Riley Inside Out

The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the

A study indicates that what the children see on television is something that becomes imbedded within them, “…when a child sees violence used as a means to solve a problem (in cartoons), this lesson becomes hard-wired in the central nervous system,” (Drinka, 2013). Based on the information provided we can conclude that with this much of an impact on children internally, it can be very hard to change their way of thinking later on in life.

Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the team leader and she displays compassion and demonstrates the aspect of her that permits her to be happy. Anger is very passionate about making sure things work out fairly for Riley. Disgust is highly opinionated and tries to protect her from poisonous situations whether physically or socially. Sadness was used to signal when Riley needed comfort and support. Finally, Fear, he is always on the lookout and I used to protect her. All five of the emotions contribute to build up Riley’s personality. She is upbeat, honest, cheerful, somewhat neurotic, etc.

Per Reporter: Riley was placed in the Earl’s home 7/26/17. Clifton (Riley’s biological father) contacted Rena (Supervisor) with complaints of physical abuse. Traci pierced Riley’s ears at home via placing an ice cube on her ear and a possible needle. Riley was removed from the Earl’s home 7/31/17. Riley received medical treatment (7/31/17). No further details known.

The untitled painting by Riley Samels, a young artist in Ohio, truly sends a powerful message relating to the struggles women around the world face. The painting reflects the way women are treated and how they are expected to behave. The painting is headshot of a woman wearing a bright and bold red niqab; a veil worn by muslim women. At first glance, the observer would assume the artist was simply painting a portrait of a muslim woman. However, when looking closely, you realize the artist camouflaged hands as a niqab.

From intense body changes, such as a growing brain and body, to new and harder expectations at school, middle and late childhood is often a very difficult time for many individuals. In order to understand the effect of many developmental changes during late childhood, I interviewed twelve-year-old Riley. Riley is an up-coming seventh grader at a local middle school and is very active in sports, such as soccer, tennis, and golf. She has an Auditory Processing Disorder, which means that her brain is not fully developed and is not completely attached to her ear; due to this disorder, Riley cannot process information as quickly or as well as her peers. I met Riley through her older sister and a good friend of mine several years ago, and I conducted

Pixar’s Inside Out is an interesting take on how our emotions work as well as how our brains operate. The story starts off with a narration by Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler, explaining how her job works, and how she and the other emotions came to be inside the mind of young Riley Anderson. The emotions watch and guide Riley by influencing how she reacts to different daily situations. The only thing the emotions are not prepared for however, is an unexpected move from Minnesota to San Francisco (Inside Out). This hilarious take at how our brains work allows Inside Out to create an entertaining and engaging movie using character interaction and its deeper emotional and psychological meanings.

Had I watched this Inside Out at different points over the semester, I would have been able to find different flaws each time. This movie is supposed to be about Riley, but it turns out to be centered around the journey that Joy and Sadness must take in order to return to headquarters, more specifically, it validates sadness as an emotion. Sadness spent her first eleven years with Riley being told to stay back and not to screw anything up, in reality, sadness is often frowned upon, because for some people, they are the opposite of Riley’s character. This movie shows that the happiest of children can go through life changing struggles and embrace their other emotions. You cannot appreciate being happy unless you have known being sad, this movie brings attention to the necessity of a balance in life.

Altogether, children absorb many things from their environment around them and the experiences they take from it. Those experiences are often recreated later on to simulate the same feelings or memories that the children enjoyed. Carol shows this by pretending to be a kindergarten teacher because she had fun at kindergarten with her classmates and wants to do that again. She also has loving feeling toward her little sister so while she is at school she illustrates those feeling in a drawing to bring them back. This describes how child has tendencies to mimic their positive experiences in their everyday

In Northrop Frye’s The Educated Imagination, Frye elaborates how essential it is for man to educate his imagination. The main purpose of educating the imagination is to confront man with nature, generate a feeling of freedom, and imagination forms the basis of every human’s social life In able for man relate to the world he lives in, he must have a considerable knowledge of what it is. Through literature, we learn to distinguish the objective world, where in we struggle to belong, from the human world, which is an artifact of our desires. “The world you want to live in is the human world, not an objective one: it’s not an environment but a home; it’s not the world you see but the world you build out of what you see” (5).

The article, Imaginary Companions, Creativity, and Self-Image in Middle Childhood by Eva Hoff investigates four questions: First, whether there is a relationship between imaginary companions and creative potential; second, whether children with negative self-images are more likely to have imaginary companions; third, whether there are gender-differences among those children who have imaginary companions; and, finally, what aspects of imaginary companions and what characteristics of those who invent them are related to creativity (Hoff 2005).

In addition to the aggressive tone of the image, the things children see on television can be imbedded in their brains forever. As a result, impacting their lives at any point in the future. The purpose of this image

From my family’s moves when I was young, I was accustomed to standing apart from kids my age, while wanting to make friends. I did not know how to make that happen. I always had a good imagination. I had an imaginary friend as a child. As my torment in school developed, I had expanded to create an imaginary world to live and to be accepted.

These characters include Sadness, Joy, Anger, Fear, and disgust. Each of these main characters express relating physical appearances and characteristics in color, clothing, and facial expression. An article titled “The Science of ‘Inside Out’” explains, “Sadness is seen as a drag, a sluggish character that Joy literally has to drag around through Riley’s mind. In fact, studies find that sadness is associated with elevated physiological arousal, activating the body to respond to loss. And in the film, Sadness is frumpy and off-putting. More often in real life, one person’s sadness pulls other people in to comfort and help” (Keltner and Ekman 1). In other words, when people show obvious signs of sadness, bystanders are more likely to react in a comforting way. Outwardly expressing all emotions at an appropriate time will signal to the people you love that you need help dealing with these emotions. When Riley shows up to her house after running away and cries to her parents, her parent immediately reach out to her. In the same article, it is revealed, “‘Inside Out’ offers a new approach to sadness. Its central insight: Embrace sadness, let it unfold, engage patiently with a preteen’s emotional struggles. Sadness will clarify what has been lost (childhood) and move the family toward what is to be gained: the foundations of new identities, for children and parents alike”

The Psychological Review of the Movie Inside Out When looking at a Disney Pixar movie, one would not think there would be a big meaning behind the movie. However, that is completely false. The movie Inside Out is about an eleven year old girl named Riley who has her world turned upside-down when her family movies from Minnesota to San Francisco.