Boys dont cry

Christos Zagoras

Part one:  From watching the movie boys don’t cry there were a lot of parts that were the causes of the violence towards Brandon Teena. It starts with where Brandon Teena comes from do not really except people who are gay.  Down in Nebraska they feel like it is wrong just like in the book the Laramie project.  The contributing factor was when Brandon started to have a love connection with Lana and john who also had a thing for Lana started to get jealous.  From The group of people that Brandon was friends with john and his friend tom were very wreck less and aggressive.  Candice had a big role for Brandon teena getting caught of her real identity.  When going through her room and looking under the bed and finding her tampons that became a big turning point for Brandon. When going out for drinks with john and tom Candice admitted she had found tampons under Brandon’s bed. That’s what led for john to go to lanas room and find more of Brandon’s personal items and the pamphlet for a sex change. If Candice never would of said anything things could have ended up being a lot different.

Part two:  when reading Plato’s Allegory of the cave the characters the seemed to be stuck in the cave and see only shadows seemed to be characters like john, tom and Lana.  All they know in the lifestyle in Nebraska and the land of Nebraska. They are just like the chained prisoners who are not able to move and really understand what’s going on around the world. What Plato tells us about the difficulty about communicating to those in the cave after adjusting the light is he will suffer sharp pains and the glare will distress him and what he saw before is an illusion and his eye is turned towards real existence. This is a situation that describes the relationship with Brandon and Lana.