crooklyn by Elijah Mendez

The movie "Crooklyn" directed by spike lee was a comedy/drama about a lower class family growing up in the ghetto. The movie follows the young girl Troy and her family. She's raised with her four brothers and their mother and father take care of them. She learns a lot by watching her family members' problems. Some of the big events that affected her and made her become who she is at the end of the movie was when her father and mother split up for a while, when she had to move in with her aunt, and when her mother passed of cancer. when Troy's mother passed she took responsibility and took on the mother role of the house. At the end of the movie you see her talking to her brothers as if she was the mom. I think this was a bitter sweet ending because although her mother died she took everything she learned from her and used it to help her family.