Finding Nemo is a movie that begins with a family of fish. The mother and almost all of her eggs are attacked. The mother is killed along with all of the eggs, except one. The final egg left is named Nemo, and is raised solely by his father, Marlin. In the attack, Nemo was injured and now has one fin that is smaller than the other. He does not let his fin define him and calls it his “lucky” fin. After seeing his family killed, Marlin is very over protective of Nemo and is very nervous to let him out of his sight to go to school. Once Nemo gets to school, he meets a large variety of friends and they go on their first field trip. While on the field trip, Nemo is dared by one of the other students to go and touch a boat that is out of the distance
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Family is “a social institution that binds people together through blood, marriage, law, and/or social norms” (Ferrante 250). In Finding Nemo the blood family that is presented is, Nemo, his parents, and his siblings. Due to the shark attack, Nemo loses most of that family. When Marlin meets Dory, she begins to act as if she is a part of Nemo and Marlin’s family. According to Ferrante, “a family is expected to care for the emotional and physical needs of its members” (252). Once Dory finds out that Nemo is missing, it is evident that she begins to show this type of care to Marlin in the hope of finding Nemo. Since Nemo’s mother dies, Dory is brought into portray the mother figure that Nemo never had. By doing this, Pixar is representing what the ideal family should look like. According to Ferrante, ideal is “a standard against which real cases can be compared” (252). By adding Dory, it shows what a family should really look like despite what may actually be …show more content…
A disability is defined as “a condition society has imposed on those with certain impairments because of how inventions and social activities have been organized to inadvertently exclude them while accommodating others” (Ferrante 336). Some of Nemo’s new friends from school had disabilities that they had to live with. First, there is Pearl who is a little pink squid. Being that she is a squid, she has tentacles, and once happens to be shorter than all of the others. Along with her short tentacle, Pearl also inks whenever she becomes very nervous. Next, there is Nemo’s friend Sheldon, who is a seahorse. Sheldon’s disability is that he is H2O intolerant. This means that he is basically allergic to water, which would make life difficult considering that he lives in it. Along with Nemo’s friend’s disabilities, some of the main characters also have to face certain disabilities. Dory must face the disability, in which she has short-term memory loss and can’t remember certain information. When watching the movie, many children will not understand why Dory acts the way she does. According to Annie Vize, Dory “is shown to have significant short-term memory problems, making the film a helpful, gentle way of introducing the topic of memory loss and dementia to a young audience” (Never Forgotten). Fortunately, she learns how to overcome her disability and by the end of the
Family is “a social institution that binds people together through blood, marriage, law, and/or social norms” (Ferrante 250). In Finding Nemo the blood family that is presented is, Nemo, his parents, and his siblings. Due to the shark attack, Nemo loses most of that family. When Marlin meets Dory, she begins to act as if she is a part of Nemo and Marlin’s family. According to Ferrante, “a family is expected to care for the emotional and physical needs of its members” (252). Once Dory finds out that Nemo is missing, it is evident that she begins to show this type of care to Marlin in the hope of finding Nemo. Since Nemo’s mother dies, Dory is brought into portray the mother figure that Nemo never had. By doing this, Pixar is representing what the ideal family should look like. According to Ferrante, ideal is “a standard against which real cases can be compared” (252). By adding Dory, it shows what a family should really look like despite what may actually be …show more content…
A disability is defined as “a condition society has imposed on those with certain impairments because of how inventions and social activities have been organized to inadvertently exclude them while accommodating others” (Ferrante 336). Some of Nemo’s new friends from school had disabilities that they had to live with. First, there is Pearl who is a little pink squid. Being that she is a squid, she has tentacles, and once happens to be shorter than all of the others. Along with her short tentacle, Pearl also inks whenever she becomes very nervous. Next, there is Nemo’s friend Sheldon, who is a seahorse. Sheldon’s disability is that he is H2O intolerant. This means that he is basically allergic to water, which would make life difficult considering that he lives in it. Along with Nemo’s friend’s disabilities, some of the main characters also have to face certain disabilities. Dory must face the disability, in which she has short-term memory loss and can’t remember certain information. When watching the movie, many children will not understand why Dory acts the way she does. According to Annie Vize, Dory “is shown to have significant short-term memory problems, making the film a helpful, gentle way of introducing the topic of memory loss and dementia to a young audience” (Never Forgotten). Fortunately, she learns how to overcome her disability and by the end of the