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On Golden Pond In the movie, “On Golden Pond,” by Mark Rydell, all the significant characters were going through a crisis and they had to overcome the situation. These crisis were known as Erikson’s theory. Erikson’s theory was created largely on the belief that life is a continuous developmental process and that maturity is not the end of psychological growth. He believed that an individual have to resolve these crises in order to become healthy and able to get on the next crisis in the life cycle. However, some may be stuck in a stage and won’t be able to overcome the crisis. In the movie, “On Golden Pond,” Norman who is the first character that was introduce, also the oldest and husband to Ethel. He is in his 80’s, doesn’t get along with his daughter Chelsea, and is in the last stage of Erikson’s theory name integrity versus despair. In the textbook, Exploring Lifespan Development by Laura E. Berk stated, “Integrity results from feeling that life was worth living as it happened. Older people who are …show more content…

who is in his early teen years. Billy Ray Jr. tagged along with his dad and Chelsea. He was there because his dad will not be able to be with him during summer since, Chelsea and him are going on vacation. He felt like he got dump by them and was stuck with two old people. He is in his adolescence years and is in identity versus role confusion. Identity versus role confusion is by exploring values and vocational goals, the young person forms a personal identity. The negative outcome is confusion about future adult roles. His father isn’t really in his life too since he is a dentist and his mom threw him away to his dad. So, all he had left were two old boring people at Golden pond with him. At first, he didn’t want to do anything with Norman and Ethel because it was “boring.” Ethel and Norman decides to go fishing and he didn’t want to tag along. If he didn’t go with them fishing then, he will be stuck at home

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