Soul Food
The head of the household, Mama Joe, felt as if she was obligated to hold her family together for decades by having a nice Sunday dinner every Sunday with her family. Unfortunately, diabetes brought her down and caused her to get hospitalized. After she could no longer run the household, the tradition of Sunday dinners discontinued. Strains between her daughters Maxine, Teri, and Bird started to ruin the relationship of the family all together.
Conflict theory lectures the method in how individuals in an element fight for authority, how they distress and what arrangements they make to compete for properties. Respect and fortune frequently makes the foundation for the strongest wars. The conflict perspective of the family is they are suffering from miscommunication, pride, anger, jealously, and more. The two sisters …show more content…
In this case with the family of Soul Food, they had a lot of pride. Everyone felt the need to keep quiet about what was bothering them and hold grudges. The communication was extremely poor. Added on to those other problems, things became extremely draining for the family as they had to deal with Mama Joe’s deteriorating health due to suffering from a diabetic stroke during surgery to have one of her limbs removed. She later died from it. The family defiantly split apart even more.
As time went by, Teri and Miles takes in cousin Faith, which led to Miles and Faith having a sexual affair that led to an even more unhealthy marriage and an altercation. Bird was still reaching out to her ex to help her husband out financially. Mama Joe had money stashed away in the house and only Ahmad knew of it. He told everyone about the money to get them to come back together for a Sunday dinner they haven’t had since Mama Joe passed away. Once everyone laid they problems on the table, they thought there wasn’t any money and started judging Ahmad but he didn’t take
The head of the household, Mama Joe, felt as if she was obligated to hold her family together for decades by having a nice Sunday dinner every Sunday with her family. Unfortunately, diabetes brought her down and caused her to get hospitalized. After she could no longer run the household, the tradition of Sunday dinners discontinued. Strains between her daughters Maxine, Teri, and Bird started to ruin the relationship of the family all together.
Conflict theory lectures the method in how individuals in an element fight for authority, how they distress and what arrangements they make to compete for properties. Respect and fortune frequently makes the foundation for the strongest wars. The conflict perspective of the family is they are suffering from miscommunication, pride, anger, jealously, and more. The two sisters …show more content…
In this case with the family of Soul Food, they had a lot of pride. Everyone felt the need to keep quiet about what was bothering them and hold grudges. The communication was extremely poor. Added on to those other problems, things became extremely draining for the family as they had to deal with Mama Joe’s deteriorating health due to suffering from a diabetic stroke during surgery to have one of her limbs removed. She later died from it. The family defiantly split apart even more.
As time went by, Teri and Miles takes in cousin Faith, which led to Miles and Faith having a sexual affair that led to an even more unhealthy marriage and an altercation. Bird was still reaching out to her ex to help her husband out financially. Mama Joe had money stashed away in the house and only Ahmad knew of it. He told everyone about the money to get them to come back together for a Sunday dinner they haven’t had since Mama Joe passed away. Once everyone laid they problems on the table, they thought there wasn’t any money and started judging Ahmad but he didn’t take