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This 5-page paper attempts to match communications theories with the 1991 movie Boyz n the Hood, which deals with a group of African-American boys and their slow and painful march toward adulthood in the violence of Los Angeles' South-Central area. Theories touched upon here include interactional, uncertainty avoidance and symbolic interactional. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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File: D0_MTboyzco.rtf
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life, tend to falter. But sometimes, if those theories are placed into real-live situations, its a little easier to determine how they might work.
In this paper, well try to link some communications theories to the 1991 movie Boyz n the Hood. Because the inner city has a language all of its
own, this provides an interesting -- and decent -- vehicle on which to build a communication theory analysis. In its most basic
form, Boyz n the Hood deals with a group of teenage boys who grow up in the South-Central district of Los Angeles. The main plot centers around Tre, a "good"
boy in that he tries to be a decent citizen among all the craziness around him. On the one hand, hes trying to follow in the footsteps of his father,
who is trying to guide him into the right direction (i.e., trying to stay away from sex with out a committed relationship, saying "no" to drugs and violence and so
on). But on the other hand, Tre is consistently immersed in a culture and lifestyle (not to mention peer acceptance) that almost requires his mandatory participation in these self-destructive activities.
Ultimately, however, Tre grows out of the necessity of needing the peer approval, begins to loathe the sound of gunfire and the
background of violence, and ultimately tries to work things out externally (trying to bring peace to the gangs and violence) and internally (balancing his own need for peer acceptance between
the good advice and steady influence his father tries to bring him). Tre basically moves from an immature boy who acts before he things, to a somewhat more mature young
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