Jason Reitman Juno Closing Scene

And despite everything, her love for her father only accumulates for him. Throughout the story Jeannette at times has given up on her father but she somehow always rationalizes his actions and continues to see him as everything but a bad influence. For example, when Rex purposely throws Jeannette into the water forcing her to learn how to swim and saying, “If you don’t want to sink you better learn how to swim.” (Walls 66) Again this just proves that despite how reckless and inconsiderate her parents were at times eventually it taught her to be independent and survive. And in the end they needed this because living in poverty its almost difficult to make sure you will survive the next day. Regardless of Rex’s weaknesses in raising Jeannette soon enough it proved that Jeannette’s love and admiration for her father was impeccable and only proved that Rex played a huge role in her

Vanessa MacLeod was raised by a supportive family and friends in a positive environment. She had a wealthy family who were interested in her happiness, her behavior and how she dressed. Her parents cared for her and allowed her to do amusing things as

They never discuss specific rules or curfews that she has, other than the one time that Juno's step-mother became agitated when Juno came home late from visiting Mark. It also seems like eating dinner together is one of the few things they do as a group, but it is never mentioned that they must eat together.

Juno is a quirky American comedy-drama film about a teenage girl who falls pregnant and must decide what actions to take about the unplanned pregnancy. The movie is told over four seasons, starting in autumn when Juno, a 16 year old junior in high school discovers she is pregnant with her friend and crush, Paulie Bleeker. Juno first considers abortion, but ultimately cannot go through with it. She decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. But first she has to tell her father and stepmother about the situation, her biological mother is revealed to live on a ranch with her new husband and three children. Her parents are pragmatic about the pregnancy and explain to Juno that they will support her decision. Juno's next step is to

The motion picture “Juno” stars a protagonist which faces multiple consequences due to an unplanned pregnancy. The movie, like the novel present themes revolving around teenage decision making. The movie is solidly based through the experiences of a pregnant teenage girl, the protagonist Juno.

Vanessa, still naive, consciously resists the “upright” values of her family and believes she has control of her own identity therefore she, purposely attempts in many early parts of the story, to show ways of opposing her entire family. “I was prepared, for the question was the same each week. I rarely listened in Sunday school, finding

Growing up as a child, Janie did not have a mother or father figure in her life. "'Tain't Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, it's protection” (Hurston 28). Her grandmother, Nanny, wanted her to live a better life than her mother. Janie believed that Logan was not the person she wanted to be with, but wanted to please her grandmother’s wishes. Janie had learned that even though she did not love him now, later on in life true love would find her. Once Janie and Logan were married, months had gone by and she was afraid that she would never fall in love with him. She had decided to give her grandmother a visit to confess how her love for him is still not there. Despite the fact that Janie was just trying to find a way out, her grandmother sent her off to give love time to unfold.

When people become parents they take on the responsibility of taking care of their children. Jeannette’s parents live in a fantasy world, with unrealistic wishes. They are blinded by this and lose sight of their children’s real needs. Jeannette says, “Mom gave me a startled look. I’d broken one of our unspoken rules: We were always supposed to pretend our life was one long and incredibly fun adventure”(69). Life is not a game of hide and seek, where some people can just hide/ shut out their problems. Problems must be faced because it is all a lesson. Life is real, and you only have one shot at it. Not realizing so can put yourself and others in danger. Jeannette is just wants some food to keep herself from starving. Her parents are selfish people that need to get their priorities straight and start living in reality.

Juno is a 16 year old who is in her junior year of high school. She is raised in Minnesota and lives with her father and step-mother. Juno and her friend Paulie Bleeker have a one-time sexual encounter which resulted in Juno becoming pregnant. When Juno realizes that she is pregnant, she confided in her best friend Leah to help her make a decision regarding the pregnancy. Whether she should keep the baby, abort it or give it up for adoption. In the beginning of the movie, Juno has set her mind to get an abortion at a clinic named Woman’s Now. Once Juno arrives to the clinic she is confronted by a protestor who informs Juno that her baby has finger nails and a heartbeat. At first, Juno ignores this information, however, once she enters the clinic she is consumed by what the protestor has told her and finally runs out of the clinic, ultimately changing her mind not go through with the abortion. After careful consideration she decides to keep the baby and give it to a more deserving family. Juno finally confides in her parents and her step mother that she is pregnant. Her parents accept her decision and show love and support to her. The movie takes place in 2007, this was during a time where teenage pregnancy is against cultural norms.

