Identity Crisis In Every Children Is Special By Aamir Khan
“Every child has a different learning style and pace. Each child is unique, not only capable of learning but also capably of succeeding.”
This quotation coined by Robert John Meehan is exactly the moral lesson of the Indian drama film, Every Children is Special. This drama film is produced and directed by Aamir Khan. This film explores the life and imagination of Ishaan, an 8-year-old dyslexic child. Although he excels in art especially in making paintings, he still cannot cope with the academic demands in school that leads his parents to send him to a boarding school. On the other hand, Ishaan’s new art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, suspects that he is dyslexic and helps him to overcome his disability. Nikumbh change the best way Ishaan …show more content…
He doesn’t know who truly he is and what he want to become. He is suffering from identity crisis because he doesn’t achieved and developed trust, autonomy, initiative and industriousness in the four psychosocial stages of development, especially, the stage 4, Industry vs. Inferiority. At his age, 8- years- old, I saw in the movie that he has a lower status and quality when it comes in academic competence than other students. There is a point the movie that he really wanted to give up. He is tired of being fool. He is tired of being him. We can also see that there are really a problems about how Ishaan grew as that kind of a person, not just because he suffered from dyslexia, but also, a problem within the people that he enocunters everyday, specificially, his parents. In the Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it is obvious in the movie that his parents provide him the pysiological or basic needs, like food, shelter, clothing and many more. Also, his parents provide him a security, especially his mother who is truly protecting and doing everything for him as long as she can. But then, here is the another conflict, Ishaan doesn’t get the third and one of the most essential needs, the Love and Belongingness. Yes, he has a caring mother, but his heart truly breaks apart when his own parents send him to a boarding school. Because of that, he thinks that his family doesn’t love him anymore, particularly his father. Because he is thirsty for the love of his parents, he cannot achieve the Self-Esteem and Self-Actualization stage that lead him in keeping his God given talent. One of Ishaan’s talents is painting, so I believe that he is somehow under the Pre-Operational stage in Cognitive Development Stages. He has a representational thought and he represent things mentally when those things are not physically present, so he is easy for him to intepret eveything in his mind through
This quotation coined by Robert John Meehan is exactly the moral lesson of the Indian drama film, Every Children is Special. This drama film is produced and directed by Aamir Khan. This film explores the life and imagination of Ishaan, an 8-year-old dyslexic child. Although he excels in art especially in making paintings, he still cannot cope with the academic demands in school that leads his parents to send him to a boarding school. On the other hand, Ishaan’s new art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, suspects that he is dyslexic and helps him to overcome his disability. Nikumbh change the best way Ishaan …show more content…
He doesn’t know who truly he is and what he want to become. He is suffering from identity crisis because he doesn’t achieved and developed trust, autonomy, initiative and industriousness in the four psychosocial stages of development, especially, the stage 4, Industry vs. Inferiority. At his age, 8- years- old, I saw in the movie that he has a lower status and quality when it comes in academic competence than other students. There is a point the movie that he really wanted to give up. He is tired of being fool. He is tired of being him. We can also see that there are really a problems about how Ishaan grew as that kind of a person, not just because he suffered from dyslexia, but also, a problem within the people that he enocunters everyday, specificially, his parents. In the Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, it is obvious in the movie that his parents provide him the pysiological or basic needs, like food, shelter, clothing and many more. Also, his parents provide him a security, especially his mother who is truly protecting and doing everything for him as long as she can. But then, here is the another conflict, Ishaan doesn’t get the third and one of the most essential needs, the Love and Belongingness. Yes, he has a caring mother, but his heart truly breaks apart when his own parents send him to a boarding school. Because of that, he thinks that his family doesn’t love him anymore, particularly his father. Because he is thirsty for the love of his parents, he cannot achieve the Self-Esteem and Self-Actualization stage that lead him in keeping his God given talent. One of Ishaan’s talents is painting, so I believe that he is somehow under the Pre-Operational stage in Cognitive Development Stages. He has a representational thought and he represent things mentally when those things are not physically present, so he is easy for him to intepret eveything in his mind through