues of race and social concerts that cause a group of strangers in the city of Los Angeles, California, to physically and emotionally collide with one another. The characters each have their own dilemmas that they are trying to deal with. The movie shows a lot of racism tension between groups and the tendency to cause hurt or pain towards another race. Finally all character’s roles tie in together and eventually lead to a finale that allows the characters to discover each others roles in the situations. One of the characters are two White police officers, one being a racist, and the other disgusted by his partners behavior.
When the police arrived at the scene Peter gets away leaving only Anthony and Cameron in the car. Because of the incident with Ryan and Hansen Cameron gets angry and verbally assaults the police officers when they asked him to get out of the car. Hansen told the police officers that he knew Cameron and persuaded them to let him go with a warning. Cameron Stopped to look at Anthony and told him “You embarrass me, you embarrass yourself.” In conclusion, Cameron is trying to make Anthony understand that they are consequences to his actions. What Anthony did make people believe that African American males are more likely to do crime and are gangbangers.
Similarly, the title “Give” suggests an attitude. The word could be interpreted as an aggressive demand or a cry for help. In the poem the character is both hostile and pleading in a desperate attempt to get attention because of the way in which he feels he has been ignored by society. Although both poems feature characters shunned by society they are written from contrasting points of view. ‘The Clown Punk’ is written from the view point of a father who is driving “home” through the “shonky” part of town.
“Holy crap I am so getting a ticket.” “Is there a reason why you were driving so fast?” He then asked me. “Well”, I replied, “To be honest I was trying to get here to help the guys load all our gear and quads, so they didn’t have to do it by themselves. Also, I am so used to driving the truck with the speedometer being off that I didn’t think much of it driving the car. That’s my fault though for not paying attention, I apologize.” He gave me a foolish look like what a stupid blonde, then he looked at Dallas. “She’s telling the truth, the truck is off.” Dallas piped up.
As the main character grows wary of the predicament he is in, he prepares precautions to blend himself in as one of the thugs. It was ironic when the man’s act of safeguarding himself against the petty thugs (by pretending to have stolen his own car) ended up with his demise by the hands of a police officer. It was ironic that a man living the perfect, honest existence would find himself intermingling with the stereotypical street thugs, driving his Mercedes Benz; in stark contrast with his surroundings. It was ironic that a police officer had killed him in the first place. Judging solely on stereotypes and not giving in any perceptive thinking, the inexperienced cop based the man’s looks as a criminal’s, and the motion of searching for a wallet as the reaching for a
Throughout the movie different members of the team encounter multiple acts of racism. In one scene of the movie the team is driving down a road when they come across a lynching mob which they soon discover is burning a black man’s body. Scared out of their minds, they try to quietly back the car up and drive away from the mob but when one of the mob members sees the black people in the car the whole mob starts to chase down the car. The debaters get away in the end but are all still emotionally affected and shaken by what they had seen. So in the final debate of the movie James L. Farmer jr. tells the audience about what they saw uses this awful memory to help their side of the debate.
He is driving his mom’s car and his friends are rolling joints and doing things they consider bad like yelling out the window. On their drive, they run into a 1957 Chevy they recognize as their friends’, Tony Lovett. They think that Tony is with a girl getting intimate and Digby decides to flash the headlights and honk the horn to make a joke at Tony. This is also an example of arrogance and misunderstanding of being bad. As they see a figure emerging from the car, the narrator realizes that this is not Tony and quickly his mindset changes to fear and