BB's episode 1

Episode One

Reaction: Being with my first time watching Breaking Bad and hearing so many things about this show; I felt that it was interesting to watch and enjoyed watching it. I picked up from Walter's character that he was bored with his lifestyle after finding out that he was going to die soon. I also assumed that the reason of why he decided to start making/selling drugs was because it was easy money and why not do it since he would be gone soon?

Gender Expectations: The personality traits that was expected from Walter was a "goody two shoe", he was seemed to be uptight and did things of the ordinary. Once he started changing his ways, his family and others didn't expect him to act this way. For example, when he cursed out his boss, his boss didn't expect this reaction. His family also didn't expect him to lash out those who were making fun of his son in the store. Also, the person that he decides to do "business" with, doesn't expect him to be serious about making drugs.

Masculine Traits: In the beginning, Walter doesn't show masculinity traits being how his personality was, because he didn't want to hold the gun at his surprise birthday party, and just had an awkward demeanor. However, his brother-in-law showed masculine traits because he cursed, drank beer, and the type of job he has.

Social Problems: The social problems that were revealed was RJ getting bullied and economic problems because Walter's wife told him not to use the second credit card to buy things.

Last post of crapalachia

I think the moral of the story is that the author wanted to show readers how growing up in a small town with a big family was like. It seemed like Scott had a traditional way of how his family did things, whom all lived in the same exact town and neighborhood. There was no change between the families and how they did thing, except for a couple of members that moved away. What was also "traditional" and ironic were that most of his family members committed suicide. I don't why death was a broad topic in his writing and why most of them chose their death date. In my opinion, I found the book interesting because of how his style of writing was and how his family were towards things out of the norm.

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The aspects I see in this writing so far is society and family. Nathan is treated differently than the rest of the family because of what he has. I think this is stereotypical because a family member that's disabled is treated differently than the rest of the family members. In general, society treats those who differently that is different. I feel like Ruby is treating him like this because he is has cerebral palsy. I also think Nathan dislikes the idea of this and wants to say something but fails to do so because of his condition. For example, he does try to explain the best of his ability that he is grown and doesn't need the extra treatment. "My god, she treats him like a child. He's an old man, but she'd still breast feed him if she could." (McClanahan, 20).