Boyz N Tha Hood Analysis

The setting of Boyz N Tha Hood, is also a dominant factor as to why the characters develop into who they are. The film is set in the low-income areas of Los Angeles, California in the early nineties. At this point in time, the City of Angels was notorious for street crime and violence, as well as its harsh, discriminatory police officers roaming the streets. Because the characters Tre, Darrin, and Ricky develop in this sort of environment, vice is a reality that they have been constantly exposed to, especially at a younger age. Exposure to this sort of lifestyle included their desensitization to violence. The characters, even at the age of ten found amusement in finding and staring at a dead body. It is clear that the characters as children