Impact of Parents’ Affection on Children in Ocean at the End of the Lane and Bridge to Terabithia
Autor: Sara17 • December 25, 2017 • 1,147 Words (5 Pages) • 674 Views
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When children are stressed out, their little innocent minds wander deep in thoughts, leading them to create fantasy worlds within the reality world they live in, where they face all kinds of magical significant. Both the characters from the book and the movie went into the fantasy world that their new friends had created for them, facing all the “problems” and actually conquering them. The narrator from the movie went into the magical world, where he faced many hardships from the villain of the story. The story itself, in my opinion, is not just a magical world a normal child would create, rather it is a surreal story that the narrator’s subconscious mind had created, in order to make himself understand the reality that he had to face, especially with his father almost committing filicide. “The parent–child relationship helps shape how children examine the world around them and provides children with affection, reliable alliance, enhancement of worth, and instrumental aid.” (Parent–Child Relationships, Parental Psychological Control, and Aggression: Maternal and Paternal Relationships 2) Both the characters’ projected parental behavior towards them have changed the way they saw the world, and thus, it lead the children to use magical realism to cope with the reality.
In conclusion, relationships between parents have a tremendous impact on young children, changing the young minds’ point of views in their lives, and the way they think. When not given enough attention and affection to young children, they isolate themselves from social environments and create fantasy world of their own, using magical realism in order to cope with what they cannot get in the reality. It is clear that the way parents behave towards have a huge impact on their children, emotionally, and mentally, and affects the way they see the world.
Works cited
J Youth Adolescence. "Parent–Child Relationships, Parental Psychological Control, and Aggression: Maternal and Paternal Relationships." Empirical Research 27 September 2013: 2. Online.
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