Lou Anne is responsible for Emilio’s fate ‘Dangerous Minds’ is a film directed by an acclaimed director, John N Smith, which was released in 1995. The film demonstrates how an ex- marine female teacher changed the perception of many young juvenile delinquents through helping them understand the value of education. Within the film, a prideful teenage student, Emilio, living in a ‘broken home’ was murdered by a ‘psychotic crack head.’ His fate was caused by the principal, himself and society that had made him feel isolated and unable to communicate his feelings. Later in the film, before Emilio’s life was taken, he was told to go to Mr Grandy for help by Lou Anne. Lou Anne has assisted Emilio to go to Mr Grandy for help as he has more power to stop him from getting killed. However, when Emilio arrived to Mr Grandy’s office, he had ‘sent him away’ because ‘he didn’t knock.’ This explains how Mr Grandy is an ignorant principal who is unable to …show more content…
Many times in the film, Emilio had rejected or attempted to reject those who try to help him through rough times. Before he was sent to Lou Anne through Angela’s help, they had fought as Emilio insisted that no one could help him. When Angela wanted to talk to Lou Anne about Emilio, he had responded ‘there is nothing to talk about.’ This shows how Emilio does not want help from others and chooses to not talk his problem out to individuals who considerably want to help him. However Lou Anne still intended to take him home and help him. Lou Anne allowed him to stay at her house to discuss the issue all night and to gain his trust. Yet, Emilio rejects Lou Anne’s help, he quotes ‘man, you don’t understand.’ This shows that Emilio has chosen not to want help and avoids the topic as he does not want to respond to Lou Anne the details. Thus, Emilio made false choices in life that had bought his fate as he rejects help from both his girlfriend and teacher by avoiding the
“He tells Lourdes she didn’t care enough about her children to stay with them in Honduras. He berates Lourdes for leaving him with a father she knew was irresponsible “(Nazario 197). Even when Enrique travels all this way to be with his mom, he is still not able to forgive her for leaving him and thinking money could replace her presence. Enrique travels to the United States because he believes, by being with her this will automatically undo all the damage. The sad reality, is Enrique and Lourdes have become strangers to each other. Lourdes hardly called and when she did there were never answers that would satisfy Enrique. This is why when they finally meet each other, they have conflicts because they don’t understand each other. This is because Lourdes has missed out on Enrique’s entire childhood. Enrique and Lourdes are both upset; Enrique because it didn’t meet the perfect family expectations that he had fantasized in his head for all these years, and Lourdes would see her children as not being appreciative of all that she did. These wounds will be lifelong, meanwhile money is only temporary and can come and go as time
...rest became a nightmare. Enrique’s time apart from his mother made them more like “strangers” than family. Filled with anger stemming from the years apart from one another, he refused to obey his mother’s wishes to live healthier. While lost in family chaos, he turned back to his addiction of drugs crashing his dream of a perfect family dynamic. Though his dream became a nightmare, he was able to achieve it through one core trait where his inner strength help drive him to not give up his dream of seeing his mother. This signifies that if a person is willing to work hard to achieve their dream through diligence, it can be met. Though the outcome may not be what one hoped for, being able to say you accomplished something is soul-pleasing. His success in making it to the U.S. regardless of many downfalls satisfies one missing piece in his broken puzzle of a life.
Like many other migrants, Enrique had many troubles with his mother too. When Enrique first arrived to the U.S., Enrique and his mother’s relationship was going well. Lourdes was proud of Enrique for finding a job as a painter and sander. Lourdes would always brag to her friends that Enrique is her son and that he’s big and a miracle. However, Enrique starts going to a pool hall without asking Lourdes’s permission which makes her upset. Enrique often yells obscenities and mother tells him not to, but Enrique tells Lourdes that nobody can change who he is.
The book Readicide by Kelly Gallagher is the ugly truth of the policies adopted in the school system to prioritized test taking strategies for the most part of the day and killing the enjoyment of students reading. The author points out that students’ reading has shifted negatively and the reading percentage has decreased. Students hate to read and classic novels are slowly vanishing from classrooms. The findings to Gallagher’s discoveries are research based and heartbreaking as the movement of standardized testing has been reinforced in most states. There are too many standards to teach and teachers are held accountable for students testing performance. Therefore, educators are forced to do test preps where students are provided with facts to be memorized and lack of comprehension. The author emphasized that students are no longer able to choose a book for the enjoyment of reading. Students’ interests are no longer taken into consideration. Students are reading less and less at school to make time for test prep. Gallagher says that as an educator and parent young
On his eighth attempt, Enrique finally makes it to a camp by the Rio Grande. His mother pays a smuggler to bring him safely across the river without being caught by the U.S. border patrol. Finally, he is reunited with his mother whom he hasn't seen in over a decade. His expectation that being with his mother would solve all his problems was soon shattered. Lourdes expects respect for everything she has done for him but is met with only Enriques resentment for leaving him. They fight constantly. Enrique returns to using
In “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, the narrator attempts to understand the relationship between humans and nature and finds herself concluding that they are intertwined due to humans’ underlying need to take away from nature, whether through the act of poetic imagination or through the exploitation and contamination of nature. Bishop’s view of nature changes from one where it is an unknown, mysterious, and fearful presence that is antagonistic, to one that characterizes nature as being resilient when faced against harm and often victimized by people. Mary Oliver’s poem also titled “The Fish” offers a response to Bishop’s idea that people are harming nature, by providing another reason as to why people are harming nature, which is due to how people are unable to view nature as something that exists and goes beyond the purpose of serving human needs and offers a different interpretation of the relationship between man and nature. Oliver believes that nature serves as subsidence for humans, both physically and spiritually. Unlike Bishop who finds peace through understanding her role in nature’s plight and acceptance at the merging between the natural and human worlds, Oliver finds that through the literal act of consuming nature can she obtain a form of empowerment that allows her to become one with nature.
