Smoke Signals Sociology

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1) I predict that the movie smoke signals would be about the aboriginals using an old tradition to get help from the rest of the community. Smoke signals are a way of sending message using the smoke that rises from fire to either send for help or to send any other messages to the rest of the community. These words indicate that the movie would be using some aboriginal traditions.
2) Drug use- the people have nothing to do so therefore they drink, and smoke, which causes them to react and behave differently than regular. Victor’s father drank a lot which caused him to get really angry when victor does something that he dislikes. For example in Arnold’s car, victor drops that bottle of beer by mistake and his father got really mad and angry …show more content…
The power that the indigenous people have against the white people is incomparable. This is shown where victor and Thomas were getting back to their seats on the bus but two white men had already taken their seats, and told them to go to the very back of the bus where their seats are.

Family issues- as shown throughout the movie there are several family abuses and issues especially in Victor’s family, since Thomas’s family died. Victor’s family is only happy when they are drunk, but in reality they are really depressed and done with life. They try to escape their problems and have fun by getting drunk. There are many fights that happen in Victor’s family. For example when victors dad left victor felt his sadness building up and turning to anger, which caused him to beat Thomas and run off. Victor’s family had a lot of violence, especially Victor.

Poverty- poverty is represented in the movie where the two girls stop to give a ride to victor and Thomas. The car that the girls were driving was broken and they did not have the money to fix it so they had to drive …show more content…
This is shown where in the movie victor tells Thomas that “a man is nothing with his hair.” Also after the fire victors father cut his hair off because he feels guilty for causing that fire, killing Thomas’s parents and almost Thomas, and so for the catastrophe that he caused he cut his hair off. When Arnold realizes the problem that he caused he did not see himself as an aboriginal, so he cut of his traditional belief. This symbol is effective because it shows how a man could see his own wrong deeds and try to fix them himself and Arnold took fall for the crime that he did. He stood up and believed that it was truly his fault, which takes a lot of
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