We Bought A Zoo Character Analysis

A stereotypical teenager consists of always being moody, defiant, and never listening to a word their parents have to say. Dylan Mee was a stereotypical teenager. In the movie, We Bought a Zoo, Dylan Mee is a fourteen-year-old boy who has recently gone through a tremendous tragedy; the loss of his mother. With this loss, comes anger and sadness and with his hormones, comes defiance and irrational decisions. After becoming expelled from school, his father, Benjamin Mee believed that the best thing to do was to move out of the city; so, they did, to a property that contained a zoo. These changes have an enormous impact on Dylan’s psychosocial and cognitive development while in his adolescent stage.

Blake is nine years old. Blake’s father would abuse him and his mother until his father was charged for having heroin on him and showing up drunk to pick up Blake from school. His mother was mainly working all hours of the day due to the father not having a job and spending the money on drugs and alcohol. Blake spent most of his time in his bedroom not wanting to come out because he is scared of the world that is out there. Blake’s dad never let him leave the house. It was school and straight home kind of situation.

Animal kingdom (2010) is an Australian movie about a seventeen-year-old boy named Josh Cody who is immersed in a world of crime during the mid-1980’s. Due to the death of his mother Josh is left with no other option then to move in with his criminal relatives. Josh’s grandmother Janine (also referred to as ‘Smurf’) welcomes Josh to live with her and her three beloved sons, Andrew (Pope), Craig and Darren. Craig is a mid level drug dealer whilst Pope and his best friend Barry Brown (Baz) are armed robbers and are training the youngest of the three, Darren, to follow in their ways. Through engaging in consistent criminal activity Andrew has captured the attention of Melbourne’s Armed Robbery Squad. This situation is then quickly escalated into an all out war, as the authorities are responsible for the death of Barry. Which according to the director, David Michod, isn’t uncommon for the time period it is set in, having the movie supposedly based off a true story. The movie focuses on the effects of growing up in a world where criminal activity is apart of daily routine. Given this, the two key theories used to explain the family’s crime rate are Sutherlands differential association theory and General Strain Theory.

To be told one cannot do something because they are the wrong gender or race should not be an issue in today’s world. However, this rather unfortunate problem is very prevalent in modern society, so much in fact, that Disney created an animated film based on the subject. In their 2016 film, Zootopia, Disney addressed this issue in the form of an allegory of a rabbit pursuing her dream career: becoming a police officer. The issue with the main character, Judy Hopps’s, dream, is she not considered the right species to be a police officer. Sharing a world with other, way larger mammals, such as bears, wolves, elephants and buffalos, many people repeatedly tell Judy she is too small or cute to become an officer. The film also offers a second character, Nick Wilde, a fox, whose story shows the difficulty of growing up under negative labels based on his species, just as many people grow up under labels based on their race.

Maddie gets appetizers, dinner, and desserts that are all in great condition. Since she did not give up she now lives in a foster home instead of on the streets. She has a bed to sleep in and food to eat. The conflict is that Maddie is homeless and she has to take care of Dylan with only the help of Q. Once they get to the foster home she does not have to help take care of Dylan anymore. “Dylan and Leo, they need you.”(147) This is trying to convince her not to just give up and leave because she feels like she is just making things worse for Dylan and Leo but everyone knows that she has helped them so much and if she leaves they will be in trouble so they are basically telling her not to give up and keep believing that good things are going to happen.

He develops thoughts that he should stay away from people, even if he enjoyed their company, he was trying to show that he was independent, but when you come from a well put off family and suddenly drops all of it, it is hard to not be so reliant on people to help

After talking with each other they learn a lot about each others family background and its not very nice for most of them. Bender is the only one with physically abusive parents, but the other kids parents don’t understand their kids and try to force them into things that they don’t want to do. Claire's parents are divorced and pretty much use Claire to get back at each other, she doesn’t feel loved or appreciated by her parents at all. This is why she looks to her peers for constant acceptance and approval, by being in with the "populars" at school. Allison has parents who completely ignore her, nothing she does can get their attention. She also has no friend group. This leaves her at detention on a Saturday not because she did something wrong but because she want to be somewhere were she feels she fits in, just wanting to be heard by someone. Benders parents, as mentioned before, abused him, his father even burnt his arm with a cigar. His parents simply don't like him, they reject him and constantly argue to create a very hostile home environment for him. This can be a reason for why he acts out so much in school and doesn't respect adults orders. Andrews father wouldn’t tolerate losers, so he held him at a very high standard when in came to sports, always pushing his limits. Andrew has accepted this and is currently doing a sport he hates just because his father want him wrestling. This just shows how much parents can influence a teenagers

Teenagers can have turbulent lives and can make life altering decisions. Andy’s relationship with his psychologist helps the reader understand what he, for all intents and purposes, is going through in a precise way. He made a bad decision by deciding it really was, despite his motives, okay to drink and drive. It was later suggested that he should talk to the psychologist because he felt it was a way to escape the realities that his parents’ were too hard on him. In the novel Tears of a Tiger, there is also some positives about his parents’ in that they raised him to care about others and the guilt he felt was sort of more than just what his, which is very significant. In the end of the novel his everything in his life became too much and he up committing suicide. These decisions were particularly a direct result of his parents’ treatment of him. Throughout the novel, Andy's family's issues have changed him as a person and made him make life altering decisions that changed the outcome of the story.

