Interpersonal Communication In Finding Dory

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Finding Dory is a popular child movie that includes some concepts used in interpersonal communications. Even though it’s a cartoon, the following will be discussed throughout: interpersonal communications in family relationship, conflict style, and emotion. There are a few scenes in the movie that provide these concepts between the characters. Finding Dory is about a fish who has short term memory loss and knows she has parents but has no idea where to find them. Her, Marlin, and Nemo all set out for an adventure to find Dory’s parents but along the way runs into many conflicts that end up separating Dory from her friends. In the movie, the two characters who represent interpersonal communication in family relationship are Marlin and Dory. …show more content…

This was the main idea in this movie because Dory has short term memory loss she can’t remember much of anything. However, she always dreams about her parents but forgets as soon as she wakes up. Dory always knew she had parents because she knows everyone has to come from somewhere but her problem is she can’t remember them as well as she would like. Recently, she’s been remembering bits and pieces of her past. Then all of a sudden she remembers her family and convinces Marlin that she wants to go find them, so they go to find her parents. Even though her and Marlin didn’t agree at first. There were some conflict dimensions which are the specific topics from which the conflict arose. The specific topic from which the conflict arosed from was when Nemo’s class were talking about where they come from and mommies and daddies. Another conflict that arose was when they were searching they run into a place that Dory kind of remembers. Where there’s a lot of “shhhhhh” because they were trying to warn them that there was danger approaching if they weren’t quite well then comes a squid who chases them. Which becomes an even bigger problem when Nemo is almost eaten by the squid and has to be saved by his dad. Then Dory ends up hurting Nemo by accident and Marlin becomes concerned. Marlin says some harsh words to Dory and treats her like a child. When Dory goes and finds help for Nemo she ends up getting snatched up by humans. Throughout the movie there are several conflicts that happen to Dory as she travels to find her

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