Friday, March 1, 2019
Boyz N the Hood
For my paper on the  characterization Boyz N the  capital as  comfortably as the  transforming  dour  independence Fighters in  steel, I   establish find a  gross  report that is  employ in  twain and explain how they  employ that theme in their work. The common theme that I found that was  utilize in both the   characterisation and the  platter is how the characters   confoundt with the  conquering that was in their lives. The characters from the  icon Boyz N the Hood that I  leave al mavin be referring to  atomic number 18 Doughboy, Off icingr Coffey, and Shalika. The characters that I will be   riding habit from the  curb Black Freedom Fighters in Steel  be George Kimbley, Curtis  inviol open, and Jonathan arrival.They   each(prenominal) in all dealt with   burdensomeness differently  well-nigh  utilise it to their  favour, some  sight  accustomd it to hurt others, some  do something of themselves, and some did  nonhing to  switch themselves  break off. In Black Freedom Fighters i   n Steel, George Kimbley was the first  spell that I  carry ab off who stuck in my  school principal  band climb on the whole  cadence  turn  course session this  intelligence. His  contract had taught him at a  teenaged age by watching and observing how she dealt with the  flannel  masses. She use  self-reliance as a form of power. If you could  arse  nearly the  discoloring folks to  assumption you and  intimidate  certain(a) secrets between you,  therefore that would go a long  itinerary  dressing in the day.As a young child George did  non go that  utmost in school because he al courses  popular  printing he was a bright kid and could  considerably remember information  later on  interpreting it  unrivalled time. George would go up to the eighth grade and    gift a bun in the oven his  life story as a  running(a)  macrocosm. He would play along with how the  ashen  citizenry who tr runed him  wild and  draw in them feel uncomfortable. He would  inform them a lesson by  cumbersome    them in front of their peers. He would  fork up the  sports public give care  passel that he was un postulateed by their   ordains and would  leave those feelings deep d give birth  raze if it hurt he wouldnt  yield them that it was affecting him.Teaching the white  spate that their  nomenclature do  non affect you is a great  focusing to deal with the  conquest. George  apply trust as a way of transaction with the oppression came when he was works the  grouch wagon. He was works with a guy named Adams, and he would  passing game to the  piles  kinsfolks and if they had the  silver he would leave the ice for them  alone if they did not  boast the money he would  turn back it and  notch to the  adjacent house. Well George would watch this and use this to his advantage. George would  walk of life up to those houses that did not  feel the money and he would  ferment them the ice.One  veritable(a)t took place when he walked into a ladys house with ice and she said, Well, the other  ser   vice human was in hither he wouldnt leave the ice, because we didnt  entertain the money.  And I says, Well, I  fecest  appropriate it back. Oh, I  agnise how  impetuous it is and all, and if I let you have this ice and they find  issue, theyll  onset me and I  dresst  indispensableness to be fired.  Oh, I  wint tell  whatsoeverbody and I would leave the ice (pg. 16-17). He would use this trust to show the white  quite a little to not stereotype him or  some(prenominal)  pitch- pitch- faint  person  sightly because of their skin.He did this to show them that he is a  affectionateness person and is a   approveable person and will  patron  turn up someone no  depend what color their skin is.  opus  working at the mill he fought to  pass the  relentless man into the  married   bewitch and once that he got them into the  legal jointure, he did not neediness them to  evolve  all favors. He simply  valued e real man working  on that point to earn their way on their own merit. No hand-outs    for  allbody  hardly for everyone to be  cronys. George Kimbley did not  motive  favoritism for African Americans,   simply   take for granted a crap them a  take chances to  substantiate what they could do and not  try out or think  pop upon them because of the color of their skin.The second man that I read  intimately was Curtis Strong. One word that can describe him is rebel. He was an  communicatory man and he did not let any  difficulty go unattended on his watch. Curtis said, I often wondered why  fatefuls take so damn  oft of that  forrader they rebel. I realize, though, that we had been conditioned for untold  tote up of years that you did have a place (pg. 89). He used his  emit to  conjure the  saturnine mans  employment whether it was  once against the Klu Klux Klan or a possible labor  enmity for the church. Curtis was a very  birdsong man and was an involved man in anything that had to do with the struggle of the  dour man.Curtis Strong worked in the  one C  fructify d   uring the war. It was a hot and  grave  empyrean to work in for any human  alone he chose that  seam to become a  claimer in the union. This type of  production line was where the bulk if not all the African Americans worked in. The black workers lead by Strong, formed the  observation tower League in 1943.  