About Akeelah and the bee

A person can be said talented if have three things, namely high motivation,
extraordinary ability, and creativity. Each of these aspects must be owned by a gifted
child is saying. However, to improve these aspects of a child's talent is also determined
by the surrounding environment, namely the family, school, and community.
The first environment is the family environment. Actually, at first in a family
that supports talented Akeelah is the father. His father provides facilities for Akeelah to
practice words. But unfortunately later his father died. In the contest to spell the word,
at first not all family members to support his efforts. Even the mother and an older
brother did not agree even underestimate the ability of his younger brother to his sister
to compete with other participants who generally come from the white race.
However, due to persistence Akeelah and the encouragement of his teacher, the
mother then began to support efforts Akeelah. Even when the teacher stops teaching,
mother and all her sister helped Akeelah in learning. So in the end it can be concluded
that giftedness Akeelah gets support from his family environment.
The second environment is the school environment. At first, Akeelah trouble
with the school environment. School environment does not support talented factor.
Akeelah school is not a favorite school, the majority of students from the blacks who
held low on the importance of achievement. In addition, the school environment is not
good, because the facility did not complete study.
Akeelah wants to be accepted by their peers. But Akeelah is often disturbed by
some of his friends, because they are jealous and think Akeelah is a strange child. They
also forced Akeelah harshly for Akeelah want to do their job.
But lucky then Akeelah has a friend, the principal and teacher for the loyal
support it. Mainly private teacher, Dr. Joshua Larabee. The role of Dr. Joshua Larabee
not only as a private teacher, but a great motivator for the progressive development of
learning Akeelah. Thanks to his motivation and support exceptional, Akeelah who had
doubted his own ability, slowly began to realize that if he could actually compete in the
contest.
The third environment is the environment of society. Akeelah lives in a
neighborhood of minorities in the U.S., namely blacks. Most of the people who live in
this neighborhood are the ones who are not so concerned with proper education and
high achievement. Even they themselves despise their race if it is associated with
competence in the field of education. When people around Akeelah see Akeelah and the
potential of extraordinary ability in the contest, they were very proud because of their
environment that is not feasible, it turns out they have a very talented Akeelah it the
name of the local area.
Characteristics of gifted person who appears in the film: Akeelah shows her
talent in a specific field that is in terms of language. The most prominent is the ability to
remember words and spelling. It was seen as its ability to remember and spell the word
far beyond the ability of his age. The next characteristic is Akeelah has a feeling that is
sensitive to its environment. He really wanted to have a friend who can accept it. Thus he really
did not want to look smart in the eyes of his friends. But fortunately he then met a friend who
had similar characteristics with him, so he could meet the needs of socio-emotional.