The emotion Anger, in Headquarters put the idea of running away into Riley’s head. In this particular scene, Riley is planning to take a bus back to Minnesota and almost goes through with the plan. “In fact, a recent study found that people who experience “emodiversity” have a better mental health. The authors of this study suggest that feeling a variety of specific emotions may give a person more detailed information about a particular situation, thus resulting in better behavioral choices--and potentially greater happiness” (Marsh and Zakrzewski, 3/12/16). For example, Riley finally allowed herself to feel the Sadness she had been suppressing. Not only was Sadness what Riley felt but also Fear and Anger about her plan to run away from home so Riley decided to not go through with the plan and stopped the bus. Allowing herself to finally feel all of the emotions was overwhelming for Riley, her parents were worried about her whereabouts but seeing how sad Riley was they comforted her. In the ending scene, it portrays the new Headquarters, since Riley was developing so is Headquarters. The new Headquarters show that Riley can experience more than one emotion at a time as can …show more content…
The movie teaches all viewers about the importance of each emotion and the importance of expressing every emotion so that children of the ages in middle childhood can fully develop. Suppressing emotions can lead to bad behavioral choices and it also is not healthy for anyone to suppress any emotions even if doing so will affect others. Although, it is necessary to be cautious of others feelings, like Riley was with her father 's stress, it is important to be aware of one’s own emotions. Not only is suppressing emotions but not recognizing the importance of each emotion can cause an imbalance in the flow of a person 's emotions. Only when a person chooses to recognize the importance of emotions and expressing emotions does the balance return and the ability to further develop into middle childhood