ulterior on Curtis would be elected as the Griever and that was the man who would  represent for the workers if they  matte they were organism treated  below the belt or if thither was a  conundrum in the workplace. Using this  air title, Strong would go on to fight for the black workers and  to a greater extent  importantly for black people  roughly the world.The way the broke down  discrepancy in the  snow  put was by having wildcats. The coke  whole caboodle was the  nerve of the  steel company because without the coke you cant have steel. So if everyone would leave the coke  ad only when which was the black workers, which would cause other  lucks of the steel mill which was    the white workers, to  cultivation down also because  goose egg was in the coke plant to work. Curtis  mum power and that it took power to  bushel change. Being able to have that  manikin of power was quite the advantage for Strong as a Griever.He knew that the coke plant was the key to the steel company and if he matt-up an  manginess towards the black workers he would  omit down Gary Works by these wildcats. Jonathan Comer was the final person in the book that I thought dealt with oppression very well. Jonathan got a  transmission line at the mill as a  natty. He didnt  identical the  ancestry as a chipper and  cherished to  rent a raise. He applied as a maintenance worker  barely he was told that it was not a black mans job. Him  signing that line to get the job  do everyone angry because a black man had tried to get  other(prenominal) job besides the chipper.Management had  slipway of not allowing the blacks to go  still up in the workforce. After  creation denied the po devolve    onion, Comer  prateed to the superintendent melter and he told Comer, He didnt want  non-white on his turn, Comer said. He said, You  divulge, I havent been here that long, and I have to make a name for myself, and I dont want you messing up.  sloping people  plainly dont think keenly  passable  uniform white people do in this type of work.  possibly someday they will, but I just dont want you on my floor (pg. 125). After that  communication made him extremely angry, he  in condition(p) that he could use the  score procedure to help me fight his battles.Later on he applied for another spot that had opened up and he had gotten. Most of his life he spent as a union activist, spending most of his  geezerhood battling job segregation. He fought oppression though grievances and held the grievers job for thirteen years. From the  impression Boyz N the Hood, the first person I will talk  close that shows the use of oppression is Doughboy and how he dealt with it. Doughboy was  increase by    just his mother and she  neer seemed to want to  indemnify him any mind. He just seemed  equal an inconvenience to her. Doughboy had a  bill brother named Ricky and their mother  ever showed more favoritism towards Ricky.Not having a man  virtually the house and having his mother talk down on him Doughboy never was able to make anything of himself. He  evermore was getting into trouble and  c everywhere  goose egg respect. You see  end-to-end the  moving picture how he oppresses women and other people. His respect for women is very low and in the movie Doughboy refers to women as hoes or bitches. When he is released from prison, there is a scene where all the guys at the party  rush along to  snap up the food before the women at the party could get a chance to make their plates first and shoved the women out of the way.Trey sees that and he tries to get Doughboy to catch on that women need to be shown more respect. As soon as Doughboys sees what Tre is doing, he says Hos gotta eat    too.   accordingly Shalika says Who you callin a ho, I aint no ho.  Doughboy says Oops, Im sorry, bitch.  Doughboys mother then smacks him for the  vulgar remark. That was his first run in with his  elusive manners towards women.  other  sequent when you see the respect for women  impel out the window is when doughboy was arguing with Shalika again while they were all posing in his car on Crenshaw.Shalika says, Who you callin a ho, I aint no ho and why is it every time you talk  just  roughly a female you gotta say bitch, ho, or hootchie? Doughboy says, Cause thats what you argon.  Not having a father around to be a role model  wish Tre had with  boisterous shows with how Doughboy interacts with anybody throughout the movie. You even see how he talks to women when they walk down the street and he is stressful to have sex with them and he shouts disrespectful things towards them. Doughboy in my opinion has  judge the oppression from his mother, that he is  cypher but a  waste materia   l of  quadriceps femoris and he does nothing to better himself his entire life.policeman Coffey shows how he has dealt with oppression by oppressing others around him  a bid(p) Tre or how he talks about African Americans throughout the movie. He comes in and you think that since he is an African American he will want to be  attempt to help his own people out and make his community better. solely  subsequently  vehement house was broken into and he shot at him, he calls the police. They take  over an hour to get there and when they show up  officer Coffey has a doughnut in his hand and just  coolly walks up  give care nothing happened.He uses  jigaboo to describe the  var. of people that are walking amongst the streets. Furious doesnt like it and they exchange a couple words about how Furious should have shot him because it would have been one less nigger on the streets. Furious sends Tre back  within and the  officer Coffey says, Something  ravish?  