Changes

The other night my girlfriend watched Ghostbusters with her parents.

This has always been one of my favorite films.  Her mother was talking about it when I arrived for Sunday dinner.  She made the statement that it was rated PG but

had it been made today.  

Setting her rating statement aside, I remembered how, as a child, I loved Ghostbusters so much and that I thought that it was an action adventure film.  It wasn't until I was fifteen that I realized it was funny.  The film hadn't changed, but my perspective had.  As a child I watched it with innocence, missing many of the jokes because they were over my head and of a subject matter that children should not know about.  But when I had become a teenager, corrupted by the halls of public school, I began to understand the worldly humor of it.  

This could be used as a teaching activity where students could identify something from their youth that has not changed but their perspective on it has.  Green Eggs and Ham would be a good example.
 Most people can recall as a child reading it or having it read to them.  When we are children we are fascinated by the illustrations, the clever words and the absurdity of green eggs and ham and the persistence of Sam I Am.  As adults living in our current situation in the world today, I think that we could draw a conclusion that Green Eggs and Ham has a strong message of being open minded, something that is happening more and more everyday, whether for the good or the bad.  But the point is, media doesn't change.  It is our perspective, formed by life experiences, that we use to draw a message out of the media.