Boys Don't Cry By Janet Nolan

In the movie Boys Don't Cry Bradon Tenna was a woman who truly felt she was a man. She changed her appearance by cut her hair changing her tone of voice and even the way she held herself such how she walked or stood, too appear more like a man. She later met a group of people that winded up killing her literally. There were many crimes committed against Bradon and they were that John and Tom raped her repeatedly in different areas. Also they beat her profusely, she later went to the hospital and was consider a  rape victim to the doctor and nurse on staff. When later question by the police but denied all allegation. Then later John and Tom paranoid that Bradon had told what had happen they went to Lisa Lambert house where Bradon was staying and later killed Lisa and Bradon in front of Lisa toddler son. I feel that a lot of the people involved in this situation is to blame. Such as Lanna mother, she told John were Bradon was even though he had a gun and she knew something was going to happen to Bradon. Also Bradon plays a huge role in the blame factor, she hid her identity and lied. I get that in her mine she thought she was a man but she wasn't not physically or legally. She had a choice to tell the truth when she was in the women part of the jail cells to Lanna and didn't. But I think John and Tom is where the blame truly falls. Just because someone is different from you or lies to you does not give give you the right to take away their life. I also feel that the people in this small town of Fall City region of Richardson County, Nebraska had nothing to look forward to there was no escape from this cycle. They lived in poverty and most were alcoholic or drug abusers. They grew up thinking they were above the law and they are not.

 
Plato's Allegory of the Cave is really relatable to Boys Don't Cry. I think that John and Tom are stuck in the cave and only will see the shadows. They can't see anything passed this town. It so sad though because who would want to live in that kind of poverty and not do better for themselves. To me though I think Bradon is in between when it comes to leaving Fall City he just want the bare minim of life, he wants the trailer and the barely minimum paying job. She too is stuck in this vicious cycle. But the only one that thought would leave and get out was Lanna, because of the violence committed there and she seemed to have big dreams.Unfortunately she moved back to Fall City pregnant. and soon will be a single mother. Plato said it harder to communicate with the people in the cave because once you seen he light and the truth in the world you don't want to go back to be ignorant. Also though they cant see past what in front of them. they just don't understand.