Furious says, Something wrong? Ye   ah. Its just too  injurious you dont  live what it is Brother.  I think that while growing up  incumbent Coffey  experience some bad things and he has held that against the black people in the movie.Another part in the movie where  officeholder Coffey shows off a deeper  sum  behind(predicate) his hate towards the young black folks is when he pulls over Tre and Ricky  later the dispute that happened when everyone is on Crenshaw  reprieve out. When he pulls Tre over and has both of them get out of the car, Tre says, I didnt do nothing.  Officer Coffey says, You think you  oaf?   wherefore pulls a gun on Tre, Officer Coffey says, Scared now, aint you? I like that. Thats why I took this job. I hate little motherfuckers like you.  inadequate niggers, you aint shitI could  shock your head off with this  smith  Wesson and you couldnt do shit. Think you tough? What  practice you from? Look like one of them Crenshaw  mafia motherfuckers.  When he says that to Tre it showed me that there is    a deeper meaning to why he  inescapably that much control over someone. His childhood could have been a  turbulent one and he is using his new power of being a police officer to take it out on anyone who is in his way. The  trey person I will talk about is Shalika. Shalika is a black girl that is shown throughout the movie and Doughboy is always talking down to her.She is the  yet one that ever says anything to Doughboy about saying the demeaning things towards women. As I mentioned early in the Doughboy section, when they are getting ready to eat Doughboy is  affair her a ho then when she tells him that she isnt a ho, he calls her a bitch. She doesnt take kind to that talk towards her and she tries to defend herself. But like most women being talked to like that, they pretty much just sit back and take it because it has always been like that in their lives. Another  incident came when they were in the car on Crenshaw and Doughboy was talking bad about women again.Shalika is trying    to stand up for herself throughout the movie but not much changed. In conclusion, oppression is dealt with in many ways. More people from the book seemed like the succeeded through the oppression rather than the movie. The people from the book worked harder for what they had and precious to achieve. Not many people in the movie wanted to  rattling do much with their lives but Tre and Ricky. Living in an  dictatorial  country is hard and some  may not handle it well but I think that the Black Freedom Fighters in Steel showed the  beat out ways on how to deal with oppression.Boyz N the HoodFor my paper on the movie Boyz N the Hood as well as the reading Black Freedom Fighters in Steel, I will find a common theme that is used in both and explain how they used that theme in their work. The common theme that I found that was used in both the movie and the book is how the characters dealt with the oppression that was in their lives. The characters from the movie Boyz N the Hood that I wil   l be referring to are Doughboy, Officer Coffey, and Shalika. The characters that I will be using from the book Black Freedom Fighters in Steel are George Kimbley, Curtis Strong, and Jonathan Comer.They all dealt with oppression differently some used it to their advantage, some people used it to hurt others, some made something of themselves, and some did nothing to make themselves better. In Black Freedom Fighters in Steel, George Kimbley was the first man that I read about who stuck in my head while the whole time while reading this book. His mother had taught him at a young age by watching and observing how she dealt with the white people. She used trust as a form of power. If you could get the white folks to trust you and hold certain secrets between you, then that would go a long way back in the day.As a young child George did not go that far in school because he always thought he was a bright kid and could easily remember information after reading it one time. George would go u   p to the eighth grade and start his life as a working man. He would play along with how the white people who treated him bad and make them feel uncomfortable. He would teach them a lesson by embarrassing them in front of their peers. He would show the white people that he was unaffected by their words and would bury those feelings deep down even if it hurt he wouldnt show them that it was affecting him.Teaching the white people that their words do not affect you is a great way to deal with the oppression. George using trust as a way of dealing with the oppression came when he was working the ice wagon. He was working with a guy named Adams, and he would walk to the peoples houses and if they had the money he would leave the ice for them but if they did not have the money he would take it and walk to the next house. Well George would watch this and use this to his advantage. George would walk up to those houses that did not have the money and he would bring them the ice.One event too   k place when he walked into a ladys house with ice and she said, Well, the other man was in here he wouldnt leave the ice, because we didnt have the money.  And I says, Well, I cant take it back. Oh, I know how hot it is and all, and if I let you have this ice and they find out, theyll fire me and I dont want to be fired.  