A Bronx Tale

Collogero is a young boy just like any other young boy in the suburbs. Except that for the fact that he witnessed a shooting by Sunny, the neighborhood tough guy. What Collogero had witnessed was not only hard for a young boy to handle and see, but is also hard for any one not living in an inner city area to even understand. People do that that we don't always realize. Different groups may have different values that we don't understand. Those different groups may also believe what's right and wrong may be different than what any other person in the suburbs might believe.

Groups are what make up our lives. They are what define our values and how we fit in to the society that we are in. Even if we don't think we are a part of a group within a society, some way we always are. In the movie, Collogero becomes very close with Sunny, together they are a part of a society of fear. Every one is afraid of Sunny, so whoever is associated with him they will also fear.

Just like how they fear Collogero as he is growing up.

Sunny and Collogero are grouped together in a more specific place. They know that all the killings and bad things that Sunny does are bad, but for some reason they can't resist leaving it. They both know that it's better to just keep things the way they are. But as the movie goes on, Collogero changes and he starts forming his own groups and thinking his own way. As his dad always told him to stay away from Sunny, eventually Collogero realizes that everything Sunny does is hurtfully wrong. Especially when he almost went to attack the African Americans with his friends.

Even though groups are what can define ourselves and our status, eventually things can change. Collogero went from a little boy to Sunny's high top master status just from the group of fear.

Lost Ship

Last week we did an activity that gave students in the class an opportunity to take on a role as a character. 16 people were given a character that they would portray on a "lost" ship. In order to do this, some people would have to be kicked off.

I thought it was very interesting to see what every one would do. Because not only did people have to leave, but every one had to decide who was going to leave. Based on the characters descripitions people then decided.

I specifically noticed that some people took more leadership than others and the people that stayed were people that every one thought would be beneficial for the boats survival. In other words, it was a first hand insight into seeing how people would react in a situation like the lost ship..

Freaks and Geeks and more

So last week we watched the TV shows about a spinoff from the 80s, Freaks and Geeks.

For me, watching this was very funny because I felt like everything was a cliche. Like every one in the TV show is the stereotypical high school. Also, What I found extra interesting was how the freaks automatically picked on the geeks, and that the tv show was very specific on who the geeks would be like. Also, I saw how Stevenson was actually a lot different because of the size and 20 years later.

What I also like about the class, is that we are given the opportunity to figure out how we would handle a situation, then find out how other people handle a situation. When I was observing the boat that needed to pick survivors, I realized who teamed up with who and who was left out. It was very funny to see that no matter what we do, people can make decisions that we don't really understand until we analyze them.

After looking back on Friday, I understand that they logistically tried to kick the people off the survival boat that wouldn't be beneficial in the outcome.