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Movie Essay: The Case Of Ellen
A. Children need love, care, shelter, food, and support to thrive B. Intro.
Starletta’s, then art teacher’s house (Julie and Roy) who are very open and carefree and Ellen is in a good place.
Grandma wins custody. Makes Ellen work in the farms for her Ellen's grandmother, however, is insistent that Ellen is a mirror image of her father, a wretched man whom both Ellen and her grandmother hate. She is constantly reminding Ellen that she is just like her father and somehow wants revenge on him through her torture of Ellen. Ellen's grandmother also tells Ellen that she is to blame for her mother's death, because Ellen had allowed her to die.
Ellen is sent to live with her aunt Nadine, and her cousin Dora. Nadine and Dora treat Ellen condescendingly

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