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Born Into Brothels Born Into Brothels: Critical Thinking Paper From the beginning of the film I thought I connected most with the shy more reserved girls, but as the documentary went more in depth with Avijit I realized I connected with him with some aspects of him family life and related to him with his love for art using his artistic ability. Avijit and I share similarities in family because I too had a mother that left my family when I was very young, I also had a father that was a drunk and was inexistent most of the time. Avijit shares a love and talent in painting and drawing, which I find refreshing considering the darkness and sadness that he lives in, his paintings are very bright and positive. I also had a hard childhood and used my love for art and artistic ability to try to forget the despair and sadness I was experiencing in my life. We are dissimilar in many ways, first I never had to work for my family to survive, Avijit handled the unnecessary burdens better than I would have as a child. Avijit also had to endure losing a mother he secretly hated and that probably left many unresolved thoughts and emotions he felt for his mother before she died. Though we share similarities the differences are incredibly drastic and make it hard to find similarities when this person has endured so much pain and suffering that I couldn’t even fathom. When faced with the lifestyle of the children’s family and the manner of their upbringing I would think that Erik Erikson would view the development of the Red Light District children as dysfunctional and potentially having long term effects on their social views and self-image. The children from Born Into Brothels could fall into one of Erikson’s four stages of psychosocial development, the Industry Versus Inferiority stage would best describe their stage of social development. This stage focuses more on the child

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