Beasts Of The Southern Wild And Spirited Away Compare And Differences

In class we watched two films, Beasts of the Southern Wild and Spirited Away. Each had for a protagonist a young girl. While Hushpuppy and Chihiro come from different cultures and have different value, they actually are quite similar in many ways.

Chihiro, unlike Hushpuppy, was born into a middle- classed family. In the beginning of the film, Chihiro was shown in a car on their way to a new house. If Chihiro was poor, then she could not afford to move into a new house and have a car. The way she was dressed also shows her financial status. Hushpuppy, on the other hand, is a poor girl. She and her father live in a small hand-made house that looks like a hut, she lives in a rural area with minimal resources to live. They look for their own food

Hushpuppy rescued the people of the Bathtub (the place where Hushpuppy resides) and her father alike Chihiro who saved her parents from getting trapped in the spirit world. These girls were aided from their mentors, Wink (Hushpuppy's father), and Haku the wise river god, helped Chihiro. These young ladies learned how to handle things on their own from the assistance of their mentors. Haku: "You did it, Chihiro! I remember! I was the spirit of the Kahaku River." (Spirited Away). Chihiro in this case took matters into her own hands, and was capable of liberating herself and Haku from the spirit world by remembering Haku's original identity before it was taken away from him. Hushpuppy also acquired the similar skill that Chihiro possesses, and that is taking leadership and dealing with certain situations without

They are both symbols of the evil sides of Hushpuppy and Chihiro. Hushpuppy is the protagonist of the film "Beasts of the Southern Wild" and they were living in the wild of the Southern area of the United States, and the beasts are the aurochs, as the title suggests. Hushpuppy was able to communicate with the aurochs and when nobody else could and therefore the title is probably referring to her. The aurochs show Hushpuppy's evil side because these beasts were on their way to the Bathtub to kill all the citizens living there. The spirits in the spirit world and No-Face hated humans and showed greed, they both represent the evil side of Chihiro. She was able to transform No- Face into a good character and the spirits were outsmarted and defeated. Hushpuppy and Chihiro both defeated evil and showed us that heroes always defeat villains and that evil is never