C and His Groups

In the movie "A Bronx Tale" there is a main character named Collogero, a.k.a. C. He can be classified into many different groups. Throughout the movie, the groups and his status and importance in each group change and sometimes it is for the better; however, sometimes, it is for the worse.

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In the beginning of the film, the group that takes up the majority of C's life is his family. He does what he is told, for the most part, and talks to his parents on a regular bases. Sure sometimes they argue during disagreements, but they always group up in the end to form a social bond. At a young age, the movie also shows that C is becoming part of the group at the bar located right next to his house. He was told by his parents to only hang out on the stoop in front of his house and to never enter into the bar, but he wanted to live dangerously and disobey somethings that his parents told him. This began to show the rebel side of C; he began to hang out with the powerful crowd and started looking up to everyone there. His father became very upset and tried doing all that he could to keep C out of trouble.

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At a young age, C can also be seen hanging out with his friends; that would be considered another group that he was in. Later on in the movie, the ties that he has with his friends conflict with the ties that he has with the man he had always looked up to, Sonny, because Sonny did not agree with the things that C's friends did. In the end, it was good that C listened to Sonny and didn't hang out with his friends because they ended up dying in a car crash. C's father saw this as Sonny looking out for C, and the anger between the two of them would eventually end. Unfortunately, the anger and tension between the two of them ended only after Sonny was shot and killed.

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Just those three groups, his family, friends, and "bar buds", were a major part of C's life. However, when it comes to his major status, it would come out of the group in the bar; everyone knew him because of the status the Sonny gave him. If Sonny liked someone, just about everyone liked that person. At first Sonny just called him C, but by the end of the movie, everyone, including his dad, was calling him C.