Juno is a movie picture which presents formative stages, clashes, and limitations that one needs to experience amid their developing adulthood. The hero in the film Juno needed to go up against an early pregnancy at sixteen. Instead years old of going through a premature birth, she chooses to bring forth the infant and set up an adoption. The story spins around the weight she needs to experience in her first adulthood, clashes of feeling and quandaries of taking right decisions. The account of Juno reflects encounters of both screenwriter Diablo Cody and chief Jason Reitman. Cody constructs the story on an occurrence in her high school years when one of her dear companions got to be pregnant and picked not to have a fetus removal. Reitman could …show more content…
Everything about this revelation procedure speaks to the maximally versatile reaction. She appears to be on top of things - testing for pregnancy, not on account of a couple of months have passed, and now there are physical signs but since she simply had intercourse a couple of days back and she knew enough to realize that "you never know" about things like pregnancy. Keeping in mind, some may defer or deny in such a minute, Juno tranquility and methodically tests the theory of pregnancy. The running joke here is that she drinks enough Sunny Delight to go through a ludicrously high number of pregnancy tests. The reason this is amusing is that she has gotten the brutal reality from the primary test like any balanced individual and she experiences the rest of the tests in a straightforward and innocuous endeavor to …show more content…
Cody constructs the story on an episode in her high school years when one of her dear companions got to be pregnant and picked not to have a premature birth. Reitman could understand the opposite side of the circumstance, his folks having embraced a youngster when he was twelve. This own comprehension of the topic might be in charge of the abnormal state of authenticity and trustworthiness which encapsulate the way scenes and characters depicted. Not just does the film Juno once in a while stray a long way from genuine either in its emotional or comedic minutes. However, the character Juno is additionally refreshingly free of ingenuity. Just not at all subtle by the chat that overruns her discussion, Juno 's considerations and emotions never masked, and she appears to be boldly genuine in her associations with her loved ones. Having resolved to proceed with the pregnancy, Juno breaks the news to her dad and stepmother and, in light of their failure in her, honestly concedes, 'I don 't recognize what sort of young lady I am. ' When we confront issues in our lives, it is very simple to contain our sentiments and attempt to adapt to things all alone. Juno 's openness and trustworthiness are probably the most alluring attributes of her identity. However, they likewise give her a satisfactory method for adapting to the difficulties of
Paralleling the first high school scene, Juno is walking opposite of the crowd and everyone is now staring at her because of her clothes fitting her awkwardly (her stepmother sewed an elastic on her jeans) and her stomach showing her pregnancy. This continues the idea that students will look at Juno as separate from society, because it is not normal for teenagers to be pregnant and showing a more traditional society than an organic society. A traditional society is also reinforced earlier in the movie when the office receptionist, an old woman, stares at Juno’s obvious stomach, which is showing a strong collective conscience among students and staff. Juno is seen more as a modern representation of society, according to Durkheim because she is different than other students and individualized in society, but her overall role is to give her baby to adoptive parents who cannot have their own child seen as organic
Mattie and Zeena, the two leading women characters in this novel have many differences that set them apart from each other, but also similarities that grab the reader’s interest. When they both entered Ethan’s life, they were a breath of fresh air that broke the silence in Ethan’s life. However, the crisp air that Mattie brought was prolonged and when Ethan began falling into a pit of silence again, she was there to get him to speak his mind and let out his emotions. She tried to have a positive outlook on life and to try new things to benefit her and others around her. Mattie was more outgoing and spontaneous opposed to Zeena. While Mattie was out and about in the town, Zeena was home all day. Zeena was bitter and controlling towards Ethan and everyone else in her life. Regardless, they were both willing to help when push came to shove. "Zeena 's done for Mattie, and done for Ethan, as good as she could. It was a miracle, considering how sick she was – but she seemed to be raised right up just when the call came to her. Not as she 's ever given up doctoring, and she 's had sick spells right along; but she 's had the strength given her to care for those two for over twenty years, and before the accident came she thought she couldn 't even care for herself” (Wharton 23). So despite of Zeena being cruel and pessimistic most of the time, she was willing to return the favor of kindness and
