Why Chihiro from the film Spirited Away is so outstanding
In Hayao Miyazaki’s breathtaking film Spirited Away, we are introduced to 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents who stumble upon a seemingly abandoned amusement park. After her mother and father meet a cruel end, Chihiro encounters a mysterious boy named Haku, explaining that the park is a resort for the supernatural and that she must work there to free both herself and her parents. Our young protagonist is shown to be a childish, easily-scared, and whiny girl. But after her experiences in the bathhouse and the entirety of the Spirit World, she matures immensely. Chihiro’s growth into a capable individual is a core factor in the movement of Spirited Away’s plot.
Spirited Away begins
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Young Chihiro encounters a young boy named Haku with stern features, warning Chihiro that she is not safe and quickly taking her to safety. Upon being saved by the mysterious young boy she is told that obtaining a job at the bathhouse would be the only means of survival in the Spirit World. Chihiro does as told and goes on to find a job at the bathhouse, asking multiple spirits if they would accept her as a employee, but to no avail. Our protagonist has seemingly given up hope, but as if fate summoned her a young woman by the name of Lin offers to bring Chihiro to the bathhouse’s director, Yubaba to request a job from her. Yubaba is a short, yet inhumanly-large witch with ancient wrinkles carved into her pale skin, a prominent stereotypical witch nose, and the most attention drawing feature, her large bindi-like mole set right between her eyebrows, her looks aren’t the only thing that are intimidating, for Yubaba is also a very powerful witch with unfathomable powers. Like before Chihiro’s pleas are met with a negative answer, but Chihiro persistence ending in Yubaba giving her a job at the bathhouse, but Chihiro doesn’t just get the job for free. As Chihiro is signing the contract Yubaba takes several characters from her name, renaming her Sen and thus losing her true …show more content…
The once elegant dragon lies there, battered and bruised on the ground in a pool of shimmering red blood. Chihiro takes a detour from her current mission of saving her parents to helping the injured dragon, taking him to the kind boiler man who graciously offers his help to save the dragon. The audience and Sen soon learn that the dragon was Haku, although he is healed he is still very ill, making Sen determined to help the one person who helped her in the beginning of her
A child’s upbringing can severely affect who they are later in life. In particular, their transition into adulthood and the way they are initiated into this new stage of their lives is essential to their adult personalities. In “The Demoness Kali”, Shyam Selvadurai writes a story in which formal features of initiation are placed upon its main character, Shivan to demonstrate his coming of age. Through separation, mentors, and tests, Shivan is able to initiate into adulthood.
A child is known for having innocence, and bad experiences strip kids of it. In Sarah’s
Fun Home shows how as the reader we can become educated and heal from the stories like that of Alison Bechdel’s childhood. We also can see Alison’s journey of healing as well. This full circle journey is why literature is so versatile and important to our society and culture. We depend on the creation and growth of literary themes like the ones we see in Fun House to help us grow and deal with the real world.
At the age of ten, most children are dependent on their parents for everything in their lives, needing a great deal of attention and care. However, Ellen, the main character and protagonist of the novel Ellen Foster, exemplifies a substantial amount of independence and mature, rational thought as a ten-year-old girl. The recent death of her mother sends her on a quest for the ideal family, or anywhere her father, who had shown apathy to both she and her fragile mother, was not. Kaye Gibbons’ use of simple diction, unmarked dialogue, and a unique story structure in her first novel, Ellen Foster, allows the reader to explore the emotions and thoughts of this heroic, ten-year-old girl modeled after Gibbons’ own experiences as a young girl. Kaye Gibbons’ experiences as a child are the foundations for this.
has been awoken by a thoughtless peasant’s theft of a golden cup. The dragon is then enraged with greed
Under the sea, in an idyllic and beautiful garden, stands a statue of a young man cut out of cold stone – for the Little Mermaid who knows nothing but the sea, the statue stands as an emblem of the mysterious over-world, a stimulus for imagination and sexual desire, an incentive for expansion of experience, and most predominately, an indication that something great and all-encompassing is missing from her existence. Traces of curiosity and a vague indication of the complexities of adult desires mark the child mermaid; in such a stage of development, the statue will suffice. However, as the Little Mermaid reaches puberty, the statue must allegorically come alive in order to parallel the manifestation of her new-found adult desires – the statue must become a prince in his world of adulthood above the sea. Thus, powered by an insistent and ambiguous longing for self-completion, the Little Mermaid embarks on a journey of self-discovery, and, to her ultimate misfortune, prematurely abandons her child-like self as sexual lust and the lust for an adult life takes hold of her.