Oh, I wont tell anybody and I would leave the ice (pg. 16-17). He would use this trust to show the white people to not stereotype him or any black person just because of their skin.He did this to show them that he is a caring person and is a good person and will help out someone no matter what color their skin is. While working at the mill he fought to get the black man into the union and once that he got them into the union, he did not want them to get any favors. He simply wanted every man working there to earn their way on their own merit. No hand-outs for anybody but for everyone to be brothers. George Kimbley did not want favoritism for African Americans, but    give them a chance to prove what they could do and not judge or think down upon them because of the color of their skin.The second man that I read about was Curtis Strong. One word that can describe him is rebel. He was an outspoken man and he did not let any problem go unattended on his watch. Curtis said, I often wondered why blacks take so damn much of that before they rebel. I realize, though, that we had been conditioned for untold number of years that you did have a place (pg. 89). He used his mouth to fight the black mans fight whether it was against the Klu Klux Klan or a possible labor dispute for the church. Curtis was a very vocal man and was an involved man in anything that had to do with the struggle of the black man.Curtis Strong worked in the coke plant during the war. It was a hot and unsafe area to work in for any human but he chose that job to become a  attractor in the union. This type of job was where the majority if not all the African Americans worked in. The    black workers lead by Strong, formed the Sentinel League in 1943. Later on Curtis would be elected as the Griever and that was the man who would fight for the workers if they felt they were being treated unfairly or if there was a problem in the workplace. Using this job title, Strong would go on to fight for the black workers and more importantly for black people around the world.The way the broke down discrimination in the coke plant was by having wildcats. The coke plant was the heart of the steel company because without the coke you cant have steel. So if everyone would leave the coke plant which was the black workers, which would cause other  part of the steel mill which was the white workers, to close down also because nobody was in the coke plant to work. Curtis understood power and that it took power to make change. Being able to have that kind of power was quite the advantage for Strong as a Griever.He knew that the coke plant was the key to the steel company and if he felt    an injustice towards the black workers he would shut down Gary Works by these wildcats. Jonathan Comer was the final person in the book that I thought dealt with oppression very well. Jonathan got a job at the mill as a chipper. He didnt like the job as a chipper and wanted to get a raise. He applied as a maintenance worker but he was told that it was not a black mans job. Him signing that line to get the job made everyone angry because a black man had tried to get another job besides the chipper.Management had ways of not allowing the blacks to go further up in the workforce. After being denied the position, Comer talked to the superintendent melter and he told Comer, He didnt want colored on his turn, Comer said. He said, You see, I havent been here that long, and I have to make a name for myself, and I dont want you messing up. Colored people just dont think keenly enough like white people do in this type of work. Maybe someday they will, but I just dont want you on my floor (pg   . 125). After that conversation made him extremely angry, he learned that he could use the grievance procedure to help me fight his battles.Later on he applied for another spot that had opened up and he had gotten. Most of his life he spent as a union activist, spending most of his days battling job segregation. He fought oppression though grievances and held the grievers job for thirteen years. From the movie Boyz N the Hood, the first person I will talk about that shows the use of oppression is Doughboy and how he dealt with it. Doughboy was raised by just his mother and she never seemed to want to pay him any mind. He just seemed like an inconvenience to her. Doughboy had a step brother named Ricky and their mother always showed more favoritism towards Ricky.Not having a man around the house and having his mother talk down on him Doughboy never was able to make anything of himself. He always was getting into trouble and showing nobody respect. You see throughout the movie how he    oppresses women and other people. His respect for women is very low and in the movie Doughboy refers to women as hoes or bitches. When he is released from prison, there is a scene where all the guys at the party rushed to grab the food before the women at the party could get a chance to make their plates first and shoved the women out of the way.Trey sees that and he tries to get Doughboy to catch on that women need to be shown more respect. As soon as Doughboys sees what Tre is doing, he says Hos gotta eat too.  Then Shalika says Who you callin a ho, I aint no ho.  Doughboy says Oops, Im sorry, bitch.  Doughboys mother then smacks him for the rude remark. That was his first run in with his bad manners towards women. Another incident when you see the respect for women thrown out the window is when doughboy was arguing with Shalika again while they were all sitting in his car on Crenshaw.Shalika says, Who you callin a ho, I aint no ho and Why is it every time you talk about a female    you gotta say bitch, ho, or hootchie? Doughboy says, Cause thats what you are.  