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Yaled Sanchez Professor Paula Sibley ASLl-1320 97L March 11, 2021 And Your Name is Jonah I really enjoyed watching this movie, I felt moved by the movie and even shed 1 or 2 tears. Jonah must have felt so frustrated not being able to communicate with anybody. When he started to understand and learn ASL, I felt happy for him. The scene, that I will remember the most is when he finally realized what happened to his grandfather. Because he has never had anyone he knows die, he was confused as to what happened him and no one knew how to explain it to him. Once he understood what happened to him, he was a bit sad, but at least he understood. This movie made me realize just how privileged I am to be able to hear, talk, and communicate with others. I believe this film would have a great impact on many people, as it shows the struggles of born deaf child growing up with hearing parents. Regardless of gender, race, age, etc., everyone will be able to learn about the deaf culture and their struggles. I watched this movie with my special needs little cousin, and he loved it. He even wanted to learn a little bit of ASL because he wants to know how to communicate with them in case he ever has the chance to meet a deaf person. I’m sure other kids his age would also love this movie. A sound that was presented in “And Your Name is Jonah,” is when we would hear Jonah’s point of view when he was wearing his hearing aide. Originally, when I saw a deaf person wearing a hearing aide, I thought they could hear what others are saying, just at a lower volume

than most, but now I know that that is a misconception. When he first had his hearing aids, he would make confused/disgusted faces, I wondered why he was making those faces. Then we saw his point of view, and I understood because I also made those faces. This further contributed to the movie’s message by helping with misconceptions. I also liked how we saw Jonah’s point of view of how he see’s things. For example, at his first day of speech therapy, we follow the teacher around as she introduces the other children. This made it seem as if we were actually there with Jonah. Additionally, the background music that were played made the scenes more dramatic. Though, they didn’t put background music in many scenes, the ones that did have had a more dramatic feel. For example, when his grandfather died, we hear a piano playing very deep tune. A worldview that I found interesting was Janice’s. She states that as a little girl, she was angry that people were afraid of the deaf until she realized that like them, she is afraid of the blind. She told herself that she will help spread awareness and education about the deaf and their culture. This taught me that I should not be afraid of something I am not informed about. My favorite character is definitely his mother. At times, I was angry at her when she wasn’t patient with Jonah and got mad at him when he wouldn’t understand her, but she only wanted what’s best for him. Throughout the whole movie, we can see how much she loves him and tries to help and defend him. Although, she made a mistake of forcing him to go to speech therapy, she fixes it by deciding to introduce him to other deaf people. I believe people have genuine freedom to do whatever they want. There are people who care about what others think and conform to what society thinks is correct. In contrast, there are people who don’t care what others think and do what they believe is right, even if society doesn’t agree. Like in this movie, Woody states, “All the hearing people think it’s [American Sign Language] a big controversy. But we deaf, no.”

They don’t care what the hearing think, they still sign because it’s better than forcing speech and lip reading on them. In this movie, the main character, Jonah, was misdiagnosed as mentally handicapped and put in a mental hospital for three years. After, he was allowed to go back to living with his family, which was difficult for everyone because no one knew what Jonah wanted and vice versa. To help with this, his parents put him in speech therapy, forcing him to learn lip reading and how to speak. His mother wanted him to be normal so bad, she refused to accept that he was different than others. Later, she realizes that there is nothing wrong with being normal and introduces Jonah to the deaf community, where they teach him ASL and goes to a deaf school....