SocPersMod3

The speaker, Jaleesa Huff, discusses the movie "Boys in the Hood" for her Sociological Perspective class. The film is set in a rough neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles, where Trey lives with his father. They face crime and violence, along with Trey's friends Ricky and Doughboy. Jaleesa relates to the struggles of single mothers in the movie. She emphasizes the importance of making choices and striving for a better life. Ricky tragically dies, while Trey and his girlfriend Brandy manage to overcome the challenges and pursue college. Hello, my name is Jaleesa Huff. This is for my Sociological Perspective class. This is my Module 3 activity. My instructor is Chris Galvin. The film that I chose to do mine on was Boys in the Hood. The setting takes place in South Central Los Angeles in a neighborhood where a young man by the name of Trey is living with his father, Furious, who his mother, Reva, decided that he needed to stay with at the time just to get him used to growing up and being around a man and maybe his father could teach him the better ropes. His father and him lived in a rather rough neighborhood. A lot of crime and violence and drug activity went on. Along with Trey, he had to deal with this with his friends, Ricky and Doughboy, and he also got older and had a girlfriend by the name of Brandy. I think this movie just gives a brief overview to the public eye to see how some of these alike communities are, and some are alike with additional adversities that are not so pleasing to the eye. From this film, as being a black individual who came from a single mother myself, I saw different things that I knew my mother went through as far as Ricky and Doughboy mother, Ms. Baker, had to go through in trying to raise children on her own. I also came to see that, in actuality, it's about making choices in life. Even though you're living in a different environment, you want to actually live better, so you have to make better choices. No one wants to live the way they had to live, but it was just the cards they were dealt at the time. Ricky is, in the movie, he grows up, he gets a girlfriend, they have a child, and he was supposed to go and play football, but in the end, ends up dying. His brother tried to defend him, his life's legacy, by going to kill someone else, and ends up losing his life. Trey and Brandy, although they went through all of the extranets of the drug life and being around so much crime activity, the involvement, it did affect them, but they were able to withstand and move forward with their life and go on to college.