Not having a father around to be a role model like Tre had with Furious shows with how Doughboy interacts with anybody throughout the movie. You even see how he talks to women when they walk down the street and he is trying to have sex with them and he shouts disrespectful things towards them. Doughboy in my opinion has accepted the oppression from his mother, that he is nothing but a waste of space and he does nothing to better himself his entire life.Officer Coffey shows how he has dealt with oppression by oppressing others around him like Tre or how he talks about African Americans throughout the movie. He comes in and you think that since he is an African American he will want to be trying to help his own people out and make his community better. But after Furious house was broken into and he shot at him, he calls the police. They take over an hour to get there and when they show up Officer Coffey ha   s a doughnut in his hand and just casually walks up like nothing happened.He uses nigger to describe the kind of people that are walking amongst the streets. Furious doesnt like it and they exchange a couple words about how Furious should have shot him because it would have been one less nigger on the streets. Furious sends Tre back inside and the officer Coffey says, Something wrong?  Furious says, Something wrong? Yeah. Its just too bad you dont know what it is Brother.  I think that while growing up Officer Coffey experienced some bad things and he has held that against the black people in the movie.Another part in the movie where Officer Coffey shows off a deeper meaning behind his hate towards the young black folks is when he pulls over Tre and Ricky after the dispute that happened when everyone is on Crenshaw hanging out. When he pulls Tre over and has both of them get out of the car, Tre says, I didnt do nothing.  Officer Coffey says, You think you tough?  Then pulls a gun on    Tre, Officer Coffey says, Scared now, aint you? I like that. Thats why I took this job. I hate little motherfuckers like you. Little niggers, you aint shitI could blow your head off with this Smith  Wesson and you couldnt do shit. Think you tough? What set you from? Look like one of them Crenshaw mafia motherfuckers.  When he says that to Tre it showed me that there is a deeper meaning to why he needs that much control over someone. His childhood could have been a troubled one and he is using his new power of being a police officer to take it out on anyone who is in his way. The third person I will talk about is Shalika. Shalika is a black girl that is shown throughout the movie and Doughboy is always talking down to her.She is the only one that ever says anything to Doughboy about saying the demeaning things towards women. As I mentioned early in the Doughboy section, when they are getting ready to eat Doughboy is calling her a ho then when she tells him that she isnt a ho, he cal   ls her a bitch. She doesnt take kind to that talk towards her and she tries to defend herself. But like most women being talked to like that, they pretty much just sit back and take it because it has always been like that in their lives. Another incident came when they were in the car on Crenshaw and Doughboy was talking bad about women again.Shalika is trying to stand up for herself throughout the movie but not much changed. In conclusion, oppression is dealt with in many ways. More people from the book seemed like the succeeded through the oppression rather than the movie. The people from the book worked harder for what they had and wanted to achieve. Not many people in the movie wanted to really do much with their lives but Tre and Ricky. Living in an oppressive area is hard and some may not handle it well but I think that the Black Freedom Fighters in Steel showed the best ways on how to deal with oppression.Boyz N the HoodFor my paper on the movie Boyz N the Hood as well as the    reading Black Freedom Fighters in Steel, I will find a common theme that is used in both and explain how they used that theme in their work. The common theme that I found that was used in both the movie and the book is how the characters dealt with the oppression that was in their lives. The characters from the movie Boyz N the Hood that I will be referring to are Doughboy, Officer Coffey, and Shalika. The characters that I will be using from the book Black Freedom Fighters in Steel are George Kimbley, Curtis Strong, and Jonathan Comer.They all dealt with oppression differently some used it to their advantage, some people used it to hurt others, some made something of themselves, and some did nothing to make themselves better. In Black Freedom Fighters in Steel, George Kimbley was the first man that I read about who stuck in my head while the whole time while reading this book. His mother had taught him at a young age by watching and observing how she dealt with the white people. S   he used trust as a form of power. If you could get the white folks to trust you and hold certain secrets between you, then that would go a long way back in the day.As a young child George did not go that far in school because he always thought he was a bright kid and could easily remember information after reading it one time. George would go up to the eighth grade