Tre Styles In Boyz N The Hood

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Black On Black John Singleton director of “Boyz N the Hood” is trying to give a parallel description that explains how life was like in the projects. Throughout the movie “Boys in the Hood”, real life forms of discrimination are brought about. There is discrimination against women, mothers being discriminating against their children just because of who their father is, and African Americans being discriminating against African Americans, which is what I would like to focus upon. In the beginning of Boys in the hood, we are introduced to character “Tre Styles”, who is known in real life as “Cuba Gooding Jr.”. Tre Styles was a very smart kid, but was constantly in trouble because of his boredom within the classroom. He would do things such as goofing off, …show more content…

Tre gets up having to use the bathroom, not knowing that the intruder was in the home. Furious Styles hears the intruder, grabs his gun, and begins to load it. The intruder hears noise coming from the back of the house and begins to walks casually out of the door. While the intruder walks casually out of the door, Furious styles fires two rounds through his front door, that leave two huge holes within the front door. Furious styles then walk out the front door to see if the intruder was dead outside. Instead, he walks outside only to find a converse shoe from the intruder and that was it. After this incident had occurred, Furious styles called the cops hoping to receive immediate assistance. Furious Styles received the total opposite. Police officers did not arrive on scene until an hour later, one of which was eating and drinking a beverage in front of Furious styles as if he did not even care. After showing up an hour late, the officer states that they received a call about a burglary at this particular location. Furious Styles then states “yeah that was about an hour ago”. Officer Coffey also know as “Jessie Lawrence Ferguson” stated “Whoa no one

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