This paper explores the differences and similarities between two different movies created about children living with disabilities and the trials they face. In each movie, however, vary in the type of disability. In the movie Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), Lorenzo Odone, is faced with a disease that did not have a cure at the time but many scientists were running research studies and tried to help the Odones. On the other hand, in the movie, The Other Sister (1999), Carla Tate, a young woman living with a mental disability, has ambition to become independent and seeks love. This paper examines Lorenzo’s Oil (1992) and The Other Sister (1999) and the way each movie portrays the story of having a child in the house suffering from a disability. Lorenzo’s …show more content…
Finding a chemist who is willing to take on the task of creating the correct formula for the oil was deemed impossible. An elderly chemist responds to the requests from the Odones and agrees to try to create a bottle of the oil for the young boy. The oil arrived and turned out to be successful in treating Lorenzo’s ALD. Towards the end of the movie, Lorenzo shows great progress and is able to swallow by himself and can communicate by blinking. As for any movie, happy endings are more common than not; Carla was successful in talking her parents into allowing her to go off to college where she met another mentally disabled student, Danny. The two students quickly bonded quickly fell in love. Danny lived alone in an apartment which fueled Carla’s desire of freedom. Elizabeth, who clearly didn’t want her daughter to have any freedom, quickly became overbearing and did not want Carla to have anything to do with Danny anymore. Eventually, Carla talks her mother into getting her an apartment and her relationship with Danny
While the novel Of mice and men and the film What’s eating Gilbert Grape have different plots and settings, the themes of the two stories are very comparable. The stories depict how taking care of people with disabilities is very challenging and the problems they encounter in their day to day activities. Gilbert (What’s eating Gilbert Grape) has the task of taking care of Arnie his brother and George (Of mice and men) takes care of his childhood friend Lennie. Both of this characters Arnie and Lennie have mental disabilities and rely on their caregivers in life. The responsibility of taking care of Arnie and Lennie is frustrating but George and Gilbert still love them. This paper aims to compare and contrast the novel Of Mice
All these and more evidences used in the book support Peterson’s thesis and purpose—all of them discuss how having a disability made Peterson and others in her situation a part of the “other”. Her personal experience on media and
Disability, a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movement, senses, or activities. Lisa I. Iezzonis’ reading “Stand Out” depicts a rather stimulating framework of how the disability is seen and treated. The relationship between health, illness, and narrative in this reading marks the idea of discrimination of disability through her own life events by separation of identity, people. The author employs repeated phrases, metaphors and perspectives to display this. The form of literature is written and told in the form of the first-person perspective short story but in storytelling form.
What makes Grease and Footloose an all-time classic musical film to watch is the way they easily appeal to teenagers then to teenagers now. The catchy tunes, stunning john Travolta in grease, same relatable plots in footloose, along with the wild dance moves in both movies is what makes these two films ironically very similar. Both of the main protagonists in this movie move to new areas, where new influences effect not only their teen romance, yet as well as affect their ability to avoid unwanted people and the sense of being and outsider. However, grease and footloose are taken place in a high school setting where the relationships of each individual is changed due to the social influences brought by their peers. The relatable struggle of peer pressure in today’s society is exactly the same struggles portrayed in the past and in which is shown vividly in these to movies. Peer pressure was inevitable to all the characters; grease showed how the negativity of peer pressure effected Danny and Sandy while Ren and Ariel in footloose showed how peer pressure can have a positive influences throughout their relationship.
Sometimes, an alcoholic can be abusive. In Arnold Josephs case, it is nonetheless. When Arnold realizes that he accidentally starts a fire that kills Thomas’s parents, alcoholism seems as the only thing in which he can turn to and try to resolve his problems. After a few years, Arnold’s alcoholism takes a toll on the household. Victor’s attitude toward alcohol is greatly affected as he sees what it did to his father. Arnold eventually left the reservation due to him not being able to manage his emotions. Even though it may seem that Arnold was being selfish, in reality, it was quite the opposite. Arnold saves the two by not submitting them to a life of fear by leaving town. In the end, alcohol rescues Victor from living in fear.
