Indie Film

The movie that we watched in our English class about the Arab-American boy was a very good movie. It is about a young Arab-American boy who wants to be the cowboy in the game cowboys and Indians, with the neighborhood kids. The leader of the cowboys tells the boy he can't be a cowboy unless he has jeans and a belt, otherwise he has to be an Indian. This Arab-American boy finally gets his jeans and his belt, and tells the cowboy that he now has what he needs to be the cowboy. The boy says that he can be the leader of the Indians but can't be a cowboy, because "mixing things up" would confuse people. The boy finally let the Arab boy be apart of the cowboys, but when he gets to be a cowboy the Arab boy sees that it's not a fulfilling as he thought it would, because he says that he is still not being fully accepted by the others. It goes to show that many races feel not wanted by whites, and that they go through many hardships when it comes to their race, culture, and religion.