Wild child

In the Wild Child documentary about genie and victor, they showed how malnourished they both were and how undeveloped their brains were. I thought this was intereting because you really don't know if she was mentally unstable from birth. In their studies they showed that during her sleep cycle she showed symptoms that she could have been mentally challenged before being malnourished. I wonder if she was provided with the right nourishment when they found her would she gradually overcome the most nightmareish cases of it all? While watching this documentary I also wondered why the parents did that to her in the first place? In the video a reporter talked about how both the parents were older and how the father was very controlling. The mother said that she was going blind and she too was controlled by the father. He thought geni was mentally retarded from birth and just did not want to deal with her. At first when they found her she was not able to express herself or speak clearly. She was not able to walk that well and throughout her life she has not acquired human traits, that by thirteen any adolent would have, because she was so malnourished. In france a boy named victor, was found and delt with the same life challenges genie faced. Ironically enough a movie was produced and the movie premired 1 week after genie's discovery. They scientists and doctors that bleork with both victor and genie said that once puberty had taken place they would not be able to learn how to speak if they had not ever learned before. While genie was at the hospital one of her doctors had become sort of her derived parent. He was there in the morning while she ate breakfast and there at night to tuck her into bed and give her a goodnight kiss. Everyone loved herald she would get so excited by the silliest things, balloons were one of the things that made her laugh, like a real heart felt laugh.

                           
Genie "The Wild Child"


                   
Victor "The Wild Child"