● Frozen River is based on the life of working class families that live in mobile homes in Massena, New York who are trying to survive, solve struggles and meet their needs. One of the families consists of a single mother name Ray trying to raise her 2 children on her own. Ray works part time at a retail store as a clerk. She has worked there for almost 2 years hoping to become a manager. With the disappearance of her husband she struggles paying her bills, providing food for her children, and not being able to finance the purchase of a new mobile home. Ray with all her struggles, one day she decides to search for her husband at the casino in the Mohawk reservation. While at the casino, she meets Lila Little Wolf who she follows after seeing …show more content…
Upon being confronted by Ray, Little Wolf claims that she found the car abandoned at a bus stop. Little Wolf is a single mother also struggling financially and trying to get custody of her baby son that was taken away from her and is currently living with her mother in law. As part of the confrontation, Little Wolf ticks Ray into smuggling immigrants from Canada into the United States across the Frozen Lawrence River. They both start this journey because of economic situation. As Ray continues smuggling, her job becomes a necessity and her oldest child T.J becomes responsible for the care of his younger brother. Ray and Older son T.J use instrumental communication to communicate with his mother. He does focus on the struggles they are going through and always finding a solution. He tells his mom that he will no longer go to school; he prefers to get a job to better their life. According to Ashford and LeCroy (2010), Instrumental communication refers to having focus on identifying goals and finding solutions (chapter 10 page 495).. Her priority is education, shelter, food and job. She does not want her son to fix their financial …show more content…
Ray struggles raising her children on her own. She also struggles to pay her bills and save money to pay for a new home. T.J struggles accepting that some of their belongings are going to be reposes due to lack of payments. Lila struggles getting her son back. She also struggles counting the money when getting pay for smuggling. She did not have eyeglasses so was hard for her to do the all the work on her own. She also struggles having physical contact with her son.
● Primary role for both parents was to provide, be a father and mother for their children. T.J’s role was to be a father figure for younger brother. Younger child will only worry about his dad coming back, Christmas and getting a new home. Ray’s believes system was her family. She will always put her children first before anything. During movie, I did not see any rituals between both families. Both women were from different cultures and each had different believes with in their
Lily traveled all the way up from Sylvan, Georgia to Tiburon, South Carolina without much help at all. That takes a lot of luck, at least some skill. Zach navigates all over South Carolina in his truck on a daily basis throughout the summer to gather honey. They both have skills in finding their way around. Lily's tireless heart is always searching for love from her father, whom she calls T. Ray, no matter how many times he crushes her with his words and actions.
Many people at one time or another will face some-sort of economic hardship; however it is safe to say that many people do not really know what extreme poverty is like. The Treviño family knows first hand what it is like to work in tedious, mind-numbing jobs for a very little paycheck. The life of a migrant worker is not anything to be desired. Simple things that most would take for granted like food variety, baths, clean clothes, and beds are things that Elva learned to live with. “We couldn’t have a bath every day, since it was such a big production. But [mom] made us wash our feet every night” (125). A simple task to any normal person is a large production for a migrant family that doesn’t have any indoor plumbing. People living in poverty do not often have a large wardrobe to speak of which means that the few clothes they own often remain dirty because washing clothes is a production too. “Ama scrubbed clothes on the washboard while the rest of us bathed. She took a bath last while the rest of us rinsed and hung up the clothes she had washed. This was the only oppor...
The Russian river is a place in California where Dave and his family would usually go for a vacation. He remembers this place as a quiet and peaceful place. He remembers how he and his brothers would play, how his mother would to hug him, and how they would all watch the sunset together
John G. Avildsen directed while a major Hollywood studio, Columbia Pictures produced The Karate Kid in 1984 (Avildsen, “The Karate Kid”). On the other hand, Courtney Hunt directed while an independent studio, Harwood Hunt Productions produced the film Frozen River in 2008 (Hunt, “Frozen River”). Ideally, the two productions companies manifested differences in the plot and cinematography of the two American drama films. The setting of the film Frozen River took place in North Country of Upstate New York and focused on two working-class women smuggling immigrants from Canada to the Regis Mohawk Reservation in America. The film manifests the physical beauty and social deprivation
Ray and Lori Jean had experienced some of the same abusive pain in their lives as children. The difference was that Lori Jean had someone who loved her and taught her early on about life and faith. Mee-Maw was respected by all the character’s in the book. I thought this to be of true Southern significance. Mee-Maw’s role was so great that when she died Ray took advantage of her death. Her death opened the door for him to move in, take her money, verbal and physical abuse of Lori Jean and her mother. Not only did her grandma, Mee-Maw, teach her about life and faith, she also taught her about wisdom and strength. Mee-Maw was such a great influence on Lori Jean. I believed, while reading the novel, that when Mee-Maw died, she left
The stream gained its title from a woman who drowned her baby in the creek and went hollering through the night afterwards. Cleόfilas is curious to know the meaning behind the creeks name but her neighbor appear to be clueless. The abuse in the marriage becomes persistently severe. Cleόfilas visits a physician name Graciela that recognizes the bruises Cleόfilas has gained at the hands of her husband. Due to the circumstances of Cleόfilas’ situation, Graciela plans her escape. Graciela asks a woman, Felcie, to take Cleόfilas to the Greyhound bus station to return to her family back in Mexico. Felcie complies and Cleόfilas departs from her home and from Woman Hollering
the story, people died in the frozen landscape and they have fear in their life.
