Waverly's Lost Touch

it can signify wutever u want it to signify. but this sorta thing does happen in life. especially when u start to lose confidence in yourself.

i used to be the fastest runner in my class in lower school. and i just assumed im like really fast. but in middle school, when there was a race, and i thot i couldve easily beaten everyone i ended up last place. and i never excelled at running again. im always the slowest runner. and i never tried to run again

i believe that it meant that she had lost a piece of herself that she prized that was different from her mother and at the same time her mother didn't brag on her about anything or anymore that in Waverly's mind meant that her mother didn't care about her anymore or that she was not worth bragging on and it made her loose confidence in herself but that's just me

Waverly, was a worthless human being, period. I would be ashamed if my child were so hollow, and self-centered.











Jack's not dead! Jack would never die without telling me, first!

That was a really good interpretation. "That she has lost a piece of herself? That is, she wants to be different from what her mother/tradition expects of her, and when she finally is different, she finds she loses what made her, well, her?"

The way I saw it was that her mother had lots of power over her...and she didn't even know it at that age. Children are very influenced by their parents. If they think their parents don't like them, they start losing self esteem and doing poorly. If they feel loved, they will succeed because they feel confident. Waverly was too young to know that part of the reason she was so good at chess was because of her mother's encouragement. When her mother stopped encouraging her, she stopped playing well. Notice how she spends much of the movie trying to impress her mom. It's like you said. She loses a piece of herself when she tries to separate herself from her mother.