A Bronx Tale: Groups

I think that Collogero belongs to many different groups all throughout his experiences growing up. First of all throughout the whole movie he was in the group of Italians living in the Bronx. When he was young, he was at first just one of the average Bronx kids. He didn't get what was really going on around him in his neighborhood, for example, when the man was shot over what Collogero thought was just a parking space. However, after witnessing the man getting shot and killed, he kind of shifted groups when he earned Sonny's respect. He switched into the group of Sonny's "crew" When the movie transitions to Collogero as a 17 year-old, he is no longer with Sonny's "crew" but he is more in his own group of just him and Sonny. Yet at the same time he still sort of belongs in a group of him and his father. He is split between the "hardworking man" group, which involves his father and mother, and the "dishonest" group, which involves Sonny and his crew. While still in these two groups, he is catagorized in another group of the younger "wannabe" mobsters. I ddon't actually think that Collogero liked this group though. He does not really know what group to side with because he has grown up being told different things by all groups. Sonny's group tells Collogero that the working man is a sucker, his father completely disagrees with this, and his friends of wannabe mobsters influence him to do bad and immature things that will get him in trouble. However, even with all of this influence of the groups around him, I think that Collogero sticks with his own beliefs. He does what he thinks is right most of the time and he acts like himself, however there are times when he gives into the pressure. He gives into the pressure when the wannabe mobsters are beating up the black guys who came in their neighborhood. He also gave into the pressure when they were going to burn down the record store in the black neighborhood. The different groups he was involved in molded his life into what it was at the end of the movie. Without some of the groups, such as Sonny and his wannabe mobster friends, Collogero would have turned out completely different. But overall it was the groups that made Collogero different throughout the movie.