He always complained to her mother or argued about how Essie Mae dressed when she returned from New Orleans after having spent the summer working with drag queens. She became so angry that she told him she was leaving because she was tired of him and his antics. She would enter the living room with the rest of the family and he would get up and leave. Ray locked her out of the house during this fight and would not let her come retrieve her clothes, so she went to get the sheriff to force Ray to let her in. After she grabbed her clothes and had another tussle with her mother, she realized she had no place to go other than back to the main source of her resentment: her
Lori was the first one to leave for New York City after graduation, later, Jeanette followed her and moved into her habitat with her. Jeanette promptly found a job as a reporter, the two sisters were both living their dream life away from their miserable parents. It wasn’t difficult for them since they cultured to be independent and tough. Everything was turning out great for them and decided to tell their younger siblings to move in with them, and they did. Jeanette was finally happy for once, enjoying the freedom she had and not having to be moved every two weeks. She then found a guy whom she married and accustomed her lifestyle. Furthermore, her parents still couldn’t have the funds for a household or to stay in stable occupation, so they decided to move in with Jeanette and her siblings. Jeanette at that moment felt like she was never going to have an ordinary life because her parents were going to shadow her.
The Frontline documentary “Two American Families” produced by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), portrays the life of two typical middle class families living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Frontline Video, 2013). This follows the life of the Neumann family and the Stanley family as they pursue the ideal type of life, The American Dream from 1991 through 2011 (Frontline Video, 2013). Although, the pursuit for their fantasy quickly turned into a fight for economical struggle (Frontline Video, 2013). These struggles were all brought upon by the new shaping economy (Frontline Video, 2013).
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Mama talks to Walter about her fears of the family falling apart. This is the reason she bought the house and she wants him to understand. Walter doesn't understand and gets angry. "What you need me to say you done right for? You the head of this family. You run our lives like you want to. It was your money and you did what you wanted with it. So what you need for me to say it was all right for? So you butchered up a dream of mine - you - who always talking 'bout your children's dreams..." Walter is so obsessive over money that he yells at his mom for not giving him all of it. He doesn't know that what his mom is doing is for the family. He thinks that having money will make the family happy, when in reality the family doesn't need anymore than what they have to be happy.
The role of relationship you have with other people often has direct influence on the individual choices and belief in the life. In the short story “on the rainy river”, the author Tim O’Brien inform us about his experiences and how his interacted with a single person had effected his life so could understand himself. It is hard for anyone to be dependent on just his believes and own personal experience, when there are so many people with different belief to influence you choices and have the right choices for you self. Occasionally taking experience and knowledge of other people to help you understand and build from them your own identity and choices in life.
Chasing Ice covers the long debated topic of global warming and whether or not human activity is currently causing global temperatures to rise. Evidence suggests that increased carbon dioxide emissions over the past couple hundred years are responsible for the warming of the Earth’s surface, and thus increasing the levels of the ocean due to an accelerated rate of ice melting. We discussed this same topic in class and how humans are contributing to the greenhouse effect which plays a large role in trapping these unnatural amounts of gases such as carbon dioxide in the Earth’s atmosphere and causing a rise in the number of natural disasters around the world.
The movie Frozen was directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee based on the story about The Snow Queen written by Hans Christian Anderson. The movie was released November 27th, 2013 and got $1.274 billion in the box office (Frozen). The movie is focuses on two daughters of a royal family in Arendelle, Elsa and Anna. The eldest, Elsa, develops ice powers from a very young age. While playing with her sister, Elsa hurts Anna and the whole family visits the magical Rock Trolls to save Anna. Along with it, her memories of Elsa using her powers are gone and Elsa is forced to keep her powers a secret. They grow up, but Elsa isolates herself from Anna, afraid of hurting Anna or anyone else because she has yet to learn to control her powers. Their parents,