Everyhood Has A Pug

“Everyhood has a pug. This is what the ghetto produces … hostile environments, anger, stress, depression, your going to have a negative outcome it’s a recipe” . This quote demonstrates that because of the bad conditions that occur in areas like ghettos it creates people who get involved in groups such as gangs. But, in the instance of the movie it was not a gang it was just a group of people who rode dirt bikes. How this quote and movie as whole relates to structure is because Pug grew up in this environment his options are limited and it is difficult to find a way out of it. It seems that biking or joining the 12 o’clock boys is a way to sort of escape the conditions of this area in some way, in fact a character says that it is a lot more positive then any alternative in the city. Throughout the movie, Pug gets more and more sucked into this structure of the ghetto, he starts having issues at school, even at one point you hear he has lost a family member.
You do see at some points in the movie Pug making bad decisions, mainly relating to school. At one point in the movie Pug says he wants to be a veterinarian because he loves animals, but the decisions he makes at school and throughout the movie could hurt his chances for becoming one and will keep him in the situation he is in and in the neighborhood he is in. It could be said that even though the structure of the area he is in is hard and doesn’t help, he does have agency to potentially get himself out of the bad part of