Essay on Unemotional Teenage Pregnancy in "Juno"

     Plato once said, "We behold beauty in the eye of the mind...." What some people consider beauty others may not. From the actresses that are shown on television, movies, models that are in magazines, and the pop stars that create hip and modern music videos, one could be under the impression that to be beautiful you must thin. Actresses such as Jennifer Aniston, Sarah Michelle Gheller, Clarista Flockheart, Courtney Cox and Debra Messing all have staring roles in their own television shows and are all extremely thin. The audiences of these shows being mostly women and adolescent girls, what kind of message about body image are they sending out?

She is happy to know she is pregnant and because of that, she said ""I'm going to have a baby." I scrutinized his face. I waited for the mouth to tilt upwards, the eyes to open wide with delight" (De Rosnay 104). She was waiting for Bertrand to accept the baby but he did not want to accept it because he found himself to be too old to raise another kid and start his life again. Julia is devastated by it, but she still carried on even if it meant being alone to do everything. She thought about the situation and realized that she will go through with it for herself. "But now I realize I wanted this child for myself." (De Rosnay 167). She accepts the fact that in order to get what she wants, she will have to make some sacrifices. " But if we start cultivating acceptance in our lives right now, we’ll likely cope with future crises in a different way and view them from a different perspective. We will accept instead or resisting." Throughout the novel it is easy to see that Julia is a perseverant person she will sacrifice anything for what she believes in or what he wants she always accepts the situations. Although it is hard to learn to accept a new life it is absolutely necessary to do so. Julia show that in multiple situations especially when she accepts to raise her two kids alone in order to not abort her second child.

Juno has lost her faith in humanity and love as her baby’s adoptive parents have split up. I really enjoyed this scene for the advice Juno’s dad shared with her when she discussed the problem she was facing; “Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.” I felt that this was a great piece of advice and that as human beings we often unfortunately try to change ourselves in order to be loved by others. I really connected with Mac MacGuff’s (Juno’s Dad) advice as I myself have tried to change in order to please people that I called my

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

Never in anybody’s time should you ever put someone else first before over yourself. Doing that just leads down a road of destruction, and then the fact that this whole conversation is about abortion they probably should just get rid of it because she could just end up alone. Jig sounds as if she has no will or fight in her so she probably shouldn’t take care of a child. The baby in this story played a huge role for its future possible parents. The couple had to make a decision that if it were the wrong one could have broken them up, or made their relationship a happy one.

Juno begins with the adolescent protagonist, sixteen year old Juno MacGuff, realizing that her one night stand with her friend and long-time crush, Paulie Bleeker, has resulted in her being pregnant. However when Juno goes to the clinic to receive the

“I could have been in college, I would have been working,” Briana said. “Nova slows me down. Sometimes I do wish I would have had an abortion, but I love Nova, I do not regret her. It’s just hard sometimes” (Maier). Briana DeJesus, a Puerto Rican teenager, was unfortunate to become pregnant at a young age, which had put a set back to all her future plans. DeJesus is a child of a single mother and has grown up in poverty. She believed that she had the love and support from her child’s biological father resulting in her keeping her child rather than terminating. As revealed, she often regrets her decision and wonders how her life would have been if she terminated her pregnancy, but she would not turn back the clock and had an abortion, as she loves her child.

The main character in the movie Juno is a 16 year old girl named Juno. She is witty, sarcastic and has a great sense of humor. Surrounded by the falling leaves of autumn, we find Juno drinking “like ten tons of Sunny D” as she decides to take three pregnancy tests to confirm her worst fear. She is pregnant. After a fateful and funny encounter with a pro-life schoolmate outside an abortion clinic, ("Fingernails? The baby already has fingernails?"), Juno decides to go through with the pregnancy. Juno breaks the news to her best friend and father of the baby Paulie Bleeker, as well as her parents. Surprisingly all parties seem very supportive of her plan to give the baby up for adoption. With the advice from her friend Leah she searches

Her boyfriend, also the father of the baby, provides false feedback on the whole situation. “I’ll go with you and I’ll stay with you all the time. They just let the air in and then it’s all perfectly natural” (642) claims the boyfriend. The boyfriends makes the procedure seem like it is no big deal, it happens all the time. These words fight against what the woman might actually want. She knows it is not right to kill an unborn child but is still worried about her boyfriend’s thoughts. She asks her boyfriend, “If I do it you won’t every worry?” (643) Obviously, her decision is influenced by her boyfriend but she still doesn’t feel right about what he says. She knows it will change their or her life forever and contemplates if the boy will still be around if she decides to keep the baby. These choices will affect their life completely but what the girl decides in the end will hopefully turn out for the best. The woman replies to her boyfriend after he asks if she felt better after their long conversation “I feel fine,” she said. There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel fine.” (644). This shows she is tired of talking about the whole situation as she realizes her boyfriend is not really listening to what she says. No one knows the outcome of the choice the couple was faced with, but just like any major decision in life, the final decision will ultimately determine how the rest of their life will

The ending of the story is rather ambiguous as it is not completely obvious what decision the two end up making. The man could have talked the girl into undergoing the procedure, or not. At one point toward the end, Jig tells him to “please please please please please please please stop talking”, and when he doesn’t she threatens to scream. This probably means that she had made up her mind, but it could be in either direction. In the end, she smiles at him, and he asks her if she feels better; she says that she feels fine. That could mean that she had made peace with the decision to abort their child or that she was proud of herself for finally standing up to him and making her choice not to abort final. Either way, making this choice is harder on her as she would be the one to undergo the operation, and she very well knows that he most likely will not stay with her if she decides to keep the child. No matter what she chooses, however, their relationship will never be the same.

Why is the model industry, creating this idea that all females have to look like this ‘doll’ to be beautiful? Society has moulded the ‘ideal’ body image to an unattainable goal fashioned by the criteria established through advertising. Advertisements are enforcing the standards of beauty to encourage our youth to believe and aspire to become this contemporary based view of what beautiful is.

Samuel, a comedian who jokes and talks about abortion even during inappropriate times, found herself pregnant that time and Plan

I chose Teen Vogues style to demean them, as magazines such as this basically tell teenagers how to act and show guides of how to do things such as “Guide to talk to your crush” therefore I used “Guide to taking care of yourself as a preggo teen”. This was done to completely ridicule the pregnant teen and also to ridicule a magazine that basically attempts to dictate how a “typical” teenager should be.

From the beginning of time, different cultures and their countless values have played an immense role in the standards that people living in various societies abide by. People are influenced momentously by the ideological beliefs of their ethos. Cultural principles are distinguishable all throughout parts of the world and are responsible for most of the actions taken, language spoken, attire worn, and even daily rituals of the different societies. Film has been a way throughout history to showcase diverse cultural ideologies and either challenge or affirm those different ideas. The movie Juno, starring Ellen Paige, is a great example of how film-making can be used to challenge traditional beliefs of American society. Juno is a film that breaks the bounds of traditional American ideologies by challenging gender related conventions and expectations and the idea that a child must grow up in the traditional nuclear household to be successful.

"Over one million teenage girls become pregnant each year. In the next 24 hours, about 3,312 girls will become pregnant. In addition, 43% of all adolescents become pregnant before the age of 20. These are incredible statistics when you consider that there are only 31 million females. The United States has the highest adolescent pregnancy rate in the developed world. As statistics show one in nine women between the ages of 15 through 19 become pregnant each year. Also, every 26 seconds a teenage girl becomes pregnant and every 56 seconds a child of a teenage mother is born."