The movie Martian Child takes you through the lives of the two main characters. The movie expresses through them physical, identity, social, and practical needs. The movie is a journey of self discovery, belonging, socializing, and human connections. Let's take a look into what the two characters went through. Needs: the basic human needs are an essential part of life. The movie shows how David and Dennis explored physical, identity, social, and practical needs. The physical needs of Dennis and David were straightforward. Dennis is a young boy in a foster care home. The care home does provide basic needs such as shelter and food, but Dennis needs a permanent home and stability. He needs to know that someone, and something like a permanent home, …show more content…
David and Dennis social needs are met together by a desire for connection and belonging. Dennis wants to belong to a family, and David wants to have a family. They both in a sense correspond to one another social needs through emotional and a family intimacy relationship. Practical needs are Dennis' adjustment of societal norms. David’s adoption helps with these challenges. David’s practical needs are mostly the challenges of parenthood. Many challenges come,but as the love grows for the young boy,the challenges are overcome. Many new things face both of them and new information, not expected, is introduced to both of them. Cultural adaptation occurred through both of them. David's adaptation of Dennis being from Mars was an imagination at first, but then as the relationship grew he began to embrace his perspective by understanding coping mechanisms. After being adopted by David, he began to understand Earth’s human emotions, customs, traditions, and societal norms. A big part of all this is adapting and understanding each other. Using empathy to adapt and understand Dennis and David led to a better relationship, adapting to each other's cultural …show more content…
The impression regarding the service agency for David was that he was trying to present himself as a reasonable candidate. He wants to present himself as a responsible and caring father, and not wanting to show a lot of his concerns about adoption. Dennis, concealing his identity and out of social norms being from Mars. He is different from other children and tries to conceal his true beliefs. With both Dennis and David going through their challenges, they face many psychological influences which shows their self-confidence. The big thing I consider faced by both of them is attachment issues. Dennis' idea of being from Mars comes from a coping mechanism, which comes from abandonment and security. David going out of his way to adopt Dennis shows his attachment issues in which he diaries a connection and a belonging to someone. He also stems from loneliness and isolation through past problems. Both of these concepts come from physiological needs and problems, such as attachment issues. The movie offers the viewer a connection between the characters going through their
In the film, The Martian Child, David is a recent widower who adopts Dennis, an emotionally abused young boy who claims he is from Mars and exhibits many abnormal habits and needs. David is a famous science fiction writer, and Dennis’s foster mother proposed that David would be best suited to help Dennis overcome his claims to Mars. David struggles with Dennis’s caseworker, who pressures David to help Dennis overcome his Martian attachment before he may officially adopt Dennis. As David provides Dennis with unconditional love, Dennis gradually adopts more normalized behavior, eventually telling his caseworker at his adoption hearing that being from Mars is just pretend.
David loved his step- mother very much and was often jealous of her other commitments and lack of soul attention towards him. During his early teens, David was informed that his step- mother had been fighting breast cancer for some time. He was previously unaware, and felt betrayed by his uninforming parents. Pearl's steady decline left him devastated, and her death in 1967 found him suddenly alone with his father (Bardsley 2001). Traumatic events like David losing his mother does a great deal to an individual's development in society due to the fact that there is no longer a positive cohesive whole unit as a family. We find that many people who lack a solid family background struggle later in life. An example of this would be the two guest speakers that spoke to our criminal justice class on November 12, 2001. Both individuals had parents who were once in jail or they had a limited relationship with.
At first, David cares that his mother treats him badly. After awhile, he doesn’t care and becomes apathetic.
David Berkowitz was born David Falco, the son of Betty Broder. She had married Tony Falco, and had a daughter, Roslyn. The Falcos ran a fish market together, until he left her for another woman. Broder later had an affair with a married real estate agent, Joseph Kleinman. When she became pregnant he threatened to abandon her if she kept the baby, so when David Falco was born, she gave him up for adoption. Three days after Berkowitz was born he was adopted by his adoptive parents Nathan and Pearl Berkowitz. Berkowitz was raised in a middle-class home in the Bronx. He had what seemed to be a normal childhood but Berkowitz and his family knew there was something different about him from an early age and at the age of ten Berkowitz started seeing a therapist. Because of adoption policies Berkowitz’s family told him that his birth mother had died in childbirth with him. This haunted Berkowitz his entire life making him suffer from horrible nightmares as a chi...
People are always in transition with their environment, and each subsystem has an impact on the whole system. This is also why I am using the Family Systems approach, as I am also able to see how the family system has affected Precious, and how the family has functioned across the lifespan. It is important because we can discuss boundaries, individual’s roles, communication in the family, the family structure and how this influences the families functioning not only with Precious’s Mother and Father, but with her own children as well. With systems theory and the Family Systems approach, the basis is that a Systems component can only be understood as part of the Whole, therefore when working with an individual such as Precious, all aspects of their personality and environment must be considered and worked with as a whole. (Payne,
Since a small age, Michael had hated everything around himself. He was always ignored in the silent family. Everyone at school thought he was a loser due to his quietness. He needed freedom, real freedom. He also needed a true friend, a friend who could understand his world. After several intense auditions amongst all kinds of things in Michael’s mind, David received this honor of being Michael’s friend with her great personality and innocence.
