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Post by AvistheCrow on May 10, 2006 20:50:09 GMT -5
Just a sort of random question to get a feel for community opinion.
Who do you think is the one person who most affected Randall? For good, bad, or sorta mundane, who was the most important or notable figure in his life?
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Post by pitbulllady on May 11, 2006 5:20:21 GMT -5
I would say the same people who usually have the most influence on someone-his parents, in this case, by their absence. I stand by my convictions that Randall has no living family members at the time of the movie, none that he knows about(or vice versa)in any case, and having observed many kids who grow up in foster homes, very few of them turn out to be normal, well-balanced individuals, emotionally.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 11, 2006 16:31:43 GMT -5
"Uh...why ask those questions if I'm writing my life story? Heh duh...hehe"
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Post by AvistheCrow on May 14, 2006 19:53:18 GMT -5
"Uh...why ask those questions if I'm writing my life story? Heh duh...hehe" Because I'm asking everyone's opinion, Randall, not just yours. C: |
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 14, 2006 19:56:19 GMT -5
"Oh...well...truth truth..."
Come on...it's interesting.
Well...definetly Sullivan, Wazowski, Waternoose, his surviving family members, adopters (if any), the caregivers, and possible friends not shown in movie.
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Post by lizardgirl on May 19, 2006 14:00:57 GMT -5
Yes, I'd definitely say his parents, but also any friends that he may or may not have had throughout his childhood. If Randall had somehow lost contact with his parents when he was young, but still had someone to support him through his childhood, then this would have effected greatly.
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 19, 2006 14:39:45 GMT -5
Well...Randall didn't have his parents.
But he did have friends that he hung on to.
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Post by pitbulllady on May 19, 2006 16:51:07 GMT -5
I don't know how many of you watch those "Channel One" news broadcasts that air in the morning in some schools, but I caught the one this morning, on which they featured the problems associated with the thousands of kids growing up in foster homes across the US. They featured interviews with teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, and of course, some foster kids, both present and adults who grew up in foster care. So much of what they said, is what I've observed, and is VERY, VERY indicative of Randall's behavior. Here are some of the typical problems:
*Foster kids are often seen as either bullies or very withdrawn in school. They learn to avoid forming friendships or other attachments, since they usually will have to move away and go live with a different family after only a few months, so they know that they will always have to leave their friends. This leads to severe emotional anxiety, so they react by either becoming angry and lashing out at those who might befriend them, or avoiding social situations completely.
*Foster kids often have to change schools frequently, and do not have time to learn things before they're shuffled off to somewhere else, where the curriculum might be on a different schedule, so they are often behind academically. Later, as adults, they may either drop out of the education system completey, OR they may try to work extra hard to compensate and prove themselves(sound familiar?).
*Because they did not have a normal social developement while growing up, former foster kids usually continue to have difficulty with relationships of any kind as adults, AND they are easily taken advantage of by unscrupulour individuals who recognize their naivte'. They tend to be cynical and skeptical of their own success.
*When former foster children DO accomplish anything or obtain anything that could have permanancy, they often will guard it in a most determined manner, since they know how easily things can be taken away from them.
So much of this reminded me of Randall: desparate to keep his job, probably the most permanent thing he's ever had, has difficulty dealing with others, easy to take advantage of, distrusting of most others, percieved as a "bully". Coupled with that fact that no one showed up to complain about Mike's "play", or even to search for him, is more evidence that Randall had no real family that he knew of while growing up, or that he was prevented from contacting them and did not live with them, but in a foster care situation, "bounced" from one care-giver to another, most of which probably saw him only as a monthly check from Social Services. He never got to settle down anywhere long enough to learn how to form friendships and long-lasting relationships, and once he DID latch onto something that he thought might actually last-his job-he was willing to do whatever it took to hold onto it.
pitbulllady
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 19, 2006 16:54:29 GMT -5
For non-believers, it's a done deal that with this, we can solid-form that Randall doesn't have parents...
"Pfft...didn't move around schools too much....never adopted....well....once....Yeah...I was adopted once and that saved me..."
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Post by pitbulllady on May 19, 2006 19:53:50 GMT -5
For non-believers, it's a done deal that with this, we can solid-form that Randall doesn't have parents... "Pfft...didn't move around schools too much....never adopted....well....once....Yeah...I was adopted once and that saved me..." "Foster kids" are the ones that DON'T get adopted. They just get shuffled from one foster home to another, which means that the people who are care-givers(and I use that term loosely, for most cases)just get PAID by the state to keep the kids in their homes, until they get tired of that kid, or the kid gets to be too much trouble, or they get one foster kid too many and have to thin the herd, at which time some of them get shuffled off to yet-another home, with yet-another bunch of strangers, who in most cases could not give a rat's rectum about the kids, just as long as they get that monthly check in the mail. Sometimes foster kids get returned to their real families, IF they have one, and some actually DO get adopted, which means now they have a permanent, and hopefully loving family and an identity, instead of a number. Most, though, will reach adulthood without ever having known a real family or a permanent home and school, and the longer they're in the foster care system, the more "difficult" they become, making adoption less and less likely. pitbulllady |
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 20, 2006 11:22:58 GMT -5
"Hmm.....I wasn't moved around too much...but I DID get moved out of a previous orphanage...."
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Post by nauticusvergil on May 20, 2006 11:23:42 GMT -5
Past days story?
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 20, 2006 11:24:30 GMT -5
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Post by nauticusvergil on May 20, 2006 11:25:07 GMT -5
Well I remember from you "School Days" story you were in an orphanage.
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Post by RandallBoggs on May 20, 2006 11:26:22 GMT -5
"Yeah I was...but before that I was in another, larger one"
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