Chapter Four dramatizes Lou Ann’s desire to both live in familiar surroundings with her family and to live with the absent Angel. Lou Ann’s mother and grandmother annoy her, but she feels sad to see them go. Angel has left her, and she feels tempted to fall back on her provincial, comfortable childhood. Still, she recognizes that she has become more sophisticated than her relatives, who call Angel a heathen because he is Mexican and express no interest in seeing Arizona. Although the presence of Granny Logan and Ivy comforts Lou Ann, she realizes that she cannot live with them again. She decides to stay in Tucson, and this choice represents a commitment to experiencing the world and living independently. Her decision to stay in Tucson represents
In the featured article, “Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy,” the author, Judith Butler, writes about her views on what it means to be considered human in society. Butler describes to us the importance of connecting with others helps us obtain the faculties to feel, and become intimate through our will to become vulnerable. Butler contends that with the power of vulnerability, the rolls pertaining to humanity, grief, and violence, are what allows us to be acknowledged as worthy.
Author Christine Mitchell’s “When Living is a Fate Worse Than Death” told the story of a girl Haitian named Charlotte. Charlotte was born with her brain partially positioned outside of her cranium which had to be removed or she would have not survived. Her skull had to be concealed by a wrap in order not to cause further damage. Charlotte was born with less brain cells which allowed her only to breath and not feel much of the pain. Charlotte’s parents thought that the doctor’s in Haiti did not know what was best for their daughter. The doctors in Haiti thought Charlotte should not be resuscitated, undergo anymore horrible treatments and die peacefully. Charlotte’s parents were not happy with the doctor’s guidelines and thought the United States medical care would have better technology and could save their daughter. Charlotte’s parents bought her a doll which
In the book Deadly by Julie Chibbaro there were many themes that were analyzed and illustrated throughout the book. There were only three that catches the eye love can be blind, death can hurt and oppression of women. These themes stood out the most because this book take place in somewhere in the 1900’s because in that era there were many disease taking place in New York. Such as the typhoid, Yellow fever, small pox and other contagious diseases that cause many deaths and also when the Germ theory was just a theory not a law. This book mainly talks about Prudence, Mr. Sopher, and Marm especially but there are others such as Dr. bakers, Jonathan this book talks about how typhoid was carried by an Irish Woman named Mary Mallon and the disease
He understands complex concepts that only mature people understand, like empathy. Camila shows up to Arturo 's apartment out of nowhere after visiting Sammy. Arturo said " 'But why see him? ' 'Because I 'm in love with him '"(155). Arturo wonders why Camila is still visiting Sammy if he hates her and abuses her. After she responds with "because I 'm in love with" he understands and doesn 't question her any further. He is able to understand so quickly as opposed to before because he able to empathize now. Before in the beginning of the book, he wasn’t able to understand the concept of empathy. Arturo empathizes with Camila because he knows what it 's like to love someone and knows that you do anything for the person you love even you if you get hurt. Arturo loves Camila exactly the same way Camila loves Sammy so he understands. The final event that shaped Arturo and made him into what he is at the end of the novel is when Camila goes crazy and wanders off into the desert. Arturo says "I carried the book a hundred yards into the desolation, towards the southeast. With all my might I threw it far out in the direction she had gone. Then I got into the car, started the engine, and drove back to Los Angeles"(198). Arturo shows his level of maturity by being able to hand the situation here. He just lost the woman he loved but he is able to handle the situation with a level headed fashion. He gets closure
The novella, The Body, written by Stephen King is quintessential for portraying the overarching coming of age theme, however within this theme a more specific theme of innocence vs. experience is present. This theme can be seen within the book’s plot, symbols, and Chris Chamber’s character. Taking a look at the historical time period of when this novella was written, and taking a look at the biographical history of Stephen King himself helps the reader to understand why this particular approach to the theme was chosen. The novella itself travels with four young boys as they begin their journey in search of a dead body, and along the way they not only discover the cruelty of the real world, but they also face the cruelty that can be see within
"War is always, in all ways, appalling." This is how author Gary Paulsen describes war in his novel Soldier's Heart. Soldier's Heart is what we now know as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Paulsen displayed many examples of appalling events in Soldier's Heart. Some events were from deaths of fellow men, or traumatic experiences. Many of these events have scarred many soldiers around the world. Here are a few examples of scarring, appalling events included in Gary Paulsen's novel, Soldier's Heart.
...o described him as pale and complaint, and his confusion and frustration is clearly stated in when Lou says "she wants to go to the city" on. From that point on Lou is quite unsure what to do, his life seems to lose meaning. As he come to terms with his loss
When Elena knocked on Eugene’s green door, she had a lot of hope to study with Eugene and getting to know him better. But when Eugene’s mom answered the door, she told Elena to leave and that she was not welcome in Eugene’s home. “‘What’s wrong? Didn’t you hear what I said?’ She seemed very angry, and I finally snapped out of my trance. I tu...