Joseph is an awful, unjust father to David due to his physical and verbal abuse towards David. David feels uncomfortable when in his father’s presence, whereas he welcomes Uncle Axel’s company. Contrary to Joseph, Axel shows his care for David through actions and words. David and his uncle are a lot closer to each other compared to David and his father, whose admonishments are his only words spoken to David. A son should love his father, rather than fearing him. Every child should have the right to have a healthy relationship with their parents.
A Child Called It was about the struggles of a young boy named Dave Pelzer. Dave was put through hard times and at some point lost hope in his dreams and doubted the humanity of mankind, but in the end because of his strong will he was able to overcome his problems and make a better life for himself.
Interestingly, while she stood there, Aldiss describes that “time might have stopped, as it had stopped in the garden,” which indicates how day-to-day remained the same for both the mother and child. Monica is so disoriented with her thoughts that she could barely put herself together to connect with the child in a devoted way. On the other hand, the child feared that how the garden never changes, she too might never be happy with him nor understand how he feels about her. He felt she was illusory, whereas Monica had to deal with the reality of her artificial child. David finds it difficult communicating with her hence, attempts to express his feelings by writing to her but at the same time he fears that she won’t be able to apprehend what he is trying to express.
Firstly, he commands her to stop “talking to any … guys” (September 18). David’s fear of Anita’s demeanor instigating the students “[to take] [her] away from him” (September 18) makes his actions justifiable; hence, Anita forgives him. However, the second incident regarding Joyce and Debbie exposes his desire for segregation. Whether his fear of Joyce and Debbie “[introducing] [Anita] to other guys that will break [them] up” (October 8), justifies his demands, his second command for Anita, “to quit the basketball team” (October 8) validates his insecurity. By isolating Anita, David presents himself as her only trustworthy and legitimate “friend.” Worst of all, everyone has regards for David, even Anita’s parents. In fact, “[they] really like David” (October 8). Consequently, Anita cannot quit the relationship without the repercussions that would ensue. Everyone would side with David and blame Anita for his future suicide. David’s positive attributes blind everyone from his abusive and controlling nature; therefore, dismissing him as the problem. The driving force of David’s social manipulation stems from his insecurity of the
As life moves forward Jara’na’s emotional reactions interfere (from one to seven years of ages) as he starts to become reluctant towards change. This appears through the family home and social interaction when introduced into the education system. From a young age Jara’na showed advanced motor skills, independence and an excelling imagination in the family home. Bowlby’s “Attachment theory” (Psychologist World and partners, 2016) connects with Jara’nas life as this is shown through an emotional attachment towards his mother, which grew stronger and resulting in separation anxiety. This is expressed through Jara’na still at 4 months into attending child care and
Eventually, David and Carolyn are able to relinquish the triadic relationship with their daughter, Claudia. This restructuring in the family essentially alleviates many of the problems that were the cause for the family to seek therapy in the first place. Claudia is able to break free from the well worn routines of arguing with her mother and her unwanted behaviors diminish. After removing the pressure placed on Claudia to be their source of intense emotion, David and Carolyn are left to face the daunting task of exploring and eventually reorganizing their relationship with one
David, Ted’s brother, in many occasions asked his parents why his brother was so different. David reports that his brother used to isolate mu...
According to American academy and adolescent psychiatry, about 120,000 children are adopted in the United States alone. That is a lot of children that need to find a new home to stay in. Not only do adoptions affect the child after they are adopted, no matter the age; but adoption also affects the parents giving their child up for adoption. There are many types of adoptions. Along with that, there are many reasons for giving the child up for adoption. There are three main perspectives that I will be talking about. One function would be the structural functionalism. How society cooperates. The second would be the conflict perspective. The third would be symbolic interactionism approach. There are many different aspects of adoption, making it
What is adoption? Adoption is a legal process by which permanent legal custody is transferred from the birth parent to other parents. In this case Adoption is the process of making a child your own. Adoption is usually a process from non-biological parents. There are far more people wanting to adopt babies than there are babies to be adopted, only about twenty thousand babies a year are put up to be adopted, if an adoption agency places your baby up for an adoption only the best fit family can choose to adopt your child. All adoptions involve some form of consent – an agreement by the birth parent that the child should be adopted. If there are no living birth parents or the child was abandoned, then the consent must be given by the state or country where the child is a resident. Kinship adoptions occur when the birth parents are unstable to care for a child and some member of the child’s family seeks to adopt him or her.