Middle Childhood Development In Rosemary Telesco's Life

The 2005 movie, Little Manhattan, features a ten year old boy named Gabe who begins to fall in love with an eleven year old girl named Rosemary Telesco while living in the ever complicated New York City. In the beginning of the movie, Gabe describes the differences between girls and boys and the “iron wall” that is between that makes it difficult for boys and girls to be close friends at that age. From maturity levels, physical attributes,social and mental development; this stage in Gabe’s life is increasingly difficult for him to maneuver. While he begins to discover that the first love of his life will become Rosemary Telesco, he has to navigate the difficult circumstance of his parents’ divorce while his love life is just beginning to blossom. Gabe’s father sleeps on the couch every night, and every item in the fridge is labelled with a name written across the front. The situation of divorce that Gabe is dealing with, helps him decipher what qualities and positive attributes he should use for his parents’ so that he would be able to become an emotionally stable adult. Gabe, like many middle aged adolescence, it trying to find himself while pushing …show more content…
Most of the scenes throughout the movie are extremely accurate towards the trials and tribulations that many children throughout middle childhood development phase. This movie has helped me realize that the emotions and physical attributes that I had as a child were relatively normal and consistent like many of my peers. Middle childhood is a difficult stage in life for any person, due to the many changes that are happening with and within the body. This movie made me realize that I am happy to be out of the middle childhood stage of life, but it also reminded me about the simpler times of development when life was practically carefree and