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    Essay #3This analysis will be carried out on the film The Butler. The Butler is a film released last year. It follows the life of a black butler named Cecil Gains who worked in the White House from the Eisenhower administration through the Regan administration. In this analysis, I intend to describe the verbal and non-verbal cultural patterns in the film and analyze their meaning. In addition to answering questions such as: What social and cultural identities do the characters in the film acquire voluntarily or involuntarily? Do any characters struggle with their identity? How so? Are there any obvious stereotypes in the film? Explain. Is bias evident in the film?VerbalI will first discuss the verbal cultural patterns I saw in this film. In this film, there was a distinct difference in dialects and accents between the southerners. “Dialects are distinguished by differences in vocabulary grammar and even punctuation. » (227) “Accents are simply variations in pronunciations that occur when people speak the same language” (227). The first example of these two elements is the difference in speeches between President Johnson and President Kennedy. Kennedy, the youngest president, has a very distinct Boston accent, while Johnson has a very strong Southern accent. (http://dialectblog.com) “This accent features frontal pronunciation of words like father and palm tree, so they are pronounced faðə and pa:m. Johnson's southern accent is where "words ending in -in, -en, -im, and -em are pronounced with the same vowel" (http://dialectblog.com). We also see a difference between Cécile's accent and that of her son Louise. Cecil has a southern accent while Louise has a much more northern accent. This difference can be attributed to the fact that Cecil grew up...in the middle of the newspaper......the king of all the sacrifices his son made for racial and ethnic equality began to question his place of a butler and how he had always felt. on race relations. Yes, stereotypes and prejudices are present in this film. Stereotypes are learned early in life and generally stick in the memory (172). Prejudice is an irrational generalization of a group of people. (173Work Cited: "American Accents." Dialect Blog. Worldress, 2011. Web. March 25, 2014.WebsiteLinkTagsEditDeleteSamovar, Larry A., Richard E. Porter, and Edwin R. McDaniel. Communication Across Cultures. 7E ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub., 1991. 152+. Works cited: “American Accents Blog” Worldress, 2011. Web March 25, 2014.WebsiteLinkTagsEditDeleteSamovar, Larry A., Richard E. Porter and Edwin R. McDaniel.Communication between cultures.7E ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub.., 1991. 152+..