Essay n. 3This analysis will be carried out on the film The Butler. The Butler is a film released last year. It follows the life of a black butler named Cecil Gains who worked in the White House from the Eisenhower administration through the Regan administration. In this analysis I intend to describe the verbal and non-verbal cultural patterns present in the film and analyze their meaning. As well as answering questions such as: What social and cultural identities do the characters in the film voluntarily or involuntarily acquire? Are there characters who struggle with their identity? How come? Are there any stereotypes evident in the film? Explain. Is prejudice evident in the film? Verbal First I will talk about the verbal cultural patterns I saw in this film. In this film there was a distinct difference in dialects and accents among Southerners. “Dialects are distinguished by differences in vocabulary grammar and even punctuation.”(227) “Accents are simply variations in pronunciation that occur when people speak the same language” (227). The first example of these two is the difference in the way of speaking between President Johnson and President Kennedy. Kennedy, the youngest president, has a very distinct Boston accent, while Johnson has a very strong Southern accent. (http://dialectblog.com) "This accent features the frontal pronunciation of words like padre and palma, so these are pronounced faðə and pa:m." Johnson's Southern accent is one in which "words ending in -in, -en, -im, and -em are pronounced with the same vowel" (http://dialectblog.com). We also notice a difference in Cecile's accent and that of her son Louise. Cecil has a southern accent while Louise has a much more northern accent. This difference can be attributed to the fact that Cecil growing up... in the middle of the paper... regarding all the sacrifices his son made for racial and ethnic equality began to question his position as butler and how he it was always felt about race relations. Yes, stereotypes and prejudices are present in this film. Stereotypes are learned early in life and usually stick (172). Prejudice is an irrational generalization of a group of people. (173Work Cited: "American Accents." Dialect Blog. Worldress, 2011. Web. March 25, 2014.WebsiteLinkTagsEditDeleteSamovar, Larry A., Richard E. Porter, and Edwin R. McDaniel. Communication between Cultures. 7E ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub., 1991. 152+. Print.Work cited: "American Dialect Blog, 2011. Web. March 25, 2014. Website Tags Edit Delete Samovar, Larry A., Richard E. Porter, and Edwin R. McDaniel." culture. 7th ed., CA: Wadsworth Pub., 1991. 152+.