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Nell1) The loss of Nells twin sister had a dramatic strength on her. Nell and Maywere raised in a seclude environment with no outside contact. As a result, Mayand Nell became very close emotionally and were an integral cut off in each otherslives. When May died, Nell confused part of her life as well which resulted invivid memory replay. A good example of this is when Nell was turning around incircles by herself but, in her mind, she was turning around in circles with hermissing half. At the end of the movie, the evidence of the importance of May inNells life was still perspicuous as Nell contend will Jerrys daughter on the rocksthat May and her once played on. The movie did portray what is generallybelieved about twins. The loss of one had a dramatic effect on the other.They had their own twin speech and their own games. At the end of 20 plus years,Nell still felt the loss of her twin sister.2) The expert psychologist in the movie believed that Nell was mentallyretarded and h ad made a small amount of intellectual development as a result ofbeing raised in seclusion. Fortunately, they were wrong. The speech that Nellgave in the courtroom proved that she had developed intellectually. While thelanguage that she used was different, Nell still gave a good list of veryabstract ideas that individual who is mentally retarded could non possiblycomprehend. Nell understood why she was different saying that she was raised ina small world and knew small things unconnected the large things found in the city ofCharlotte, N.C. This proved that Nell was very capable of living by herself andtaking care of herself.3) The experts, in the beginning of the movie, said that Nell was notcapable of making the correct judgments to make in the world by herself. Theydid not believe that Nell had the wisdom to make the correct choices in lifesituations. It seemed evident to me that Nell already possessed more thanenough wisdom to make it on her own. After all, she basically took care of hercrippled mother all by herself.4) Nell is not mentally retarded. Nell was raised in seclusion withher twin sister and a crippled mother. The things that Nell learned wereobtained socially from a woman that had loss the use of part of her body. Thebody language that Nell had learned were obviously learned from observing hermother. For an outside viewer Nell must have looked like she was mentally