III. Family separation impacts the children’s behavior and personality.
Children suffer tremendously when there is a rupture in a family; as Amato states, “As family roles, relationships, and circumstances change children often tend to be depressed, anxious, angry, demanding and noncompliant, and experience a drop in school performance” (qtd. In Stadelman 93). Furthermore, the following scenes reflect the mother’s absence impact children’s behavior in the films reviewed.
Instructions not Included: Seven years passed. Valentin became an excellent father for Maggie. They develop an excellent parent-child relationship. But Maggie has a huge necessity of her mother. Indeed, there is a scene in a park where a woman confused Maggie with her daughter. This fact, made her sad. She said she would like to see her mother. Valentin has found a unique way to make Maggie feel loved and …show more content…
Both movies suggest that self-improvement is not worth it, if it implies mothers to be separated from children.
Both films conclude with the unity of families. In both dramas Julie and Rosario realized that the price of their accomplishments is too high. They are not worth it if it implies to sacrifice their children and being separated from them.
In Instructions not Included: Julie’s dream came to reality, she became a successful attorney in a prestigious firm in NY. But, apparently, her feelings of guilt and emptiness never went away. She experienced that something was missing and wanted to meet Maggie. Those feelings were so strong that make Julie investigate Valentin until she found him.Everything was perfect with Valentin and Maggie until Julie wanted to know Maggie. She contacted Valentin and they met at a park. Maggie was so happy and proud that she wanted everyone to meet her mommy at school. Then, Maggie realized that all the letters and stories were made up by her father and got mad of him; she also got sad and disappointed when Julie had to go back to her normal life in New
Children suffer tremendously when there is a rupture in a family; as Amato states, “As family roles, relationships, and circumstances change children often tend to be depressed, anxious, angry, demanding and noncompliant, and experience a drop in school performance” (qtd. In Stadelman 93). Furthermore, the following scenes reflect the mother’s absence impact children’s behavior in the films reviewed.
Instructions not Included: Seven years passed. Valentin became an excellent father for Maggie. They develop an excellent parent-child relationship. But Maggie has a huge necessity of her mother. Indeed, there is a scene in a park where a woman confused Maggie with her daughter. This fact, made her sad. She said she would like to see her mother. Valentin has found a unique way to make Maggie feel loved and …show more content…
Both movies suggest that self-improvement is not worth it, if it implies mothers to be separated from children.
Both films conclude with the unity of families. In both dramas Julie and Rosario realized that the price of their accomplishments is too high. They are not worth it if it implies to sacrifice their children and being separated from them.
In Instructions not Included: Julie’s dream came to reality, she became a successful attorney in a prestigious firm in NY. But, apparently, her feelings of guilt and emptiness never went away. She experienced that something was missing and wanted to meet Maggie. Those feelings were so strong that make Julie investigate Valentin until she found him.Everything was perfect with Valentin and Maggie until Julie wanted to know Maggie. She contacted Valentin and they met at a park. Maggie was so happy and proud that she wanted everyone to meet her mommy at school. Then, Maggie realized that all the letters and stories were made up by her father and got mad of him; she also got sad and disappointed when Julie had to go back to her normal life in New