The Bronx Tale

According to Henslin, racism is “prejudice and discrimination on the basis of race.” Racism is woven throughout the documentary of Lafeyette and Pharoah’s lives at the Horner Homes. All of the African Americans living in inner-city Chicago are looked down upon by the whites every day. The whites pay no attention to the existence of the lives of these people. The gangs run the streets of the inner-city

The main character Anthony is from Cleveland and is described as a vigilant and defensive black boy. On the first day of his new school, he is excited to encounter new classmates. He only has black friends in his old town. Because he had lived in blacktown, he is curious about meeting and making white friends.

The story is set in 1968 in Oakland, California three young girls Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern who leave their father in Brooklyn to go Oakland to meet their mother who abandoned them. Oakland at this time is a boiling pot with political and racial turmoil, with the Black Panthers at the head of a movement fighting for civil rights. In a historical context many readers at this age level have not been exposed to the many freedom fighter organizations like The Black Panthers, middle school students are usually only exposed to a limited number of figures in the civil rights movement like Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

A Bronx Tale was written by Chazz Palminteri and produced by the Longacre Theatre company. The story is based on Palminteri’s childhood life story. Palmieri’s was born in 1952 and grew up in a tough area of the Bronx, on Belmont Avenue. Palminteri wrote A Bronx Tale to tell the story of a coming of age Italian boy, and his struggles encountered. At nine years old, Palminteri witnessed a murder as he was sitting outside his building. After learning the killer was Sonny, a mobster who controlled much of the neighborhood, young Palminteri kept quiet to police. This moment sparked the events shown throughout the Broadway musical. Additionally, another essential part of the play included the quote that Palminteri’s father constantly repeated, “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent” (Kerr). Palminteri believed that what he learned from both his father, a working man and Sonny, a mobster, would make a great story (Kerr).

The scene takes place inside of Sal’s Famous Pizzeria which is in the Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The pizzeria has been in that neighborhood for many years and most its customers are blacks. Inside the pizzeria we see chairs, tables, refrigerator that contains soda, a pizza oven and a cash register among other things typically found inside a restaurant. The temperature inside the pizzeria is hot and coupled with the extreme hot day makes the racial tensions more intense.

McLaurin grew up with the knowledge that whites were treated very differently than blacks and not thinking anything of it. Although blacks and whites were demanded to work together in the village, he noticed that everyone played a different role based off their race. Some of the roles being, blacks

The movie "A Bronx Tale" is about a young boy named Cologero Anello, who grew up in an Italian neighborhood called the Bronx in New York City. At nine years old, Cologero already had a role model and that was Sonny LoSecchio, the neighborhood's mob boss. After he saved Sonny from getting arrested for killing a guy over what seemed to be a parking space. Sonny got him involved in gang activities, gambling and serving at the bar. His father Lorenzo Anello, a New York City bus driver didn't want his son to be friends with Sonny because he wanted him to focus on school and not get involved with gangs at the bar. Cologero didn't listen to his dad and throughout the movie he learnt important life lessons from these two men. Even though Sonny and Lorenzo were different in their way of raising Cologero, they also played as father figures to Cologero.

Due to a racism-exiting society, while it shapes Billie’s identity, it also affects her personals relationships, especially with Othello. Although Billie’s identity is strong despite the racism in society, it weakens her ties with Othello, who does not want to be recognized as a Black person and devalues the black race. Due to their conflicting nature, they are in heated arguments, which make them say and, do things they might not mean to. For example, the quote in Act 1 Scene 4, where Othello says “I’m so tired of this race shit, Billie. There are alternatives--,” shows that he is obviously frustrated with Billie for repeating the same things on race without listening to his perception on race. Billie constantly feels like the society is coming down on black people and it is a duty of a black person to push against those forces, which Othello does not believe. He thinks there is no difference between the whites and blacks and what Billie feels is just an illusion. Because of Billie’s strong connection to her race and Othello’s disinterest towards his race and issues, they share a sharp contrast, and therefore a lot of conflicts take place between the two, some are expressed and some go without. Thus, racism existing in society emphasizes Billie’s and Othello difference in perception, due to which they have

In the film A Bronx Tale Calogero is a nine-year-old child living in Bronx, NY. Here the streets are lined with gangster bars, racist people

Soon after, the catalyst that ignites riots in Harlem, which was foreshadowed earlier in the essay, takes place. The riots begins when a rumor spread claiming that a white police officer shot a black soldier in the back, which wasn’t the truth at all (81). The way

On the west side of Manhattan two groups compete for turf, the Jets, a group of white juveniles, and the Sharks, a group of young Puerto Rican men. The conflicts that arise from racial and cultural differences are what lead to West Side Story’s message. The Jets do not like the Sharks because they came from a different part of the world. They don’t want them in their neighborhood because they are worried that they will change things, take their jobs, and make the neighborhood dirty. People have always and still have this fear for immigrants because they can’t accept change. When Tony and Maria fall in love, it makes the two gangs’ rivalry even more complicated.

The time is the 1900’s and young Paolo Calefati comes from a long line of farmers, who have crafted their trade within the hills of the mountainous village of San Vito. As a thirteen-year-old boy his grandfather passed onto him the family legacy of the Deva before his death. Paolo’s thoughts have always been to remain with his family cultivating the family business and using his gift. However, that all changes when he kills the head of the crime syndicate Donte DelVecchio’s son Lembo for the attempted rape and death of the woman Paolo loves. With a price on his head his father knows there is no other choice except to send the now twenty-one-year-old

Therefore, the inequality black people receive is well justified in the movie in terms of innate financial disadvantages and well revealed through violence, creating an impactful image to the audience and evoking strong emotions. Segregation of the black people from the white people is also evidently portrayed in the movie, as the story is centered in Brooklyn, a neighborhood that has been exclusively inhabited by black people for decades in New

The gangster genre within films in America has accomplished numerous positive criticisms and constant willing audiences due to containing outstanding spectacles and mind-blowing action. The Godfather, being second on the IMDb Top 250 Movies, has set a new popular concept to life within the Mafia from their point of view. Doing so, creating a positive association. Yet within Italy, the same topic contains a complete different view. Movies such as I Cento Passi demonstrate unenthusiastic view by those whom are outside yet negatively affected by those members. Unlike American films, the gangsters are not as often viewed at the protagonist and are the main causes for the problematic events. But how different is Italian Mafia and American

It’s the sixties. Racism is running hot through the streets of New York. One neighborhood in particular, where one group of boys makes the choice that will change their lives and everyone’s around them forever. These boys are young, full of talent and smart. These boys choose to take all of what they had and throw it away. What happens to these boys next is something that you would not want to wish on anybody. Here these young talented boys cram into a car and ride to the African-American neighborhood. The boys toss burning bottle of alcohol through a glass window into a store. With burning bottles shattering left and right there is one that doesn’t break. This one bottle was tossed back into these boys car and there is