Dora The Explorer Character Analysis

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Dora the explorer wants to be in the WNBA. She doesn’t know a lot about basketball but she thinks she’ll do fine. After all her best friend Boots is a baller. She gets into the WNBA and is excited to get started with her basketball career. But when she goes to her first game at home she realizes she doesn’t have any basketball skill at all. All her teammates look at her and wonder why she looks so cartoonish. She watches all the other players make shots left and right during warm up but when she goes up for a three pointer she completely misses. So she decides to go closer to the basket and shoot from there. She walks up to the free-throw line and shoots the ball. She air balls it.

“Ugh why can’t I make any shots,” She said. She kept
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Dora the explorer wants to be in the WNBA. She doesn’t know a lot about basketball but she thinks she’ll do fine. After all her best friend Boots is a baller. She gets into the WNBA and is excited to get started with her basketball career. But when she goes to her first game at home she realizes she doesn’t have any basketball skill at all. She watches all the other players make shots left and right during warm up but when she goes up for a three-pointer she completely misses. So she decides to go closer to the basket and shoot from there. She walks up to the free-throw line and shoots the ball. She air-balled it.

“Ugh why can’t I make any shots,” she said. She kept on practicing her shooting and when she couldn’t make any shots she decided to work on dribbling. She walked to half court ready to dribble into the basket. But she started running towards the basket dribbling the ball when suddenly she falls to the floor. She had tripped over her ball. She got up and tried again this time she lost control of the ball and it rolled away. She just couldn’t do anything. When the game started, her coach didn’t put her in at all.
Not until the last 6 minutes of the 4th

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