child's need to be loved theme
It is illustrated that children need to be cared for by loving adults in order to be happy and grow up as well-adjusted individuals.
Examples
In tz1959e5x36 "The Bewitchin' Pool", the narrator spells out in the end that Sport and Jeb found a happy fantasy land complete with a loving aunt, because of a need for love that their quarreling and insensitive parents had left unfilled.
4 total · 1 choice · 3 major
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e2x11 | choice | Jonah's parents were too preoccupied with their social lives to provide him with the love and attention he needed. |
| ahh1x19 | major | A point of the story was that Eddie was disturbed because he had been brought up by a rather ruthless and unemphatic father. On the other hand, Bill was self-admittedly pusillanimous as his father had abandoned him at a very young age. |
| movie: Meet the Robinsons (2007) | major | The orphan boy Lewis longed to have a family, and in the end he got one. |
| tz1959e5x36 | major | The narrator spelled how Sport and Jeb found a happy fantasy land complete with a loving aunt out of a need for love that their parents had left unfilled. |