Almost a decade later, the award winning teen pregnancy movie, Juno was released. This movie is the story of a young teen named Juno who becomes pregnant after having sex with her friend Paulie. This movie is rated PG-13. Classification of the films according to Haas’ typology.
After deciding to give the baby up for adoption the film covers Juno's pregnancy arc: from telling her parents, the challenges of going to school, her changing relationship with Paulie, and the dynamics of a relationship of the adopting couple. Interestingly, unlike Tina Spangler in Fifteen and Pregnant, Juno remained perky and cute throughout the film, her studies never suffered, and she and the father of her child end up happily ever after.
Though the movie doesn't glamorize teen pregnancy, it does set up an unrealistic expectation. It oversimplifies the issue. On her own, Juno finds a advert in the paper for a (wealthy) local couple wanting to adopt a child. No legal issues here, she waives the need for a contract solid in her belief that she will have no second thoughts of wanting to keep the child. Her parents, though somewhat disappointed
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Domestically it has grossed 143, 495,265 (opening weekend it made $10,634,576) ("Weekend Box..."). The film won an academy award for original screenplay.
Critics of the film both in the US and in the UK were torn as to how the film depicted teen pregnancy. Some questioned the lack of realism and felt it portrayed teen pregnancies to be as everyday as getting teen acne. An article in the UK's Daily Mail noted the ease in which Juno tells her father about the pregnancy, and his one mildly disappointed statement provided "one of the few moments of truth in a film which otherwise manages to make the business of teen pregnancies as mundane an event as getting on the school swimming team - or not" (Boycott
The author’s purpose for writing the book was to help families who are struggling with infertility, miscarriage, and adoption. The author was able to fulfill her purpose throughout the book with stories and personal experiences. For example, when she gave a history of her grief with three miscarriages and five to seven adoption lost. She was able to relate to families dealing with each situation because she had experienced all three herself.
Juno subverts the audience expectations of typical teen films because it has a controversial plot of pregnancy and abortion, mature/adult themes and the characters are quite deep and complex. The construction of characters and how they develop drives the plot and sets the setting of the film is evident that Juno challenges the typical narrative that audiences are expecting.
Moving forward in their adventure together, Taylor feels that she is more mature than she ever was and realizes that being a mother is not a bad thing. The adoption certificate symbolizes evidenceevidence, and the freedom of discrimination that some people may have against her. Taylor expresses, “That means you’re my kid,’ I explained, ‘and I’m your mother, and nobody can say it isn’t so” (p.311). This tells us how satisfies Taylor is to become a mother for Turtle. Although it was the goal of her to avoid getting pregnant, now she finally understands that being a mother is such a wonderful experience that anyone can ever have. Honestly, Taylor loves Turtle with her whole heart and will make Turtle feel safe. Taylor becoming a mother is a great advantage for Turtle because Taylor has very good personalities that will make Turtle a happier girl and eventually get influenced by it.Firstly, Taylor’s car is an important thing that helped Taylor to move out of her little town of Kentucky. Secondly, a memorable event that occurs to Taylor is Turtle’s first-word “bean” because Taylor has made Turtle to feel comfortable enough to talk to Taylor and everyone else. Finally,
She still did not like it, or want it, but she was not planning on ending the pregnancy. This difference in additude can show us how open their families may have been to the idea of the young daughters being pregnant. For Dewey-Dell, the Bundren family was not as accepting of her accidentally pregnancy. It was also set in a different time period than "Salvage the Bones". It was set in the 1920s where society was not as open minded about women and pregnancy, or even sex before marriage. " Salvage the Bones" is set in a more modern age, where the ideas of sex and pregnancy were a common
Going through pregnancy as a teenager had many impacts on how one’s life changes with family and how they change as a person. They have the responsibility of a child when they are still a child themselves. In Juno’s case, giving away your child is a tough decision to make but since she had a good support system, she is able to make decisions with confidence. When learning about the pregnancy, Juno’s dad and stepmother were in complete shock yet they were supportive. “The decision to maintain the pregnancy and the give it up for adoption will result in a traumatic experience for the teen. If she desires the pregnancy, either consciously or subconsciously, having to give up the baby will be experienced as a tremendous and devastating loss. Adoption is not a decision a teen makes alone…at some point her parents will help her decide” (Bartell, 2005). Both her parents are supportive in helping her find an adoptive couple who can provide her baby the best. Along with the pregnancy, Juno struggles with the fact that she is going to be a teenage mother, who is also extremely smart and aware of her own limitations. Upon learning about the pregnancy she has the thought of aborting the child but does not go along with it as she sees life producing inside her. She deals with the remarks and stares of classmates as she continues to attend classes, opting to stay in
