My Left Foot. What helped shape Christy Brown into the man he bacame
Christy Brown can be described as an intelligent mind trapped inside an inferior body. The immense frustration that he is put through trying to perform the simplest tasks that we, as fully functional humans, take for granted would be enough to make most people give up, and live a life of watching television all day and being wheeled to their bedrooms. It was Christy's various attributes, along with the assistance and encouragement received from prominent figures in his life, such as Dr Cole and Mrs Brown (respectively), that brought him out of the shell that he otherwise would've hidden himself in. Even though Christy sometimes found it hard to get his feelings across to others, he was still an affectionate person. His love for Eileen was professed many times throughout the film, and he showed his feelings for a girl by painting a picture of the two of them on
a piece of paper, and writing poetry in a circle around it. In the closing scenes of My Left Foot, Mary was persistently nagged for a date after the presentation. This is also an example of Christy's stubbornness/determined nature. The intelligence he possessed was demonstrated in the plan to steal coal from a truck, and also in his mental capacity to write a book Thankfully, Christy's family saw his potential and made every effort to see that it wasn't wasted. His mother, in particular, understood him and helped him to gain his independence (e.g. she believed that it was worth her family eating porridge for 2 meals every day, so that a wheel chair could be bought for Christy). Dr Cole's work in giving him speech therapy made him much easier to understand, and therefore seem more normal to those who originally thought that he was inferior. Also, if Peter h
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