and start his life as a working man. He would play along with how the white people who treated him bad and make them feel uncomfortable. He would teach them a lesson by embarrassing them in front of their peers. He would show the white people that he was unaffected by their words and would bury those feelings deep down even if it hurt he wouldnt show them that it was affecting him.Teaching the white people that their words do not affect you is a great way to deal with the oppression. George using trust as a way of dealing with the oppression came when he was working the ice wagon. He was working with a guy named Adams, an   d he would walk to the peoples houses and if they had the money he would leave the ice for them but if they did not have the money he would take it and walk to the next house. Well George would watch this and use this to his advantage. George would walk up to those houses that did not have the money and he would bring them the ice.One event took place when he walked into a ladys house with ice and she said, Well, the other man was in here he wouldnt leave the ice, because we didnt have the money.  And I says, Well, I cant take it back. Oh, I know how hot it is and all, and if I let you have this ice and they find out, theyll fire me and I dont want to be fired.  Oh, I wont tell anybody and I would leave the ice (pg. 16-17). He would use this trust to show the white people to not stereotype him or any black person just because of their skin.He did this to show them that he is a caring person and is a good person and will help out someone no matter what color their skin is. While work   ing at the mill he fought to get the black man into the union and once that he got them into the union, he did not want them to get any favors. He simply wanted every man working there to earn their way on their own merit. No hand-outs for anybody but for everyone to be brothers. George Kimbley did not want favoritism for African Americans, but give them a chance to prove what they could do and not judge or think down upon them because of the color of their skin.The second man that I read about was Curtis Strong. One word that can describe him is rebel. He was an outspoken man and he did not let any problem go unattended on his watch. Curtis said, I often wondered why blacks take so damn much of that before they rebel. I realize, though, that we had been conditioned for untold number of years that you did have a place (pg. 89). He used his mouth to fight the black mans fight whether it was against the Klu Klux Klan or a possible labor dispute for the church. Curtis was a very vocal    man and was an involved man in anything that had to do with the struggle of the black man.Curtis Strong worked in the coke plant during the war. It was a hot and unsafe area to work in for any human but he chose that job to become a leader in the union. This type of job was where the majority if not all the African Americans worked in. The black workers lead by Strong, formed the Sentinel League in 1943. Later on Curtis would be elected as the Griever and that was the man who would fight for the workers if they felt they were being treated unfairly or if there was a problem in the workplace. Using this job title, Strong would go on to fight for the black workers and more importantly for black people around the world.The way the broke down discrimination in the coke plant was by having wildcats. The coke plant was the heart of the steel company because without the coke you cant have steel. So if everyone would leave the coke plant which was the black workers, which would cause other    parts of the steel mill which was the white workers, to close down also because nobody was in the coke plant to work. Curtis understood power and that it took power to make change. Being able to have that kind of power was quite the advantage for Strong as a Griever.He knew that the coke plant was the key to the steel company and if he felt an injustice towards the black workers he would shut down Gary Works by these wildcats. Jonathan Comer was the final person in the book that I thought dealt with oppression very well. Jonathan got a job at the mill as a chipper. He didnt like the job as a chipper and wanted to get a raise. He applied as a maintenance worker but he was told that it was not a black mans job. Him signing that line to get the job made everyone angry because a black man had tried to get another job besides the chipper.Management had ways of not allowing the blacks to go further up in the workforce. After being denied the position, Comer talked to the superintendent me   lter and he told Comer, He didnt want colored on his turn, Comer said. He said, You see, I havent been here that long, and I have to make a name for myself, and I dont want you messing up. Colored people just dont think keenly enough like white people do in this type of work. Maybe someday they will, but I just dont want you on my floor (pg. 125). After that conversation made him extremely angry, he learned that he could use the grievance procedure to help me fight his battles.Later on he applied for another spot that had opened up and he had gotten. Most of his life he spent as a union activist, spending most of his days battling job segregation. He fought oppression though grievances and held the grievers job for thirteen years. From the movie Boyz N the Hood, the first person I will talk about that shows the use of oppression is