Boy's Don't Cry - My thoughts

Part I: 

The cause i think for the violence is the fact that Candace decide to just tell the two boys about what she found in Brandon's room. This caused the start of the chain reaction of events that would lead to not only her death but the rape, beating and death of Brandon. I think a contributing factor aside from Candace
blabbing was jealousy,  I think jealousy is a contributing factor because you could tell by the way John acted he liked Lana. So when he found out that 'guy' that was getting really close to Lana was actually a girl pretending to be a guy he freaked out party because he was jealous. Another factor was the fact that John was crazy and had no impulse control. Not leaving out the fact that where these kids live is so cut off and depressing that it helped set a morbid kind of life style for them all.


Part II: 

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, He talks about a group of people in a cave who are chained with nowhere else to look but at their own shadows which symbolizes ignorance to knowledge and most of them just stay that way not trying to get free, then explains why people do not try to leave the cave because it would be unconformable and painful to have to go through the thought of something new.In Boy's Don't Cry i would say that almost everyone in the movie was stuck in the cave except in my option Lana. I think this because Lana had learned about something new, or gained new knowledge and was almost pained by it you would say but she didn't refute it and she was even excepting of the new knowledge. and it was difficult to communicate with the other left in the cave because they didn't want to except or go through that uncomfortable path, instead were happy enough to sty in the cave, an din their ignorance.