ill manners- 2012

DISTINCT


Setting-
-south east London
-jail
-family enviroment
-streets, alleys
-crack dens


Themes-
-family
-drugs and violence
-police, checkups on chavs
-sex/prostitution
-music/rap
-prostitution

Icons-
-drugs
-violance
-wepond
-hoodies
-hats
-prostitution

Narrative-







Characters-
-Aaron and Ed, fosterkids
-Chris, main bad guy- grew up in a basement
-Michelle, main girl, sexually abused as a child, crack head, needs money for drugs
-kevin, chris grew up around him and influenced him into drugs.
-Jake, young kid joined a gang by beating up his little white mate who stole money off his mum-collective identity, murder, murdered by chris
-marcel, made jake do what he did to get respect, got killed by jake
-kirby, main drug dealer

Textual Analysis-
collective identity
"poor kid, hasn't got a hope in hell"-Michelle to mum and kid




Negative Representation
-drugs- dealign, overdose, the underworld
-violence- guns, fighting, knives, Jake beating his friend up.
-peer pressure
-prostitution-michelle funding drug habit with sex
-kids upbringing

Positive Representation
-loyalty- Ed and Aaron, grew up and stayed together.
-helpful-
-rap/music
-morality- Aaron paid off Michelle's debt
-hero- Ed saves the bad so he dies a hero
Message-
-Plan B (Ben Drew), his message was to make the world aware of what life is like for the stereotypical chavs,  the government are feeding money into other things and not the bad.