Life Script Analysis

Nature versus Nurture is a common topic when discussing one’s personal development while growing up. Children are often affected by how their families treat them and teach them their values and judgements. This sometimes changes the children’s personalities and manners. Because of that the way they’re brought up can also often impact the choices they make in their future lives. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates how children are influenced by their families using the Finch and the Ewell families. Personally, my family has also greatly impacted my life and personality growing up.

In “Life According to T.V.” written by Harry Waters and published in Newsweek in 1991, Waters examines the effect that television has on everyday lives. He says that TV has given Americans an unrealistic view of how life works. From jobs to minorities to how women are portrayed to crime rates nearly all aspects of TV are unrealistic or exaggerated. George Gerbner was used to back up Water’s theory on how television impacts people. Water states that heavy viewers of TV are more unrealistic in their view of the world than light viewers because they are exposed to more of the unrealistic ideas portrayed in TV shows than light viewers. The jobs on TV are often expressed as high ranking jobs like lawyers, doctors and athletes rather than blue collar or service jobs such as small businessman or teacher. According Waters the elderly are depicted as being sick and weak when they are actually the opposite. Women are also portrayed as mothers and lovers more often than successful working women.

I pride myself in my open mindedness and the ability to be myself even if the people around me are different and might judge me. Since I was young, I have always been a follower because of the strong influences around me. Even though it’s a small town, everyone had their own unique talent and was set in life. I tried to be exactly like people I looked to. Soon I started to realize the people I looked up to didn’t think like I did, and they weren’t interested in the things I was. I still looked up to these people, but I started to stop trying to be like them and be myself. The first time I realized the beauty of individuality, was when I met my best friend. We were complete opposites and didn’t get along at first. She was different much than people I had met before and it made me want to get to know her. I realized how much I tried being like others when she would criticize for acting different around people I thought were cool. I soon started be myself more even if for the moment it was only around her. We grew closer and we both helped each other come out of our shell. I wouldn’t think of going back to change meeting the girl who I call my best friend and knows everything about me. Another big moment in my quest who acceptance is something is that destroyed me, and it felt like the worst year of my life. My mom and I are very alike, but during this year of torment; it felt like my mom and I were constantly fighting. We were fighting over such trivial things and so often that I was sent into a spiral of depression. I wasn’t as open and didn’t want to be myself. I wanted to be someone else. On New Years I couldn’t handle it anymore, and I broke down crying while at a weekend camp. After that I took a step back from

What is the meaning of life? According to Chris McCandless living free and not conforming to the natural way of life is the meaning to life, as shown in the book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. Similar to Chris McCandless, Ralph Emerson believes that following your dreams and making your own trail is the meaning of life according to his short story “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Emerson. The purpose of man's existence is to avoid conformity and following one's own instincts and ideas.

In 1983 Aharon Appelfeld published a work of fiction titled Tzili that closely resembled his own personal Holocaust experiences. This work of fiction revolves around a maturing teen who is alone and on the run during the Holocaust. In Tzili, Appelfeld brings to life his characters, which include Tzili, Katrina, Mark, and Linda. Throughout this literary analysis Appelfelds’ memoir Story of a Life will be used to access the parallels that exist between Appelfeld’s own personal experience and his fictional work Tzili.

There are numerous approaches on how one will parent their child; this can include anything from permissive to authoritative parenting. As one can imagine, the type of parenting can greatly influence the mental development of their child. A husband and a wife that grew up in an authoritative and extremely religious household share their experience, and also how they believe this affected them. These parents that are highly religious have a deep desire to pass on to their very closely held views. For John and Tearsa Harlan, the strict and enforcing methods resulted in drifting from their parent’s religion.

Have you ever wanted to do an activity, but it has too many obstacles that you have to face? Life is unpredictable and anything can happen at any given moment. But how will you act the next time life gives you a roadblock or a challenge? In the texts “The Explosion,” “We Beat The Street,” and the multimedia clip October Sky, roadblocks happen quite often, and the sources show how individuals are ready to overcome them in order to achieve their goals and blueprint. In “The Explosion,” Homer faces not having support from his father and brother. While, in “We Beat The Street,” the three doctors face having to grow up in a community where whoever surrounds you is your friend/family. However in the multimedia clip October

Over the years, I have become conscious of the manner in which I speak and behave when connecting with my peers and others. My parents especially have offered wonderful instruction, and extended much-needed assistance as I began to comprehend the influence my actions had on others. I consider my family to be wonderfully tight-knit. I have both of my parents and two older brothers. My brothers both progressed on and out of our childhood home. Although they no longer live with my parents and me, the love and support my family still shares- from hundreds of miles apart- is genuinely unreal. The Goins clan might not all live under one roof anymore, but it certainly feels like when we did. The extent of inspiration my parents offer each of us kids

Some of the most important contributions and influences parents can make and have on their children’s character are through opinions, customs, goals and fears, general emotional hygiene, and probably, most importantly, through modeling. So some influence is direct and intentional and some is unintended as in “The Egg.” Yet, although a child is highly influenced by the parents, the child will ultimately define their own personality, worldviews, and overall character, granted, partially from influences of environment, attitude, circumstances, and disappointments, but in the end, a child ultimately has the ability to grow and change their view on their own.

What I have learnt from this story is that people will only accept you if you change to their liking or their perception of normal. However, doing this changes your morals and values to conform with a certain person or group.

We all want to believe that our individual personalities and beliefs are a result of our personal choices and experiences. However, this isn't entirely true. As much as many of us would hate to admit, we are greatly influenced by the choices of our parents and the major events in their lives that shaped them. As children, we internalize our parents’ words, actions and beliefs. By the time we are adults, these values have already been integrated into our own on a subconscious level.

Throughout the film, the issues of family life, ideal role models, and child development significantly reflect toward today’s society. Today, this society finds it difficult to raise a child for two parents. For example, they experience financial problems, relationship issues amongst themselves, or potentially going through a divorce all play a critical role in the child development process. A parent's initial hope is for their child to succeed in school and also to succeed in the outside world when looking for jobs that suit their interest, yet, teenagers have the highest tendency to commit a crime. By following the friends they chose to have, they become more influenced to encounter themselves into trouble, however, this is not the only factor. During life at

Do you have expectations placed on you because of what your parents, siblings or extended family members have achieved in their own lives? If so, how have you responded to those expectations?

In T.A. the life-script is an important concept as all transactions, games, ego-states and the concepts they encompass relate to the re-enforcement of an individual’s life script. Berne defined life-script as;

In, “This Too Is Life”, the author, Lu Hsun, writes about his thoughts on life and its values as he is dying of illness. Hsun first explains the duality of exhaustion and rest, the fearfulness of exhaustion and not being able what you have to do as you have already done too much. The fear of missing out on the active, productive parts or life where you feel like you are truly living, coupled at the same time with the blissfulness of rest and simply doing nothing and having nothing to do, experiencing the comforts of idleness. In these moments of inactivity, it is easy to feel as if one is not really living life, that life has no purpose if one is not being productive. But, what Hsun is trying to express