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Hugh Wingo Family Structure

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Not everyone is the same or handle everything the same when it's comes to different or the same situation. People sometimes run and hide from the situation because they are not good with dealing with or know how to handle it the best way others tends to try and fix it. We run because at time it's the right thing to do this is shown in the movie prince of tide. Every characters has been affect by each other in positive or negative way and has undergo a lot of changes that's crater to their development. Theories and like the Erikson stages, said EThe main characters Tom Wingo has family problems and tried to several things to escaping. Along with the minor characters Savannah Wingo. The Wingo family has suffer an event that is out of the norm …show more content…

The whole nightmare ended when Luke came in with a rifle and shot two of the men. Lila stabbed the third. Lila stabbing the third man in the back is seem to symbolize she a backstabber to her son tom she can’t be trusted because of all the lies and secreted they couldn’t bear. Being rape by another man doesn’t necessary been that he is gay it could be that it is just power wanting another man to feel the humiliate he felt or just want to hurt and humiliate them in general. It’s make them feel more powerful, something the lack. This also set a tone to Erikson stage trust vs. mistrust and intimacy versus isolation. Tom has basically learn who he must trust and not to trust. Tom easily understood why he should distrust; even hate the perpetrators of this crime, they broke in and rape them that is an understandable reason why to not to trust them. Tom didn’t get why his mother would denial it in trying to cope it with her own anguish. Denialing it seem to make tom to consider her self-center. His mother Lila didn’t help much with the healing process she told him not to say anything to his father at

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