For the final assignment in the Adult Learner and Portfolio Instruction Class, I have chosen to do a movie review on October Sky. October Sky, directed by Joe Johnston, is based on a true story about a young Homer Hickam, who lives in a mining town named, Coalwood. Homer is a young man whose life is ultimately fated by his father, a foreman at the coal mine. His father’s plan is for him to one day become a coal miner, as well. But, that all changes in October 1957 when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik goes into orbit. After Homer sees this amazing satellite across the dark sky, he is inspired to learn how to make rockets. With his friends on board, and the local geek, Homer sets to do just that through trial and many errors. Most of …show more content…
the town does not genuinely think these boys can manage it, especially Homer’s father, who is very unsupportive from the outset. The only person who truly believed in them from the start is their High School teacher, Ms. Riley. She sees what they’re attempting to do and affords them the support and encouragement they require to become contenders in the national science fair with a college scholarship and a life out of the mines being the ultimate goal. The four boys, Homer is their ring leader, fight through allegations by the law and efforts to destroy their hopes and dreams. They ban together along with the assistance of their once doubtful town, in particular Homer’s father, to take home the first prize at the science fair and go on to change their lives eternally. This movie really went in-line with Erik Erkison’s Stages of Development.
Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development is one of the best-known theories of personality in psychology. Much like Sigmund Freud, Erikson believed that personality develops in a series of stages. Unlike Freud's theory of psychosexual stages, Erikson's theory describes the impact of social experience across the whole lifespan (http://psychology.about.com). The stages I noticed the most during the movie were stage 5, Identity vs. Confusion, and stage 6, Intimacy vs. …show more content…
Isolation. In stage 5, during adolescence, the passage from childhood to adulthood is really significant. Children are becoming more independent, and then begin to look at the future in terms of career, relationships, families, housing, and so on. During this stop, they explore possibilities and start to make their own identity based upon the result of their explorations. This sense of who they are can be hindered, which results in a sense of confusion about themselves and their role in the world (http://psychology.about.com). You witness this occur in the movie with Homer. He really wants to make something of his life and not be a miner like his father. For a short while he ends up in the mines to help out his household after his father becomes injured, from those very same mines. He puts school on hold, wakes up bright and early to make money and succeed his father’s dreams for him, you can take in the struggle he has about this. But he became so discouraged by the failure he endured trying to build the rockets that he imagines this will now be his life, a coal miner. The feeling of failure presented him with a weak sense of self. We then see him transition to stage 6, at this stage we start to share ourselves more intimately with others. We explore relationships leading to longer term commitments with someone other than a family member. Successful completion can lead to comfortable relationships and a sense of commitment, safety, and care within a relationship. Avoiding intimacy, fearing commitment and relationships can lead to isolation, loneliness, and sometimes depression (http://psychology.about.com). He eventually understands he has dreams that he desires to accomplish. With some guidance from Ms. Riley he makes the decision to pursue his rocket building and get into the science fair. Throughout the whole movie there was a great deal of tension between Homer and his father and this ended up affecting the relationships that he made throughout his young adult life.
At beginning, we see Homer interested in one of the popular girls in his school, but she is out of his range. Just like his relationship with his father, he doesn’t get the affection he is so longing for, and because of this he fails to see the quiet but beautiful girl who is lovely inside and out, and who clearly likes him. Once Homer figures out where he belongs, and understands he doesn’t need to play hard for love, he opens up. In conclusion, he needed to get a sense of self and a personal identity. Which led him to remain truthful to himself. By repairing the relationship with his father, he was able to forge a more familiar relationship with others in his
life. I found this movie to be very inspiring. It taught me that you should not give up on your dreams no matter how hard it gets. Just like Homer, through all the trials and errors he kept pursuing, and kept trying to learn from his mistakes. It also taught me how important it is to go through each of Erikson’s stages correctly. One false turn and it can truly affect one’s whole lifetime. To think what would have happened if Homer and his father didn’t repair their relationship. Homer would have ultimately had a hard time with all future relationships and transitioning on to the other stages of development.
Of all that we see her struggle with and reject, there is something I see in the story that must be inferred because it is not said for sure. When homer is introduced into the story as a yankee from the north it is a surprise that he is in Alabama, aspecailly with the time period thye are in. so when the story says that people around town have seen homer going into emiys house it is a shock due to all the rejection to change that we have seen in the
Erik Erikson was heavily influenced by Freud but while Freud was an ID psychologist, Erikson was an ego psychologist. Erikson stressed that the development of the ego depended heavily on personal and social aspects. “According to Erikson, the ego develops as it successfully resolves crises that are distinctly social in nature. These involve establishing a sense of trust in others, developing a sense of identity in society, and helping the next generation prepare for the future” (McLeod, S. 1970). His theory focused on personality development through eight distinct stages. He believed that personality progressed in a stacking or pre-determined manner, this is referred to as the epigenetic principle. One must
Homer’s only support in his family comes from his mother. Since the beginning of the book, she told Homer to follow his dreams and continue experimenting with rockets. “Mom sat down beside me and put her arm around my shoulders. I twitched at her unfamiliar touch. It had been a long time since she’d hugged me. We just didn’t do much of that kind of thing in our
The movie “October Sky” is basically about a high school student Homer Hickam and three of his friends inventing a rocket which can actually fly for a long distance. Homer and his friends named each other the rocket boy. Homer Hickam talks about how the rocket boys got inspired, what problems they faced and how they were able to prove themselves innocent.
