Rain Man Character Analysis

Author talks about George Finn, who can calculate calendar. He can tell you instantly what day of the week in a particular date from the past or future. He can also calculate difficult mathematical problems and also remembering the weather for days and years past. George Finn and his identical twins probably the most documented and accurate at calculating the calendar. They started studying almanac that contained a printed perpetual calendar in their early age. Author also talks about the Kim “The Real Rain Man” whose memory is magnificent. He had knowledge of encyclopedia of American history, sports, movies, geography, literature, and classical music. He can read and memorized two books at the same time using left eye and right eye. Although

We should particularly know that all the autistic doesn’t have savant syndrome and all savant people are not autistic. In the movie, Rain Man Raymond Babbitt was autistic as well as savant. He has characteristic like obsession with sameness, odd behaviors, stereotyped mannerisms, avoidance of affection, unique use of language, endless repetition but at the mean time he has savant skills such as memorization, lighting calculating and calendar calculating as well. Dustin Hoffman role as Raymond Babbitt in Rain Man was magnificent, and he got a chance to study and learn from Kim Peek, one another young man who was autistic and Joseph Sullivan. Dustin Hoffman role was accurate and close to the autistic and savant syndrome. What this movie trying to tell us is that autism is biological not psychological. People with savant and autistic are more active if they were socialize. It helps them to interact and co-operate much better. Rain Man movie capture the wonder and essence of autism and savant

Acquired savant syndromes are the instance in which dormant savant skills emerge, sometimes at a prodigious level after the brain injury. Author tells us about the young boy who had traumatic brain injury and he suddenly perform calendar calculation and remember the weather. Also one elderly woman, who never painted in her whole life, becomes prodigious artist after she start-having dementia. There is eight year-old boy start calendar calculating after a left hemispherectomy for intractable seizures. There is few more case where eight-year-old boy got bullet wound to the left-brain led to motor paralysis on the right side causing deafness and muteness, but began showing exceptional calendar calculating ability after a left