Think Like a Man Persuasive Essay

Teana Lawrence ENC 2001 Mini-theme 1 When the previews of Think Like a Man was showing on TV before the movie came out, I was too anxious to see it whenever it decided to drop in theaters. The day I finally watched it, it was how I expected it to be. The movie was funny, entertaining, and thriller all at once. Think Like a Man is the movie version of Steve Harvey’s book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man”. After watching the movie, I immediately wanted to go to the store and purchase the book. Not only because it gave good insights to a woman from a man’s point if view, but because everyone in the movie kept showing it off.

The characters that they had in the movie, Kevin Hart, Terrance J, Meagan Good, Regina Hall, Taraji P. Henson, Michael Ealy, Gabrielle Union, Jerry Ferrara, Romany Malco, and Steve Harvey himself, was all perfect characters to make the movie entertaining. There was not one dull moment in the movie and a lot of the credit goes to Kevin Hart, a comedian, which was the narrator throughout the whole movie. He was the one who introduced all the characters and himself at the beginning of the movie and basically told jokes throughout the movie because that’s what everyone knows him as; a funny man.

That was clever of Steve Harvey to have him as narrator because just having a movie that gives advice the whole time can get boring for 2 hours. The book “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” was an opportunity for women to read the book, see what fits them, learn about how men think and use things on women, and be able to protect their self or become wiser before getting into a relationship and having their heart broken. The book also introduces things to women in each chapter like “What Drives Men”, “The Three Thing Every Man Needs”, “Mama’s Boys”, “Why Men Cheat”, etc.

These things help women out because it actually sees how a man thinks about a certain topic such as “sex” or shows women how to handle situations such as having a man that always involves everything around his mom. As a result of the women in the movie reading this book successful Lauren (Taraji P. Henson) lowers her standards to date the cook Dominic (Michael Ealy), Mya (Meagan Good) stops giving up the “cookie” and applies the 90 day rule to the ladies-man Zeke (Romany Malco), Kristen (Gabrielle Union) stops waiting on a ring from Jeremy (Jerry Ferrara), and Candace (Regina Hall) lose patients to the mama’s boy Michael (Terrance J. . The men begin to realize that they are beginning to lose to these women and one day Michael noticed his mom had the book and he showed it to his friends and they figured out how the women was winning against them. Their own kind traded out on them by writing this book, a man! He made women eyes open up and get insight on things they never really knew was affecting a healthy relationship. Overall the movie was really great and like I said before Steve Harvey picked some good characters to play the roles for each title.