1. 1. A Walk to Remember Sarah Vang, Amina Sharif, Thaer Alharbi, Faisal Alsaykhan
2. 2. Information Date of production: 2002 Ratings: 7.4/10 Metascore: 35/100 Domestic: $41,281,092 Foreign: $6,213,824 Worldwide: $47,494,916 Artistic Directors Award: Adam Shankman MTV Movie Award: Mandy Moore Teen Choice Award: Mandy Moore, Shane West
3. 3. Reviews As a maturing male, I couldn't help but cry inside I found myself wishing I were either Landon or Jamie, because they represent the real virtues of life and love. While I never expected this to touch me so much, AWTR enters as perhaps my favorite movie of all time. A girl looking like Mandy Moore would not get treated at all poorly at all in suburban high school. It's discouraging that the kids with real social problems see movies that are supposed to represent people like them, only to find they cast someone like Moore for the part of the outcast. This contradicts what the messages in these movies are supposedly supposed to be: you shouldn't care what others think of you. It's almost offensive.
4. 4. Plot summary When Landon (Shane West) decides he wants to take his activities seriously, he asks Jamie (Mandy Moore) for help and begins to spend most of his time with her. He starts to develop strong feelings for her. The two starts a relationship, when a heart-breaking secret becomes known that puts their relationship to the test, it is then that Landon and Jamie realize the true meaning of love and fate.
5. 5. Stages Coming together Initiating Experimenting Intensifying Integrating Bonding Coming apart Differentiating Circumscribing Stagnating Avoiding Terminating
6. 6. Initiating This very short stage is all about making an impression. So this stage the judging would not be accurate. People will be concerned with making favorable impressions. The physical appearance plays a great role in impression making.
7. 7. Initiating They were making fun of Jamies outdated fashion. Landon was laughing at her appearance with his friends. This shows that Landon did not found Jamie to be attractive.
8. 8. Experimenting After initiating stage, people move into experimenting stage. They want to know whether they have any basis for a long-term relationship with the other person and on what basis the relationship might exist.
9. 9. Experimenting They had a small talk in the bus. Landon was trying to discover issues about Jamie. In the car, Landon asked Jamie to go on a date with her. Landon asked Jamies father for his permission to go on a date with his daughter.
10. 10. Integrating Integration is the feeling that one or both sides of the relationship feel as if they are a part of each other and that whatever happens to one, either something good or bad, also happens to the other and feels with them.
11. 11. Integrating In this scene, Jamie is bullied by some of Landons former friends. After bring embarrassed, Landon takes Jamie out of the school to blow some steam and calm her down. He then tells her that everything will be okay and that he will stick with her no matter what.
12. 12. Intensifying They will find various ways to nurture a relationship in order to strengthen interpersonal development such as gifts, spending more time together, expressing affection through verbal and nonverbal actions.
13. 13. Intensifying In the scene, Landon tells Jamie that he loves her for the first time. Which is a verbal way of expressing his affection towards her.
14. 14. Stagnating Stagnating is when couples are usually feeling this sense of coming apart and have a little grief going on with them. They feel as if they dont feel the need to communicate with each other and already know what the other is going to say.
15. 15. Stagnating In this scene, Jamie admits that she has cancer and has been diagnosed for several years now. Landon doesnt want to hear anymore of what Jamies going to say because he feels like he knows what she is going to say. Now, Landon must cope with her diagnosis and figure out how hes going to deal with it.
16. 16. Bonding Bonding stage is the last stage of coming together. The integrating stage does not necessarily move into bonding. Two people could work closely with each other at the same job until retirement without feeling that there was a relationship commitment. Probably all of us have life-long friends with whom we don't share a commitment. On the other hand, special relationships move eventually to bonding.
17. 17. Bonding In the beginning of the movie it compared love with stars in the sky. Keeping promises into reality by lovers. Unity among lovers should be adequate. Being faithful to the partner is the best. Fulfilling commitments made by lovers. Trust in lovers should be observed. Cooperation among the couple Couples have ability to believe in one another.
18. 18. Bonding Bonding stage is the stage where couples begin to movie into life long commitments such as marriage. In this scene, Landon and Jamie marry each other because they love each other and want to be in each others lives as long as they live. This shows as example of the bonding stage, the final stage of coming together.
19. 19. Group Analysis Assess group roles and group leadership. Did your group assign any specific roles? Did certain roles emerge throughout your group process? Provide specific information and examples to support your position. What were your perceptions of the division of work among the group members? How did group members negotiate different individual goals and how did that affect workload? How did your group handle decision-making? Did you see any types of power or any compliance-gaining strategies functioning in your group? Explain. Did your group experience conflict in any way? How was it handled? How did conflict(s) affect the group (morale, task completion, attitude, decision-making, etc.)? What have you learned about conflict in small groups as a result of this project? If your group did not experience any conflict, discuss why you think that was the case what did your group do, how did the members act, etc. that prevented conflict from developing or escalating? What was your favorite part of this group project? What have you learned about communication in small groups that you plan to use in future group experiences? What would you change in order to maximize your group experience?
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