Gender, Race and Class in: Winter's Bone Essay

The movie's success depends on using dated stereotypes: "angry black woman," "thuggish black man," and "innocent" white women. White men,

The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at

The reason many people in America today, as well as in the movie are racist is because this is how they were brought up, by the labels they were taught to live by. Past generations were exposed to segregation between ethnic groups, which has greatly carried on to how people look at others today. Up until 1967 it was prohibited for blacks to marry white people in 38 states

     Understanding the Cultural differences can lead one to understand Bone from a new perspective. Expectations of difficulty for the women in the book are much more prevalent and the children’s unstable home environment can be understood. Views of

The emotional reaction that the filmmakers intended for anyone who watch this film is that no matter what skin, hair and eye color is no one deserves to be labeled. No race should be discriminated and criticize. We should all get along and just be proud of where our roots come from. This film also intended for everyone who watch this film, is that there should not have to be obstacles to be proud of your own race.

The film has several ethnicities within a small area along a time line of one day. The film has many, informative methods in which it describe the various diversity issues of all the characters within the movie. For example, Sal’s pizzeria which is owned by an Italian American has pictures of famous Italian Americans on the wall and plays Italian music. One character named Buggin Out is always upset. Bugging out hates the fact that there are no black people pictures on the wall especially since the pizzeria is in a black neighborhood. His perspective represents the people in the African American community that always protest, but usually don’t work to improve the community. The

Winter’s Bone, to me, is a sad, dreary, story about family struggles, drugs, poverty, and courage. The plot is pretty straight forward, Ree has to find her father before losing her house while trying to take care of her two brothers and mentally helpless mother. But her struggles along the way is what makes this book dark and interesting. It is quite astonishing what people are capable of when their survival or way of life is threatened. So far, I don’t think I can call Ree the hero yet, because she is just walking around looking for clues and getting assaulted. Although I know she is not a villain either. So what role does she play in this novel? She is strong, stubborn and takes pain without complaining, and as far as I have read she is a survivor in this story. The setting

The degree of connection between all of the characters in the movie is so coincidental and interrelated to emphasize the point that we do not always know what is going on with everyone else we may encounter. It also accentuates the fact that racism is not one particular race against another. It also shows that we never know someone’s situation and what is happening in their life to make them act the way that they do if

The importance of this movie is due to how it subconsciously addresses minority groups. These groups such as blacks and women are not necessarily minority in population but in terms of high power positions. Race has been a very important issue in the world for centuries. Although there have been strides towards racial equality, there is still room for improvement. Before Black Panther superheroes were dominantly white males.

The majority of the racism involved in the movie is towards the negro population. They are perceived as thugs, thieves and

There are many reoccurring themes that can be depicted from this movie. This includes “racial discrimination and love. Racial discrimination can be seen when Mr. James Farmer accidentally ran over a white man’s pig, as a result he was charged a very high amount for the pig. We assume that if it were a white man he wouldn’t have been charged nearly as much. However, when the team challenged and defeated a few white

The stereotypes in the story, makes it difficult for the readers to conclude the race of each character. People assume that the African American character would be illiterate and uneducated and the white character to be well-educated. During the time period of the story African Americans did not have access to a decent education; making it harder for them to learn just the basics. Whites had access to good education, making it easy to believe the white character is more educated. It is also believed that a person that is well educated will have a better lifestyle when they are older. A well-educated person will have a better job, paying more, and have a better opportunity to afford the means of a luxurious lifestyle. An under educated person will most likely live in poverty, struggle for their basic needs, or live in a declining neighborhood. Behavior is a harder stereo type to use to distinguish a race. Many assume that whites have an entitled attitude toward life. Whites had access to a good education and jobs, they had a “I’m better than you” attitude. On the other hand, many think African Americans were upset because of how easy it was for whites to have better access to the basic necessities such as education and housing.

When we try to understand why the characters act as they act and what drives each of them, the viewers are inevitably drawn to the conclusion that they are just like them. They realize they are human; they have both good qualities and bad qualities. Spike Lee also makes them understand that at times they may make terrible mistakes, and that at other times they may display admirable heroism, and that sometimes they simply act without knowing why. Spike Lee does more than try to show his viewers that despite tensions, this Black neighborhood is a community. What Lee does is he makes the viewers think. He simply presents events as they are leaving the viewer to figure out the motives of the characters and the ‘why’ behind the course of events. Lee doesn’t really put a positive light on any particular race while shadowing the other ones. He doesn’t try to make conflicts have an obvious solution. Lee simply re-creates a piece of life, with a little twist of extreme (yet realistic) drama for deeper effect, and by doing this he tries to simply make his audience think and question.

In The Winter’s Tale there is a patriarchal theme and stereotyped gender roles. Most of these roles, being administered and centered around one character, Leontes, the king of Sicily. The basic ideas of a renaissance man were a big theme in the play. These ideas were that all women must sit quietly, respectfully, and be obedient then they’re terrible hags who must be punished. Leontes is a great example of this renaissance man mentality he gives light to that idea in the ways he treats all of the women in this play, as if he is a higher being (“Winter’s Tale Theme of Gender”). Although Shakespeare doesn’t actually mean to belittle women in the play. He actually shows women as the more superior gender in a way, and gives examples of it

I myself would have never realized it until I saw how strong a negative stereotype in regards to minorities could be. I do not agree in promoting stereotyping because it is bad. I think that many of the people who associate as part of these minorities prove actions both in a good and bad way because they sometimes do good and bad things. The movie also made me really think about how I conduct in today’s society. This also led towards me asking myself how I would possibly behave if I were put in an awkward situation one day that would involve stereotyping between the wealth and the