In "Gorilla, My love" by Toni Cade Bambara writes this story from a child's point of view and focus on the importance of family and the impact that the community has on the main character, Hazel. When Hazel watches the movie "Gorilla, My Love", she realizes that the movie is not about gorillas which frustrate her. That moment in the story it represents her anger when a situation does not live up to its word or when someone does not accomplish what they say. "If you say Gorilla, My Love, you suppose to mean it." Bambara clearly states Hazel, a young girl, mentality by illustrating her thoughts about betrayal, poverty, and family. Would Hazel reactions would be different if she was born in a family with a diverse background?
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"if you say me and Baby Jason can go South pecan haulin with Granddaddy Vale, you better not be comin up with no stuff about the weather look uncertain or did you mop the bathroom or any other trickified business." For example, when she confronts Hunca Bubba about the time he said "you were going to marry me when I grew up. You were going to wait." She took it literal and expects him to be committed to his word. She feels betrayed by him. Bambara represents the hurtful feeling of betrayal that has upon children especially Hazel because of the way she was raised that even "gangsters in the movie say My word if my bond."
Bambara dialect such as: ax, good electric, they was, and ole can give an image of the background Hazel comes from. She does not behave with any manners in the movie theaters instead she goes "wild, yellin, booin, stompin and carryin on." A theme of the story deals with poverty. At a point in the story, she mention how she sleep with the lights on but she does "not to waste good electric, you study the maps". The fact that she need a purpose to keep the light on and find a usual way to utilize the energy properly it demonstrates how the family is resourceful and can imply the poverty that they live …show more content…
Hazel recognizing dishonesty angered her when a literal statement is not being honored just as like the movie misleading title and when her uncle is changing back to his biological name because he's getting married to his finance instead of being true to his word when he told Hazel that he would wait for her to grow up to marry her. But her realizing this she starts to develop into an adult by understanding the difference between literal and figurative expression. When someone says something is does not mean it should be taken literal but through Hazel disappointment, the author demonstrates how adults benefits from adopting Hazel sense of integrity because she expect people to accomplish what they say and live by
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"if you say me and Baby Jason can go South pecan haulin with Granddaddy Vale, you better not be comin up with no stuff about the weather look uncertain or did you mop the bathroom or any other trickified business." For example, when she confronts Hunca Bubba about the time he said "you were going to marry me when I grew up. You were going to wait." She took it literal and expects him to be committed to his word. She feels betrayed by him. Bambara represents the hurtful feeling of betrayal that has upon children especially Hazel because of the way she was raised that even "gangsters in the movie say My word if my bond."
Bambara dialect such as: ax, good electric, they was, and ole can give an image of the background Hazel comes from. She does not behave with any manners in the movie theaters instead she goes "wild, yellin, booin, stompin and carryin on." A theme of the story deals with poverty. At a point in the story, she mention how she sleep with the lights on but she does "not to waste good electric, you study the maps". The fact that she need a purpose to keep the light on and find a usual way to utilize the energy properly it demonstrates how the family is resourceful and can imply the poverty that they live …show more content…
Hazel recognizing dishonesty angered her when a literal statement is not being honored just as like the movie misleading title and when her uncle is changing back to his biological name because he's getting married to his finance instead of being true to his word when he told Hazel that he would wait for her to grow up to marry her. But her realizing this she starts to develop into an adult by understanding the difference between literal and figurative expression. When someone says something is does not mean it should be taken literal but through Hazel disappointment, the author demonstrates how adults benefits from adopting Hazel sense of integrity because she expect people to accomplish what they say and live by