When introducing her new friend Lauren to her room, Baby reflects on her rag doll, “It was a doll that my mother had bought for me when she was pregnant . . . The doll also made me feel sweet inside, too, because it made me feel that at some point, even before I existed, I had been loved” (O’Neill 97-98). This illustrates Baby’s longing for a loving mother figure, which is a reasonable expectation from a 12 year old girl. Loving care is a critical need of any child.…
Well, since I really do not have a favorite movie that I can recall I have decided to write about a character that my kids often talk about and that is Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. My kids often have questions of why he is the way he is looking so sad, being depressed and so reserved. Eeyore seems to fit on the introverted side of the scale and very low on the extraverted side. He is timid, shy, and doesn’t want to bother anyone, it is because of this he is typically alone. Eeyore’s personality is characterized mostly by introverted responses and actions; he is generally short and usually closed off with everyone. He does not like to seek adventure, but it seems to find its way to him through his fellow characters. He also does not like a lot of activity in his life. He is pretty content with a very quiet and boring lifestyle. He typically does not show emotion with others unless they are his close friends such as Tigger, Pooh, and the rest of the characters; however Eeyore seems to still be very reserved with them too. He is typically in a gloomy mood, showing signs of being depressed and very lethargic.…
the bottom of the landing, a plaque mounted on a pole marking the birthplace of Gilbert Newton…
When I was younger I loved dolls; I loved playing pretend with them, dressing them up, and pretending that they were real. For my younger self to hear of a doll that not only could talk but could move her eyes on mouth on her own was mind blowing. I saw a lot of cheery commercials on television for a doll called Amazing Amanda. It was so cool; the doll even had the same name as me! When I ripped through the colorful Barbie wrapping paper Christmas day and saw that it was the Amazing Amanda doll I jumped around like a grasshopper and raced to go find batteries. I played with that doll everyday, singing songs with her loudly which probably sounded more like off-key screeching. It was incredible to me to watch her glassy, blue eyes blink and…
An infant develops an attachment based on the psychoanalytic concept of “cupboard love”. In other…
at caught my attention the most out of this aisle was the “Baby Newborn” doll because of how real the baby doll is compared to a real baby. On the back of the box it says, “Without you, Baby Newborn could not survive. Through your love and support, Baby Newborn can grow up to be just like you.” Already, this doll and that message, tells young girls that they are able to provide and take care of a baby on their own, even though the “Baby Newborn” doll is just automated. To take care of the “Baby Newborn” doll, you must the importance to always look good. Also, toys such as, “Super Hair Creations,” “Glamour Girl Set,” Manicure Mania,” and “Scent Salon Beauty,” also, stresses the importance of beauty, along with the “Barbie” dolls. These toys teach girls at a young age that obsessing over the way you look is important and what society only may seem to accept. As blinded young girls may be by the stereotypes these objects are teaching, by growing up, it will stick in a girls mind cognitively and mentally the stress and importance of beauty that these toys create.…
I remember my kindergarten class with all the play and sleep time. My teacher asked that we needed to bring in a toy for play time. I told my mother that I needed a new toy because I didn’t want to bring an old toy to school. My mother took me to the toy store where she bought me a Michael Jackson dancing action figure. He had the sparkling glove and a mic. I was happy to get a toy to match my Thriller vinyl record and I moonwalked all night. I was also happy to show off my toy to all my class mates the next day. The worst experience was when my…
Barbra Lazear Ascher’s “The Boxman” is a composition about loneliness and different aspects of it. Ascher takes loneliness and portrays it in different characters such as the Box Man, the lady in the coffee shop and the lady in in her apartment. She shows that the simplicity of chosen loneliness is less painful than the complications of loneliness forced upon you.…
Most people have a specific item of interest that may illicit these feelings, maybe by holding an old stuffed animal or blanket, and while I have those items as well, the most significant part of my life so far would be characterized by the song “Rainbow Connection.” For a majority of my life, I did not know it was sung by the Muppets—specifically Kermit the Frog—and whenever I would hear it, I’d exclaim, “That’s the rainbow song my daddy sings!” At that time in my life, the song represented family. It was…
As a child, I loved crawling into bed while my mother or father read me a bedtime story. There were shelves of books all around my room, and my favorite collection was located closest to my bed, my Winnie the Pooh book series. I watched Winnie the Pooh videos and read all of the books growing up and became very familiar with the characters. As I watched the interactions between the characters as a kid, I saw a fun loving group of animal friends who loved spending time together. Just as Christopher Robin began to grow up and get a bit too old for his friends in the One Hundred Acre Woods I too got older and grew over my obsession with the characters from the story. Maybe the characters were no longer relatable to me and I could not see any…
Let’s say you’re a little girl in a toy store. You walk down the aisles, touching all of the toys available to you. How lovely to have all of these things to play with! You finally land on a box of action figures. When you show them to your mother, she wrinkles her nose at the superheroes and army men. “Wouldn’t you like a doll instead?” she asks. You don’t know how to answer. Maybe she’s right. After all, that’s what all the other girls want.…
Growing up as a little kid I really didn’t have any toys or friends to play with. My dad works in construction, I asked him one day if he could built me a little play house for me, he told me that he would think about it. Until the next day he brought in some wood, nails, paint… so on and so forth to build the house. Now, this house was like no Barbie house, this house was a life size house for a little kid. I remember helping my dad drawing and building it to make it looked all pretty. The house look like a real house, it had a door with a door knob, and a window. The house could even fit in my blue chair with letters on it so I can go inside, sit down and eat my snacks in there. I loved it so much I would usually take my naps in there.…
“Box Room” by Liz Lochhead is a poem that I think is relevant to a teenage audience. The poetic techniques used in the poem such as word choice, theme and imagery help to achieve this. “Box Room” is a poem about a girl who is going to her boyfriend’s mother’s house to meet his mother for the first time. The mother is not really thrilled when she meets this girl and the poet makes clear throughout the poem makes clear throughout the poem that the two women do not get along.…
I am particularly interested in attachment theories and ideas arising from objects theory namely Winnicott’s concepts of the transitional object and the “good enough mother”. Having two children, now aged 12 and 14 years old, I can see how the theories applied to them as babies and how it continues to be of significance now they are entering adolescence. It has also allowed me to understand relational patterns in my own life. I particularly like the recognition and evidence that, though childhood experiences are important in a therapeutic setting, past experiences can be reconsidered and changes made.…
Foundations of the attachment theory are originally laid on observations based on experiments with animals. A series of experiments carried out with infant monkeys reflected that attachment is not simply because of some internal drives like hunger. In these experiments, few young monkeys separated from their mothers shortly after birth, were kept in a cage with two dolls. One of the dolls was made up of wire mesh and the other with foam rubber and cloth. A feeding bottle…