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Name: Tudor: Course: Date: Introduction. The Short Story of Gorilla, My Love is an exciting Story Written by Toni Cade Bambara. In his story, he has featured four characters with the Hazel becoming the main protagonist. The remaining characters are Granddaddy, Hunca Bubba, and Baby Janson, who are later introduced to the story. Thesis: The theme of BETRAYAL is clearly shown throughout the setting, the main character, and the internal conflicts. The setting, character, and internal conflicts all play an important role in depicting the theme of betrayal. The setting in the cinema and the Car, clearly indicates how the theme of betrayal is indicated. The setting of cinema describes the theme of betrayal when the main character goes to watch a video named Gorilla, My Love in the theater, and finds the theater is showing a different film known as the kings of kings about Jesus Christ life. In the Car, the setting depicts the theme of betrayal by gathering different characters inside the Car. Besides, the main character Hazel plays a significant role in representing the theme of betrayal. Her first character showing the theme of betrayal, is seen when Hunca starts storying about a woman he wants to marry (Bambara, 57). The Hazel gets bored with the story. The woman's photos remind her of a lady's manager at the movie theater. She went inside to theater

with high expectations of watching the movie known as Gorilla My Love and gets disappointed to find that the video being watched is Kings of kings about the life of Jesus Christ. She feels betrayed and demands her money back, but the manager denies her money because she is young. She ends up putting the theater on fire. In the end, she feels that she is betrayed by his uncle, who promised to marry her. She goes through internal conflicts by feeling sad and burst in tears. She now believes that adults untrustworthy.

The story of the Gorilla, My Love, was set in New York. The story's setting is the Car when Hazel grandfather is driving while Hazel is seated on the car’s front seat navigating the way. The other characters present in the Car were Uncle Hunca Bubba and a younger brother called Baby Jason. The setting occurred on their south trip of bringing Pecans home. The contrast setting of the story is seen when Hazel sits in the front seat as a navigator, and her uncle gives her a work of navigating the photos of the woman she wanted to marry (Billy, 209). The pictures reminded her of her past when she went to the movie theatre with high expectations to watch a film named the Gorilla, My Love, but disappointed when she entered and found that the film shown was about the Kings of Kings film of the life of Jesus Christ. The contrast of the setting was significant because it developed a theme of betrayal and created internal conflicts with the main character.

The relationship between the setting, character, and conflict brings a clear picture of the theme of betrayal. The movie theater's context and the stories from the uncle developed a great battle on the main character. When her uncle gives her photos of the woman, he wants to marry

as she navigates. She reflects on her past when she went to watch in the movie theatre and finds the movie she wasn't expecting. The scenario of the setting develops excellent conflicts with the main character (Bambara, 135). The key traits before the contrast showed that Hazel was kind. She believes in everything she is being told, and she feels that they should be that way before she was betrayed.

The outcomes in both settings are different. At the theater, Hazel ensures that she sets the fire under the candy machine that is in the theater lobby. The movie theater is therefore shut down for one week. In the Car, she feels emotional and burst into tears after her uncle disappoints her by failing to keep his promises to marry her, and now he wants to marry another woman. At the end of the story, her emotional character is seen when she falls in tears because of her uncle's betrayal (Bambara, 65). At the same time, she puts a fire under the caddy machine after being betrayed by the theater manager.

To conclude with the theme of betrayal is seen throughout the setting, main character, and internal conflicts. The setting in the Car and the cinema has shown how the theme of betrayal is depicted. The central character experience betrayal in both setting and have high internal conflicts. At first, she has a conflict of how both his uncle and the theater manager have betrayed her.

Works Cited Bambara, Toni Cade. “Gorilla, My Love.” Vintage Contemporaries Vintage Books a Division of Random House. New York: 1972. Print. Bambara, Toni Cade. The Norton Introduction to Literature. Ed. Kelly J. Mays. 11th Ed. New York: Norton and Company. 2013. 132- 136. Print. Bambara, Toni Cade, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker. "Race, Gender, and Desire." Temple University Press. 1989: P75. Print. Billy, Cynthia. "Critical Essay on 'Gorilla, My Love." Short Stories for Students. Ed. Ira Mark Milne. Vol. 21. Detroit: Gale, 2005. Literature Resource Center. Web. 7 Apr. 2015....