The name ‘Genie’ was the name as well as the case title given to the scientific study of a young girl who had lived then majority of her life in complete isolation. Genie was described by researchers as “fragile and beautiful” (Garmon), unable to speak and yet endlessly curious about the world around her once freed. Researchers upon her case set out explore whether or not the effects of extreme isolation maybe reversed as well as if a human could be taught a first language after having aged out of the critical learning period. The fascination with her case was increased by the release of François Truffaut’s film L’enfant sauvage, or The Wild Child, which described the life and study of Victor, another wild child who lived almost two hundred
