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Turning Red is set in Toronto, Canada in 2002. This story centers a young girl named Mei Lee, the daughter of Ming Lee and her friends Priya Mangal and Miriam Mendelsohn; who are going through their teenage years and want to attend a boyband concert 4*Town, but Mei's family gene is holding her back as she can't control her emotions yet.

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Mei Lee is a thirteen year old Chinese- Canadian girl that lives in Toronto, Canada. She and her mother Ming Lee take care of the family's temple. Mei hides her personal interests from her mother as she is protective of Mei. Mei wants to go to the boyband 4*Town concert but hides it from her mother. Then, one night Mei has a dream of red pandas and wakes up as one. She hides it from her parents at first and realizes she transform when she's feeling strong emotions. Ming soon finds out Mei's secret when she embarrasses her at school. Ming and Mei's father Jin explains the history behind her transformation and how every female family member experiences it. The family now seals the red panda in a Talisman by a ritual on the night of the Red Moon as it isn't safe for them to transform in the modern day. Mei's friends Priya, Miriam, and Abby find out about her transformation and adore it. Eventually Ming allows Mei to go back to her normal life, but she can't attend 4*Town's upcoming concert. The girl's secretly raise money for the tickets while they are at school, using the popularity of Mei's red panda form. They've raised enough money for three people and for the last ticket, Mei attends Tyler's birthday party as the red panda. But, Mei gets upset when she finds out that 4*Town concert is the same night as her ritual and gets more enraged as Tyler insults her family, and scares the other children. Ming finds out about her outrage and accuses her friends of making her the way she is and Mei fails to defend them. Her grandmother Wu and aunties visit to assist with the ritual not wanted by Ming. Jin (her father) finds the videos of Mei in her red panda form and tells her not be ashamed of this side of her. The night of Mei's ritual she decides to keep her panda form and goes to the 4*Town concert. At the concert her friends forgive her and they find that Tyler is also a fan of the group. However, when Mei left the ritual Ming became enraged and transformed into her larger version the red panda and interrupts the concert to take Mei by force. Mei and Ming fight about Mei's independence and Mei knocks her mom unconscious. Wu and the aunts break their talismans to help Ming return to her human form by performing a ritual. Mei's friends and 4*Town join in singing to complete the ritual, sending all the Lee family into the astral plane. While in the astral plane Mei settles her differences with her mother while also settling Ming and Wu's bond. The aunties, Ming, and Wu conceal their pandas while Mei keeps hers. Ming accepts this and as the family raises money to repair the skydome, and their relationship has improved, as Mei balances her temple duties as well as the temple is also an attraction to her red panda form, where Mei and her friends along with Tyler spend time.

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Erikson’s 8 Stages of Psychosocial Development Explained

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Erikson's Stages of PsychoSocial Development

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Erikson's Stages of PsychoSocial Development

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Erik Erikson's theory is based on the stages of the psycho- development of humans and their ages, and is divided into 8 parts. Erikson first constructed his theory of development in his book Childhood and Society in 1950. Erikson believed that humans continue to grow and develop characteristics through the different stages of life. He believed that the different situations that people are faced with during each stage contribute to psycho-develoment, and the theory seemingly coincided with human experience.

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During infancy age 0-1, the baby can trust or mistrust that their basic needs will be met such as the nurture from a mother when they cry. The response in which the baby receives builds either that trust or mistrust in the infant.

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At age 1-3 years old, a child develops a sense of independence in doing tasks. This is the point in which the child is exploring themselves and finding their own identity without their parents' influence. This is essentially them understanding their own self control and will.

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Erikson's Stage 3:  Initiative vs. Guilt

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Erikson's Stage 3:  Initiative vs. Guilt

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During play age 3-6 years old, the child takes the initiative in some situations and grows empathy, as they become aware of their actions and the actions of those around them. This is the stage where a children is learning Right from Wrong.

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Erikson's Stage 4: Industry vs. Inferiority

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Erikson's Stage 4: Industry vs. Inferiority

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During school age ( 6-12 years old) the child begins to understand how the world works and shows how they have come to understand the basic concept of competence. They begin to question how the world works and what is their contribution.

