Boyz N The Hood Analysis

When Muhammad was young, a thief took a very important item from him. Author Sean Gregory describes the event by saying, “Clay discovered that his red-and-white Schwinn had been stolen. A white police officer named Joe Martin was downstairs, in a boxing gym, and a crying Clay reported the theft to him. Clay swore that we would beat up whoever took it” (Gregory). However, little did he know, this would lead to the beginning of a boxing

In this essay, I will discuss how poverty, drugs, prisons and death contribute to the inescapable boundaries of suffering. The narrator—who is not named—begins the story by finding out his brother Sonny, was arrested “in a raid on an apartment downtown, for peddling and using heroin” (Baldwin 1969). Not wanting to believe it because Sonny had “always been a good boy” (Baldwin 1969), yet, deep down in his soul he was sure the city of Harlem had a firm grasp on Sonny’s life from an early age. As the narrator states “I was sure that the first time

The film Boyz N’ the hood follows the lives of a group of young African American men growing up in the hood where poverty, crime and violence are rampant. The three main characters are Darin (Dough boy), Ricky (Darin’s brother), and Tre. In this this film there are many schools of criminology’s that help explain the roots of the criminality portrayed.

When Juniot Diaz was a child, he was abused, hit, and who knows what kind of punishment he encountered. From “Nerds, Masculinity, and Art” Juniot Diaz had an interview discussing the matters of masculinity. Referring to his book, he stated that he “encountered something similar to his character Yunior as a child” and grew upon his experiences. Juniot also talks about the world of male privilege in a Latino Family. Referring to the statistic earlier, “Based on a study of a thirty-person Latino classroom, sixty percent said their parents resorted to violence when disciplining them.”

Boyz in the Hood, a film written and directed by John Singleton presents a look into the lives of three young males living the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles. The film focuses on the struggles which beset these young men as they try to build a life for themselves in this hostile environment. Presented are themes of family, racial discrimination violence among several others. However, what stands out is the role of the decent daddy played the character, Furious Styles.

Hoops Dreams : Story of two students who became basketball players. The documentary begins character development of William Gates and Arthur who lives in a poorly neighborhood and it’s called the hood or ghetto because there are many drug dealers and gangsters in Chicago. The camera shots took place where they began to film the two freshman African American students who always wanted to become a basketball player and play for the NBA.There are sound effects in every scene like if it’s a sad scene going on then there’ll be sad music to it. Arthur and William are similar by their dad leaving them when they are young.

Derik Vo Donnelle McGee MoonLight “MoonLight,” by Barry Jenkins follows a young African-American boy, Chiron’s, journey as a homosexual evolving in an impoverished environment filled with facades of masculinity, drug abuse, and homophobia. Barry Jenkins designed MoonLight in a way that the story unfolds in chapters, chapter one follows Chiron as a pre-adolescent, chapter two follows Chiron first homosexual experience in his teenage years, and chapter three follows Chiron’s facade of hyper masculinity, hiding his homosexuality after spending time in juvie for assaulting a school bully. Having a chapter based structure allows large gaps in time between the milestones of Chiron 's life. Because of those large gaps, the audience is left to fill

The Central Park Five is a documentary film that was produced by Ken Burns in the year of 2012. This documentary tells the story of five black teenage boys whose lives were changed forever when they were falsely convicted and imprisoned for brutally beating and raping a woman jogging in Central Park on the night of April 19, 1989. By creating this film, the filmmakers allowed the young men to share with the public their own accounts of that horrific night. The film exposed not only police intimidation, but the lack of evidence used to convict the five boys. Through blurbs of different newscast shown in the documentary, the viewer was also able to get a glimpse of how the crime brought about a cultural diversity causing extreme violence to erupt

The movie, narrated from Henry Hill and his wife's point of view, tells the story of the rise and fall of a young couple and their family within the New York gangster culture during the seventies and eighties. The main character, Henry is drawn into the mobster lifestyle when he is only12 years old, and he lives most of his adolescent life running guns and drugs, stealing and murdering. And yet, despite the bloody violence, cursing, and drugs, Goodfellas is a cult classic that parents enjoy passing their love for down to their children. Thousands of people enjoy this movie; they quote it, they re-watch it, they live it. Goodfellas was an extremely popular movie when it was released in 1990 raking in $46,261,759; and it has only grown in popularity since its 25th anniversary re-release in 2015.

Brief Summary The film City of God is a account of the harsh realities that existed in Rio de Janeiro during the 1960’s. The film follows the story of two boys Rocket & Li'l Zé and how they both rise out of their violent and improvised circumstances; one becoming a photographer and the other a drug dealer.

In the article “Hip-Hop Planet” by James McBride he explains first about the nightmare he has of his daughter coming home with a young reckless rapper guy with tattoos and golden teeth and McBride for a moment is taken back to the past when he was young and it comes to thought that he was in this young wanna be rappers shoes. As he goes on with life he contemplates of how his rap days are over but in time he comes to realize that he himself will still be surrounded with the cool beat sound of one rapper explaining his everyday hard life. James first time hearing hip-hop was at a party, and it escalated when one of James friend slapped a big guy who crashed the party followed by two other friends and what was strange was these guys differed

He came unannounced and made his way into the mayor’s office where he used a revolver to kill his former colleagues (Eyerman,2012). Harvey Milk will always be remembered for his social movement with gay rights. He was an important figure during his short lifetime and today. His legacy continues on through activism and memorial sites both in San Francisco City Hall and Harvey Milk Plaza.

The film takes place in Alexandria, Virginia. Where racial tensions are high and one high school is forced to integrate through all the madness. T.C Williams is the new school with the football team being the main focus. The football team has not only players but also coaches as well who are black and white and must come together. Their willingness to come together will not only help them succeed on the field but also in the community.

The film Blackboard Jungle, written and directed by Richard Brooks, depicts the reality of the desegregated all male school, North Manual Trades High School. In this film Richard Dadier receives a job as a teacher and through the film he attempts to bring order and learning in to the classroom. The two main students in this film are Artie West and Gregory Miller. Artie West is white and is portrayed as the antagonist in the film because of his complete disregard of authority. In contrast, Miller is black and is initially defiant but in the end he agrees to Dadier terms.

In Thomas Carter’s film Save the Last Dance, it serves as a modern adaption to William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The main focus of the film revolved around the difference in race between the two star-crossed lovers, Sara and Derek. Sara came from a town that had a high white population while her new city was highly populated with African Americans. Throughout the film, the two lovers learned to intertwine their differing backgrounds, whether it was their race or their style of dance, to find harmony among the two. By the use of technical and symbolic codes, the film conveyed the message that people’s background does not determine who they are or who they can surround themselves with.