ROUGH DRAFT
The film Radio is based on a true story of a mentally disabled man named James Robert Kennedy who is nicknamed Radio because of his love for them. Radios day consists of pushing or riding his grocery cart around town and listening to the radio. In the beginning of the movie it shows the abuse that he encounters from people every day. He gets strange looks from the people in town, yelled at from a driver as he crosses the road and picked on by the local High School football team. This is a normal routine for Radio until a man named Coach Jones from the local football team approaches him. Coach Jones has been watching Radio walk by the practices and has seen him get tormented by the players of his team. The Coach becomes interested
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in Radio and befriends him. He allows him to assist at his High school football and basketball practices while cheering on the sidelines at the games. The once bullied man who used to shyly walk by the field ends up being the star of the football team. This concerns some of the community who thinks that he might be a danger and a distraction due to his disability. The movie does not exactly say the name of his disability but when Jones asks the mother she says “he is the same as everyone else, just a little slower than most.” At the end of the movie the community realizes that Radio is no danger at all. Instead, he becomes an inspiration to the town and to the towns people. Both the client centered model and medical model were seen portraying Radio throughout the film.
Radios disability was portrayed in terms with the medical model in more ways than one. In the beginning of the film, Radio is portrayed as a man who does not talk or interact with anyone. He mumbles to himself and walks the street as if he’s incapable of doing or saying anything. One of the scenes show him walking past a woman and her daughter. The woman gives him a strange look and pulls her daughter close as if he was dangerous. Throughout the beginning of the film, the football team picks on him and even ties him up inside the equipment room. The community views him as a disabled man who doesn’t belong. Even one of the officers in town arrests him because he assumes that he is dangerous even though all he wanted to do was to give presents to his neighbors for …show more content…
Christmas. It becomes very obvious that Coach Jones is portrayed as using the client centered model approach towards Radio.
Coach Jones treats Radio as if he was one of his own. He doesn’t look at or treat Radio as if he was disabled. Instead, he pays attention to what his interests are by inviting him to his practices and introducing him to the team. Jones enrolls him in the local school and tries to teach him how to read and write. He even goes to meet his mother and tries to understand his background and where he comes from. With the help of Jones, Radio becomes apart of the community.
Physically, Radio was portrayed as being very healthy and active. He’s shown assisting the practices and keeping up with the players. Cognitively, he is somewhat slow but still able to complete tasks with help. Radio has a limited vocabulary, is unable to read or write, lacks communication skills, has little self direction, and becomes repetitive with phrases. Spiritually, he is portrayed as being happy once he became apart of the community. He finds meaning to his every day activities and enjoys being around
others. Radio’s physical environment includes his home, classroom, football field, and basketball court. Socially, his environment includes his mother, the football and basketball team, students and the community. Radios occupations include basic self care tasks such as folding laundry, or getting dressed. He assists with football, basketball, and is a student in the classroom. Incorporating the individual’s interests into treatment is a crucial part of therapy. The three things that I would incorporate would include football, basketball and radios. I selected football and basketball because Radio enjoys them. His passion for the two sports are showed throughout the film. Also, I would incorporate radios into his treatment. Treatment could potentially involve fixing, playing, listening, and using the radio to help him interact with others.
1. The movie, Radio, is based at Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. It is about this young, colored, mentally disabled man that stumbles across his local town’s football teams ball. He picks up the ball, and it catches the eye of the teams coach, who later befriends him. The next day, the coach, Harold Jones, comes to find his players mistreating the man, who they had tied up and put in a school supply shed. This leads to lots of running of the team. Radio becomes a part of the team, which upsets some people, and early on, Radio isn 't treated well.
“His mother, Dale, felt the same way, for football had become as important to her as it had to her son. She went to every practice, and on Thursday nights she always invited a bunch of the players over for lasagna. She had sobbed after the loss to Lee just as hard as Jerrod had, for she feared the season’s ending every bit as much as he did” (Bissinger 249). Bissinger is astounded by the need for the parents to push their children into sports. Bissinger also analyzes the theme of downfall through several characters.
The beliefs and values held by many of the characters change over the course of the film as a result of Coach Boone and Coach Yoast’s work. It is clear that their belief in racial equality and love for football helped a team, and ultimately a town, begin to come to terms with the issue of race in America’s schools.
Nancy Mairs, born in 1943, described herself as a radical feminist, pacifist, and cripple. She is crippled because she has multiple sclerosis (MS), which is a chronic disease involving damage to the nerve cells and spinal cord. In her essay Disability, Mairs’ focus is on how disabled people are portrayed, or rather un-portrayed in the media. There is more than one audience that Mairs could have been trying to reach out to with this piece. The less-obvious audience would be disabled people who can connect to her writing because they can relate to it. The more obvious audience would be physically-able people who have yet to notice the lack of disabled people being portrayed by the media. Her purpose is to persuade the audience that disabled people should be shown in the media more often, to help society better cope with and realize the presence of handicapped people. Mairs starts off by saying “For months now I’ve been consciously searching for representation of myself in the media, especially television. I know I’d recognize this self becaus...
The plot of the radio play is developed through the use of sounds and dialogue. For example, Harry shouts at the martians in the mountains when he is upset, instead of looking at them and thinking to himself. When Harry shouts, it shows more emotion than the short story because it clearly shows the reader that he is very upset. Harry’s voice sounds agitated and worried. In the short story, the plot is developed through thoughts. Instead of Harry shouting at the mountains, he quietly thinks to himself. Even though the short story and the radio play say almost exactly the same thing, the short story fails to achieve the same emotion of the radio play. Since the reader does not hear Harry’s voice, they cannot listen to his frustration. The radio play also adds music to create stronger tone. For example, when Harry talks to Cora about about the martian landform names, he says, “Somehow it doesn’t seem right to change those
“Radio” is a movie released in 2003, starring Cuba Gooding Jr. and Ed Harris. It is based on the true story of James Robert Kennedy, also known as Radio. Radio was a mentally ill, African American who lived with his mother and enjoyed spending most of his days pushing his shopping cart through the streets of Anderson, South Carolina. Radio got his name because of his love for old, vintage radios. At the beginning of the movie, Radio is pushing his cart through the street as a man stares at him, one lady pulls her daughter away from him and another man almost hits him with his car while calling him a “moron”. Every day, Radio pushes his cart by the high school where Coach Jones (Ed Harris) and the football team practice. Coach Jones soon
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