Charles Foster Kane's Childhood Trauma
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Word Count: 1184
Charles Foster Kane’s Childhood Trauma
No matter what, I believe everyone is affected to some degree by the environment they started out in as a child. Fortunately for me, I was brought up by a loving, supporting, and caring family. My strongest influence, my grandma, reflected an exemplary image of selflessness that I was blessed to witness everyday of my childhood. It wasn’t until I was older that I truly recognized the degree to which my grandmother’s presence in my life affected my decisions. When I was a junior in high school, and going through some hard times, my grandma was the single most influential person in keeping me in the right path and teaching me to be strong in the process. To this day, I live by her example, and she’s a great one to do so by. I love others, help anywhere I can, and continue to be strong while striving towards my goals, to make her and myself proud. To reinforce by belief; we’re all shaped by the people and memories that formed as early as our minds could start storing them. I was blessed with happy memories, and can acknowledge that every day. Some people however, may have gotten their start with memories that are traumatic to one’s growing and beliefs. Even if they are able to live past the experience, and grow from it, there’s no doubt that their genesis made some sort of influence on their development. In Orson Welles’s fictional film, Citizen Kane, the main character, Charles Foster Kane, starts off in a humble home with his mother and father. In result of coming into a small fortune, his parents make the decision to send Charles off to live with a wealthy Wall-Street tycoon named Walter Parks Thature whom he did not take well to, resulting in a life-altering influence on the young Charles’s psychological well-being and yearning for the simplicity in parental love. There was a subtle line spoken by Charles’s mother in a flashback of the moment he was signed over to Mr. Thatcher. Upon the
Word Count: 1184
Charles Foster Kane’s Childhood Trauma
No matter what, I believe everyone is affected to some degree by the environment they started out in as a child. Fortunately for me, I was brought up by a loving, supporting, and caring family. My strongest influence, my grandma, reflected an exemplary image of selflessness that I was blessed to witness everyday of my childhood. It wasn’t until I was older that I truly recognized the degree to which my grandmother’s presence in my life affected my decisions. When I was a junior in high school, and going through some hard times, my grandma was the single most influential person in keeping me in the right path and teaching me to be strong in the process. To this day, I live by her example, and she’s a great one to do so by. I love others, help anywhere I can, and continue to be strong while striving towards my goals, to make her and myself proud. To reinforce by belief; we’re all shaped by the people and memories that formed as early as our minds could start storing them. I was blessed with happy memories, and can acknowledge that every day. Some people however, may have gotten their start with memories that are traumatic to one’s growing and beliefs. Even if they are able to live past the experience, and grow from it, there’s no doubt that their genesis made some sort of influence on their development. In Orson Welles’s fictional film, Citizen Kane, the main character, Charles Foster Kane, starts off in a humble home with his mother and father. In result of coming into a small fortune, his parents make the decision to send Charles off to live with a wealthy Wall-Street tycoon named Walter Parks Thature whom he did not take well to, resulting in a life-altering influence on the young Charles’s psychological well-being and yearning for the simplicity in parental love. There was a subtle line spoken by Charles’s mother in a flashback of the moment he was signed over to Mr. Thatcher. Upon the
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