"Tuesday 's with Morrie" and Developmental Theories The movie "Tuesday 's with Morrie" opens one 's eye to the reality of the developmental psychology theories by Erikson, Marcia, and Kubler-Ross. In the movie you fallow the perspectives of Mitch and Morrie the two main characters. These characters experience multiple stages of each of these theories. Erikson 's theory and its later stages, which start at young adulthood, were very prominent in the movie "Tuesday 's with Morrie". Erikson 's theory "proposed a lifespan model of development, taking in five stages up to the age of 18 years and three further stages beyond, well into adulthood" (McLeod, 2008,2013). Due to Mitch not knowing Morrie until he was in college, Mitch had been already
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In Kubler-Ross 's theory, we experience the five stages of dying through Morrie. We start at the beginning of the movie in 1994 when Morrie is 77 and is in denial thinking nothing is wrong with him and that it is normal for him to be out of breath and having trouble with movement in his legs. Then once he cannot move his leg of the gas pedal to stop his car from crashing which leads him to panic, which leads to the second stage of anger. Around this time is when he was diagnosed with ALS, which was his death sentence. At this point he is bargaining how much longer he has to live and is wondering why me. As Morrie 's ALS proceeds to get worse, he is strong during the day, but the pain consumes his body which leaves him in a depressive state. Then towards the end of his time a live he accepts that he is going to die and that is best for him and the ones around him. For Kubler-Ross 's theory, she "listened to the dying, and their narratives {which} were the foundation for her theory about grief 's stages" just like how Mitch did with Morrie
In Kubler-Ross 's theory, we experience the five stages of dying through Morrie. We start at the beginning of the movie in 1994 when Morrie is 77 and is in denial thinking nothing is wrong with him and that it is normal for him to be out of breath and having trouble with movement in his legs. Then once he cannot move his leg of the gas pedal to stop his car from crashing which leads him to panic, which leads to the second stage of anger. Around this time is when he was diagnosed with ALS, which was his death sentence. At this point he is bargaining how much longer he has to live and is wondering why me. As Morrie 's ALS proceeds to get worse, he is strong during the day, but the pain consumes his body which leaves him in a depressive state. Then towards the end of his time a live he accepts that he is going to die and that is best for him and the ones around him. For Kubler-Ross 's theory, she "listened to the dying, and their narratives {which} were the foundation for her theory about grief 's stages" just like how Mitch did with Morrie