Michael's Reflection In Play: Baby Teeth By Layla Merritt

They had to bench Michael till they got his birth certificate, but since he is from Cuba it would be hard to get it. Especially since his dad had died a few months ago and his mom died a long time ago before they came to America. Throughout the middle of the book he tried everything he could to get it. This guy who works for the child services got curious about him and his seventeen. Michael has been telling everyone that his dad was in Florida taking care of his sick uncle. The guy wanted to talk to dad to see if he was real. Luckily, Michael had his best friend relative to pretend that he was his

His Biological mom is a poor, African American, drug addict, living in poverty. It is a stereotype because not all parents who lose their kids aren't like that. Some parents can have their kids apprehend from them because of if both parents are in the arm service and both get deployed into a war zone, and many other reason not just dealing with poverty and drug addiction. The Touhy have a stereotype against them until they start raising Micheal. The Touhy are a white, wealthy family, living in the south, living in a rich part of town, they never cross into the poor part of town. When they become Micheal legal guardian the stereotype starts to be broken. Leigh Anne goes to they part of the city that in poverty. The next day she goes to her little clique and they make fun of her because she goes to that part of town and it maybe affect her reputation. She realizes that helping Michael is more important than hanging out with this clique who puts stereotypes on

Michael struggles making friends. one way he does is in paragraph 21-28 it says Michael hadn’t made any friends the teachers barely notice him. This is probably because his parents dead and he is being quiet in class. But one day Michael went to the pet store looking for something small and living and hermit crabs where a dollar. When Michael got home he showed the hermit crab to Aunt Esther. “Where is he” says Aunt Esther. Then some eyes poke out of a shell.

Michael was a homeless, poor and oversized African-American youngster from a broken home. He has no idea who his father was and his mother was a drug addict. He was separated from his mother at the age of seven because his mother was involved in some drug addiction cases. He has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn.

Along with the struggles of growing up in a community where he doesn’t fit the expected “norm” for male behaviour, Michael has an alcoholic and abusive father who believes heavily in the gender stereotypes perpetuated throughout the film and disapproves heavily of Michael’s behaviour. All this strain on Michael makes it hard for him to have a “normal childhood” as he struggles with the challenges of growing up in a community where you don’t fit the “mold” of what a man should be like. This is shown in the scene when he and Billy are wearing tutus and dancing in the boxing hall and get caught by two angry parents who then proceed to call them both “poofs” and “sissies” for dancing together. Michael is also seen at the end of the film to have his male partner sitting next to him.This relates to the audience because at some point in their life everyone feels like they don’t fit in with the majority of their community, whether it is a small difference or a large one people are all unique but sometimes can feel like they are the only one fighting against the world. In Michael’s case he has to grow up hiding his true self and not being able to express his feelings as the community he lives in is heavily embedded in traditional gender roles and stereotypes and does not accept people who don’t fit within the “black and white”

When evaluting what Judd said he learned of his father's behavior prior, it comes to show that Michael Senior didn't turn into the is man, but reverted back to the behavior, which he displayed when the children were very young, and before Judd was born. The insecurities that he experiences lead him back to a uncaring personality. Her mother on the other hand, tries to remain positive through out the entire story, siding with her father and defending him. She easily could have encourged Michael Senior to talk with Marianne and bring the family together the way it should have been, but she allowed him to drive their family apart. My doing this, Patrick "Pinch" Mulvaney came to despise his mother and father for what they did to Marianne. He believed his mother stupid and his father cruel for abondoning their daughter

I think that Jennifer Kahan describes Michael as “an elegant boy with high-planed cheeks, wide eyes and curly light brown hair” in the first paragraph of the article to juxtapose how the child appears to be angelic on the outside, while his true nature is hidden. Moreover, it allows Kahan to surprise the readers later on in the article by describing Michael’s odd behavior that does not fit his appearance. Michael’s physical description is important because it emphasizes to the readers that he is not a typical psychopathic killer. Michael is simply a child. The effect this description has on the reader is that it forces them to sympathize with Michael as a result of his adorable appearance.

