Ray Eddy s The United States - 948 Words

Ray Eddy is a discount store worker and is the mother of two sons, struggling to raise them with her meager incomes. Just before Christmas, her husband who is a chronic gambler, disappeared with the deposit for a new home Ray was laying by. While looking for him, she encounters Lila Littlewolf, a Mohawk single mother who is driving his car, which she asserts that she found it being abandoned. Because of their poverty-stricken circumstances, they eventually make alliance to smuggle illegal immigrants from Canada to the United States. On the day of Christmas night, when they smuggle a Pakistani couple, they leave the bag on the frozen river, which they thought that the bag contains explosive material. However, discovering that the bag†¦show more content†¦Lila reclaims her child from her mother-in-law and leaves the reservation. Ray makes a phone call to her child to explain her situation and tell him that Lila will be there to take care of her children. Police promise that, as a white woman with no criminal record, Ray will be freed from jail in several months as long as she cooperates. Lila arrives at Ray’s house and sees Ray s children playing. Structure The structure of this film is conventional because the story is told in a chronological order, which makes the film realistic. A series of incidents that happen during their river crossings show Ray and Lila’s terrors and desires, and the more they notice these emotions, the more they gain self-revelation through the jobs. The script ends with character’s personal transformations as Ria and Lila decide to go against their character. Ray and Lila’s actions and decisions result from their transformations through the sequence of the script. However, the film’s resolution is inconclusive. The script begins with Ray searching for her run-away husband, and yet by the end of the script, audiences are unsure what happened to the husband. Character Although Ray and Lila are racially different, both are single mothers struggling to live with mere wages. When their economic necessity meets, they get involved in immigrant’s border crossing so as to survive in urban poverty. Throughout the