Monster's Ball Symbolism

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Monster’s Ball is a movie where a prison guard and his son execute a black inmate after the horrific crimes he has committed. The main character, Hank lives in Georgia and is a second generation prison guard while his father was previously one. Hank’s father is a racist sexist and seems to influence Hank in his racist tendencies of being hostile against people of color. During the execution of the black inmate, Hank’s son messes up and throws up before the inmate is being walked to the electrocution chair. Out of anger, Hank fights his son which ultimately leads to his son’s suicide. Hank finds love out of an expected event where this woman, Leticia, witnesses the death of her son. Coincidentally, Leticia’s former husband was the man Hank executed,