Adolescence is commonly known as the transition stage between childhood and adulthood, a time when the physical, intellectual, emotional and social aspects of an individuals self are crucial as they develop into maturity, enabling them to prepare for adulthood. This period of development is characterised as a time for socialization as their individual perspectives enable a didactic synthesizing of a multitude of understandings of ones self and ones world, thus forming the raison d 'être of the adolescent experience of personal, social, cultural and emotional facets of adolescence. Within Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and Michael Apted’s Nell (1994) socialising agents effecting personal identity and development throughout adolescence The film’s central drama is placed upon Jim, whom is an adolescent going through the ‘rebellious stage’, which seems to be triggered by his lack of parental role modelling and guiding resulting him to a lack of identity. Jim has a non-existent value and belief foundation since his parent’s lack any instil. This causes Jim to attend school struggling to fit in with peers and identify similar values and beliefs within these peers. When the parent’s proper guidance and authorisation is non-existent in Jim’s life, this leads him to taking upon dangerous actions to find a sense of belonging and acceptance within his peers. This leads to Jim being injured and a peer’s death. This incident was the residue of the unstable family structure and Jim’s desires not being answered. Jim desires for his father to become a parental, authoritarian figure and to stand up to his wife who uses him. The evident disconnection between the parent’s affects Jim significantly as his paternal figure is emasculated and the palpable desire for a paternal role model is not yet obtained. Therefore, the socialising agent of family is extremely significant within an adolescences life as it helps them builds the foundation of their values and beliefs and has a strong impact on their personality development and
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He is a troubled teenager who has just moved towns to Los Angeles with his family. Jim has become the target of many of the bullies in his new town which make his life tougher than it has to be. Jim became close to two people he met at the police station the night he was arrested for being drunk in public. Plato was a boy younger than Jim who wanted nothing more than to have Jim as a friend considering his parents were never around, and Judy who ended up falling in love with Jim and separating herself from the bully group. Jim feels that his father is incapable of upholding and opposing his mother; which we find out for certain in the film when he asks his father, “What do you do when you have to be a man?” He has major issues with his parents, for he feels they are unable to support him as well as be caring of the person he yearns to be. Buzz Gunderson is the leader of the school bullies. He has made it his life’s mission to be a complete nuisance to Jim and instigate a clash no matter the conditions. This clash lead to the climax of the movie; the knife fight and the chickie run. After watching the bullies slash a tire for absolutely no reason, Buzz challenged Jim to a duel with knives in which Jim won, although both parties were walking away with slight injuries. After the embarrassing loss Buzz needed to one up the stakes by provoking a “chickie” run. The “chickie” run was a catastrophe; Buzz got stuck on the door handle
Seltzer describes the period of rapid development that occurs during adolescence “frameworklessness”. Seltzer uses the term frameworklessness because the significant physical, cognitive, and social changes that occur during adolescence creates a sense of anxiety and instability in an adolescent. During this time, adolescents begin to rely less on their parents and more on their peers who can relate to their sense of frameworklessness. This shift in dependency on peers provides adolescents with the opportunity to shape their identity. Peers enable this growth by providing support and social comparison. Often times, adolescents feed off of the beliefs and actions of their peers that typically shapes their own beliefs and actions. The shift in parental involvement typically occurs once adolescents enter the secondary school levels.
The dysfunctional of the Stark family is evident at the beginning of the film, when Jim appears drunk in the police station. As his family enters, his mother gives him a hard time, as his father is more passive to him and condones his actions. His parents roles are reversed because usually the fathe...
It perfectly demonstrates how important parenting is and what severe negative effects it can have on teenagers. On Jim it drove him into always having to prove himself that he wasn 't a chicken, which got him into trouble often. While Judy was simply seeking for the attention from her father and because she couldn 't obtain this she sought male attention elsewhere. Finally Plato’s family issues were the worst because he didn 't have a mother and father. Therefore he struggled with abandonment and psychological issues because of them. It shows that parenting should not be taken lightly and they will eventually determine whether you raise a Healthy and well behaved teenager or a rebellious
Lastly, we look at identity without knowing it adolescents are searching for the answers to the question, “who am I?”. Although this is an important part of development for this stage it didn’t just being in this stage nor do adolescents have the capability to figure it all out. While growing up children are pushed one way or another by parents and peers some are pushed towards academics while others athletics. But how influential are parents and peers?
