Spirited Away Reflection

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In the movie Spirited Away, directed and written by Hayao Miyazaki a young a girl named Chihiro and her parents are on their way to their new home when her father takes a shortcut into the woods. Chihiro and her parents get lost and end up in a spirit world in which they find themselves trapped. Chihiro’s parents have been turned into pigs by an evil witch known as Yubaba and she must find work at Yubaba’s bath house in order to save them and return back to the human world. She is assisted by many friends throughout her thrilling adventure and gains courage along the way. By the end, luckily she is able to save her parents and get back to the other side of the tunnel, or the human world. In the classic book L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful …show more content…
By the end, Chihiro is able to remember Haku’s real name. Which gives him his identity back. Chihiro also helps bathe and empty out River Spirit who in return gives her a medicine cake ball. Chiro intends on feeding the medicine ball to her “pig parents”, but she later feeds half of it to “No face”, a spirit that Chihiro basically saves majority of the spirits in the bath house from and Haku, who is slowly dying when Chihiro feeds it to him.
Dorothy, too, lend a helping hand to a few characters within The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The three most notable good deeds Dorothy does are, one, helps the lion get to Oz so he could receive courage, two, helps the scarecrow get to Oz so he could receive knowledge, and three, helps the Tinmen get to Oz so that he could receive a heart (love). Taking the Journey along with Dorothy ultimately helps the three of them find the things they truly want within
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In Spirited Away, Chihiro is tested firstly to discover an occupation at the shower house to free her folks and come back to the human world. With a specific end goal to accomplish this, Chihiro is given undertakings by Zeniba in which she needs to finish effectively regardless of her shortcomings. The greatest of her assignments is to prepared a shower for a stink soul and confronts much trouble in doing as such. By succeeding it anyway, she is compensated by the soul with a medication ball in which she uses to mend Haku later on. In like manner all through the motion picture of the Lord of the Rings, we see that Frodo 's greatest trial is battling his will to utilize the ring for his own particular joys and asserting it as his own. He 's compensated later on having effectively crushing the ring and is conveyed to an interminable island with the other ring bearers. In The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy needs to beat the powerful Wizard and is compensated later on with the assistance of Glinda to return back

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