Care Perspective In The Movie 'Running On Empty'
Running Head: CARE PERSPECTIVE OF ANNIE
Jay Patel
Care Perspective of Annie Pope
RPW 110: Rhetoric and Writing and Psychology 101
Professor Patricia Morelli and Professor Daniel McGrath
13 December 2013
Throughout Running on Empty, Annie Pope was represented as the maternal caring figure. As the film progresses, she struggled to make decisions, such as giving her son Danny away to her father. As the story unravels, Annie slowly starts to doubt the decisions she makes and tries to figure out what is not best for her, but her family. She realizes that she can’t help Danny as long she drags her family along while running away from the FBI. She talks to her husband, knowing that it is up to him to decide whether …show more content…
Care perspective is the “response to others in their terms a concern for the good of others or for the alleviations of their burdens, hurt, or suffering” (Lyons, 1983, p. 33). As we see the story unfold, she begins show how she is willing to sacrifice the wholeness of the “unit” so Danny could prosper and wouldn’t have to run. In the meeting with her father, she mentioned she will go as far as turning herself in, once it is time for Harry to become independent. She grasped the idea that she was being selfish throughout the past 15 years by denying their children the life they had when they were younger. The moral problem in the care perspective is failure to attend to need (Gilligan & Attanucci, p. 80). Annie’s decision to send Danny to her parents and letting him go to college was her way to attending to his needs. She knew he needed Julliard for him to thrive in his musical …show more content…
“Moral development is the thinking that occurs as we consider right or wrong” (Myers, 2013, p. 201). From the time Annie was an adolescent to an adult, her moral stage of thinking is at the post conventional level. At this level, there is a type of thinking that your actions portray what is right. By bombing the Napalm factory she thought she would slow the production of Napalm which was recklessly used against innocent people. Since Annie was anti-war, she saw that her actions were justified according to her and the majority of the population’s belief. This is not the only part of her life where she acted on what she thought was best. She deeply thought of what she was doing to Danny as he was becoming his own person and began to show his desires. Contrary to Arthur’s beliefs, she thought it would be best to ask her father to take in Danny so he could pursue his dream of going to Julliard and keep the relationship he formed. Knowing the possible consequences of seeing her father, Annie knew it was the right decision to approach him with such a
Jay Patel
Care Perspective of Annie Pope
RPW 110: Rhetoric and Writing and Psychology 101
Professor Patricia Morelli and Professor Daniel McGrath
13 December 2013
Throughout Running on Empty, Annie Pope was represented as the maternal caring figure. As the film progresses, she struggled to make decisions, such as giving her son Danny away to her father. As the story unravels, Annie slowly starts to doubt the decisions she makes and tries to figure out what is not best for her, but her family. She realizes that she can’t help Danny as long she drags her family along while running away from the FBI. She talks to her husband, knowing that it is up to him to decide whether …show more content…
Care perspective is the “response to others in their terms a concern for the good of others or for the alleviations of their burdens, hurt, or suffering” (Lyons, 1983, p. 33). As we see the story unfold, she begins show how she is willing to sacrifice the wholeness of the “unit” so Danny could prosper and wouldn’t have to run. In the meeting with her father, she mentioned she will go as far as turning herself in, once it is time for Harry to become independent. She grasped the idea that she was being selfish throughout the past 15 years by denying their children the life they had when they were younger. The moral problem in the care perspective is failure to attend to need (Gilligan & Attanucci, p. 80). Annie’s decision to send Danny to her parents and letting him go to college was her way to attending to his needs. She knew he needed Julliard for him to thrive in his musical …show more content…
“Moral development is the thinking that occurs as we consider right or wrong” (Myers, 2013, p. 201). From the time Annie was an adolescent to an adult, her moral stage of thinking is at the post conventional level. At this level, there is a type of thinking that your actions portray what is right. By bombing the Napalm factory she thought she would slow the production of Napalm which was recklessly used against innocent people. Since Annie was anti-war, she saw that her actions were justified according to her and the majority of the population’s belief. This is not the only part of her life where she acted on what she thought was best. She deeply thought of what she was doing to Danny as he was becoming his own person and began to show his desires. Contrary to Arthur’s beliefs, she thought it would be best to ask her father to take in Danny so he could pursue his dream of going to Julliard and keep the relationship he formed. Knowing the possible consequences of seeing her father, Annie knew it was the right decision to approach him with such a