Juno's Adoption Case Study

Jim Stark is a problematic teen who constantly gets into trouble which makes his family move from place to place. Judy catches Jim’s eyes and they seem to have a connection, but she already has a boyfriend. Jim starts out the school year at a new High School and has no friends. He gets into trouble with some “tough guys” led by Buzz (Corey Allen), which creates inconvenience for Jim and his family. He befriends an odd boy named Plato. Buzz challengers Jim to a competition which ends with Buzz dying. Jim befriends Buzz’s girl, Judy after this dramatic event and makes sure she is okay. Jim, Plato, and Judy now are on the run from the “tough guys” and the police for the death of Buzz. It ends with Plato dying because of a police man shooting him. The mini family will never be back together.

Jess, an 18-year-old girl, feels alone as she feels that she does not belong home. She wants to commit suicide after her boyfriend, Chas, leaves her because she then feels completely alone. Jess’s elder sister, Jen, disappeared a few years ago and Jess blames herself for Jen’s disappearance. JJ, a guy with dreams of becoming a successful musician is stuck in the past with thoughts his ex-girlfriend and failure to fulfill his dreams since his band broke up. He also feels alone since he is an immigrant and the people he considered his family abandoned him.

In the closing scene we see Mac talking Juno after she has given birth. He uses the dialogue “Someday you'll be back here on your own terms”. He then leaves as Bleeker enters the room but before that we see an over the shoulder shot of Mac putting his hands on Bleekers shoulders showing his approval of him. The director uses these techniques to show us how Mac is such a supportive father. When most fathers find out their daughter is pregnant they would probably force their daughters to get an abortion to avoid getting embarrassed by their friends and even family. This decision changed Macs life because he could have told Juno to get an abortion to avoid anyone finding out about it but instead he respected Junos decision and let her have the baby and supported the young couple.

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

Being suddenly hit with the unexpected when Juno discovers that she is pregnant, the composer shows that she is immensely confused. Numerous intense mid-shots used highlight Juno’s confusion.

Deej Logan was just like any normal high school girl. She woke up on her first day of school and combed her hair, picked out the “perfect” outfit and headed out the door. What she didn’t know is that after that day nothing would be the same. Nothing that day seemed to be going right. At school drama was swarming all around her, not exactly what she hoped the first day would be like. By the time the last bell of the day rang she was more than happy to get out of that school. She drove home as quickly as she could but as soon as she got home she realized that she had forgotten to pick up her sisters. “Great.” She thought sarcastically as she sat back down in her car and drove off. Just then she pulled out her phone to message one of her friends about her awful day. That one decision changed everything. Before she had a chance to send the message Deej veered off into oncoming traffic and was killed on impact.

Amber is a young teenager who had her mind set on her goals of going to the "Big Apple" and becoming a journalist. She was dating a guy named Brandon but had recently broken up with him. She started to have severe symptoms of pregnancy and was not on any sort of birth control. She and Brandon had slept with each other the night of graduation without any protection. All the while, she was having an embryo growing inside of her uterus and becoming a fetus.

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.

Janie saw her life like a leaf in prodigious tree with things suffered, things enjoyed, and things done and undone. When Janie was a teenager, she used to contemplate under the pear tree and vision about being a tree in bloom. When she desires for a touch more at the age of 16, she encounters her first kiss with Johnny Taylor. Her nanny oversees Janie kiss him, and states that Janie is now a woman. Her Nanny then marries Janie off to Logan Killicks. Her Nanny always directed Janie in the right path through her eyes because of her past and Janie’s mothers’ past. When Nanny’s slave owner’s realized that Janie’s mother was her husband’s child, Nanny then left to avoid being whipped and to avoid her child being taken away. Within Janie first relationship with Killicks, she learns about marriage. Janie’s Nanny then explains in a colloquial language, “Tain’t Logan Killicks Ah wants you to have, baby, its protection. Ah ain’t gittin’ ole, honey, Ah’m done ole. Nanny expresses to Janie that she is old now and her time is almost up. She wants to marry Janie off so that she knows Janie will be taken care of. Nanny does not want Janie endure everything her and Leafy, Janie’s

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

It was about a girl named Melissa sixteen years old whose mother left her at the age of 13. Her step mother wasn’t close to her. Melissa didn’t have proper care, so she just started going to clubs with her boyfriend. One day, at the club her boyfriend made her drunk so much and sexual assaulted her. After, three to four months later she found out that she was pregnant. Both characters in the article felt ashamed of themselves. They felt embarrassed walking with a fat tummy, worried that people will make fun of them. When one person asked Janie how she can have a baby at this age, she answered she’s eighteen years old. Then she questioned her, how can she be eighteen when she herself is nineteen. She for sure doesn’t look eighteen. She didn’t tell her real age because people will make fun of her and say so much about her behind her back. It was embarrassing for her to say that she’s the mother of Etta when she’s a child herself. Similarly, it was humiliating for Melissa to tell her friends that she’s pregnant. They were shocked at this. They thought their friend is a bad girl and a bad influence. They spread rumors about her and broke friendship with her. Furthermore, Janie and Melissa were worried how they will take care of Etta and Jane when they both have to finish school. Melissa doesn’t want her daughter to spend the same life as she did. So, she aware her daughter about these things before. In the end, when her

Juno, is about a 16-year-old, high school girl faced with the challenge of an unplanned pregnancy. As she sits in an abortion clinic waiting to abort her unborn child, she decides to have the baby. She is aware that she can’t raise it herself and decides to give her child up for adoption. She stumbles upon a lovely couple on a newspaper ad and instantly knows they are the parents she wants for her child. However, problems begin to unravel when Juno and Mark start bonding, perhaps more than they should. Grief and loss are seen throughout the movie from the birth mother, adoptive parents, and the grandparent’s perspective.

Hannah, a freshman in college, has had a life of asthma, major depression, and epilepsy. While on theatrical stage in her first college debut, Hannah collapses on stage in a seizure. After running tests on Hannah in the hospital, the doctor suggests that her lifelong health issues could possibly be because she is a survivor of abortion. This is the first time Hannah not only learns she’s an abortion survivor, but adopted too. In anguish and searching for answers, Hannah journeys with her friends to Mobile, Alabama in search of her birthmother. When Hannah first reconnects with her birthmother, Cindy, tracking her down at her work office, Cindy rejects her yet as again as she did at her failed abortion. Hannah finds herself asking God what to do in her situation.

The problem in Juno is when this young girl is trying to find out what to do with her unborn child when her original plan of adoption gets rattled up. Juno quickly finds a solution to her pregnancy by giving it up for adoption but problems abrupt when Mark, the proposed adoptive father, begins seeing Juno as more than just the teen mom of his future child, this becomes a problem in both his marriage with Vanessa and puts the adoption in jeopardy. Juno wants the baby to be in a loving family and is about to leave the Loring’s home, when Vanessa comes home. She sees Juno crying and stops her from leaving, wanting to know what is going on with her and Mark. Comes to find out that he isn’t ready to be a father. As the Lorings discuss the pending

This comedy, drama displays a non-traditional family with very traditional issues of loyalty, fidelity, honesty, teens pushing limits and parents struggling to find common ground. Joni (18) and Laser (15) were both conceived by (IVF) from one sperm donor, the twist is their mothers are a lesbian couple, which Joni calls the “moms”. Nic is an Ob-gyn doctor and Jules, the homemaker, is starting a landscape design business, both are struggling with the fact that Joni is leaving for college in the fall. Laser, the only male, appears to be missing an actual male