A Lion In The House Analysis

A Lion in the House Response Paper
1. While watching the film A Lion in the House, you follow along on five different kids journeys as they fight, some to their death, against different types of life-threatening diseases. Not only are the kids trying to fight their respective illnesses, they are also trying to juggle worried families, deal with doctors and new procedures, and continue to work on their development. This can cause a toll on the kids, which can be seen to an extent throughout the film. What is clearly seen, however, is every child going through psychological changes. The most common emotion seen in all of the kids is anger. Some of the kids don’t understand why it’s happening to them and are angry about it. All of the kids seem to briefly go in and out of the depression state but none seem to remain in the state for an extreme amount of time. Bargaining is the only Kubler-Ross term that I felt …show more content…
There are many things I will take away after watching A Lion in the House, so narrowing down my list to just five is rather difficult. First, it appeared that children seem to have the most unnecessary suffering, which stems from the parents’ choices regarding treatment. Second, you can see with the five different families how each family, let alone each person, copes in their own way with the death of a child or adolescent. Third, within the film you can see all of the parents struggling with the treatments, with most families having a hard time with stepping back and not continuing with treatment. Fourth, the doctors have to remind themselves to sometimes be the bad guy to the patients/parents because they have to be both the patients best friend and best advocate, with Al not going on his camping trip being an example. And lastly, I never knew that children who receive chemotherapy and radiation have a higher risk for cognitive decline, which looking back on now makes sense since these little kids are being exposed to some pretty nasty drugs and