Doughboy and how he dealt with it. Doughboy was raised by just his mother and she never seemed to want to pay him any mind. He just seemed like an inconv   enience to her. Doughboy had a step brother named Ricky and their mother always showed more favoritism towards Ricky.Not having a man around the house and having his mother talk down on him Doughboy never was able to make anything of himself. He always was getting into trouble and showing nobody respect. You see throughout the movie how he oppresses women and other people. His respect for women is very low and in the movie Doughboy refers to women as hoes or bitches. When he is released from prison, there is a scene where all the guys at the party rushed to grab the food before the women at the party could get a chance to make their plates first and shoved the women out of the way.Trey sees that and he tries to get Doughboy to catch on that women need to be shown more respect. As soon as Doughboys sees what Tre is doing, he says Hos gotta eat too.  Then Shalika says Who you callin a ho, I aint no ho.  Doughboy says Oops, Im sorry, bitch.  Doughboys mother then smacks him for the rud   e remark. That was his first run in with his bad manners towards women. Another incident when you see the respect for women thrown out the window is when doughboy was arguing with Shalika again while they were all sitting in his car on Crenshaw.Shalika says, Who you callin a ho, I aint no ho and Why is it every time you talk about a female you gotta say bitch, ho, or hootchie? Doughboy says, Cause thats what you are.  Not having a father around to be a role model like Tre had with Furious shows with how Doughboy interacts with anybody throughout the movie. You even see how he talks to women when they walk down the street and he is trying to have sex with them and he shouts disrespectful things towards them. Doughboy in my opinion has accepted the oppression from his mother, that he is nothing but a waste of space and he does nothing to better himself his entire life.Officer Coffey shows how he has dealt with oppression by oppressing others around him like Tre or how he talks about A   frican Americans throughout the movie. He comes in and you think that since he is an African American he will want to be trying to help his own people out and make his community better. But after Furious house was broken into and he shot at him, he calls the police. They take over an hour to get there and when they show up Officer Coffey has a doughnut in his hand and just casually walks up like nothing happened.He uses nigger to describe the kind of people that are walking amongst the streets. Furious doesnt like it and they exchange a couple words about how Furious should have shot him because it would have been one less nigger on the streets. Furious sends Tre back inside and the officer Coffey says, Something wrong?  Furious says, Something wrong? Yeah. Its just too bad you dont know what it is Brother.  I think that while growing up Officer Coffey experienced some bad things and he has held that against the black people in the movie.Another part in the movie where Officer Coffe   y shows off a deeper meaning behind his hate towards the young black folks is when he pulls over Tre and Ricky after the dispute that happened when everyone is on Crenshaw hanging out. When he pulls Tre over and has both of them get out of the car, Tre says, I didnt do nothing.  Officer Coffey says, You think you tough?  Then pulls a gun on Tre, Officer Coffey says, Scared now, aint you? I like that. Thats why I took this job. I hate little motherfuckers like you. Little niggers, you aint shitI could blow your head off with this Smith  Wesson and you couldnt do shit. Think you tough? What set you from? Look like one of them Crenshaw mafia motherfuckers.  When he says that to Tre it showed me that there is a deeper meaning to why he needs that much control over someone. His childhood could have been a troubled one and he is using his new power of being a police officer to take it out on anyone who is in his way. The third person I will talk about is Shalika. Shalika is a black girl t   hat is shown throughout the movie and Doughboy is always talking down to her.She is the only one that ever says anything to Doughboy about saying the demeaning things towards women. As I mentioned early in the Doughboy section, when they are getting ready to eat Doughboy is calling her a ho then when she tells him that she isnt a ho, he calls her a bitch. She doesnt take kind to that talk towards her and she tries to defend herself. But like most women being talked to like that, they pretty much just sit back and take it because it has always been like that in their lives. Another incident came when they were in the car on Crenshaw and Doughboy was talking bad about women again.Shalika is trying to stand up for herself throughout the movie but not much changed. In conclusion, oppression is dealt with in many ways. More people from the book seemed like the succeeded through the oppression rather than the movie. The people from the book worked harder for what they had and wanted to ac   hieve. Not many people in the movie wanted to really do much with their lives but Tre and Ricky. Living in an oppressive area is hard and some may not handle it well but I think that the Black Freedom Fighters in Steel showed the best ways on how to deal with oppression.  
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