Chicken Run By George Orwell Character Analysis

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In a day and age of being an adult, it is easy to become side track and forget what it felt like to be a kid. For me, as well as revealing several transformative dimensions, Chicken Run (2000) was also a reminded of never losing sight of your visions and goals. After several planned attempts of trying to escape Tweedy’s Egg Farm, Ginger the main character, is placed in solitary confinement for trying to escape her semi-organized group to freedom. Even though all the chickens want to escape, Ginger is the one most passionate about the cause. She believes there is more over the gate and has visions that every chicken deserves have the right to be free. The story has more adventure when, Ginger is back and forth the solitary, because Mr. Tweedy senses the chickens are organized and looking to escape. Therefore, he becomes distorted at times and watches them very closely.
Mrs. Tweedy takes count of the chicken eggs every day. One of the enlightened days for the chickens was the day Edwina, was taken for supper because she didn’t produce enough eggs. As time passes, Ginger continues to think within her constrained visions and Mrs.
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Life may often give us situations where having a positive attitude and remaining optimistic allows one to feel content. Throughout this movie, the majority of the chickens played their role. In Physics, Newton says where there is an action there is a reaction and Ginger is the reaction. With a few moments of constrained visions, Ginger’s character throughout the movie gives the unconstrained vision. Mezirow (1991) writes, “The unconstrained vision, by contrast, rejects the notion of inherent limits on humanity and holds that is within our power to perfect ourselves and to eradicate social evils through will and reason” (p. 136). Even though we are talking about a movie, the attitude of her thinking is what makes transformational learning as an adult

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