Hero journey and a bugs life

The ants are enslaved. The ants pick the food, the grasshoppers eat the food. While Flick is more intent on creating inventions in order to make life around the colony easier, he is also clumsy and delays the others from collecting food for the grasshoppers. Dot loves all of Flick’s inventions. Also, important to note, Flick is very inventive, but his clumsiness, we see, nearly kills princess Ada, and causes all “The Offering” to spill into the river.

In these early minutes of the film, we also come to realize that Dot, the youngest Princess, waits in frustration for her wings to develop. Flick uses the metaphor of the seed to show Dot that even though she’s a young seed at the moment, soon she’ll grow to be an enormous tree. To this Dot simply replies, “but it’s just a rock.” Her inability to tell the difference between literal and figurative meaning shows us just how young she really is. This metaphor will become useful not only for Flick, but for the entire colony later on in the film.

Call to Adventure (inciting incident) –

When the mob of grasshoppers arrives, the food is gone. “What have you done,” says princess Ada to Flick. Flick’s clumsiness has prevailed by putting the colony at risk. After the grasshoppers have laid out their new demands to double the order, Flick comes up with the idea to seek help from “bigger bugs” to help free them of the grasshoppers enslavement forever.

Refusal of Call –

At first the colony of ants think getting help will only delay their work; however, on second thought, getting rid of Flick and his clumsiness will give them the time they need to collect the food without him fumbling it up. The colony agrees to allow Flick to leave them. Flick is elated and proud to represent his colony and leaves walking tall. Contrarily, the colony is also elated, but for different reasons; they're happy to see him go and applaud him as he crosses the threshold.

Meeting the Mentor

Dot is really the mentor here. She loves