Wild Child Project

The picture does not really show my 'art piece' very well, but i'm bringing it to school so you will be able to see it better.

For Language  (the area with all the letters) I used two pictures from the movie and block letters to express the different ways Dr. Itard tried to teach Victor Language. One picture is of him moving around the wooden blocks. I thought that this was extremely important in his learning because it was helping him to recognize letters and their placement. I used the wooden blocks to further show this. The wooden blocks are also representitive of the block letters 'L-A-I-T' which he connected to milk, or the reciving of milk. (i just didn't have those letters so i put random ones.)

For perception i put a picture of scissors over a drawing of scissors, to symbolize the matching game Dr. Itard played with Victor. This helped victor to start seeing the world instead of just viewing it. He was not connecting things together through this simple mathing game. I also have a picture of Victor next to a candle to symbolize when Dr Itard said different letters into the flame of a candle, helping Victor to learn and try and match what Dr. Itard was doing. However this needed perception becuase Victor had to be able to connect the moving flame to Dr. Itards voice, which was what he was trying to accomplish.

For emotion I have a pciture of a blind fold with tears comming out at the bottom to symbolize when he cried for the first time. This was showing that he was able to express emotion and understand Dr. Itards harsh tone, and mabey even his words. This was able to happen becuase Dr. Itard always spoke to him, even though he knew at first that he could not understand him. However, Victor was able to pick up tone, and learn emotion through this.

For Reason i put it in gold becuase i felt like it was one of the bigger acomplishments Dr. Itard wanted to achive. I put a picture of a broken bowl then an arrow to a fine bowl to symoblize when Victor felt sorry for breaking the bowl and brought his own, showing some development to reason. I also put a picture of a closet to symbolize the time when Dr. Itard put Victor in the closet unjustly and he reacted to it. Showing that hewas learing right from wrong, and justice.

In order to show why Dr. Itard did this (the red section) i put an image of cavemen evolving into humans and then a person saying hello to symbolize the evolution of language. I then put a blank slate and an open brain to symbolize the 'blank slate'theroy and chompsky's idea of language development.