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The Johari Window

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Prompt Number 2 The Johari Window is explained by a model showing the different ways of communication between yourself and others. The Johari Window goes to explain the different types of views of yourself. What you allow people to see, what you don't know that people see, what you don't let people see, and what you and others don't see. In the movie Gran Torino, the character Walt learns to allow people to see him as his true self, and not just how he allows people to see him. Which is explained using the Johari Window. At the beginning of the movie, it shows Walt being closed off towards others. Not in a sense of closing in on himself due to his wife dying, but he mainly just didn't want anyone to bother him. Which was shown when Father Janovich tried to approach him. He didn't allow anyone else to see that he was hurting or even missing his wife. Instead he showed that he was disappointed with how his family was acting. Despite not showing any of his emotions towards people, he conveyed them when he was speaking to his dog, telling her that they both missed “mom”. At this point in time, Walt's Johari Window was mainly his “hidden area”. Walt finally starts to open up to Thao first, after Thao started working for Walt to repent for trying to steal his car. At first it appears that Walt was trying to “toughen” up Thao by trying to show him that his life can be more than a gang if he wants it to be. Walt helped set Thao up with a job, after he helped get him the supplies

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