1. Boys Dont Cry
The movie Boy's Don't Cry is based on the real story of a young woman named Teena Brandon who has a sexual identity crisis. Teena Brandon has a hard time being accepted and goes to great lengths to appear as a young man. The young woman goes around as Brandon Teena, going on dates with women and ends up getting into trouble when her secret is discovered. Brandon (Teena) leaves from home and ends up in a small country town and again poses as a man. There in the small Nebraska town, Brandon finds a girl named Lana, falls in love with her, and ends up hanging around all of Lana's friends. When Brandon Teena's true identity is revealed here, Lana's friends turn on Brandon and end up killing her. .
Teena Brandon had gone through great lengths to hide her sexual orientation because of what society today does and does not accept in human behavior. I believe like Teena Brandon, a lot of people who share her feelings do hide or try to become someone else for fear of being accused of flaunting, being verbally abused, or physically attacked as was Teena Brandon when her secret identity had been exposed. It is quite hard for a person that is homosexual to live a life of acceptance in society like everyone else today. It is hard for a person who has feelings for someone of the same sex to be accepted and sometimes live a "normal" life. As for Teena Brandon and her sexual identity crisis had made it hard for her to live normally without having a deep, dark secret inside of her, and pretending to be someone she was not. Inside Teena most likely had felt fear, been lonesome, and misunderstood. For the fear of being found out is hard enough, but the worry does not end there. There is the fear of being called names, being assaulted, and in Teena's case-even being killed. .
I believe that today people criticize the life of homosexuality because, they do not agree that it is moral or natural. I believe many that criticize are not hateful, rather ignorant.
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"I DONT WANT YOU TO COME HERE." ... When the two boys met each other for the first time, Kingshaw was lied to by Hooper about the bed he slept in. ... He did not dare to look at the dead things in the room and became so helpless that he actually started to "cry with frustration." ... The two boys discussed about death and we learnt that Hooper believed that "humans are only animals". ... Apart from the two boys who are both victims in different ways, the two adults are also victims of their societal, family and personal expectations, under certain circumstances. ...
God, Morality, and Meaning in Cormac McCarthy's The Road Erik J. Wielenberg Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is, among other things, a meditation on morality, what makes human life meaningful, and the relationship between these things and God. While the novel is rife with religious imagery and ideas, it suggests a conception of morality and meaning that is secular in nature. In this paper I show that while the existence of God remains ambiguous throughout the novel, The Road contains both a clear moral code and a view about what makes life meaningful. I describe this moral code and e...
