ENCW 205 Fall 2021
Posted in Treme on Nov 16th, 2021
The show Treme has the common theme of identity we’ve been discussing in this course. The difference between the characters in the books we’ve read and the characters in this show is, in the show people are clinging to their sense of identity that Hurricane Katrina stripped from them, but in the books they lack […]
Posted in Treme on Nov 15th, 2021
[posted on behalf of a student] The first episode of the HBO series Treme, “Do You Know What It Means,” takes place in New Orleans three months after Hurricane Katrina. It follows the stories of several different characters from different parts of New Orleans and different backgrounds. There is the Bernette family, whose house is off […]
Posted in Treme on Nov 15th, 2021
Treme is a televised series that peers into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. There are a plethora of disturbances in New Orleans’ societal norms that the series addresses, ranging from schools closing to dilapidated properties to increase in crime rate to racial policing. If the series has a villain, it is the faceless apparatus of governmental control over employees and citizens. The battle […]
Treme takes place three months after Hurricane Katrina. It captures the events and feelings that rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina must have been like. Some are just trying to get on their feet, some were left homeless, and some moved completely away. All three scenarios are captured in Treme. It does a good job showing the […]
The show Treme show casts a light onto the lives of multiple residents of New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina flooded 80% of the city. The level different characters have been impacted by the storm varies, The Bernette family whose house is mainly intact while others have lost everything (such as the Mardi […]