driving miss daisey

 In class, we watched a movie named Driving Miss Daisy, a great story that follows a driver named Hoke, a businessman hired to drive his mother around town. This occurred during the civil rights movement when many African Americans were still oppressed and fighting for their rights. The man who hired Hoke to drive, his mother, is suffering from early symptoms of dementia, which is one of the reasons for her needing a driver. Miss Daisy is hesitant about Hoke moving her for multiple reasons. The first one is that she does not want to admit that she is getting old and cannot transport herself. The other reason is you start to learn that she is also racist towards black individuals around her. 

However, after spending a lot of time driving together, Miss Daisy slowly starts warming up to Hoke, and they soon have to go on a long trip together. After starting the long trip, you can start seeing them talk back and forth and laugh and then pull over to the side of the road to speak and eat. They are starting to get close and bond at this time, but two cops soon pull over next to them and start asking him if he's allowed to drive and questioning him as well as being very racist towards him. Miss Daisy sees this, and they finally understand how tough of a life it is for an African American in America at this period. 

At the movie's end, Miss Daisy is now ancient and in a nursing home. Her dementia has gotten very, very bad, but she still remembers Hoke and even prefers to talk to him over her son at any point. She is now towards the end of her life but still looks forward to seeing Hoke every time.