Skinny, blonde and beautiful. Perfect? This is the message the media gives out. You open up a magazine and see images of perfect, airbrushed, stick thin women. In television adverts the women are bright smiled, big haired and flawless. So are these women idols for young girls? Are they the stereotype? Even the majority of teen flicks use the modelesque young actresses. Is this right?
However, 2007s Juno was a different story. Quirky, witty, Juno (Ellen Page) was a not so stereotypical American, 16 year old girl. Brunette ratty hair, grey eyes and poor, scruffy dress sense pretty much sums her up. She isn’t popular. She isn’t promiscuous. She isn’t your average girl. She is not a stereotype. This doesn’t sound like your average film. You’re probably wondering where the story is!
Well, it started with a chair. Juno was ‘bored’ and so, instead of taking a trip to the mall, she decided to lose her virginity with her best friend Bleeker (Michael Cera). Then, finds that there’s a ‘little sea monkey’ inside her - and no, this wasn’t a ‘food Juno pregnancy’. But what to do? After all, this was one ‘doodle that can’t be undid’. So, she decided to nip it in the bud and went to the clinic for a ‘hasty abortion’ only to find out that her baby has fingernails, change her mind and make her way home. She tells her father and step-mother, then finds an adoption ad in the penny saver and decides to give her baby up to rich couple Mark (Jason Batemen) and Vanessa (Jennifer Garner). So, on the story goes; a heart warming tale of love, divorce, friendship and trust.
Teenage pregnancy. It’s a big matter to be addressing. Was it right to use humour in this film? Were her parents’ reactions really suitable and realistic? And were the right e...
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...y interesting way. Bleeker kept saying ‘do what you think is right’ when Juno talked about the baby. But it was his problem too. Why didn’t he get more involved? Why should the girl have to deal with it alone just because she has ‘the evidence’ under her sweater? This was tackled well though because it made me angry about the ways things are on this issue.
I was slightly disappointed that there was no twist in the film. I was either expecting Juno and Mark to get together, or Juno and Bleeker to run off with the baby! Although it was a happy ending, and the film probably gave optimism to any pregnant teen watching, it seemed a bit like the easy option and stopped any chance of there being an interesting sequel. In all, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Juno. The soundtrack was amazing and the humour was witty and hilarious. It’s definitely a must see feel good film.
It is clear that based on the clips provided, women in the media are either praised or scrutinized by how they look. Hillary Clinton, a well known politician was attacked by the media just because she looked tired. Another clip that was shown was a scene from "A Devil Wears Prada." In the movie, Anne Hathaway's character was called fat by her boss, when in reality Anne has a very slim figure. If she was called fat, what will the girls growing up today will think about their bodies? Another example would be the repeated clips of attractive women characters. These character are what girls want to become; tall, blonde, and a body figure to die
To begin with the scene itself, we see Juno laying in bed, recovering after she
Juno and the adoptive father begin to have a strange relationship and eventually he admits to Juno that he is leaving his wife to live in the city. Juno is heartbroken, as is the adoptive mother. Juno then drops off a note to the adoptive mother that says "If you're still in, I'm still in". In the end, she gives the baby to the adoptive mother, makes-up with boyfriend Paulie, and decides not to be a part of the baby's life. The health challenge faced in this film is pregnancy and there are both physical and psychosocial effects that arise on both the client and the family. In this movie, the area of priority a nurse should plan holistic care would be psychosocial as pregnancy effects not only the client but the people around the client. In the following paper, nursing intervention, interprofessional collaborative care and community resources will be provided to help find solutions to decrease the client and support systems changes throughout the
What modern society dictates women should look like has had a great impact on commonplace women and how they feel they should look and act. I have no doubt a huge problem exists in society as a result of this. I think it has resulted in women being put to the side in terms of advancement. It also evokes a sense of low self-esteem. Little girls everywhere are brought up in front of an image they can never achieve. A truly ideal woman is one who has the confidence in herself to know that she is beyond that image. The key word there is confidence. Unfortunately, the magazine cover industry breaks confidence with its portrayals of thin, tall women. The ideal magazine cover woman is an unattainable fallacy. However, there is no guilty party to be blamed for this fact. Faulting the companies putting that image to use is unjust.
