Title: Tarzan

Date: 1999

Media type: Film

Format: Complete

Category: Human Growth and Development

Keywords: family relationship, family demographics, response to crises, social and cultural influences, types of parents

Rating: G – General Audiences

Audience(s): Children Under 12, Families

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: Tarzan was an orphaned baby left in the jungle. An ape named Kala found him and raised him as his own. As Tarzan grew up, he believed that the animals were his family, that is until he saved an expeditioner named Jane Porter in the jungle. Tarzan is forced to choose who his family is, his animal friends or Jane.

Comments or Recommendations for Teaching: How did Tarzan’s development differ because he wasn’t raised by humans? How did Jane’s father’s opinions shape the way she reacted throughout the film?

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Contributor: Krista Hamann