50),” manifests her rage though the physical fire set to the Trojans ships by the women. Juno’s divine wrath against Aeneas stems from two events; the first being Paris choosing Venus as the fairest women compared to Juno and Minerva. The second being the Trojan descendants are fated to destroy Juno’s favorite city, Carthage. Juno understands she cannot stop Aeneas from reaching fated Italy, but she still does everything in her power to make the journey difficult. Juno’s burning rage is most clearly seen when she sends down her messenger, Iris, to convince the Trojan women to burn Aeneas’ fleet. Aeneas and his crew had just landed in Eryx and held festivities to honor Anchises. As the men are distracted by the games, Iris impersonates Beroe and persuades the women to light “burning torches” (V.635) and ignite the ships. The women act on their emotions and are easily persuaded because they want to stop traveling and stay in Eryx. Iris is “the first to seize destroying flame” (V.641) and throw it onto the ships. The women “watched in horror” (V.643-4) but soon join the attack. The “raging fire didn’t slaken” (V.680) until Jupiter intervenes and releases a “rage of pouring rain and thunder” (V.694). Juno’s internal rage is demonstrated though the external fire set by Iris and the women. The destructive fires and the manipulation of the women’s emotions emphasize the rage Juno feels that is only be smothered by Jupiter’s
The book continues with man's desire. Desire can rule the head and cripple the heart. These actions can lead to punishment. We are guided by our feelings. Juno is the jealous wife of Jove. Jove attempted to hide his rape of Io from Juno by transforming her into a white heifer. I don't know if it was love or shame that helped Jove give up Lo. Jove gave her up to Argus. Io could not ask for help because she could not speak. This is symbolic of rape because if she says something it might happen again. Rape changes you physically and mentally. Io's own father Inachus could not help her.
“Am I to admit defeat/ Unable to keep these Trojans and their kings/ From Italy? Forbidden by the Fates, am I?” (1.50-52). Knowing the outcome doesn’t sway the decisions of Juno at all is overcome with rage. It is keen to note that rage is one of the most important themes of The Aeneid and is showed from the poem starts till it ends. Juno and Dido are the two major characters that are affected by this rage. It is Juno who allows Dido to believe that she and Aeneas are married; with hopes that Aeneas would not leave to the build the city of Rome. The intervention of the gods shows how they can easily sway the lives of their mortal men for their own personal desires. For example, when Juno incites rage on the Trojan women allowing them to burn their ships. Virgil clearly shows that aren’t no women of rationality all women are controlled by their emotions. It is clear from the start that Juno is on a man hunt to put an end to the Trojans reign; as result Aeneas becomes a subject of Juno’s rage. Virgil depicts Juno as vengeful Antagonist who tortures a pietious man,
Norma Jean, named after the beautiful and talented Marilyn Monroe, is a very uncertain woman. Marrying young, she had a child, Randy, who died of SIDS. The reader is told that they don't think of him very often, but that is wrong. Ever since the death of the child, she has had difficulty regaining her grip on life. She is not sure if her love for her husband is true, and she begins to doubt herself and her actions. Living with her mother, she feels the need to hide every little habit that she has. One in particular, smoking. Her mother does not know that her daughter smokes until she catches Norma. Afraid of what her mother might say, she quits smoking shortly thereafter. Everything that Norma does seems to be wrong in her own eyes. Nothing is satisfactory. Nothing can be settled on. Norma Jean breaks her loss of love to her husband while they are visiting the site of the battle. Her heart has finally broken, and she has left her loved one. It might have been out of choice, it might have been out of must, but it was done.
Jane the virgin is a show about a woman who had her life planned out the way she wanted until it made a spiraling turn due to unfortunate events. When Jane was a young girl, she had made a promise to her grandma that she would save her virginity until marriage. Unfortunately, during a doctor's check up she was artificially inseminated. After she agreed to keep the baby her relationship with her finance when down the hill. Keeping the baby also caused her school work to be a little harder for her. An examination of Jane the virgin will demonstrate the concepts of process of listening, the benefits of power and being in denial.
