Tyler Perry Sociology

Jeanette Walls and her out of the ordinary family live their lives surrounded in pure craziness and poverty. Jeanette has been raised to be as independent as her age allows her. At age three she could make herself a hot dog and by the age of eighteen she had started a new life in New York away from the craziness that followed her parents throughout the kids nomadic childhood. Jeanette and her siblings Lori, Brian and Maureen live their childhoods with almost nothing. They were always wondering where their next meal would come from and where there parents had mysteriously disappeared to. Rex Walls, the father and husband was a severe alcoholic who spent most of his money on gambling or a beer from a local bar. Rose Mary Walls, the mother and wife was not better, never being to hold onto a job for long enough to get paid and support her family caused many problems for Rose Mary, Rex and most importantly… the kids. The kids all had the dream of escaping the prison their parents called home and heading to New York or California where they could feel endless happiness. The kids grow up with almost no parents, which forces them to become independent from the day they were born. In The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Jeanette's parents teach her to only rely on herself and never get attached to something you can lose, forcing Jeanette to become strong and independent throughout her childhood.

Tyler Perry’s Madea is a trend to the society because it portrays the black community by giving them life lessons, encouraging this generation, and gives off elements of love.

In the year of 1963, a 6-year-old boy named, Michael Myers has been convicted of murder after stabbing his older sister Judith Myers. Michael is then sent to a sanitarium and escapes 15 years later to return home for revenge on Halloween night. The film that cuts off to a young high school girl, Laurie strode who is discovering she is being stalked by a man in a mask. She tries informing her friends that she believes someone is following her, but they dismiss her concerns and tell her she is seeing things. Meanwhile, Michael’s Doctor, Sam Loomis is aware of Michael’s return and goes to the cemetery and discovers Judith Myers headstone missing.

She furthermore examines Perry’s lead black female characters through “semiotic film content analysis”, a method of getting a closer look into the theoretical language of films (Mckoy, 127). Her findings are very extensive and thorough in terms of assessing the number of occurrences of particular behaviors that are normally assigned to each stereotype. Of all films that involve the character of Madea, the characteristics of the mammy stereotype appears almost 200 times. For all of his films, coded behaviors of the angry black woman and the jezebel brings the total of negative stereotypes of black women to 998 times. Both studies ultimately reflect back onto Tyler Perry, as he continues to successfully blatantly diminish any positive aspects of black womanhood in front of a tremendously large

Tyler Perry, one of America’s favorite comedic male actors, has a record of 12 wins and 35 nominations with award shows. Perry’s African American trademark includes “Madea Goes to Jail”, released June 27 of 2006 to billions of his fans around the globe. He is known to be one of the few actors that can keep you laughing to tears while sending a message that can open realization for many people at the same time.

In society, there is no “normal” but there is often a certain expectation from the member in it like holding down a job, raising children, and many other. Yet Jeannette's parents do none of these things, instead they consider it to be positive that they live outside of society. To begin with the opening of the novel Jeanette is all grown up and a full member society and a complete opposite of her younger self. Jeannette illustrates ,“ I was sitting in a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting through a dumpster” (1). This is the opener of the memoir and is setting up a large class difference between two characters. Jeanette may never have been supported in her childhood but she has made her way to a high place in society, unlike her mother who never changed in her ways. Here Walls is creating a vivid picture of what society deems as correct and incorrect drawing the reader in to find out the cause of two members of the same family being so far apart from each other in society. In the same way when Jeannette is young and, is explaining how she receives her education. Jeannette admits, “ We might enroll into school, but not always. Mom and Dad did most of our teaching” (20). Most children in society have an education from some sort of school, but since the Walls family exists outside of society in many ways. Including how they receive their education, early on in life, the children are not inside a school system. Instead they are taught how to live outside of society like their parents even if they do not want to live that way. Later on, Jeanette has moved away from her parents and has the proper schooling she is a full member of society which is everything her mother did not want. Her mother argues, ‘ Look at the way you live. You’ve sold out. Next thing I know you’ll be a Republican.’ She shook her head. ‘Where are the

CBS aired the television show “Criminal Minds” in 2005, involving a team of seven intelligent and unique individuals. It is running strong into its seventh season and continues to gain popularity from people of all ages. This elite group of individuals makes up the leading team of profilers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation Behavioral Analysis Unit. These men and women find themselves in violent and dangerous situations all the time in their career with the FBI. The drama immerses viewers into the world of crime and violence that most people do not experience. The job of these FBI agents is to profile criminals and figure out their next move so they can stop them from committing another crime to innocent people. This show not only

her household she resorts to outside sources, making herself a victim to boys, which creates a