Disability is a ‘complex issue’ (Alperstein, M., Atkins, S., Bately, K., Coetzee, D., Duncan, M., Ferguson, G., Geiger, M. Hewett, G., et al.., 2009: 239) which affects a large percentage of the world’s population. Due to it being complex, one can say that disability depends on one’s perspective (Alperstein et al., 2009: 239). In this essay, I will draw on Dylan Alcott’s disability and use his story to further explain the four models of disability being The Traditional Model, The Medical Model, The Social Model and The Integrated Model of Disability. Through this, I will reflect on my thoughts and feelings in response to Dylan’s story as well as to draw on this task and my new found knowledge of disability in aiding me to become
Nancy Mairs, born in 1943, described herself as a radical feminist, pacifist, and cripple. She is crippled because she has multiple sclerosis (MS), which is a chronic disease involving damage to the nerve cells and spinal cord. In her essay Disability, Mairs’ focus is on how disabled people are portrayed, or rather un-portrayed in the media. There is more than one audience that Mairs could have been trying to reach out to with this piece. The less-obvious audience would be disabled people who can connect to her writing because they can relate to it. The more obvious audience would be physically-able people who have yet to notice the lack of disabled people being portrayed by the media. Her purpose is to persuade the audience that disabled people should be shown in the media more often, to help society better cope with and realize the presence of handicapped people. Mairs starts off by saying “For months now I’ve been consciously searching for representation of myself in the media, especially television. I know I’d recognize this self becaus...
Jeff Nisker’s text, Calcedonies, is a play that deals with the lack of social services available to persons with disabilities in Canada (Nisker, 2010, p. 418). This play also uses Scott McCLoud’s (1993) notion of “amplification through simplification” (p. 30), to heighten the ill person’s lived experience by going beyond the written page to subjecting the audience to ‘sensorial impacts’ (Nisker, 2010, p. 418). The sets, facial expressions, music, costumes and other theatrical strategies help to convey the ill person’s emotions so that the audience can better understand their feelings. Module 3 in this health humanities course is about ‘Bodies on Stage’, and the lecture in which Nisker’s play was an ‘optional reading’, is a part of this module.
This article mainly examines ways in which parents can deal properly with the news of being told that their child has a disability. There are a few stories in the article which emphasize the way the parents felt when they found out about their child’s disability. In most cases, the parents felt shattered, overwhelmed and completely shocked. The article explained that parents have an expectation of having that “perfect” child and when one is told that the child is not so perfect, their dreams and their lives become devastating. The reading examines ways in which to build a support system as well as ways in which to keep a balance in your life. The author indicates the importance of keeping a positive attitude when in this situation.
In the book, The Short Bus, Jonathan Mooney’s thesis is that there is more to people than their disabilities, it is not restricting nor is it shameful but infact it is beautiful in its own way. With a plan to travel the United States, Mooney decides to travel in a Short bus with intentions of collecting experiences from people who have overcome--or not overcome--being labeled disabled or abnormal. In this Mooney reinvents this concept that normal people suck; that a simple small message of “you’re not normal” could have a destructive and deteriorating effect. With an idea of what disabilities are, Mooney’s trip gives light to disabilities even he was not prepared to face, that he feared.
District 9 is a film that takes us into a realm of a different world from the one that we know now. It combines extraterrestrial life with immense science fiction to illustrate a story we could only imagine to ever actually occur. Although it was created for entertainment purposes, the motion picture can be compared to many different types of individuals and situations. District 9 displays many underlying concepts throughout the movie about racism, prejudice and discrimination. While studying and analyzing the plot and characters, these concepts became more translucent to me, the viewer. This paper will discuss the treatment of District 9 residents and equate their treatment to people with disabilities.
Even though the story “Pharmacy” takes place from Henry Kitteridge’s perspective, there is a lot of personality that shines through in Olive’s character. She starts this story being mild-mannered and only making subtle remarks about different things that were happening. However, by the middle of the story Olive is shouting “all I do is cook and clean and pick up after people. People just waiting for me to serve them, with their faces hanging out” (Strout 13). Olive ends up in constant fights with both Henry and her son, Christopher. Seeing these relationships degrade made me feel as though I were watching this happen to real
In the movie Lorenzo's Oil, directed by George Miller we see the struggling life a of a mother and father whose child gets diagnosed with an extremely rare disease known as A.L.D. or Adrenoleukodystrophy. We watch a family, the Odones, intense battle with this disease to keep their son alive through emotional and physical struggle. We witness as in inspirational conflict that gets resolved through the attributes of this boy's family, and the guilt that is experienced from the mother who passed the genes onto her son. With all this help and the help from the boys family and the determination along this troubled journey the cure was eventually discovered.
We often sympathize with the disabled and give praise to their achievements, but we understandably overlook the caretakers who provide the devotion and care to enlighten the path to success for them. A parent is often the devoting caretaker who takes to the precautions when tending to children and thinks thoroughly before any situation occurs. Welcome to Holland, an applicable metaphor that alludes to what the birth of a disabled child means. Emily explains the experience as an awaiting trip to Italy, being prepared and excited. Only suddenly does realization appear when the flight lands in Holland, a place that is unfamiliar, yet lovely and appreciation is discovered after observing Holland’s unique features. Although it is more work rearranging
He then finds his long lost 14-year-old daughter, Angela, and challenges his disorder while developing a close relationship with her.