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Davina's great. She's getting straight As almost.American History X · 1998 — 第 13 / 17 章 · 2'36" · B2
Doris Visits Derek in Prison, Explained：doing time
A prison visit turns into an argument about family. Doris reports that Danny is drifting toward Derek's old world, and Derek brushes off the worry; then she pushes back: "You think you're the only one doing time, Derek?" The visit exposes how the sentence is being served by everyone outside as well.
あらすじ
Doris visits Derek in prison and updates him on the family: Davina is doing well, Ally is growing, and Danny has started idolizing him and hanging around Cameron. Derek resents the guilt trip, but Doris insists she is serving the sentence with him. The story then cuts to the prison laundry, where an inmate teases Derek.
注目の表現
doing timeremind me of youa little angelgive someone a heart attack
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このシーンの表現
doing time
serving a prison sentence
During the visit his mother turns it back on him: she is serving the sentence too, in her own way.
He is doing time for a robbery he regrets.
このシーンの他の表現
- remind me of you
make me think of you
- a little angel
a perfectly behaved child
- give someone a heart attack
scare or stress someone badly
- nigger
a severe racial slur
- sheets
paper sheets vs bedsheets
このシーンのメモ一覧
43 行のセリフに 22 件のメモ
admire someone deeply
He holds you up so high.praise you constantly
He's always bragging about you to Cameron...a perfectly behaved child
Derek tells his mother not to panic; no kid stays perfectly good forever.
He's not gonna be a little angel forever.make me feel awful
All it does is make me feel bad. You're just making it harder.serving a prison sentence
During the visit his mother turns it back on him: she is serving the sentence too, in her own way.
You think you're the only one doing time, Derek?participle phrase: The participle phrase doing time modifies the only one after it.
You think you're the only one doing time, Derek?Doing often drops its g and sounds like doin'.
You think you're the only one doing time, Derek?look through
Every day I watch you go through these sheets...The fuck only adds emphasis; the stress still lands on chill.
Look, nigger, will you chill the fuck out?calm down already — Very crude; never use it in polite company.
Look, nigger, will you chill the fuck out?damn it — A swear; avoid it in formal or religious settings.
Goddamn!finish going through
No matter how fast you get through them...concessive clause: No matter how introduces a concession: however fast you are, it changes nothing.
No matter how fast you get through them...keep doing: Keep plus an -ing verb means to go on doing something without stopping.
they gonna keep bringing them in and bringing them in.scare or stress someone badly
Lamont tells Derek that flinging the papers around will only wreck his own health.
ain't gonna do a damn thing but give you a heart attack!get angry with
I know I ain't the one getting mad at them sheets,though.am not, is not — Nonstandard speech; avoid it in formal settings.
I know I ain't the one getting mad at them sheets,though.in fact
As a matter of fact, the only sheets I get mad at...going to — Everyday speech; keep it out of formal writing.
All right, boy, this is what we gonna do.in prison
My cousin Derek is in the pen right now...Driving and him link together, almost like drivin-im.
workin' next to a nigger, driving him nigger crazy.「Doris Visits Derek in Prison」を読み解く
What's really going on
The visit makes the prison sentence a family affair. Doris is not there to comfort Derek; she is there to warn him that Danny is repeating his path, telling him the boy "holds you up so high" and is "starting to remind me of you." Derek reads the worry as an accusation and snaps that Danny is "not gonna be a little angel forever." What Doris wants is to break his hold on his younger brother, and when he refuses the guilt, she answers with the line that lands hardest: "You think you're the only one doing time, Derek?" It reframes the whole film's cost, showing that his choices have put the family in prison too. The laundry scene then quietly begins the counter-argument, as an inmate refuses to take Derek's anger seriously.
Theme
Family conflictA mother's visit becomes a fight about how much blame Derek carries for Danny's path.
GuiltDoris makes Derek see that his choices have imprisoned the whole family, not just himself.
このチャプターで学べること
- The mother's sentence is her own kind of prison.
- Praise about Danny is really a warning.
- Lamont's joke about hatred hides real anger.
- Doing time is the quiet theme of the whole visit.
発音のポイント
- doing time — Doing often drops its g and sounds like doin'.
- chill the fuck — The fuck only adds emphasis; the stress still lands on chill.
- driving him — Driving and him link together, almost like drivin-im.
He thinks you're the greatest.Doris tells Derek that Danny idolizes him, which sounds like praise but is really the start of a warning.
He's starting to remind me of you.The core worry: Danny is turning into the same angry young man Derek was before prison.
He's not gonna be a little angel forever.Derek shrugs off the concern, saying Danny will inevitably change rather than promising to protect him.
You think you're the only one doing time, Derek?Doris rejects Derek's self-pity, insisting that the prison term is a burden the whole family shares.
You think I'm not in here with you?She makes it personal: his loneliness is something she feels too, as if she is locked up with him.
Every day I watch you go through these sheets...An inmate's dry observation of Derek's endless paperwork, framing his rage as pointless.
このシーンについての質問
Why does Doris visit Derek in prison?
To tell him about the family and, more importantly, to warn him about Danny. She wants Derek to understand that his younger brother is heading down the same road unless something changes.
Why does Derek get defensive with his mother?
He hears her updates as an accusation and a guilt trip. He insists he cannot fix things from prison and that her worry only makes him feel worse, which pushes the visit toward a fight.
Does Doris really blame Derek for Danny's path?
She never says it outright, but the warning carries the blame. By telling him that Danny idolizes him and is starting to resemble him, she implies that Derek's example is pulling the boy toward the same fate.
What happens between Derek and the inmate in the laundry?
The inmate teases Derek about his endless paperwork and mocks the language of hate, joking that they should spend the day hating people. It starts as a provocation but turns into a kind of lesson.
What does "doing time" mean?
It is prison slang for serving a sentence. Doris uses it to argue that Derek is not the only person paying for what he did.
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