Review Of Genie Wiley's 'Secret Of The Wild Child'
Genie: Trapped in the Lamp of Society Feb. 19, 2015
Monica Mattarollo Thurs @ 12:30
301 229 401 Ataman Avdan Imagine being raised in a world with no society, no human interaction and in complete isolation. Would you be the same person you are today? With the same habits, traits and personality? Without a nurturing factor in your childhood, it would be likely that you would be similar to Genie Wiley, a perfect example of a child raised without nurture. The main argument of “Genie (Secret of the Wild Child)” is whether or not it would be possible for her to make up the time she lost as a child and develop normally through a nurturing environment?
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“These are “instinctive drives that we are born with as part of our unconscious mind” (Elements of Sociology 2013). Because of this, she had no social experiences or interactions with anyone other than her father’s abuse and was not able to develop “Mead’s Sense of Self.” Mead argues that the self consists of an ‘I’ and a “me.” Genie had neither. She was unable to act on her own terms so if anything, she might have the slightest hint of ‘I’ when “she was beaten for making noise” (Secrets of the Wild Child 1994) because she recognized that it was wrong. She had a physical relationship with her father and there were no significant or generalized others in her life, which took away from her “me” development. Mead also created the “Developmental Sequence of Childhood,” but Genie could not pass the first “preparatory stage” which is as simple as mimicking and imitating others until she got out of her childhood home. Without nurture in her life, Genie was simply a being with no purpose or ability to change any factors around
Monica Mattarollo Thurs @ 12:30
301 229 401 Ataman Avdan Imagine being raised in a world with no society, no human interaction and in complete isolation. Would you be the same person you are today? With the same habits, traits and personality? Without a nurturing factor in your childhood, it would be likely that you would be similar to Genie Wiley, a perfect example of a child raised without nurture. The main argument of “Genie (Secret of the Wild Child)” is whether or not it would be possible for her to make up the time she lost as a child and develop normally through a nurturing environment?
Four of the “Primary Agents …show more content…
“These are “instinctive drives that we are born with as part of our unconscious mind” (Elements of Sociology 2013). Because of this, she had no social experiences or interactions with anyone other than her father’s abuse and was not able to develop “Mead’s Sense of Self.” Mead argues that the self consists of an ‘I’ and a “me.” Genie had neither. She was unable to act on her own terms so if anything, she might have the slightest hint of ‘I’ when “she was beaten for making noise” (Secrets of the Wild Child 1994) because she recognized that it was wrong. She had a physical relationship with her father and there were no significant or generalized others in her life, which took away from her “me” development. Mead also created the “Developmental Sequence of Childhood,” but Genie could not pass the first “preparatory stage” which is as simple as mimicking and imitating others until she got out of her childhood home. Without nurture in her life, Genie was simply a being with no purpose or ability to change any factors around