Little Boy Blue (film) Little Boy Blue (film) Little Boy Blue is a 1997 film directed by Antonio Tibaldi about a dysfunctional Texas family. The father, Ray (John Savage) is a Vietnam War veteran who was left impotent from a war injury. His high school son Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) tries to protect his two younger brothers from their abusive father. There is a family secret that gets revealed. Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray West, a compliant wife, Kate, and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy, who is relegated to a warehouse
The Little Black Boy The Little Black Boy "The Little Black Boy" is a poem by William Blake included in "Songs of Innocence" in 1789. It was published during a time when slavery was still legal and the campaign for the abolition of slavery was still young. "The Little Black Boy" was published in 1789, a time when slavery was still legal and the campaign for the abolition of slavery was still young. In "The Little Black Boy", Blake questions conventions of the time with basic Christian ideals. This becomes apparent in the third stanza, where Blake uses the sun as a metaphor for