Michael is a tall, stylishly dressed man; his presence is withdrawn, but charming. Michael has disputes with individuals who he senses are not as gifted as him. He has difficulty communicating with many co-workers, he feels they are “just the help”, and they are looked down upon. Michael assumes a superior, cynical, and perplexed manner toward the therapist and the process of evaluation. He carries a sense of power and control over the assessment. His wife described Michael as a man who portrays many gifts and a good provider for their family. Michael exhibits Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder tendencies. His wife mentions he has certain rituals that must be done, for example, he has a daily food routine that, when changed, this transports distress to their lives.

Lunch Ladies had always scared Michael. They way they're breath swarmed into your nose and gripped your throat with its disgusting stench as you desperately tried to breathe, The way they're chin always had just too much hair and how every time they would talk to you or another person they would slowly move their hand up to their chin and play with all the hair that grew out of their deformed formation they called a chin. Everything they did it scared and even more, disgusted Michael. Michael especially hated the lunch lady that worked at his school. Lucas and Ashton were Michael's friends, They always made fun of Michael when he told them how freaked out he was of the lunch lady.. They just didn't understand his fear, no one did. Michael never

Michael was raised in an unconventional way. He did not have any apparent connections with anyone in his family, or anyone at school. His parents were merely characters in his life rather than people around to shape Michael. Since he lacked the shaping needed, he was misshapen. Early on in The Reader it becomes apparent that Michael does not have strong relations with any members of his family.

The underlying factor that is driving Michael’s life is his ability to identify himself as a women. The social identity theory can be defined as “a stage theory of socialization that articulates the process by which we come to identify with some social groups and develop a sense of difference from others” (Hutchison, 2017). Before his father, Enrique, came home Michael was comfortable with the social group he was a part of. After his father’s homecoming Michael was challenged with another social identity that he realized he did not want to be associated with. The relationship that Michael and Enrique have is very hostel due to their different perspectives on the lifestyle that Michael is choosing. As a result of this Michael begins to show resistance to Enrique and the relationship that they used to share. Another part of the social identity theory that Michael is showing is redefinition because he is literally redefining who he is a person which changes all dimensions of his

Michael became more open-minded and he started seeing the world in a different perspective he has never thought of before. An example of this could be when Michael realized with the help of Mina how school forces you to become something they want you to become, “I thought about our diaries at school. We filled them every week. Every so often, Miss Clarts checked that they were neat and the punctuation was right and the spellings were right. She gave us marks for them, just like we got marks for attendance and punctuality and attitude and everything else we did.” This shows that Michael’s views on the world and on school are slowly changing because of the influence on Mina and is becoming more aware of his surroundings and the world. Skellig and Mina played a huge role in Michael’s changes in his views and his

Michael struggles to meet his basic needs. Although he is enrolled in school, he is constantly worrying about money, safety, his brother’s needs, and much more. In 1954, a psychologist named Maslow, created the Hierarchy of Human Needs. It states that the physiological and safety needs must be met before humans can love, feel belonging, respect themselves and respect others. Once these basic needs are met, people can focus on reaching their full potential and self-actualization can be achieved. Since Michael is fighting to satisfy his own basic needs, he isn’t able to focus on succeeding academically and on a personal level.

Mike O’Donnell, a thirty-seven year old Caucasian man, is the character we will be focusing on throughout this paper. He is a father of two kids, Maggie and Alex, and currently going through a failing marriage to his high school sweetheart Scarlet. Mike is also employed in a dead end job where he has no hope of moving up the corporate ladder. Due to his failing marriage and struggles at work, Mike has become very unhappy with how his life has turned out. Miraculously, Mike is given the opportunity to become a teenage again. He is now nearly the same age as his children; which causes certain issues and realizations throughout the movie. Many issues play out throughout the movie due to Mike not initially being able to fit in with the adolescents. Another common issue that is seen throughout the movie is the faulty relationship he currently has with his family. Throughout the movie he slowly begins to repair the relationship with his families. In the end of the movie, Mike realizes how great his life really was. He is able to become his actual age again, and vastly improves his relationship with his family.

To anyone who knows Michael it’s obvious that he is one of the most unassuming, considerate and caring lads you could hope to meet. He’s been a good brother to me and a fine uncle to my two young daughters, baby-sitting them for hours at time. Michael’s influence really seemed to rub off on them and it wasn’t long before they became control freaks, addicted to Playstation and rubbish at golf. But unlike Michael they are no longer small and dribbly.