Okay, people who have watched the majority or all of Firefly can probably help me on this. Oh and I can’t give you pieces of my actual paper yet because it’s under construction. I’ve changed my argument for the third time so I’ll give you some information on ideas that I need help on.
I’m doing my paper on ethnocentrism, which is the tendency to judge others as inferior and your culture as superior. My paper will be about how Firefly presents this as a serious problem, but that it’s a fixable social problem. In other words, it’s about how people fear what they don’t understand. I’m also going to include it’s ways or attempts to resolve ethnocentrism as the importance of my paper.
The scene I chose to stand out the most is in the episode “Safe.” This is when Doralee, the village teacher accuses River of being a witch and then the whole village is convinced as well. The part I want to show that it’s being fixed is perhaps when Mal comes and rescues them calling the crew “heroes.” So, I got that down, but I also want to show how Rivers abilities affect a few of her relationships with the crew as well. The crewmembers that I want to use are: Jayne, Mal, and Kaylee.
That’s the hard part for me. I’m not sure which exact scenes I want to use for Jayne. I feel like watching all of the episodes gave me a disadvantage because I’m using how he feels about River from more than one episode. I can easily pick out an scenes for Mal and Kaylee but I’m struggling to get one scene for Jayne that shows his ethnocentrism. Maybe it will just take watching over all of Firefly again. Perhaps I can use something from “Objects in Space.” Should I just find a scene where Jayne comes out and just says he wants her off the ship because she’s weird?
Also, I’m going to make my real world connection based on things that make people feel uncomfortable like homosexuality or immigration. Do you guys have any ideas? Maybe race could even work or the roles of women and men.
I appreciate any suggestions. Thanks.
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