The Validity Of Vulnerability In The Movie Toy Story

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When a person can’t accept their vulnerability then they feel forced to cover up the things that make up their identity which cause them to not be the person they want to be because they think that people will just tear them apart. Everyone has some vulnerability in their life but it's how you handle the vulnerability that determines their true identity and whether they can live a more full life.

When a person first is affected by their vulnerability it is hard for them to share it with other people because they are worried that they will be judged for the instability that they are showing in their life. Vulnerability can appear at any moment in a person's life and is something that can either eat away at someone and tear them down or is something they will embrace and accept. Vulnerability has synonyms that are some of the scariest things for a person like defenselessness and susceptibility. In the book ABC when we look at the character Danny he faces vulnerability with his cousin Chin-Kee. Danny always feels that people will judge him for his cousin and how he is different from everyone else. When Danny is sitting at lunch with
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You can see it in movies books and in just people in real time. One thing that I found it in was the movie Toy Story. The toys in Toy Story have to cover up their true identity throughout the entire three movies to make sure the the humans do not figure out that they are living. The toys feel as if the humans figure out they can talk and walk they will not be able to live the same. I feel that if the toys would just reveal their true identity they will be able to live a fuller life because they will then be able to communicate with the humans. I connected this and saw how the toys immediately covered up their vulnerability for fear of being punished by the human world. I feel that if they just let their true identity be shown they will be accepted into their

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