American History X analysis

American History X-Analysis To analyze the film American History X, one would need to dig deep, and sift through the roots of the film to locate the seeds of hate planted in Derek as a youth. To bring forth the factors that shaped Derek’s personality would reveal who is brother is to become, and why. Yet in the end, it will strike the viewer as being ironic that through all of Derek’s hatred, …

…confrontation with is a very disturbing portrait of the truth. It almost shows that you can’t just change over night and expect all your past misdeeds to not come back. Derek killed black men through his hatred, and now Danny is killed by a black man from revenge, albeit the two incidents are not connected. It was a very powerful scene, leaving a message only the viewer can interpret, that ended this moving film.