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Models Of Relational Development In The Movie Mr Fredrickson

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6. During the film Mr. Fredrickson shows numerous models of relational development and maintenance on coming together. These were displayed by initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding. The first stage Mr. Fredrickson goes through is initiating with Russell, this happens when Russell shows up on his door step to ask if he could assist him, so he can earn his wilderness explore badge. Mr. Fredrickson says, “No”, but Russell insists on finishing his speech. At this stage, Mr. Frederickson rolls his eyes and is not very friendly with Russell, ensuring this interaction will not go anywhere. Russell being a child does not know this and is still friendly towards Mr. Fredrickson trying to become his friend. Alder, Rolls, & Proctor ll (2015) explain shy people usually have a harder time during the intimating stage because they don’t like the face-to-face interactions. As seen at the beginning of the movie a young Mr. Frederickson is a very shy child who doesn’t talk much, so this could be a factor in why he doesn’t want to talk to Russell. Alder, Rolls, & Proctor ll (2015) describes experimenting as people trying …show more content…

This is shown when Mr. Frederickson goes to save Russell, Dug, and Kevin. Mr. Frederickson seems to have courage like Russell and puts on Russell’s wilderness explorer sash and is off to save everyone. He then fights Charles Muntz to help his friends, which is what Russell would do in this situation, he is selfless, and doesn’t seem to care, as long as Kevin is safe. This is how Russell feels when he takes off on the balloons, he doesn’t care if he was going to get hurt, he cares about Kevin. Mr. Frederickson also seems like he has a bigger heart just like Russell. He demonstrates this through taking on tough challenges at his age to save his friends and would do anything for them, just as Russell has shown through out the

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