Self Consciousness In Juno And Jones

Ethan’s ignorance and hopefulness. He doesn’t fully comprehend his actions which also emphasizes his immaturity.

Most seventh graders know the principle that oil and water don 't mix. No matter how much the solution is shaken or stirred, the water will settle to the bottom and the oil will rise above to the surface. These attributes describing water and oil directly describe the relationship between Spurgeon and Ray, the two main characters in ZZ Packer 's "The Ant of the Self." Spurgeon, the "water" and intelligent son of Ray Bivens Jr., finds himself carrying the burden of supporting his self-centered, inappreciative father, the "oil," on his shoulders. Oblivious to his son 's needs as well as others in the story, Ray tramples over the true meaning of an intimate relationship and worsens or even crumbles his existing

The Novel Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey revolves around a young boy named Charlie Bucktin living in the small Australian town of Corrigan in the 1960’s. Charlie is exposed to the confronting issues of racial prejudice, injustice and moral duality. He is challenged to question right from wrong, has to come to the realization that law doesn’t always uphold justice and we as readers are positioned to understand that people are capable of holding two conflicting values and remain in confortable harmony. The ideas are portrayed through Silvey’s use of narrative conventions that are used to either challenge or reinforce our values, attitudes and beliefs on the issues explored.

Charlie Bucktin learns a great deal about himself, others, Corrigan and important lessons that will help him live a better life in Jasper Jones. In the novel, Charlie goes through some experiences that teach him some of life’s great lessons. In particular he comes to learn a great deal about trust, love, facing and overcoming fear, role models and racial prejudice.

• What are the characters’ emotions, attitudes, and behaviors? What do these indicate to the reader about the character?

Psychological egoism is the interpretation that humans are always inspired by self-interest, even in what seem to be acts of altruism. It claims that, when people choose to help others, they do so ultimately because of the personal benefits that they themselves expect to obtain, directly or indirectly, from doing so. Psychological egoism, which was widely recognized by psychologists and philosophers states that all human actions are motivated by selfish needs to benefit themselves. According to psychological egoists true altruism does not exist because the consequence of such an act leads to an increase in personal happiness. However, Joel Feinberg does not agree with that theory and in his essay he disagreed with the thesis that altruism

George Mead and W.E.B Du Bois were both prominent American sociologists of the 20th century. Mead is known as one of the founders of social psychology and symbolic interactionism. Du Bois was also a historian, civil rights activist, author, writer, and editor. Both of them became renowned pragmatists, after years of writing articles, reviews, essays and books on philosophical topics. One of Mead’s popular theories is his theory on the social construction of self. One of Du Bois’s popular theories’ is one about double consciousness. Although, racism was the main target of Du Bois's’ polemics, both of their ideas of “self” are roughly the same. Their ideas share a common ground.

Likewise, the relationship that Juno has with her best friend, Pualie Bleeker, is confusing to say the least. Although Juno is having Bleeker’s baby, Juno is clearly unsure about the relationship with Bleeker. At one point she acts as if she does not want to define the relationship with Bleeker as romantic, but she finds herself being jealous when Bleeker tells her that he asked another girl out for prom. Evidently, this relationship between Juno and Bleeker is producing anxiety, and Juno getting emotionally close to Mark subsequently reduced the anxiety. Although the dyad relationship between Juno and Bleeker become stabilized by the process of triangling, Juno realizes that breaking the marriage between Mark and Vanessa is not what Juno ever wanted. Oddly, the relationship between Juno and Bleeker find its strength through the event of delivering a baby, this is one way in which this film’s characters do not support a key principle of Bowen Theory.

The Ego Centric Problem states that the knowledge we have gained over the period of our lives in entrenched so deep that it prevents us from learning new things. Descartes states that “if we can only be certain of the contents of our consciousness, then how are we ever to gain knowledge of the world that lies beyond our minds. This brings up a good point, if we already have knowledge, does that knowledge have any influence on us that would hinder us to learn new things.

It is in these actions that the character’s traits are established. It is in this that we, the readers, get to “see” what kind of character thee people are: friendly, sad, nosey, love-struck, adventurous, etc. When we discuss characters in literature, poetry, and even film, we often describe them in terms of their character traits, descriptive adjectives that define the specific qualities of the character. The author/ poet/ director may present this directly, but often times, they show us this in action. Our job as readers/ viewers is to draw conclusions about the character’s traits (infer them). Below is a list of ways we can determine the traits of the character we are studying:

The movie, The DUFF, is a typical high school movie that revolves around a senior girl named Bianca who at the beginning of the movie is completely contented with who she really was. She had two very attractive and popular best friends who were Jess and Casey. The story all began when Madison, aka the mean popular girl who seeks for attention at school invited them to a night party at her house. Well at first, Bianca doesn’t want to come. As she heard that her crush Toby will be there; she was forced to come. During the party, Wesley, who is her childhood friend whom she doesn’t like that much come to talk to her. It was a normal conversation until he suddenly called her the “Duff” which is the abbreviated term for Designated Ugly Fat Friend. After that incident, Bianca’s life was not the same as it was before. She tried to sought for a change and asked Wes’ help for her to transform from a Duff into somebody that actually fit in among the crowd. After going through lots of changes, she was then able to realize things that she never thought of before. At the end, she was able to understand that being a Duff is not actually a bad thing because in reality, we are always going to be somebody’s duff. This movie analysis paper will define, describe and make connections between the three important concepts including self-concept, perception, and self-esteem in relation to the movie, The DUFF.

Jones Very was an American Transcendentalist poet and Christian mystic. He was born in August 28, 1813, in Salem, Massachusetts to a long line of seafarers, his father a ship's captain. Very was a friend of Emerson and Hawthorne and is best known for his intensely devout religious sonnets describing the nature of the "will-less existence" which he attempted to live and publicize in the late 1830s.

     The descriptive claim made by Psychological Egoists is that humans, by nature, are motivated only by self-interest. Any act, no matter how altruistic it may seem on the outside is actually only a disguise for a selfish desire such as recognition, avoiding guilt, reward or sense of personal ‘goodness’ or morality. For example, Mother Teresa is just using the poor for her own long-term spiritual gain. Being a universal claim, it could falter with a single counterexample. And being that I believe this claim to be bunk I will tell you why!

Initially I noticed that Juno was likely attracted to Paulie because of the propinquity effect. The propinquity effect is when two people see each other more because of proximity to each other and thus like each other more. As two individuals increasingly interact and have constant contact with each other, they begin to enjoy each others company more and more. The more often the two individuals see each other, the more experiences they will share together and the more similar they will become. Of course, these two individuals must like each other to some extent initially. Thus, this additionally adds the similarity effect, which is when two people are attracted to those with similar personalities and qualities. Juno lives just a few houses down from Paulie, they go to the same school, and have some classes together. They grew up together and have been close friends throughout their lives. They both play the guitar and jam together, study together, and even have similar bedrooms. Juno and Paulie are perfect examples of the propinquity effect and the similarity effect.

According to the psychoanalytic perspective, people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations. How these conflicts are resolved determines the person’s ability to learn, to get along with others, and cope with anxiety. Erik Erikson has been a very influential contributor to the psychoanalytic perspective (Berk, 2010). Erikson proposed that an individual moves through a series of stages which resolve in either positive or negative outcomes and determine healthy or maladaptive behavior. (Berk, 2010).