“Who is you, Chiron?” This question sets the stage for the entire movie. We follow a young boy named Chiron through adolescence to adulthood within 110 minutes of film. We watch him progress through life while he tries to erase or bury his old younger self. We first meet Chiron, also known as little, while he is running from a group of boys from his school trying to beat him up. He runs into a drug hole and is met by a man named Juan who “fosters” Chiron and soon becomes his father figure. As we watch Chiron grow we observe that he is a young boy who is struggling with his identity in environment that doesn't understand him. He discovers that he fills more at ease to talk to a man named Juan, who slowly raised him, because he is missing a father
This can also be seen as the ending to the journey of Chihiro and the alcoholic. In the terms of Chihiro, she matured from her immaturity and selfishness to become pure and gain a sense of true self as well as maturity. In the case if an alcoholic this phase would be a relapse. The experience just didn't correlate to their addiction or compulsion. So, the individual goes back to
Certain elements in children’s literature make me feel nostalgic for the past when I lived a more carefree and perhaps careless lifestyle with my eyes and ears wide open. Now, a college student and adult struggling to juggle school, work, and future career planning, I often forget the simple things that brought me pleasure when I was a child. The stresses I have encountered while growing older—taking on added responsibilities and accumulating prejudices—have clouded my childlike, innocent, and fun view of life. This childishness, which was reawakened by reading Charlotte’s Web,“Goblin Market,” and The Secret Garden ,is something I’d like to bring to life again. I miss it, and I’m tired of repressing it just so I can appear to be a mature adult. There are some characteristics in me that were rooted in childhood and still survive to express themselves today, like my love for animals. But these are few. The majority of things I learned, believed, and valued as a child have escaped me and perhaps lie dormant somewhere in my subconscious. My sense of beauty and healing power in nature has diminished since I moved away from my rural childhood home, as well as my relationships with my sisters, who were more easy to get along with when I was young. I regret losing these parts of me with age, and after reading these books I wish more than ever to bring them back, because they did form who I was as a child—and everything stems from childhood. This is when I was my real self, naive at heart and innocent at play.
The boy’s growing maturity, autonomy, and painful disillusionment are used by Rios to impart the loss of innocence theme. He discovers his carefree times are taken away by nature, his mother, or merely because he is growing up. His experiences equate to that of the lion’s roar, wondrous and unforgettable, much like the trials people are subjected to when they begin maturing and losing their innocence. In the end, the boy develops into a mature and self-sufficient individual who discovers a new way to enjoy life and all its intricacies.
One can learn responsibility through experience, whether the experience is great, or if it is tragic. In The Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes, twelve year old Lanesha demonstrates her growth by bringing her and others to safety during a deadly storm. Once nurtured and cared for by her non-biological grandmother, Lanesha learns to take care of herself and others. This significance shows her transitioning from a girl to a young woman.
“Come on, guys,” I yelled at my family, which consists of my mom Madonna, my father John, and my two sisters Alissa and Kara, as I ran frantically across the jam-packed parking lot to the opening gate that led to a world of adventure. As wide as the world around, my eyes pierced at the doorway to a world of fun. Families, of all sizes, were enjoying all the possibilities of fun. Hearing laughter and frightening screams, warned me of the experience waiting for me within the doorway to everlasting amazement. The sweet baked smell of funnel cakes swarmed into the fresh morning air. Before I knew it, my family and I were ready to enter Valleyfair, an amusement park that offers summertime fun to the maximum.
...” (Pinocchio). Thus, Collodi embodies in the Talking Cricket the imperative for an adolescent to trust in inner prompting and that “idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If not cured then, it can never be cured”(Pinocchio). Collodi’s remarkable talent for his use of symbolism, especially the travel to Toyland, concisely indicates the dynamic found in burgeoning youth everywhere. In Pinocchio’s journey through Toyland, Collodi’s message of short lived repentance and repeatedly taking off self-reliantly express that “boys who minister tenderly to their parents deserve great praise and affection” (Pinocchio), while boys who minster to disobedience will come to weep in their bad end. Without a doubt, the symbolism in Pinocchio’s journeys features many morals such as the dilemma of decision making and the destructiveness of self-served behavior.
Miyazaki’s strong support for Japanese culture often becomes prominent in the film. Once chihiro has learned that her parents are pigs, she believes that she is dreaming. “Go away. Go away. Disappear…” she tells herself, only to find that she is literally disappearing. This is because she has not yet eaten food from the realm she is in. Here she meets Haku, a young apprentice of the bathhouse. He feeds her food, and she begins to reappear. This scene reflects old Japanese mythological stories that hold the belief that eating food from another realm will keep you ...
As far as adults are concerned, children are innocent. Adults look back into childhood along with their experiences and maturity, which as a result brings out the most common assumptions of childhood; innocence and experience. According to adults, children are pure, and inexperienced, which in fact is debatable. Philip Pullman’s novel the Golden Compass is an excellent representation of childhood innocence and experience. This essay will explain how innocence and experience is perceived in “the Golden Compass” as well as the comparison between adults and children.