While conversing with the naive Janie, Nanny declares, “Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it’s protection” (15). By referring to Janie as “baby,” Hurston utilizes a childish connotation to exaggerate Janie’s ignorance of marriage. Preparing for the potentially disastrous future, Nanny impregnates security as a top priority for Janie instilling that a prudent marriage will lead to love. Accommodating to her grandmother’s desires, Janie marries Logan. Through this union, Janie assumes an emotional attraction will coincide; however, Janie’s perception of love depreciates as Nanny equates affection to material wealth explaining how Logan “got a house bought and paid for and sixty acres uh land right on de big road... Dis
Adolescent is a stage of transitioning to adulthood.Our body changes physically and mentally, which also changes our behavior and our personality. The movie Juno is an excellent example of the developmental process. Juno starts with the pre-adult hero, sixteen-year-old Juno MacGuff, understanding that her one night stand with Paulie Bleeker, has brought about her being pregnant. “Lawrence Kohlberg described three stages of moral development which described the process through which people learn to discriminate right from wrong and to develop increasingly sophisticated appreciations of morality” (Oswalt, 2010). Although Juno is well aware that decisions like abortion are neither dangerous nor harmful, but she still fears it as she feels that
One fact I learned from the film is that our human bodies want to make babies even if we do not. Our bodies work to achieve this every day. In today’s technology the doctors as well as other people studying childbirth can take a closer look inside the body to see what is really going on and how it is happening. The new life begins when two people or two animals come together to create life. It starts with the DNA and this is what makes everyone different and not the same, this also help with the immune systems.
of “the baby” and the social standing of the couple remain very vague and are only hinted at
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has yet to be discovered as in depth as Juno will. NASA New Frontiers recently established the Juno Mission to observe Jupiter (Ionescu 1). The spacecraft is currently on route to Jupiter and it is set to arrive in 2016. Juno will orbit Jupiter thirty-three times total before shutting down (Ionescu 1). Juno will observe Jupiter with deeper observation than can be seen by a telescope. The Juno Spacecraft is a project made to discover Jupiter’s high winds, a possible water source, and the planetary structure.
She sees a “passing cloud shadowing the white hills with darkness is a subtle portent of doom to Jig’s pregnancy” (Abdoo 238). There are two contrasting landscapes that the girl sees, one that is fruitless and has a wind to it and the other that has trees and is lively. This represents her options by keeping the baby so she can have a fulfilling life or have the abortion and be left sterile and barren.
On average, around 15 million abortions occurred among younger, unmarried women ranging within the childbearing ages of 15-44. In which case, the reader could infer that Jig was among that age range in the text because she was bearing a child. It does not state if the man and Jig were married, but one could infer that they were not married due to the way they were described as young and were traveling instead of settled while Jig was pregnant. This could also infer that Jig became pregnant unexpectedly and very sudden. Becoming pregnant unexpectedly leaves a woman at a higher risk for considering an abortion. The higher risk could be due to her or her partner unready for a child or have an unmet need for contraception. Which could explain why the young couple was highly considering the abortion. Allowing the reader to know this information, it could enlighten them to realize why the man is encouraging Jig to have the abortion at a subtly aggressive extent. He is unready to have the responsibility of a child or a family. In Spain, where the story occurs, abortion is a legal option for women in the first 14 weeks of their pregnancy. This implies that Jig would receive a safe abortion, meaning after receiving the
Most of Juno and the paycocks realism comes from its accuracy of speech. Its Dublin intentions unerringly gain a reality of setting and of character. Even features that have an expressly dramatic purpose, like repetition, rhetoric, lyrical or biblical passages, fall easily on the ear in natural spoken rhythms. Language plays a big part in this play in the quick changes of pace mood characterisation of the play and strengthens both its comedy and its tragedy.
According to Piaget's psychogenetic theory, Juno is in the stage of formal operations, which is characterized mainly by the existence of a formal thought that enables the subject to create their own conclusions. The reasoning processes become logical and can be applied to concrete or real problems. Juno did not make a concrete analysis of things, that is, she did not recreate the abstract, for which she did not think the consequence of her actions. In the case of an unprotected sexual relationship, the likelihood of a pregnancy was the safest, and the consequences had not yet been deduced, she had not developed the new capabilities that allowed her to assess a situation such as being sexually active. It is important to highlight how Juno is
Attention Getter: Nowadays, no one is astonished by the presence of pregnant or parenting teenagers. In fact we have a fascination with pregnant adolescents which is evident in the creation of “16 and Pregnant,” a MTV series that follows the real-life stories of American youth who have engaged in sexual activity and who have realized that reproduction system works because they are or will be parents to a cute baby boy or girl. We watch this series in anticipation of the child’s birth and to witness how the teen parents cope.