Boys Don’t Cry - Challenging Ideas

Question 1

Adam

Answer 1

• Proud of his sexuality
• Dante and Tyler are not accepting
• Try to ignore the fact he is gay

Question 2

Dante/Tyler

Answer 2

• Presented as a single father
• challenging typical depictions of single-parent families

Question 3

Melanie

Answer 3

• As a struggling single mother
• Who gives up her child
• Criticising the lack of support for single-parent families and teenage

Question 4

Blackman

Answer 4

• Present many different men in the text
• For example Dante, Adam, Tyler and Josh.

Question 5

Lack of support for single-parent families/Teenage pregnancies

Answer 5

• Despite them being at their highest rates in contemporary
• In the 2000s Britain

Question 6

LGBTQ+ communities

Answer 6

• 2000’s Britain shows a rise in LGBTQ+ communities
• Simultaneously, there is also a rise in homophobic
• Hostility and attacks.

Question 7

Typical depictions of single-parent families

Answer 7

• Present a woman looking after the children
• While the father leaves

Question 8

Masculine ideas

Answer 8

• Time presented men as toxic
• Unable to show their emotions
• Unwilling to care or be nurturing