During this entire scene it is always a close shot which clearly defines that it is Juno and Mark. I think the director purposely made it a close shot so that we could feel like we are a fly on the wall watching everything unfold in front of us. The way the camera is angled Juno’s face is not in focus but is in clear focus on Marks face as if I am Vanessa catching him in the act of cheating. When Juno and Mark begin dancing to the song I feel a rage pass through me. During this scene, I feel as if I am watching a video of Mark cheating since it is dark and out of focus. When Mark is slow dancing with his hands around Juno’s waste he makes a joke saying “doesn’t it feel like it is something between us?” and the camera goes down to emphasize Juno’s pregnant stomach. I feel like this director didn’t literally mean the baby. I think he was talking about how Juno and Mark couldn’t be together because of the age difference and because Mark was actually a married

Jeannette and her dad started to grow apart. He was always leaving and not really there for Jeannette and his family. He would leave for days and wasn’t really working. Jeannette started to learn that his dad’s actions weren’t really smart. She started to see his lack of responsibility and what his actions are doing and what they lead to. She knew that her father had a drinking problem and would always go to the bar. Jeannette realizes that Rex keeps letting her down because he still continued to drink and gets drunk. Jeannette was at a breaking point and she asked her mom to leave her father. But her father still has his moments when they would still bond together when she is older .Every birthday he would give her a star and she would love it. But at the end of the day, Jeannette loved her

The arising conflict, which puts extra strain on Mark's relationship with Vanessa, who is so sure in her desire to have a child, results in their separation and the falling apart of what seemed such a perfect solution to Juno's predicament. Mark and Vanessa's separation hits Juno especially hard, because in her helpless situation Mark and Vanessa's seemingly perfect situation not only grounded her but gave her hope, as her birth parent's divorce and the dysfunctional relationship between her father and stepmother seem to give her no hope for happiness now or later in life. As Juno's pregnancy reaches full-term her faith in others and relationships is restored when she realizes that Vanessa's desire and love for her unborn child makes her more than suitable to be the mother of her child, which also gives her the courage to express her true feelings for her friend Paulie. The movie ends on an inspirational and hopeful note, with Juno having a healthy baby boy whom Vanessa willingly and lovingly accepts, and Juno and Paulie entering into a healthy and stable relationship. After watching the movie with some knowledge of the process of growth and development, the role that Bronfenbrenner's, Piaget's, and Erickson's theories played in Juno's development.

The most significant impact on Jeanette as a character is her father, Rex Walls. She admires her father as a child and slowly disconnects from him as she grows of age. Once Jeanette matures she makes a point of separating herself from her father. She always “[knew] that he’d let [them] all down plenty” (210) and had no delusions about him as a parent. Jeanette’s promise to herself to build a better life and to “never be like Mom” (208) exemplifies the contrast between her and her parents. How Jeanette differentiates herself from her father shapes her identity and allows her to forward as a writer. Rex Walls carries his family through various settings that make Jeanette “happy staying in [a] hospital forever” (12) rather than living in cars or abandoned houses for months at a time. Rex’s habit to live a life like his mother Erma, ensured his selfish nature and hinders his ability to make something out of opportunities. The family travels to Phoenix where they inherit wealth, yet the parents mismanage the money and end up impoverished. The motif of the parents carrying their

The main character in the movie Juno is a 16 year old girl named Juno. She is witty, sarcastic and has a great sense of humor. Surrounded by the falling leaves of autumn, we find Juno drinking “like ten tons of Sunny D” as she decides to take three pregnancy tests to confirm her worst fear. She is pregnant. After a fateful and funny encounter with a pro-life schoolmate outside an abortion clinic, ("Fingernails? The baby already has fingernails?"), Juno decides to go through with the pregnancy. Juno breaks the news to her best friend and father of the baby Paulie Bleeker, as well as her parents. Surprisingly all parties seem very supportive of her plan to give the baby up for adoption. With the advice from her friend Leah she searches

Parents in the real world have children that die, and these parents don’t say they wish they never would have had their child. These parents simply understand that a life is still treasured even if its shorter than its supposed to be. The consequence of the decision was Ian leaving his family out of anger, Hannah dying, and Louise is left alone. For Ian watching Hannah die from an incurable disease made their whole marriage and the whole story of their shared life’s, unbearable. Louise is sad mourning the death of her daughter writing a book. In the end the death of Hannah affected both Ian and Louise tearing them apart.