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The squid and the whale, a 1986 movie was directed by Noah Baumback and shot at the park slope in Brooklyn. The movie demonstrated the epic battle that divorces are subjected to and how they normally affect the growth and development of children in the marriage. In the movie, a family is depicted as being subjected to a major crisis as a result of a divorce which results into the development of two camps, with the two children split to support the mother on one hand and the father on the other.
The story tells of the problems that a 16 year old adolescent is subjected to as a result of the divorce between their parents. This movie develops a theme of conflict and demonstrates the clashing forces between the dreams of a mother and those of a father on one end and the children on the other (Applegate & Shapiro, 2005). The movie thus depicts the …show more content…
Piaget’s sensorimotor perspective discusses the development of a child from birth to approximately two years and how a child tries to make sense of the surrounding environment. During the sensorimotor stage, a child understands and knowledge of the world is limited to his/her sensory perception and motor activities. As a child, the available sensory perceptions that he/she uses are the vision, sucking, grasping and listening to enable them learn about the external environment (Kristja´n, 2004).
Solitude presents an environment that lacks the normal environmental features such as sound, motion and human presence. Confining a child to a solitary cell or alienating him from the natural environmental features around the normal environment limits the development of a child’s sensory perceptions. The child’s vision is limited to the colors of the four walls that surrounds his/her solitary cell or room of