Tuyen family’s house is skirted safe in Richmond Hill, a luxury suburb filled with immigrants running away from past electives, trauma and ultimately a "sense of space and distance from that troubled image of themselves” (p.55). This is why Tuyen’s parents’ cannot understand the reasons for why she wants to move to a desolate, poverty stricken place such as College Street. They’ve ran from all the sorrow to the best of their ability and for Tuyen to move to a place of “lower class”, shows that luxury space is not what she needs to fill her void of emptiness. College Street represents none of the misfortune and embarrassment to her like it does to her parents, instead it allows her to be free. This exemplifies the conflicting perspectives of the two generations as it shows how their past has shaped their outlook on different aspects of life. Tuyen is able to remodel her apartment to make the space fit her, control the privacy, explore her sexuality freely and live the communal type of lifestyle that fits in a city that is in constant transition. She needs this type of freedom to be able to find herself and to adapt to a city who “defines” its inhabitants if they are unable to keep up with the

Perry’s films do reinforce the misrepresentation of typical African American behavior. Patricia Hill Collins, author of the book, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment, said, specifically about Black women, our stereotypical images are intended to make racism, sexism, and all other

When we watch movies, we watch them for entertainment. Some people don’t sit back and compare the things happening in the movie to real life situations that are happening amongst society today. It’s a movie. It’s make believe. That’s what I always think when I sit down to watch a movie. Tyler Perry started out producing plays and later released his first feature film in 2005 called “The Diary of a Mad Black Woman.” The Diary of a Mad Black Woman has its twist of emotions throughout the movie. Whether it’s humorous or gloomy, shameful or happy, repulsion or infatuation. The movie shows them all. Tyler Perry has targeted many women and men in different circumstances showing just how painfully exhausting it is to overcome the intolerable.

The Walls children are not only raised by parents that can’t hold down a job, but by parents who are also mentally unstable. In a recent study by Princeton University it was said that “ Long work hours, lack of autonomy, job insecurity, and a heavy workload are also associated with adult mental health problems.” (Princeton). No matter how bad of a “childhood” the Walls children had it’s worse because both parents can’t hold down a job. With both parents rarely working the children are left to fend for themselves, essentially raising themselves. The Walls children have a poor quality of life and a huge factor of their quality of life is because their parents can’t keep a job. For example if Rex Walls kept a job and didn't spend his money on booze the children would have food to eat. At one point in The Glass Castle it says “whenever Mom was too busy to make dinner or we were out of food, we’d go back to the dumpster to see if any new chocolate was waiting for us.” (Walls 125). Jeanette’s parents were so selfish that the children had to go to the dumpster to get a meal, and that problem could’ve been solved if either parent was dedicated to keeping a job and putting food on the table. The children also spent most of their childhood wearing the ripped and tattered clothes because their parents were unable to afford new clothes. Not only is this extremely sad, but if their parents had steady

As technology, science, thinking and discovery seems to grow, so does the growing gap of what is now and what use to be. Money has become scarce, generations and race lacking opportunity they deserve, or even something like choosing what needs to be done, over what one wants to be done. Unfortunately, for most, people have found that they must pursue a life style that was not what they had first imagined, nor was it something they saw coming. In a specific case, a college student confronts Hillary Clinton about the concerns of how young college students today may graduate without a reassuring feeling that their effort, money and time had been wasted, and their dream careers seems out of reach. In response, Hillary Clinton proposes the idea that perhaps it isn’t the system, but the “mindset” of young students today.

Hannah’s parents are in the “proletariat” category or working class people. Even though they have a clinic and they make money, the barely make ends meet. The husbend had to take a loan from the wife’s parents to open the clinic and work hard to get more customers. The problem is, there is a new supermarket nearby which also has a clinic and offer better prices. The parents also had to sell their house and live in the middle class neighbourhoods.

It was just a typical day on the Poster farm, a warm breeze blew the smell of hay across the land, the holstein cows bellered in the barn, and the sun shined down on a beautiful June day. Donna and Greg lived in Royalton for about six years with their two children, Nicole (Nikki) and Andrew (Andy). They had an everyday routine down, every now and then something would come up and the routine would change. Donna provided all of the meals, was a hardworking farmer, gave all of the advice and love anyone could ask for. Donna’s brother called earlier asking if his daughter could come over because he had errands to run, of course Donna said yes. Nikki and her niece, Monique, both six at the time. Nikki loved to hang out with someone besides Andy.