"Country Boys"

In the documentary "Country Boys" two boys, Cody and Chris, are followed around and their lives are taped. Although these two boys school life is very alike, the boys themselves vary vastly. Also, the diction that the boys use are very much different. Chris is a boy that has a mom and dad and sister, he lives in a trailor, and goes to a developmental school. His father drinks a lot, and has serosis and can not work. Chris' mother has to clean to keep an income coming in for the family. Cody is alike in the way that his sare not very present in his parentals are not present in his life. When he was young his mother shot herself and then his father passed away. He lived with his aunt for a while, but they did not get along. He currently lives with Liz. The two boys diction is very differnt even though they do go to the same school. Altough, Chris does not excell in school he uses intilectual words that depict a studious feel when listning to him. Chris states that, "all I care about is having a meaning in my life". Chris is creating a school newspaper and says, "im not one of the fastese writers..." even with this he still tries his best in everything that he does. Cody on the other hand uses words and phrases that create a lollygagging inactive feeling. He acts as though he does not really care about anything. He even told one of his teachers to "shut up". From his apperance people assume that he jsut messes around, he needs to prove them wrong. Cody states, "they call me a freak all the time". Altough the boys are very different in character they are both after one goal, to pass high school.