To describe the concept of ‘personal fable’, which was explained with a wide variety of examples during our adolescence lecture, I chose to write about the adolescence stage presented in the Nickelodeon show House of Anubis created by Anjali Taneja. Nina Martin, a 17-year-old teenager from America, moves to a British Boarding School in England. She struggles to fit in during her first days of entering this new environment, as a girl named Joy recently disappeared immediately before her arrival, and Joy’s best friend Patricia believes Nina is responsible for Joy’s disappearance. Therefore, Patricia is extraordinarily cruel, accusatory, and unwelcoming towards Nina, even when she has nothing to do with Joy’s vanishing. It was unbelievably remarkable …show more content…
This includes the ‘Identity vs. Role Confusion' crisis in adolescence. Teenagers are attempting to find their unique abilities, what they like to do, and which place in society that they feel they belong to, while still developing their genuine sense of self. Erikson declares that adolescents should explore the possibilities and opportunities they have around them and commit to them according to how well these endeavors match their individual traits and interests. It was complicated for Nina to start her life in an entirely different country and adapt to the opportunities and people available at her new school since she received a scholarship, all while leaving her grandmother back home alone. Meanwhile, she has another girl pushing her to complete initiation ceremonies and she must live with these other students too, who she cannot escape from unless she leaves the school. The fact that Nina was trying to form connections and make peace with the people that she literally must live with, shows her extensive focus on those around her to gain interpersonal contentment with the cards she was dealt in life. This reveals that Nina did focus her time on finding herself. There was much social pressure around her, but thankfully, she creates true and beautiful bonds in …show more content…
Freud’s theory is not applicable to House of Anubis because this show is all about the emotional and psychosocial behaviors in society, rather than the sexual element of humans. Freud believes the last stage, which happens during puberty and for the rest of your adulthood, is all about sexual intimacy and genitals. I understand his perspective because babies start their lives while having many sucking inclinations and humans are naturally sexual creatures. However, scholars, parents, and workers alike spend their entire days focusing on endeavors and commitments which are not related to sex, so I believe that to say our whole development is focused on sex is crazy. People care about more than just that, and there is a wide range of humanity to explore outside of the topic of
As people grow up and experience life more and more, their personalities are revealed more. In the story “Barbie-Q”, Sandra Cisneros describes what it feels like to still be searching for one's identity. “Barbie-Q” is about a little girl and her sister that have dolls that don’t compare to others. There Barbies don’t have new dresses, and fancy red stilettos, but instead they have homemade sock dresses, and bubbleheads. This changes when these two girls go to a flea market, and find new dolls that were damaged in a fire. They may have been damaged with water and had melted limbs but it still meant a lot to these little girls. Sandra Cisneros expresses how these girls have struggled with self identity and how they have finally came to be there
As a teen, Rayona is in a confusing period of life. The gradual breakdown of her family life places an addition burden on her conscience. Without others for support, Rayona must find a way to handle her hardships. At first, she attempts to avoid these obstacles in her life, by lying, and by not voicing her opinions. Though when confronting them, she learns to feel better about herself and to understand others.
The short story Eleven by Sandra Cisneros, focuses around the main character Rachel as an insecure developing girl who lacks the experience to handle everyday encounters. Rachel, an eleven year old girl truly encapsulates the thoughts that are present within an adolescent. The lack of confidence in herself, excessive fear of being judged, and ideas of growing up are ideals that are relevant within each and every one of us. The reader is able to relate to Rachel because her feelings and experiences that are described by the author are similar to what most people have been through and are currently experiencing. The characterization of Rachel is expressed through the author’s usage of point of view, imagery, and repetition.
“I would like to baptize myself under a new name, a name more like the real me, the one nobody sees” (11). Adolescence brings on many changes in one’s life and is the time when a person is shaped into who they will be forever. Sandra Cisneros shows the experiences one may go through while growing up through this book. A child, especially during their adolescence, is a very moldable person. The situations they go through and their position socially can greatly impact who they become. Cisneros touches on the importance of friends, life at home, and experiences in the real world that can influence a child’s life. In The House On Mango Street, Cisneros uses strong descriptive words, first person point of view, and suspense
... stresses, changes, and issues that typical adolescents have to deal with. She still had to figure out what her plans were for her future, which ended up changing due to the accident; she still had relationships that developed or ended, and she had to figure out how to deal with those stressors; she still had to go through the process of finding out who she was and what her identity meant like other adolescents her age; and she had to deal with the transition from being a typical teenager to an emerging adult. The entire novel centers on these changes and how Anna reacts to the many twists that come up in her life, and because of this, the novel shows what it is like to live through the adolescent stage of life.
In Phoebe’s Prince story, for instance, no amount of finger pointing or apportioning blame can address the underlying issues. For one, she was an emotionally disturbed girl who had tried to end her life before she got bullied in school. Apart from her depressive state, Phoebe had minimal communication of her challenges in school with her parents or any authority figures (teachers or even the school principal) in her life. These gaps are what are highlighted in this paper and hopefully when fully grasped can help to minimize the gaps that exist in our social
The target audience for this remediation is children around the ages of 5-8 at a reading level of 3. The purpose of this remediation is the idea that a classic story can be changed to suit the views of a child. This story tells about how children should not judge other children based on their gender, but on their personalities and similarities. The book mainly uses stereotypical versions of boys and...
