Oxana Malaya

survive on their own. Many have found refuge with animals who teach the children the basic skills required to survive in the wild. Attempts have been made to resocialize feral children like Genie and Oxana Malaya but the experiments were only successful to a certain extent. in 1957, when Genie was only 20 months old, her father, thinking she was mentally disabled, locked her in a small…

rehabilitated or put back into society but most cases are unsuccessful. Many of the boys in this book will probably suffer from PTSD when they go back home, and this may have a negative effect on the way they fit back into society as citizens. Also, social expectations of the society back home vs. the way they live on the island is very different. It could cause stress as they try to get used to going back to the social expectations back home. There are many cases of abandoned children who…

Feral Children: To Survive, to Exist You may have heard of feral children before but never knew what they were. If you have watched the movie Tarzan, then you have witnessed a feral child. There are people who say it is impossible for children to survive on their own, live in the wilderness, or be raised by animals. Other people say the idea of feral children is a conspiracy. There are many people who have never heard of feral children. Some people who have heard of feral children choose not to…

Children are special and precious to all of us and they are born to be loved to form their parents. It is going to tell the story of feral children living in our society, and the behavior of them. The word of ‘Feral’ means wild or undomesticated, which give us remind myth of Romulus and the founder of Rome and his twin brother, who was raised by a wolf and also Tarzan, who lived with animals in a wild. The feral children who were raised in the wild had a hard time to become a human. In Ukraine,…

The Exploration of Wild and Feral Children No! Wild Children are not like the kid from The Jungle Book. Wild children are children who have been separated from their families for a long period of time and raised in the wild by animals. These children adapt similar traits from the animals they were raised by and develop severe mental and physical damage. Feral children are children who have been held in captivity from the outside world by their parents or other captors in places such as a…

Lauren Cartwright Mrs. Goodwin Senior English 13 November 2017 Feral Children There have been many cases of “wild children,” this term refers a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age where they have little or no experience of human care, behavior, or, most importantly, of human language. Children that were raised by animals gain the traits of the animals. Consequently, early childhood influences are usually permanent. There are some certain characteristics…

The child tries to fit in with his environment even when in changes thus shaping his actions and decisions. Also, there have been many cases of feral children, children who have lived with animals since the beginning of their life and have learned to live like them. One feral child, Oxana Malaya was neglected by her parents and lived with dogs for years. As she grew older, she changed and adapted and learned how to live with the dogs and survive. When authorities finally found her, she ran…

notion that every human is born with the propensity to do evil; as opposed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau a philosopher and writer of the 18th century who swears it is our environment that shapes us to be good or evil. Genetic influence over traits may exist; however, the environmental factors are the real origins of our behavior. I agree with Rousseau on the nurture theory of this debate. Feral Children are a good example of Jean-Jacques theory. Feral children are children that have grown up with…

It determines wholly and completely the forms and the path along that the child will acquire ever newer personality characteristics, drawing them from the social reality as from the basic source of development, the path along which the social becomes the individual. (p. 198) The social environment molds and nurtures individual development and personality at every single phase of one’s life. Actually, children who were isolated from the social atmosphere developed unusual ways of life. History…

For example, according to the documentary ‘Wild Child: The Story of Feral Children’ there was a case about a boy named Victor, “The Wild Boy”; Genie, the girl who was left alone in isolation for 13 years; Oxana Malaya, a girl in Ukraine raised by mongrel dogs and so much…