The Movie 'The Transformation Of Pumpkin'
Jordan Meisles
Waggoner
W170 21773
28 October 2012
The Transformation of Pumpkin
Although the movie Pumpkin is focused around Carolyn’s university struggles with her personal life, sorority life, and romantic life, Pumpkin demolishes the barricade between the stereotypes of a disabled person, and their true aptitude. Carolyn waits with her sorority one sunny day for the van full of people with various disabilities to arrive. She was assigned Pumpkin, and together she impatiently trains him in qualified Special-Olympic sports. Not until after she opens herself up to him, does she fall in love with a man who is publicly frowned upon. Pumpkin emerges from his crippling wheelchair, and progresses until he is able to fight able-bodied people. Pumpkin's writer and director, Adam Larson Broder, characterizes claims from both writers Rosemarie Garland-Thomson the author of “Looking Away Staring Back”, and Robert Bogdan the author of “The Social Construction of Freaks”. The scene that Pumpkin fights Kent, shows both putting someone with disabilities on display, as well as forcing Pumpkin into a real world situation where he isn’t interacted with as different or even pitied. Broder has Pumpkin brawl with Kent in order to show the quick staggering change as Pumpkin is transformed into a person with a seemingly normal social life, because his display in the fight …show more content…
Through the scene of Kent and Pumpkin fighting, we are able to visibly see how Pumpkin has regularities that shine through his differences. Carolyn and Pumpkin dancing together confirms Pumpkin’s voyage into society, and his growing acceptance from others. Although it is an impossible task for Pumpkin to be ‘normal’ in terms of shedding his mental disabilities, he has learned to work his way towards social
Waggoner
W170 21773
28 October 2012
The Transformation of Pumpkin
Although the movie Pumpkin is focused around Carolyn’s university struggles with her personal life, sorority life, and romantic life, Pumpkin demolishes the barricade between the stereotypes of a disabled person, and their true aptitude. Carolyn waits with her sorority one sunny day for the van full of people with various disabilities to arrive. She was assigned Pumpkin, and together she impatiently trains him in qualified Special-Olympic sports. Not until after she opens herself up to him, does she fall in love with a man who is publicly frowned upon. Pumpkin emerges from his crippling wheelchair, and progresses until he is able to fight able-bodied people. Pumpkin's writer and director, Adam Larson Broder, characterizes claims from both writers Rosemarie Garland-Thomson the author of “Looking Away Staring Back”, and Robert Bogdan the author of “The Social Construction of Freaks”. The scene that Pumpkin fights Kent, shows both putting someone with disabilities on display, as well as forcing Pumpkin into a real world situation where he isn’t interacted with as different or even pitied. Broder has Pumpkin brawl with Kent in order to show the quick staggering change as Pumpkin is transformed into a person with a seemingly normal social life, because his display in the fight …show more content…
Through the scene of Kent and Pumpkin fighting, we are able to visibly see how Pumpkin has regularities that shine through his differences. Carolyn and Pumpkin dancing together confirms Pumpkin’s voyage into society, and his growing acceptance from others. Although it is an impossible task for Pumpkin to be ‘normal’ in terms of shedding his mental disabilities, he has learned to work his way towards social