The Zookeepers wife, directed by Niki Caro ( book written by Diane Ackerman) , is a true war story based on a historic event situated in Poland, 1939. This heartwarming plot revolves around two owners (Dr. Jan Zabinski and wife Antonina) of a local zoo which soon becomes the home of hundred of Jewish citizens hidden and withheld beneath Jan and Antonia´s home in World War 2.

A psychologist at a New York City Youth Home concluded “…Lee has to be seen as an emotionally, quite disturbed youngster who suffers under the impact of really existing emotional isolation and deprivation, lack of affection, absence of family life and rejection by a self involved and conflicted mother.”

In the award-winning film We Bought a Zoo, directed by Cameron Crowe, Rosie Mee takes life as it is, and faces it with an adorably bright smile. Early on in the story, Benjamin Mee has a moment of self doubt and asks his 7 year old daughter if he is doing anything right as a parent. Trying to stay on the brightside, Rosie tells him “You’re handsomer than the other dads. Lots of them don’t have hair, so that’s good.” (Crowe, x:xx) Rosie wants to be honest, but Rosie also doesn’t want to hurt his feelings. So, she maturely chooses to find some sort of good. Rosie remains optimistic and uplifting, even through the family’s hardest time. Later on in the film, the Mee family faces another challenge; they don’t have enough money to fix their already

Out of frustration and anger, Jim attacks his father because he cannot get a direct and respected answer from his father. Jim needs guidance from his family because he does not want to be a chicken, a man who cannot face the other teens with honor. However, Jim receives no guidance from his family, and this is why Jim acts as a rebel without a cause. The destruction of a stable family expresses the issues that amount for teenagers and the continued pressure they face. Without the proper guidance from his family, Jim cannot be lead in the proper direction or feel that he has a true cause. He represents all teenagers that face distraught in their families lives. Reconciliation of the family only occurs at the end when Jim is near death and his parents realize their mistakes. His mother realizes her son is not perfect and that she cannot condone his existence. He needs guidance from his family to lead him through difficult things like teen pressure. As for his father, Jim receives the understanding that he did everything a man could do to save the life of Plato. Furthermore, Jim’s father assures his son that he can depend on him, that he will stand up with his

The Andersen family Bill, Jill, and Riley from Pixar’s film, Inside Out, was used as the subjects for a systemic assessment of child and family relationships. The author selected this film because it 's centered on an adolescent who has to deal with significant developmental and emotional changes occurring in her life that are brought on by a move to a new state. The move forces the character, Riley to leave behind everything that she has ever known and loved, like her best friend Meg and her hockey team, and travel to a far away unknown place. This causes an emotional as well as developmental change in Riley. The author is able to empathize with the character due to her own childhood experiences as an Army brat and having to frequently move, leaving friends behind, and as a parent in the military who had to frequently move her own children. She has first hand experience with the emotions an adolescent goes through as well as those of a parent who has to deal not only their own emotions, but with those of their child.

In the heart warming movie, We Bought a Zoo, directed by Cameron Crowe, Benjamin Mee goes through life trying to fix every problem, big or small, he happens to stumble upon. First of all, Benjamin wants to move to a different house in hopes of fixing the issues his family is having due to his wife’s passing. In fact, Benjamin tells Rosie and his real estate agent, “We just want new. We want new… New everything, new opportunities, new schools, just new.” (Crowe, x:xx) Benjamin is trying desperately to move on from the hurt he and his kids felt when their wife and mother died. He thinks that not only his, but also his son’s and daughter’s problems will be resolved simply by moving to a new home. Consequently, Benjamin tries to repair things

The film Zootopia, written and directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, follows the life of a small, yet spirited rabbit as she endures the trials angst of pursuing a profession as a big- city police officer. The city of Zootopia is a lively, thriving metropolis where Judy Hopps, the story’s protagonist, bravely embarks on her dream of pursuing a career in law enforcement. The writers employ a buoyant, kid-friendly storyline to comment on a myriad of social injustices and inequalities abounding in modern-day society. Feminist literary criticism utilizes feminist ethic and ideology to analyze the way in which male supremacy permeates the language and themes ingrained within literature. It allows readers to observe literature from a renewed, unorthodox perspective, and therefore extends the spectrum of accepted ideas and convictions. Zootopia is wrought with commentary on the pervasive presence of female oppression in the workforce. Oft beleaguered Judy Hopps combats disrespect and prejudice from her colleagues, condescension from her family and community, and gender bigotry that requires her to continuously prove herself as both a legitimate and qualified officer.