With the lack of a father figure as well as not fitting in with his peers, Erickson was in a state of confusion with his identity he didn’t know what he wanted to do. Heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud and his loss of identity, Erickson believed that personality developed through many phases life. Unlike Freud, who focused on psychosexual development, Erickson believed that the impact of social interactions and experience plays a role in development and growth.
Erikson believed that people develop in psychosocial stages. He emphasized developmental change throughout the human life span. In Erikson's theory, eight stages of development result as we go through the life span. Each stage consists of a crisis that must be faced. According to Erikson, this crisis is not a catastrophe but a turning point. The more an individual resolves the crises successfully, the healthier development will be.
Psychosocial stage of development The theory of personality of Erik Erikson is among one of the most important theories used to explain how people develop their personality. Although a psychoanalyst, Erikson not merely considered the psychosexual aspect as the mere factors that contributed to the development of individuals’ personality, but also took into account the psychosocial aspect. Erikson divided personality development into eight stages: basic trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. role diffusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, and integrity vs. despair, (Cervone & Pervin, 2013; Johnson & Ahmad, 2014; Maitland, 2011). According to this theory, I have been greatly influenced by the stage four: industry vs. inferiority.
Eric Erikson was one of the most famous theorists of the twentieth century; he created many theories. One of the most talked about theories is his theory of psychosocial development. This is a theory that describes stages in which an individual should pass as they are going through life. His theory includes nine stages all together. The original theory only included eight stages but Erikson‘s wife found a ninth stage and published it after his death. The nine stages include: trust vs. mistrust, autonomy vs. shame and doubt, initiative vs. guilt, industry vs. inferiority, identity vs. identity confusion, intimacy vs. isolation, generativity vs. stagnation, integrity vs. despair, and hope and faith vs. despair (Crandell and Crandell, p.35-36)).
Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development were complex, but simple. It is something everyone will go through and experiences will always be different. The lack of reinforcement to the positive aspects of his stages can lead to quite a disaster. Surprisingly, previous stages are highly influential to the proceeding stage. The lack of reinforcement to the positive aspects of his psychosocial stages can have a very devastating effect on a person. This is because the effects built up rather than taking the place of one another. The effects are quite horrifying, but with the right environment, experiences and beliefs, everything can go well.
Erikson’s psychosocial theory in which social interactions cause growth and change. Cady’s social interactions with others cause change with her autonomy. Cady loses herself by changing her values and character in the beginning of the film and towards the end of the film she finds self-recognition. Adolescence is a critical time during development because internal and external sources have a strong influence.
His belief was that each human developed their own personality through a series of stages and these stages developed due to the social experiences that one experienced through life. According to Erikson, there are eight stages and each stage centers around a conflict that has to be resolved. Under Erikson’s theory, if conflict or crisis is not resolved, then the outcome will be more crisis and struggles with that issue later on in life (Domino & Affonso, 2011).
Erikson’s psychosocial theory is an eight stage theory on human psychological development. Erikson broke this theory of eight stages into groups by age. They are labeled as crisis stages and a person cannot move on from one stage to the next stage until the crisis is
Erik Erikson was influenced by Freud and his concept of the ego. Erikson observed the impact of external factors on personality from not just childhood, but throughout the entire lifetime. He developed eight stages, which are split into different age brackets. As an individual passes through these stages, they must successfully complete the crisis to move forward onto the next one.
Erik Erikson’s eight Stages of man; politically known as the eight stages of psychosocial development. He promotes social interactions as a motivation to personality development. Erickson studied stages from the beginning of the life cycle to the later stages of life. Erickson was trained under the famous Sigmund Freud. His belief was that it wasn’t only sex that motivated personality development. Social interaction and a growing sense of competence is the key to it all. Because his beliefs differed from the beliefs of Freud, Erikson quickly began to work on his own. Erickson has focused on many different eras of psychological development.
However, Freud’s theory was centered on psychosexual stages, Erikson’s theory elaborates on the effects of social experiences across an individual’s life span. Erikson’s psychosocial stages is divided into eight stages: Stage 1 – Trust vs. mistrust, Stage 2 – Autonomy vs. shame and doubt, Stage 3 – Initiative vs. guilt, Stage 4 – Industry vs. inferiority, Stage 5 – Identity vs. role confusion, Stage 6 – Intimacy vs. isolation, Stage 7 – Generativity vs. stagnation and Stage 8 – Integrity vs.