Spirited Away Mentors

In the film unit, three out of four movies had mentors playing a huge role in them. Spirited Away, Star Wars, ad Beasts of the Southern Wild all had a person who helped the main character become who he is. The plot of the story shows how these mentors succeed. Each mentor from these movies worked hard on the character. Haku, Wink and Obi Wan Kenobi all taught their main characters’ strength. The plots of the movies support the idea of the mentors having a huge role in the movies with making the characters stronger.

The first movie is called spirited away. It tells a story about a little girl who moves with her parents to a new city. They get lost on the way, which lead them to an abandoned park.. They decided to enter and check it out. when
In the beginning of the movie Haku helps Chihiro. When she was sitting in the corner crying after her parents turned into pigs and she was stuck in the spirit world, he fed her something so she doesn’t disappear. He showed her support and helped her get a job. She then knew that she had to take care of herself because crying in the corner would not help her she started to act stronger and try to become mature. Later in the movie Haku shows Chihiro her parents as pigs. She remained strong and didn’t cry over it. She was able to take responsibility and contain her feelings so she can save them. Keeping in her feeling requires her to be powerful. Even though Haku helped Chihiro become stronger, he made mistakes as well. He stole something from Yubaba’s sister. Chihiro proved that she had learned something good from Haku and went to the woman and gave it back. What she did proves the she became stronger and a better person because apologizing is something that many people are afraid to do. Finally, Haku was a good teacher and the plot shows how much stronger Chihiro was in the
It is a movie about a six year old girl called Hushpuppy who lives with her father in an imaginary place called Bathtub. In bathtub people have to cope with extreme conditions. They have too many storms, their land is covered with water and they live in poverty. Her father, Wink, treats her in a very bad way. She lives in her own house which is not normal for someone her age. He also shouts at her and hits her sometimes. After all this, it was revealed to the people watching the movie that Wink was very ill and was going to die soon and that is when he was trying to make her more responsible. Hushpuppy has a very close connection to nature, she can feel animals. She always gets visions of these monsters called Aurocs trying to catch her. Later in the movie they get attacked by the people of the city and taken to shelters. They run away and she gets separated from her father. She then goes on a journey to find her lost mother and after she thinks she found her, she goes back to her father. When she reaches the Aurocs come to her and she tells them to leave her alone. Then she goes to her father and watches him die and bury him. This act of bravery can not be from a six year old, Wink worked really hard on making his daughter