The American Dream In Snow White By Walt Disney

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“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them (Walt Disney).” You need to do something beyond what you hoped for when it comes to making dreams come true. Believe in yourself and don’t listen to what others think. Walt Disney believed in himself when it came to making Disney movies. He said the quote above because he struggled to make his dreams come true, but he still had courage to make it into something. Although he had to overcome many obstacles, Walt Disney used his abilities to create stories and amusement parks, only to make his dreams come true.
His journey began when he was born on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents Flora and Elias, and his four brothers and sisters, all influenced Walt to who he was. The family moved to Marceline, Missouri where Disney went to elementary school. “It was here that he began to draw animals and indulge his
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Starting with the story we are all familiar with, Snow White. Snow White is about a young girl who is the fairest and prettiest of them all. The queen, who is jealous of her beauty, sends a man to kill the girl. The man, too cowardly to kill her, tells her the truth about the Evil Queen. She then runs away disguised and soon runs into a cottage in a forest. There, she discovers 7 beds, which have to belong to someone. Seven dwarfs who make a living by mining for diamonds. They soon to like Snow White because she becomes a “mother” figure to them. Later on, the Evil Queen transforms into an elderly lady and convinced Snow White to eat a poisonous apple. After the dwarfs hear about the Evil Queen making an unexpected visit, the run home to Snow White. Obviously too late, the dwarfs grieve over her death as they place her in a glass coffin. The prince who is deeply in love with Snow White, arrives and awakens her with “love’s first

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