She loses her job she had at a factory and almost got raped by her boss. She goes without a job for a while and Lavaughn even had to miss a day of school because Jolly didn’t go home for two days. The story line could be seen as a lesson to many teenagers, especially girls. Getting pregnant at 14 or 15 could change your whole life and that could be one thing the author is trying to get across to the readers. Making big decisions like that early on in life may affect it more then some people think it might. ‘’ But I never been in such a bad mess like Jolly is. I never had 2 kids and no job and the rent due.’’ (Wolff
She chose what’s best for her kid and that is to place it with a cherishing family who can give it what she can 't. According to piaget ‘In addition to the ability to perform abstract mental operations, teens become more scientific and logical in the way they approach problems. Piaget called this methodical, scientific approach to problem-solving, "hypothetico-deductive reasoning (Oswalt, 2010)”. Juno 's development is more than clear. In the beginning of the movie we saw that she was very careless but now feel the need to take responsibility for her unborn child. After seeking through a nearby paper Juno settles on a couple from suburbia of Minnesota, Mark and Vanessa. After meeting them, they appear to be the ideal fit for
Ultimately, it's difficult to draw a conclusion from the films overall message. On the one hand, the
Anne is a pregnant girl who is seventeen years old. She dropped out of school to join a pregnancy support group housing program. Anne believes that the other girls are crazy and they all have issues while she has none. Anne faces a dilemma when she starts to relate to the characters in the story. LaNelle goes into labor and her new-born child only
She is described as a “normal” teenager. She is on the honor roll, has a nice boyfriend, and is really good at playing soccer. She has her whole life ahead of her, until she decides to sleep with her boyfriend which resulted in an unwanted pregnancy. Though out the book Devon was in denial of ever being pregnant. She couldn’t believe that she could ever get pregnant “that it could happen to a girl like her.” Later on in the story Devon goes her whole pregnancy without showing or telling anyone about it until the day she gives birth in the bathroom of her house while no one is home. She then panics about what is happening and decided to throw the baby away in the garbage outside. Due to her mother’s lack of guidance and lack of sexual prevention or informational classes in school Devon got pregnant, was ashamed so she hid the pregnancy, and ended up sacrificing her life and going to a juvenile detention center that could have easily been
Juno is also a victim of politics as she loses her son Johnny for another unnecessary cause. Both of her children believe strongly in the saying that ‘A principle’s a principle’. Juno is too concerned about the stuggles that she faces everyday to worry about any principles and is annoyed that Johnny and Mary do not do the same. ...
Juno is a film that depicts adolescent pregnancy and the uncertainty and emotional rollercoaster that most pregnant teenagers go through. The protagonist is a 16 year old girl named Juno who becomes impregnated by her friend Pauly. Unprepared for this surprise, she first considers getting an abortion at a local clinic. At the clinic, Juno is ostracized by the staff's attitudes. They called her sexually active which minimized her emotional state. As a result, she no longer wanted to get an abortion and instead decides to give the baby up for adoption. Juno searches through ads and finds a couple that she thinks would be good parents to her baby. She meets the rich and seemingly perfect couple named Mark and Vanessa and together, they agree to a closed adoption. Juno loves her baby’s father, Pauly, but requests that they remain distant, despite Pauly loving Juno back. She was afraid to let herself be in love. After Pauly asks another girl to the prom, Juno reveals to him how he broke her heart.
The way a woman was perceived as beautiful has changed so much even over the last 50 years as I have discussed previously. If we look at Marilyn Monroe and compare her to Tyra Banks, who has made it her passion in life to stretch the definition of beauty (Pozner, 2013) the difference is uncanny. Marilyn Monroe is the most acclaimed sex icon of the 1950’s and she was not astonishingly slender. Meanwhile Tyra banks up until a couple years ago had always been immeasurably skinny. Women nowadays are required to be excessively skinny, toned, tall, and have flawless skin if they want to fit into the “most beautiful” column. Although Tyra Banks presumably believes that she is an exceptional advocate for young girls in the media, she is also delivering a skewed image of self-love through her show, America’s Next Top Model (Pozner, 2013). Every woman on that show either fits the media’s standard of an ideal woman, or they are ridiculed/questioned. The media is making it impossible to achieve such high standards. Even for black women, there is the stereotype that they have to have huge behinds and appear to be super ghetto like Nicki Minaj; even she received cosmetic surgery to enhance her bust and rear, as well as slimming her waist. She did all these things to appease her viewers. It is impossible for women to achieve these different standards
The most fashionable, sought after magazines in any local store are saturated with beautiful, thin women acting as a sexy ornament on the cover. Commercials on TV feature lean, tall women promoting unlimited things from new clothes to as simple as a toothbrush. The media presents an unrealistic body type for girls to look up to, not images we can relate to in everyday life. When walking around in the city, very few people look like the women in commercials, some thin, but nothing similar to the cat walk model. As often as we see these flawless images float across the TV screen or in magazines, it ...
Juno is a 2007 comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman about a precocious teenage girl who get pregnant and decide to give the baby up for adoption. The main character Juno Macguff was played by Ellen Page and Palulie Bleaker was played by Michael Cera. This film had a low budget of $6.5 million and had no major movie stars but yet it made $231 million and gained enormous popularity. Some critics like Hiram Lee says “For all its “offbeat” posturing, Juno is ultimately a very conventional movie (Lee, 2008).” While other critics like Jeremy Clyman say that “Her story is as far removed from the stereotypical teen-pregnancy narrative as is known - it's practically a different genre (Clyman, 2010).” I agree with Jeremy Clyman that the movie Juno is very unconventional.
In her eyes, Juno probably thinks she is being “just” by killing or cursing the woman who was with Jove. She acts rashly and never thinks about long term consequences. Juno literally states “Her, I will destroy”, and she means it. Juno instead of choosing to face her husband and talk about their relationship issues decides to avoid confrontation about Jove’s infidelity and punishes these women. In Semele’s case, she disguises herself as an old woman and convinces Semele to demand that Jove makes love to her “in full glory”, just like he does with Juno. Unfortunately for Semele, this means she will be incinerated by Jove’s glory and power. Juno has a taste for revenge, which she may define as “justice”. This theme of revenge continues throughout the rest of the books we have read and will most likely continue to be a theme until the end of the