I Don't Owe You A Thing

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“I Don’t Owe You A Thing”

Guess who’s coming To Dinner is a film based on interracial dating that leads to a proposed marriage. The two that fall in love are presenting the idea of marriage to their parents and wish for their approval. While Joey is enthusiastic about getting married, John is a little bit hesitant and wants to make sure that everything would be okay with the parents before they are wedded. Towards the climax of the story, John then begins to realize that regardless of what the parents think, it is his life and he can do what he wants to with it. John’s father brings out John’s demanding attitude when he says, “ You owe your mother and I for all that we did for you.” John saw things differently.

John becomes pissed off when his father seems to use his parents struggle to make him a successful man against him marrying a white woman. John then exclaims. “I don’t owe you a damn thing.” This was very true and John backed that up with very credible evidence. John made it known to his father that it was his job to sacrifice and to work hard hours everyday to put food on the table and clothes on his back. John did not appreciate his father telling him that he owed them something better. John was thirty-seven years old, and wanted to get married because he had never felt love since his wife had died. He tried explaining this to his father, but his father was still determined to make John change his mind. John’s father act as if he had not taught him to treat everyone with kindness and that all men were created equal. This is an example of what people may think about interracial relationships. Many people can be against it, but it is not about what an individual thinks. Those two people decided to have that type of relationship, and they will deal with whatever stumbling blocks that are out in their way. John’s father also said to John that by him wanting to marry a white girl it ...