Many find it true that many teenagers in the 1950s were rebellious and it was because of their consumerist traits, how they fit in society, and their strained relationships with the adults. When Jim Stark yells at his parents, “You’re tearing me apart!”(RWOAC), he describes how his parents are the reason why his life is suffering. Great examples from this film of its rebelling would be Jim’s actions to keep his pride even if it comes to
Jim is a “man on the run” moving from school to school to avoid trouble and feels alienated from his family and peers. The film is stylistically noirish with Nicholas Ray’s use of low-key, garish lighting, the use of shadows cast on character’s faces, and the setting of a city street at night in the opening scene. The film also deconstructs film noir conventions by including a fatherly policeman, white heterosexual antagonists, and a female love interest that isn’t responsible for his troubles. Themes of the teen drama genre are also heavily present, such as Jim being the “new kid” in school, choosing the popular girl as a love interest, being late to the trip to the observatory, and a fight with a bully on the first day of
Jim tries to model himself after a man who is crushed by the yoke of caring for his family. Since he has no paternal figure in his life, Jim is unable to decipher the emotional pain of Mr. Shimerda. At this point, Jim first starts to contemplate his romanticized view on life. The irony of this is when Mr. Shimerda promises to give Jim his gun after he becomes a real man. Antonia translates it into, “My tatinek say when you are big boy, he give you his gun” (Cather 32). Mr. Shimerda defines being a real man as being able to provide for your family, which he has been unable to do since they migrated to Nebraska. This causes a chain reaction in Jim and Antonia. Mr. Shimerda's death causes Jim and Antonia to sort of diverge paths with their decision making, and as Antonia begins to age. She takes on the parental role, or catalyst, that Jim needs to develop as a character.
Adolescence is a development stage where a person experiences significant physical, psychological and social transformations. The two dominant themes that play a major factor through adolescent development are social acceptance and family relationships. James Maloney’s’ novel Lost Property and Kate Woods’s film Looking for Alibrandi clearly shows the two prominent themes. Two main characters, Josh Tambling and Josie Alibrandi strongly represents how the need to finding social acceptance and family relationship are two prominent factors that affect an adolescent’s life.
The story provides many sources for the boy's animosity. Beginning with his home and overall environment, and reaching all the way to the adults that surround him. However, it is clear that all of these causes of the boy's isolation have something in common, he has control over none of these factors. While many of these circumstances no one can expect to have control over, it is the culmination of all these elements that lead to the boy’s undeniable feeling of lack of control.
The movie begins with the family and parenting styles concept of child development by introducing the audience to the main character James and his parents. James lives in a two-parent household with his authoritative parents who are providing him with warmth, love, and encouragement (Levine & Munsch, pp. 521-522). This concept of parenting styles is shown as the movie begins and James is seen spending time with his parents. Then suddenly, James’ world changes and he is abandoned as a result of his parents being killed. This causes James to become orphaned and forced to live with his authoritarian aunts, Spiker and Sponge. Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge are very controlling towards James and expect him to obey their rules without allowing him to express his feelings. This authoritarian behavior is seen throughout the movie. Aunt Spiker and Aunt Sponge are also uninvolved, neglectful, and abusive, using verbal and physical punishment on James when they feel it’s necessary, which is also seen throughout the movie (Levine & Munsch, p. 522). These behaviors cause James to develop lower self-esteem, show less intellectual curiosity, and feel lonely and afraid, which are typical outcomes of an authoritarian parenting approach (Levine & Munsch, pp. 521-523). Although James’ aunts’ authoritative parenting style has an effect on his emotional and social behaviors, it is his parents authoritative parenting that plays a...
The purpose of this paper is to try and explain how outside influences help and sometimes hinder your development as a person. Influences such as family, media, and individual peer groups have a great impact on the particular type of person you will become. Socialization does not stop when you reach a certain age, but is a lifelong process which helps us become aware of one’s self identity.
From a very early age, children experience many different stages of life until they become fully-functioning adults with distinguished personalities. Throughout each stage of a child’s life, different socialization agents play a pivotal role in his or her development and transition into adulthood. Throughout this essay, I will discuss what socialization is, as well as implying socialization in terms of the connection between biological development of the individual and individuals learning the norms and customs of society. Furthermore, to accomplish this task, I will describe the four key agents of socialization (family, school, peers, and mass media). I then aim for the audience to comprehend the difference between socialization during other
Adolescence refers to the transition period experienced by children that occur between childhood and adulthood (Shefer, 2011). Identity is first confronted in adolescence between the ages 12 – 19 years old, because of physical and hormonal changes in the body. It is also due to the introduction of formal operations in cognitive development and societal expectation that this contributes to an individual’s identity to be explored and established (McAdams, 2009). The forces within and outside (family, community) the individual that promote identity development usually create a sense of tension. The basic task is, in Erikson’s terms, “fidelity or truthfulness and consistency to one’s core self or faith in one’s ideology” (Fleming, 2004: 9), in a nutshell: "Who am I and where am I