The Right to Choose in Cider House Rules

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The Cider House Rules takes place during World War II. The movie opens in a New England orphanage in the early 1940’s, where Dr. Larch takes a specific interest in a young boy named Homer Wells after is returned for the second time after his adoptive parents brought him back. His first adoptive parents thought he was to quiet and then his second foster family beat him. Larch realizes that a twice returned orphan had very little chance of being adopted again, Larch then begins to teach Wells the basics of the medical profession. Under Larch’s instruction Homer becomes are very capable doctor delivering babies and performing illegal abortions. Dr. larch usually only performs abortion to women who were either raped or who got pregnant from some other complicated reason. While Homer will perform abortions with no age discrimination he still needs to feel that the partially abortion is morally right and justly right.
The major theme of The Cider House Rules is the right to choose. More importantly the right of a woman to choose whether she wants to have a child. The point of the movie is not to prove whether abortion is right or wrong but to make a statement saying that woman deserve the right to choose for themselves. The other main characters in the film besides Dr. Larch and Homer Wells are Rose Rose, Mr. Rose, Candy and Wally. In the movie Candy Kendall and Wally Worthington. These character were introduced when Candy and Wally drove up to the orphanage with the intent to get an illegal abortion. When it is time for the abortion Dr. Larch attempts to pursued Wells to do it. When the idea of performing an illegal abortion for a woman who could easily afford to care for it and also has a loving husband he was unsure ...

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...see what had happened to her, he then proclaims if she had come to you four months ago and asked for an abortion you would have done nothing and this is what doing northing gets you.
Overall The Cider House Rules was a very well made film with many important issues, lessons and beliefs. Ultimately I think that the major point in the movie is that even though there are rules created by society, individuals can often change or create their own set of rules in which they ultimately act and live by. Throughout the film, abortion is seen as a very complex set of rules which the characters in the movie set for themselves. I feel the moral of The Cider House Rules is that everyone must define there own personal beliefs in order to do what is morally right. Even though society assigns a set of rules, ultimately each person must decide how they are to act and live.

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