Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Benjamin Button, who was born under unusual circumstances, his mother dies of complication and his appearance freaked out his father who thought Benjamin was some sort of evil. Under extensive stress, Michael Button abandoned Benjamin at the front steps of some stranger which lead Benjamin to the hand of Queenie who successfully raised him along with other elderly in her care. Since birth, Benjamin appears old and eventually grew younger and younger through his development. Although he is travel the world and people seem love and sympathetic, met a tugboat captain who in turn gave him a job even though he doesn’t appears fit or capable doing. Eventually, the wild personality tugboat captain led to a …show more content…
As Benjamin progresses in life, he is stuck with the psyche of a young adult, his view of the world was also limited just like a child despite his appearance. But as he grew “younger,” his outlook of the world developed and synthesized. Benjamin also seemed to have undergone the several steps of human development in the same order like the normal ones only that his physical characteristics had shifted the normal sequence. Benjamin then meets a sailor and tattoo artist named Captain Mike who shows him the ropes on his small tugboat, and introduces him to an adult world of brothels and bars that lead to his adult life where he continue to travel and explore the …show more content…
Similar to toddlers, he also learned how to walk and wanted to explore the things around. Curious just like every other child, he also grew curious for the people around him. He also played with child toys. It’s funny when those people who didn’t know about his condition used to call him “grandpa” when in fact he’s still a child. I can say that he was also raised normally despite his old appearance because his development also characterized some of the themes in human development. His cognition, personality, emotional and social aspect integrated throughout his life. The elderly people whom he lived with might have been normative influences on him in the most part. He was used to interacting with old people because he lived in a nursing home for the aged. He was lucky because he was carefully taken care by Queenie, the one who raised him as her own. However, I didn’t clearly observe his interaction with other children or with his mesosystem because he rarely went out of their house. His aged appearance caused social difficulties and isolation to him, especially when he wished to interact with people of his own “age.” The way Benjamin was treated at the beginning of the movie had a great impact on his development later on. If he were exposed to a more active environment, he might have grown more vocal and lively. One of the