order supported by punishment and authority" (p. 1). While the 18-year-old Ricky is among the most mature of all the characters in the film, his moral response to his father's disciplinary control is at the Pre-conventional Level, in Stage One, the Punishment and Obedience Orientation (Barger, 2000, p. 1).
He lies routinely and blithely to his father's questions in order to avoid his father's violent temper. He keeps a supply of untainted urine handy in order to pass his father's regular drug tests. He takes on low-level jobs in order to ex
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