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
they entered they found a table that was filled with food and ate from it, but Chihiro did not want to eat so she wandered off. As she was walking around, a boy called Haku told her to run away but it was already too late. The spirits had already got out and they turned her parents into pigs because they ate their food, and if they saw her, they will kill her. Haku then supported Chihiro and helped her get a job in the spirit world. After she got the job from Yubaba the owner of the bathhouse. She worked really hard and managed to save her parents and leave the spirit world. She became a real hero in the end, became stronger and was able to face anything.

The plot of the movie Spirited Away shows how Haku taught her strength.
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
end. The second movie is called Beasts of the Southern Wild.
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
tough. Wink was playing the role of the mentor in this movie and he was trying to make his daughter powerful. Hushpuppy was responsible for herself, she had her own house. Usually six year olds don’t have their own houses but wink made his daughter have one. He was trying to teach her how to be strong enough to take care of herself. During the movie hushpuppy mentions something her father told her. He said “strong animals know when your hearts are weak, and that makes em’ hungry . and they start comin”. That means he was telling her to never show people she is weak. She must always be strong because in this world people will use her. In the end of the movie when she talks to the Aurocs, and tell them to go away. That proves that she was well taught and her father made her strong enough to protect herself in this world. Despite how badly wink treated her, he did it for her own good, so she can be stronger. The last movie with a mentor playing a huge role is Star Wars. It is a story about a planet far away in history. There was a man named Luke, he used to live with his uncle because his parents are dead. He gets a message from a princess called Leah asking for Obi Wan Kenobi’s help because she was captured. He finds Obi Wan Kenobi and tells him to help her. He asks for Luke’s help in the mission but Luke refuses because his uncle would not agree. When he goes back home he finds his uncle dead and decides to go. They find a ride and get ready for the journey. Obi Wan Kenobi starts teaching Luke how to fight and use the force. In the end they save princess Leah and destroy the enemy’s ship, but Obi Wan Kenobi dies. Even though he died, he accomplished so much in making Luke powerful. Obi Wan Kenobi was a good teacher and he taught Luke, which was a normal boy how to be strong. In the beginning Luke was too much of a normal boy he didn’t want to go on the journey. Obi Wan Kenobi encouraged Luke to go with him. Obi Wan Kenobi taught Luke how to fight and taught him about the force. He is working hard on making Luke a strong person who can stand up to himself. Even after Obi Wan Kenobi died he stood with Luke and made him use the force. The force was like a secret weapon he earned. It made Luke a stronger person. Obi Wan Kenobi made Luke a hero by making him a stronger person.

Wink, Haku and Obi Wan Kenobi all were good mentors and tried their best. The plot delivers the idea of how the mentors taught strength to the characters in the movies. The way the characters changed in the end of the movies and became stronger proves how well they were taught. The plot played a huge role of showing how the characters are changing. In the end, the mentors had a huge role in the movies and made a huge change.