Blog#6

                  

                   According to the film,I watched recently in class "Raising  the Heights" it shows how  the New York City's Crown Height district is. There are crimes and drugs activities  which effect people and environment around its neighbor. The theme of the beginning of movie starts with " Anger" emotion. Everyone is so angry toward other people. Especially, Blacks and Jews in this particular film. I believe "Anger" is a key word that plays an important role through out the movie.I remember a scene where Michael and his friend argue about stealing others. His friend says something depressing and sad which  I doubt about it. His friend says "It's no solution for blacks either deal drugs or steals"  The other scene is where a reporter ,Judy Burke, and her friend were having a conversation about self-identity. I believe her friend said to her" Remember who you are" This scene reminding me to have courage and not forgetting of who I am. I also remember her co-worker friend said another line is maybe or maybe not true but I am not sure about it. He said " Jews are easy targets" In the end of the movie, I like a scene where Judy meet up with  Michael  in front of his school. The school fence in someway look like a symbol of  bar  between them. However, they finally get out of the bar and they can understand each other in the end. 

Blog#5

 In " Little Scarlet", The Watts riots shocks and gives trouble to Easy, who is able to understand the causes of the riots. It is because the blacks of Los Angeles are so much angry. A lot of them have no jobs, and those who have a job are paid with a smaller wage. The white policemen stop and harass even the most respectable black people. The blacks are treated  like they are inferior to the whites . They start the riots and the riots cause disasters -" People got problems all up and down the street, Officer. Every doorways got some kinda mark on it. People lost their businesses, their jobs. Some little old ladies got to take a bus five miles just to find a store to buy a quarter pound of magarine." 

 Besides, the riots are as bad as a disease, making people lose their fear.-" I wondered if the riots were just one symtom of a disease that had silently infected the city; the virus that made people sudeenly unafraid of the consequences of standing for themselves. For almost a week I had seen groups of angry black men and women go up against armed policemen and soldiers with nothing but rocks and bottles for weapons." However, the auther writes about the riots in a romantic way. " Marianne and I were cut from the same rag. We spoke the same language. And though I  couldn't explain how, I knew that the riots had broken down the barriers between us."