Smoke Signals Dialogue

The movie started out with a family struggle. Thomas' family, except for his grandmother, died in a movie. Thomas was a baby, so that eased the struggle a little bit because he did not have as strong as a bond as say an 8 year old would have with their parents. It was probably still a struggle for him growing up. He probably watched all of the other children on the reservation growing up with their parents, but he did not have them. Victor had a lot of struggles with his family, mostly his father. His father was a drunk and Victor did not like that. I think that it caused his relationship with his father to be somewhat strained. A scene that really shows this was when Victor said that no body was his favorite at the party and then the next day Victor was throwing alcohol bottles at his father's truck. Victor's father left shortly after that. I think that Victor felt that his father abandoned him and did not love him. It was sad that Victor did not find out until after his father passed away that his father did care about and loved him and wanted to return to him at the reservation.

Culture struggles are apparent when Thomas and Victor leave the reservation to go get Victor's father. You can see it when Victor and Thomas are first getting onto the bus. The bus driver was white. He gives Victor and Thomas some what of a dirty look when they are boarding the bus. This kind of shows stereotypes. The bus driver thought that they were dirty because they were indians. This is shown again when Victor and Thomas get back on the bus after a pit stop. Two white men had taken their seats. The men did not give up their seats to Victor and Thomas, probably because they were indians. I bet if they had been white they would have let them have their seats back. I think that the two white men could tell Victor and Thomas what to do because they were indians. It is sad, but you still see some of these stereotypes prevalent still today.