Reaction The Film And Your Name Is Jonah Essay

I watched the film And Your Name is Jonah. My initial reaction to this movie in the blood line was frustration. This boy was clearly not meant to be in a mental hospital for the mentally challenged. He had the full capabilities of a normal child and it was not so hard to see. I dont look how a child of his capabilities could be misdiagnosed as having mental problems when clearly the only specific he had was not hearing. It makes me so frustrate because a child who obviously had so much to say was trapped in his body without any way of expressing himself.As the movie continues, his p bents find out that he is deaf. His misdiagnosis had him in a mental institution which makes me question if this foreshadows or depicts how deaf state were treated before they are diagnosed. As if they were treated as if they were impaired. It feels like a violation and offensive to anyone that is deaf. I also felt controversial about the views of deaf people from ignorant hearing people and how ASL w as frowned upon. ASL is a form of dialogue. How else would deaf people communicate when the English language is taught to us from birth? Individuals who were born deaf cannot catch the English language like a hearing person. If sign language is so frowned upon how else would a born deaf person understand what is going on in the world. Jonahs parents farther along in the movie decided to get him hearing aids, but that only made the noise louder and it wasnt clear to what was being said still. The doctors even recommended lip reading because sign language was frowned upon.Even speech therapy failed. With all these signs of defeat, I felt very frustrated with Jonahs parents. Sign Language is the obvious answer. If your child cannot communicate with you and clearly sign language is the best option then learn and larn your child. It was the obvious choice that would help better communicate a parent with their child. If ASL was taught sooner to Jonah there wouldnt have been situations in the movie where communication was essential. For sample, when Jonah was being yelled at from a car to get out of the road. He could hear led to him falling off his bike. Another example is when Jonah couldnt understand that Spiderman was a good guy. He ended up putting his brothers Spiderman in the oven to get unfreeze of him. Miscommunication between Jonah and his brother resulted in this. Another example is when Jonahs grandfather gets a heart attack and died. Jonah didnt understand and searched for him after the funeral because no one could explain to him what was going on. Finally, when Jonah got lost and was taken to a hospital by a police officerthe doctors and nurses suasion he was dangerous and crazy. Another example of miscommunication.