Chapter
2
DISCUSSION
How will the mafia mobster movies affect the behavior of an individual teenager?
Media or social media is a powerful hand in terms of communication to millions of people around the world, specially to the adolescents. Teenagers are the most curious and adventure looking people we could ever hoped for. Teenagers spend their days online visiting sites like facebook, twitter, myspace, as well as playing video games, watching tv, and even reading books that send them confused messages.
Violence in media often conveys a conflict of knowing who has the authority to do violence. Young people such as children and teenagers often view the "bad guys" in the movies as the violent ones, and the "good guys" use the same, they fight violence with violence. Heroes are violent, and, as such, they are rewarded for their behavior. It is just like the usual scenario of using violence for a righteous cause to defend the weak. In the daily life, it may translate as a justification for using violence to perceive victimizers.
The mafia use violence to protect their families and their illegal businesses, they use violence to gain power, wealth and influence. The adolescent age is the most important stage of development, according to Erik Erikson's "development depends on what is done to a person. At this point, development now depends primarily upon what a person does. An adolescent must struggle to discover and find his or her own identity, while negotiating and struggling with social interactions and “fitting in”, and developing a sense of morality and right from wrong." Teens are the most curious people, as Erikson said that at the adolescent age there is role confusion, when the mafia comes in to a life of a teenager, you could expect the worst consequences on young people to joining and be influenced by mafia gangsters.
According to the article entitled Media's Positive & Negative Influence on Teenagers written by Nola Mokeyane, that at a developmental stage when teens seek greater freedom and independence, the glorification of drugs, alcohol, risky sexual and violent behaviors in the media make it challenging for teens to make responsible behavioral choices. With regarding to this, teenagers are confused because of the dirty and tempting movies and shows that the media portrays. A confused teenager with no guidance and good relationship with a parent might actually be a victim of this kinds of behavior.
After looking for many information, an article entitled Mafia movies influence gang an article written by Moira Welsh on the site www.thefreeradical.ca, gangs often do the usual criminal life, but here they copied the mafia way. According to this there are many teenagers involved in this gang called Malvern Crew. There are jealousies between the leaders and the younger "soldiers", mostly teenagers, who are required to prove themselves by doing street crimes, the officer said. It's no surprise then, that teenagers are taking a piece of the drug trade for themselves — especially at high school.
Violence in media often conveys a conflict of knowing who has the authority to do violence. Young people such as children and teenagers often view the "bad guys" in the movies as the violent ones, and the "good guys" use the same, they fight violence with violence. Heroes are violent, and, as such, they are rewarded for their behavior. It is just like the usual scenario of using violence for a righteous cause to defend the weak. In the daily life, it may translate as a justification for using violence to perceive victimizers.
The mafia use violence to protect their families and their illegal businesses, they use violence to gain power, wealth and influence. The adolescent age is the most important stage of development, according to Erik Erikson's "development depends on what is done to a person. At this point, development now depends primarily upon what a person does. An adolescent must struggle to discover and find his or her own identity, while negotiating and struggling with social interactions and “fitting in”, and developing a sense of morality and right from wrong." Teens are the most curious people, as Erikson said that at the adolescent age there is role confusion, when the mafia comes in to a life of a teenager, you could expect the worst consequences on young people to joining and be influenced by mafia gangsters.
According to the article entitled Media's Positive & Negative Influence on Teenagers written by Nola Mokeyane, that at a developmental stage when teens seek greater freedom and independence, the glorification of drugs, alcohol, risky sexual and violent behaviors in the media make it challenging for teens to make responsible behavioral choices. With regarding to this, teenagers are confused because of the dirty and tempting movies and shows that the media portrays. A confused teenager with no guidance and good relationship with a parent might actually be a victim of this kinds of behavior.
After looking for many information, an article entitled Mafia movies influence gang an article written by Moira Welsh on the site www.thefreeradical.ca, gangs often do the usual criminal life, but here they copied the mafia way. According to this there are many teenagers involved in this gang called Malvern Crew. There are jealousies between the leaders and the younger "soldiers", mostly teenagers, who are required to prove themselves by doing street crimes, the officer said. It's no surprise then, that teenagers are taking a piece of the drug trade for themselves — especially at high school.
Characteristics
of a Mobster
According to the site americanmafia.com these
are some of the usual characteristics shown on movies and different
books I've read about the mafia.
A.
Fearless
Showing
no sign of fear by not creating any face expression.
B.
Short Tempered
Easily
angered, they tend to scare people by showing unusual types of
displaying their emotions. It's either hurting them or destroying
things around them.
C.
Guilt Free or Conscience Free
They
are trained to feel guilt free, by allowing them to do their jobs
without letting them feel unhappy that what they are doing is
something morally bad.
D.
Aggressive
Behaving
angry and violent in doing their job and to the enemy.
Aside
from these characteristics, a change in a teenager is heavily
highlighted. The fact that they fantasize the stereotyped character
of a mobster, the toughness, fearless and aggressive faces they
display at the movies they watch, they still don't know what is the
consequence on having that kind of character. In
my own observation, the mafia bosses and other higher ranked
gangsters do love their families, regardless of who they are with.
Since
these are the stereotyped characteristics of an individual mobster,
lets now look on how would it affect the young mind of a single
teenager. In watching those kind of movies, action movies, any type
of movies that includes killing, violent actions, aggressive display
of angry emotions, a teenager tends to watch it a lot more. By
watching it, the mind memorizes the characteristics without the
teenager being aware of it.
Consequences
that may happen
With
an individual teenager happen to be on an environment where he could
be influenced by those kind of things, he or she might suffer the
consequence. When they tend to be obsessive on things like this,
especially the mafia life, they tend treat it as if it is their goal
in life.
According to the article I found entitled "Help Wanted... Who wants to Join the Mafia?" an article written by Clarence Walker, an Investigative Reporter & Crime Story Producer (Houston, Texas). A
true life story of initiation ritual with a fictional character to cover the real identity of the real life person. According to his article the fictional character named as Carmine De'Angelo is a straight-A student and an outstanding high school football player. The teenager idolized his grandfather's mob connections and wants to enter their world.
To become a mafia, violence is where you start. They pick a guy for you to kill, and you do it. Through this, they are trying to see if you are weak and soft, brutal killing would be the best way to show and prove to them that you are tough. But during this kind of initiation the consequences may be death and sadness to your relatives.
To make the long story short, the Fictional character Carmine got investigated and was put to court, charged with murders and racketeering, and went to jail. His dreams of being a football star was put to an end. With regards to this story, the Elements of the story about the fictional Carmine De'Angelo and His arrest at the wedding of the man whose brother was killed by De'Angelo is based on real-life mob associate John Pappas.
To become a mafia, violence is where you start. They pick a guy for you to kill, and you do it. Through this, they are trying to see if you are weak and soft, brutal killing would be the best way to show and prove to them that you are tough. But during this kind of initiation the consequences may be death and sadness to your relatives.
To make the long story short, the Fictional character Carmine got investigated and was put to court, charged with murders and racketeering, and went to jail. His dreams of being a football star was put to an end. With regards to this story, the Elements of the story about the fictional Carmine De'Angelo and His arrest at the wedding of the man whose brother was killed by De'Angelo is based on real-life mob associate John Pappas.
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