Robert Jebediah Freeman

The show still runs on TV at night and is also available on DVD. The series is comedy centered on the life of an African-American family that moved from the harsh and curl city of Chicago into the suburbs. Stereotyping the Freeman family lives as black people who so called advanced in the world by moving up their social status in society. The show has three main charters, Robert Freeman the grandfather of both Huey and Riley Freeman. I strongly feel this show helps to promotes prejudice and discrimination through stereotyping. Huey Freeman is a smart young black man with knowledge beyond his years. Huey in a way represents the radical black advocate of the 70’s-90’s. He has a big black Afro, and is the leader of many radical organizations, such as “A.F.R.O”. On the show Huey once stated “Ronald Regan is the Devil,” and “The government is lying about 9/11.” Huey’s character fight against the stereotypes of being ignorant and uneducated as most black people are portrayed to be. Huey also represent a radical black, but shows that there are blacks that do not fit into the typical stereotype of an “ignorant”…

Hopewell is also hopeful and cheerful that the Freeman family would live up to her expectations. Hope made her see negative points in a positive manner. For instance, Mrs. Freeman was extremely nosy but instead of frowning upon this trait, Mrs. Hopewell analyzed that it was the job of this woman to be nosy and know everything. This gave Mrs. Freeman a free hand and in the very name the author has woven in the character’s trait. Mrs. Hopewell immediately trusts the salesman Pointer and accepts…

The Film The Shawshank Redemption a about Andy DuFresne, an innocent man who is sentenced a life sentence after being framed for killing his wife and her lover. Once Andy gets to Shawshank prison he sees the how hope and fear can dramatically affect the outcome of any situation. People who fear often lack self-confidence and motivation making every obstacle harder. Allowing people just like Warden Norton and Heywood to use fear to control people with intimidation and violence. While…

What idea does Frank Darabont, the director and screenwriter for The Shawshank Redemption, explore in his film? What cinematic techniques does he use/manipulate in order to portray these ideas?

Interview Host: Today I am joined by the director and screenwriter of the internationally acclaimed motion picture The Shawshank Redemption, Mr. Frank Darabont. The film is accompanied by numerous accolades, seven Academy Awards nominations and two Golden Globe nominations, cementing its status as a…

The film Shawshank Redemption is an award-winning film by Frank Darabont in which an innocent man, Andy Dufresne, is sentence to two life sentences for the murder of his wife and her lover. Andy is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for after being wrongly convicted even after professing his innocence. While imprisoned Andy befriends a man everyone knows as Red who is known for being able to smuggle things into the prison. Over the years Red is able to get Andy a rock hammer as…

“Hew out of the mountain of despair to a stone of hope, and you can make your life a splendid one.” This is my grandfather’s favorite quote. He kept saying that to me when he tried to pass on his life experience to me. Not paid much attention to it, I never thought that hope is the power to wake up my sleepy potentials. It was not until have seen the Shawshank Repetition directed by Frank Darabont that I realized how the hope can motivate me when I suffered. I developed constant sense of hope…

Between a Teacher and a Parent The Ethos and Pathos Of Joe Clark’s Speech In the Movie “Lean on Me” “This is an institution of learning, ladies and gentlemen. If you can 't control it, how can you teach? Discipline is not the enemy of enthusiasm!” By Joe Clark (Morgan Freeman) Passion is the source which motivates the will to teach. It is clear, teachers do not step into the education field for the money. This is evident in the movie “Lean on Me” as Morgan Freeman is demoted to an elementary…

In this essay, I will be discussing the 3 acts and how the movie Chinatown is applied to the Acts including examples from the movie which substantiate each point. The story is about a private investigator who discovers underlying corruption, deceit and the beginning of a romance. The first act begins at the start of the movie and closes after the death of Mr Hollis Mulwray. The second act begins after the following events have occurred in act 1. Act 1 In act one we are introduced to several of…

The Sociology of The Green Mile The Green Mile, directed and produced by Frank Darabont in December 1999 was a movie based on the novel written by Stephen King. The movie starts off in a Louisiana prison taking place on death row. The main character Paul Edgecombe performed by Tom Hanks described how they referred to the death row of this specific prison as the Green Mile because of the faded lime colored floor. Paul talks about how he has encountered many prisoners on death row for various…

Witness is the famous American movie directed by Peter Weir in 1985 which the story starts with the witness of a brutal murder happened in the bathroom of New York City station by a little Amish boy named Samuel Lapp. Through the investigation of the incident with the policeman, John Book, Samuel and his mother, Rachel, the viewers encounter the plain life led by blackclad Amish people. People there had a lifestyle which the “American” experienced a few decades ago, for example, riding horses…