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During the ages of 12- 19 years old humans go through adolescence. In this stage the child becomes more interested in who they are as a person and try to find where they fit into society and themselves.

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Erikson Stage 6:  Intimacy vs. Isolation

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Erikson Stage 6:  Intimacy vs. Isolation

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During early- adulthood ages 20-25, the young adult struggles to find the balance between co-existing with significant others and friends. Also, they are experiencing the feeling of who they want to be around and question love.

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Erikson's Stage 7:  Generativity vs. Stagnation

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Erikson's Stage 7:  Generativity vs. Stagnation

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During adulthood ages 26-64 as the adult ages they want to ensure that they did or can do something worthwhile and die having left a mark on the world. At this point the adult wants to avoid just being something or someone taking up space.

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Erikson's Stage 8:  integrity vs. Despair 

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Erikson's Stage 8:  integrity vs. Despair 

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During Old age ages 65- death as the adult deals with the concept of if their life was meaningful. In this stage they begin to question if they have lived a meaningful life.

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Stage 5: Identity vs. Confusion

Mei Lee is 13 throughout the whole movie and acts as a 13 year old would with her friends Miriam, Priya, and Abby. Mei can't control her emotions so she turns into a red panda because of the lack of control. She can't control these emotions as she's trying to find who she is as a person and adhere to her lifestyle, especially since her mother is very protective and on her back, also causing these stringer emotions as Mei feels that she can't talk to her.

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Stage 3: Initiative vs. Guilt

Ming (the mother) experiences this as a child when her mother pushes her to be who she is as an adult towards Ming by being over protective and not allowing Ming to be who she is freely. Wu, caused Ming to question how she was as a parent due to the treatment of her daughter and when Ming, injured her mother as well. This causes for Ming to question and realize that she's leaving a terrible mark on Mei.

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Mei's first time turning into a red panda

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Mei's first time turning into a red panda

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Once Mei turned into a red panda it signified how strong her emotions could be and how they progress throughout the movie becoming uncontrollable towards certain topics.

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Once Mei's friends showed that they love Mei for who she is she wasn't dreadful over turning into a panda anymore as her mother made it seem like something bad, but they made it into something good and made her feel comfortable and able to control her inner panda.

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When Mei went to Tyler's party and became furious and unable to control her anger was a pivot in Mei's life as the realization hit that she could be a danger like her mom said. Causing for her grandmother and aunties to come perform a ritual to reverse it.

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Mei keeping her panda was a pivotal moment because no one else in her family has done that before and she also attacked Tyler again at the concert. Mei Doing this has caused for her mother to become infuriated. After her mother was infuriated she and Mei reconciled and realized the differences and the flaws Ming had in parenting. This also strengthens the bond between Ming and Wu.

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The identity of Mei isn't as unique as one would think. Mei is an average teenage girls who wants to live. Since Mei represents the average teenage girl, the movie is a bigger expression of what they go through especially those from Chinese descent. The movie displays the culture of how parents are more hard on their children to be successful people in the world and amount to what they say. Also, the generational curses that linger in the families. Erikson's theory is valid in this movie as Mei goes through adolescences and can't figure out how to control herself as she doesn't know WHO she is. Mei's panda represents the emotions of adolescences and showcases the psycho-development of humans.

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Erikson's theory and character experiences

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Erikson's theory and character experiences

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In the film the experiences that Mei goes through is displayed well in the theory as she is in the adolescence stage of self wonder. Erikson's theory emphasizes this theme by making the the theme of the movie Mei learning to not hold in her emotions and finding how she can control herself.

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Erikson's Stages of Psychosocial development is captured in this movie through the character development of not only Mei, but Ming and Wu. Mei going through this essential part of her life of finding who she is in the world effected the outcome of other's lives as well as hers. The creators of the movie made the film straight to the point of teenage adolescence and how culture affects such as well as childhood experiences that continue into adulthood as seen in Ming.