Boys Don't Cry Thoughts

      Part I: Brandon Teena's decision of hiding the true of what genre she really was from everyone, and just acting as a boy and live that way among everyone in the small town was the main cause of the violence that took place when they found Brandon was really a girl. The ignorance of everyone in the town also contributed to the tragedy. The lack of family values showed especially by Lana’s mother and the lack of sympathy from everyone that didn't allow them to understand Brandon were direct factors for Brandon’s death.

    Part II: Plato’s allegory of the cave talks about people lack in the cave who think what they see and hear is the only true. In could be apply to Boys Don’t Cry; all of them in the town believe that what they do is fine like having such a poor valorous life style. We see that with the family structure showed by Lana’s family. Because all they see is what is around them, they couldn't accept anything else like Brandon reason for acting as a boy. Brandon, her city friend and later on Lana would be the characters trying to get out of the cave however we see these contrast on Brandon decision of going to a small town or in other words getting herself inside the cave even when she was not part of it. According to Plato once you rich the light is hard to communicate with those how still inside the cave and in would be really difficult to make them see their ignorant since they lived that way the entire time, and I think Brandon put that in test and all she got was her death.