Even though there are moments where things were serious Minerva still had moments where she felt like she was young again: “We moved quickly now towards the Jeep, hurrying as if we had to catch up with that truck. I don’t know quite how to say this, but it was as if we were girls again, walking through the dark part of the yard, a little afraid, a little excited by our fears, anticipating the lighted house just around the bend – That’s the way I felt as we started up the first mountain,”
The picture focuses on Tracy (the wondrous Evan Rachel Wood), a sensitive, impressionable, profoundly confused teen, who out of desperation and uncertainty, turns to nihilism. Some have deemed the picture lurid and exploitative, but for the more liberal-minded, its message is significant and has value. Thirteen does not condone or glorify reckless, self-destructive behavior; rather it warns adolescents of the dangers and temptations they will surely be confronted with, while concurrently stressing the need for parental guidance and
Teenagers often lose their faith quickly enough to develop a shattered belief. In both the film and book the protagonists experience a loss of belief in humanity. Juno is abandoned by her mother at a very young age. This leads to the loss of a motherly figure and love only a mother can offer. When her mom leaves, it probably makes Juno feel as if she is not “good enough”. This feeling can cause confusion and sadness. Juno’s mom sends a cactus every year as a gift, and clearly Juno does not appreciate them. In the movie Juno says, “This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.” This quote shows that Juno is scarred by her mom's abandonment. Juno is also crushed when Mark decides to leave Vanessa. She envisions this perfect family for her soon to be born baby, and trusts that Mark and Vanessa will be perfect parents. However when mark tells Juno that he is leaving, she becomes angry, frustrated, and of course confused. She does not understand why Mark is leaving, and how two people can fall out of love. When Juno says “I just need to know if it's possible that two people can stay happy together forever”, she is questioning her dad about love because she no longer knows what true love is. All of Juno’s confusion causes her to lose faith in humanity. A quote to prove that she has lost her faith, is when she says “I’m just like losing my faith with humanity.” However Juno is not the only one who has lost their faith
Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has yet to be discovered as in depth as Juno will. NASA New Frontiers recently established the Juno Mission to observe Jupiter (Ionescu 1). The spacecraft is currently on route to Jupiter and it is set to arrive in 2016. Juno will orbit Jupiter thirty-three times total before shutting down (Ionescu 1). Juno will observe Jupiter with deeper observation than can be seen by a telescope. The Juno Spacecraft is a project made to discover Jupiter’s high winds, a possible water source, and the planetary structure.
Adolescence is the stage in life when you are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. There are many things that still need to be explored, learned and conquered. In the film Thirteen, the main character, Tracy Freeland, is just entering adolescence. While trying to conquer Erikson’s theory of Identity vs. Role confusion, Tracy is affected by many influences, including family and friends that hinder her development. Many concepts from what we have learned in class can be applied to this character from identity development, to depression, to adolescent sexuality and more. In this film Tracy is a prime example of an adolescent and much of what I have learned this year can be applied to her character.
Juno, the queen of the gods, is fueled by her rage and fear to harm and change the wheels of fate however she can so that her beloved Argos would not be taken by the Trojans, “This was Juno’s fear...They festered deep within her, galled her still...the Trojan stock she loathed...Her fury inflamed by all this” (Virgil, 48, 28-36). While Juno’s emotional actions affect the other characters, Dido’s emotional actions resulted in her death. After being abandoned by her beloved, Aeneas, Dido was furious and wounded, “So, driven by madness, beaten down by anguish, Dido was fixed on dying, working out in her mind the means, the moment” (Virgil, 144, 594-596). Rational, only in appearance, Dido tells her sister, Anna, to go build her a “pyre in secret, deep inside our courtyard under the open sky” to “obliterate every trace of the man” (Virgil 144). Anna does as her sister tells her to and is deceived by what the pyre was really meant for. Attempting to rid of her emotions by burning every trace of Aeneas, her emotions eventually take over. With her heart torn apart, Dido commits suicide. Dido’s sister on the other hand is hurt but still emotionally stable. Anna is stunned, grieving, and hurt by the actions of her sister, “how very cruel… You have destroyed your life, my sister, mine too” (Virgil 145). Despite playing a part in her sister’s death, Anna remains levelheaded and requests for help to “bathe [Dido’s]
Finding strength in motherhood, Ramatoulaye is able to look towards the possibilities of the future and find hope for herself for the first time in her life:
The film is intended to be a youthful experience; One which will expose viewers to the sophisticated nature of ‘growing up’ through an adolescent perspective. It will engage with popular teenage ideologies such as first love, alcohol, drugs and sex, whilst presenting that there is more to a teenager than that which meets the eye. In the film teenagers will be represented to be more sophisticated and self-aware of themselves to what is perceived by society.