According to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, “One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood” (Values, n.d.). The feeling of being understood and to understand in a friendship can help adolescents come to grow in their psychological development. During the stages of adolescent life, there are a lot of things that an individual goes through in their time of trying to figure out who they are and what they are going to be doing. While doing this, the most important thing that a young adolescent will need is a good strong friendship that will be helping root them in life. Friendship can help an adolescent teenager learn about their moral development, as well learning about their self. In the movie Holes (Medavoy
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Identity can best be described as an overall sense of who one is. It is seen that Stanley gives up a lot to help Zero. Stanley gains the self-confidence to ignore what others think, so he gives up the friendship from the majority of the kids in order to form a lasting friendship with Zero. Because he was able to find his identity he is able to make sacrifices in order to protect his friend. This shows that Stanley feels comfortable with who he is and knows what all he is willing to do for Zero. According to the theorist Erik Erikson “adolescence is a critical period in the lifelong process of forming and identity as a person” (Sigelman & Rider, 2015, p. 343). Stanley is able to figure out who he is, so he knows where he fits in and with who he fits in with. He went to Camp Green Lake in order to mold himself into a young man by doing physical labor to shape his life. By the time he was leaving the camp, he was physically more fit, as well as socially and psychologically more fit. He got to the point of knowing where he fits in in society; also finding out who his friends are. This is a form of finding out about a person’s sense of identity, Stanley learns that when he finds his true friends that they will be there no matter what, and that they are the ones who you will do anything
Identity can best be described as an overall sense of who one is. It is seen that Stanley gives up a lot to help Zero. Stanley gains the self-confidence to ignore what others think, so he gives up the friendship from the majority of the kids in order to form a lasting friendship with Zero. Because he was able to find his identity he is able to make sacrifices in order to protect his friend. This shows that Stanley feels comfortable with who he is and knows what all he is willing to do for Zero. According to the theorist Erik Erikson “adolescence is a critical period in the lifelong process of forming and identity as a person” (Sigelman & Rider, 2015, p. 343). Stanley is able to figure out who he is, so he knows where he fits in and with who he fits in with. He went to Camp Green Lake in order to mold himself into a young man by doing physical labor to shape his life. By the time he was leaving the camp, he was physically more fit, as well as socially and psychologically more fit. He got to the point of knowing where he fits in in society; also finding out who his friends are. This is a form of finding out about a person’s sense of identity, Stanley learns that when he finds his true friends that they will be there no matter what, and that they are the ones who you will do anything