Adolescence is the stage in life when you are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. There are many things that still need to be explored, learned and conquered. In the film Thirteen, the main character, Tracy Freeland, is just entering adolescence. While trying to conquer Erikson’s theory of Identity vs. Role confusion, Tracy is affected by many influences, including family and friends that hinder her development. Many concepts from what we have learned in class can be applied to this character from identity development, to depression, to adolescent sexuality and more. In this film Tracy is a prime example of an adolescent and much of what I have learned this year can be applied to her character.
Growing up is a current issue nowadays with children and teenagers seeming to enter the adult world at an earlier age thus having to take on the responsibilities of adults. When does a child become an adult? For many the right answer is that it has nothing to do with age, it is determined by the behavior. In this essay I will not go into the issue of when a child turns into an adult but rather think about how the issue is treated in ? The Outsiders?
Through case study, the psychodynamic approach was developed by Sigmund Freud. Freud visited Charcot’s, a laboratory in Paris investigating people suffering from hysteria. There, Freud began patient case studies (Crain, p. 254). Freud developed 5 stages of human development known as the Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency and Genital stages. The Oral stage is from the ages of birth to 18 months. This stage engages in oral activities such as sucking. Next the Anal stage begins around age 18 months to 3 years of age. Freud suggests that during the Anal stage a child focuses on the pleasure of purging from the rectal area. The Phallic stages, none as the masturbation stage, when a child get’s pleasure from focusing on his genital areas usually happens during ages 3 years to 6 years of age. After the Phallic stage come the Latency stages. Latency is when children at the ages of 6 to 12 years old work to develop cognitive and interpersonal skills suppressing sexual interests but those 12 years and older fall into the Genital stages. During the Genital stage those suppressed sexual interests re-occur and the need to find gratification dependent on finding a partner (Craig & Dunn, p 12)
Freud believed that a human must go through certain stages in their lives or they will not socially develop to their full extent. He also made claims that a human is always struggling between their human, and instinctual nature. This was a very controversial topic because Freud concluded there was a lack of individuality of the human race. If Freud’s theory was the case then humans would have less of a choice in their life, and are truly slaves to their instinctual nature. While an intelligent figure of his time, I believe that Freud went in the wrong direction when approaching his theory. While humans do have a large amount of urges that he described, the person themselves can choose what to do based not solely on society, but their wants and needs as well. Had Freud been alive today I’m sure that his theory would have theorized much different things about the human nature. I think it is important to analyze the distinct cultural setting behi...
The Politics of Performance in Invisible Man Invisible Man, the seminal text of Ralph Ellison, serves as a complex exploration of societal expectations and racial dynamics, with a comprehensive breaking down, through a certain literary malaise, of identity and power structures in the society it portrays. The novel, diving into the politics of the act of creative performance, through its various depictions of the protagonist, supporting characters, and scenes, works to weave a narrative which challenges and addresses the prominence of visibility and invisibility at an individual level. From the protagonist’s tale of invisibility and other internal difficulties, to the external cultural references of Louis Armstrong’s pioneering musical talents, and, particularly, within the symbolic posturing for position embedded within the
“But then,' thought Alice. 'shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn’t like that!” (Carroll, 1993 p 21). Did Alice want to grow up? No, but she was not willing to go through the struggles during the concrete and formal operation stages of emotional maturity. Authors and movie directors have long used children characters and actors to portray these inevitable childhood developmental stages of emotional maturity, one of which is the disobedience stage. This paper will discuss several evidence of disobedience by children characters. Sometimes the child's behavior in the story is obviously a disobedient behavior but sometimes you will need to analyze the story to identify points of disobedience displayed by a child character.
One of Freud’s major research accomplishments was his findings on infant sexuality also known as the Psychosexual Stages. The first stage is the oral stage which is 0-1 years of age. This is the stage where sensual/sexual life begins, in the form of sucking the thumb, biting, and breast suck...
Freud believed that humans develop through stages based on particular erogenous zones. Freud theorized that to gain a healthy personality as an adult, a person would have to successfully complete a certain sequence of five stages. Within the five stages of Freud’s psychosexual development theory, Freud assumed there would be major consequences if any stage was not completed successfully. The stages, in order, were the oral stage, the anal stage, the phallic stage, the latency stage, and the genital stage. In general, Freud believed that an unsuccessful completion of any stage would make a person become fixated on that particular stage. The outcome would lead the person to either over indulge or under indulge the failed stage during adulthood. Freud truly believed that the outcomes of the psychosexual stages played a major part in the development of the human personality. Eventually, these outcomes would become different driving forces in every human being’s personality. The driving forces would determine how a person would interact with the world around them. The results from Freud’s theory about the stages of psychosexual development led Freud to create the concept of the human psyche; Freud’s biggest contribution to