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Response to Disney Movie – Up The Pixar production movie – Up have all the necessary quality to be considered a quest narrative story. The story is about Carl Fredrickson, a boy dreaming about becoming a great explorer and his future wife Ellie who is also adventure-spirited. They had a dream of building a house at the lost land of South America. But 73 years later, Ellie have died. Carl Fredrickson inadvertently injured a construction worker and faces the fact that he’s about to lose his precious house, which he and his dead wife build together. Unwilling to give up his house, he tied 1 thousand balloons onto his house and was determined to move it to Paradise Falls therefore fulfill his and his wife’s lifelong dream. In his journey he was …show more content…
He worshipped many explorer, studied about their journey and had a dream of becoming an explorer. All the explorer he learned from are all his mentors by giving him this interest and knowledge in exploring. However this interest was made clear and enforced when he met his future wife Ellie and promised her to build their house on Paradise Fall. Compare to the other stages of quest narrative, initiation was made quite plain and clear. The moment when his house left the ground, he begins his exhilarated Journey. At that exact moment he crossed the threshold and start initiate his quest with zest. In comparison to the previous stages, underworld appeared quite often and wasn’t as protruding. In the film, after Ellie and Fredrickson got married. However, balloon salesman Fredrickson struggled financially, the piggy bank was used for other need over and over. The lost of Ellie was also a major hardship for Fredrickson who turned lethargic and listless to the things around him. Only when the construction company tried to take away his house did he regain his motivation of finishing their undone quest. During his journey, he also face many physical hardship. For example: walking the house to the other side of the mountain in three day, escaping the hunt of mad explorer

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