1.     Through out the whole movie Ludovic believes that he is a girl: He dressed up like a girl when the family was having a house party; he seemed very happy and confident. When his Mom told him that he can’t dress like a girl anymore, he said “but I like to be pretty”. When his sister was talking to him about X -and Y-chromosomes, he came out with a theory that God made him a girl but when he was throwing the X and Y chromosomes to him, one of the X chromosomes accidently felt into a trash can. That is why he wasn’t born a girl. He is very clear about his sexuality, even when his mom told him that “ boys don’t marry boys”, he said “ but ill become a girl”. Even though the whole world was judging him about his sexually, he still made it obvious that he believe he is not a boy because he doesn’t like the thing boys suppose to like. At the end when the family moved to a new neighborhood, he had no choice but change his behavior for his family.

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I     In Ma vie en rose, social norms takes a big part of the story. The community believes that Boys should have short hair, play with cars and sports, boy can only likes girls. Ludovic is a boy who likes dresses and dolls and he doesn’t like sports like other boys do. The community thinks that it is unacceptable when a boy is not acting like other boys or according to social norms, Ludovic’s behavior is not masculine but feminine and boys can’t be feminine. Therefore the community wanted to get ride of Ludovic from school because they think that his behavior is a bad and abnormal behavior. Ludovic’s family also thinks that he is not normal, they even took him to see a psychiatrist. The mother was actually very nice in the beginning, and she became very mean to Ludovic because she blames everything that was happening to the family on Ludovic.