Marathon

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Marathon was an award-winning movie I have just recently watched. It was based on a true story of a young autistic boy training to become a marathon runner. It was also on the boy's relationship to his mother. Although he is twenty years old, he has a childlike understanding of the world. He likes chocolate cookies and zebras. He can memorize casual conversations and TV shows. He tends to dance in public and pass gas …

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…proactive mothering may result from some debilitating guilt she harbors from a past incident involving her son. As a result, her overprotective streak eventually becomes a bone of contention that sparks a heated confrontation with his coach over what's best for him. Similarly, a comment that the mother makes about hoping that she dies herself the day after her son dies shows how much she needs him as well as how much he needs her.