The movie Toy Story 3, directed by Lee Unkrich is about a group of living, breathing toys who has to face the reality of their owner, Andy, growing up and moving away to college. The toys are then misplaced into a box that will be donated to a daycare. From there, all the toys have to cope with their new lifestyle as well deal with a big pink teddy bear named Lotso. In Toy Story 3, Unkrich effectively uses pathos to inform and teach her audiences a lesson about moving on and loving others.
The primary context of this work is mainly social. In the beginning of the movie, we see a glimpse of Andy as a child playing with his toys then later on we see a much older Andy getting ready for college. Woody and the gang are seen desperately trying to get their owner to play or even touch them because they feel useless if they do not get playing time. After feeling neglected, the toys decide to donate themselves to a daycare in hope that they will get played there. When they arrive, Lotso greets them peacefully, but we and the toys later find out that Lotso is just a bully who was abandoned by his previous owner, and he now …show more content…
Other than the fact that tears drops were dropped during the movie, this movie did a great job on hitting us with emotion. For example, in the last scene of the movie, we see Andy and the little girl playing with the toys. Seeing Andy playing with his former toys bring back nostalgic memories of his and ours. We grew up with him throughout the movies that were made and so did he. The two having fun with their toys makes us connect back to our childhood when we used to play with toys and enjoyed life. Other techniques that were used to touch our emotion were the music that was playing in the background. Sad sounding music always emits tears, for some. Another type of appeal that was dropped into the movie was ethos. Now this is a little dark for a children’s movie, but there was