We Bought A Zoo Juicy

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Character Analysis Juicy In the awesome film We Bought a Zoo directed by Cameron Crowe, Benjamin Mee feels that anything can be fixed and everyone should be happy, especially his family. To begin with, when Benjamin heard the squeaky window in the principal's office, he wants to fix it. “I can fix it,” he exclaimed, (Crowe, x:xx), but the principal rejected his offer. He was in the principal’s office with his son, Dylan, who was in trouble and Benjamin was trying to fix the situation with the principal. Even when things are not his problem, he wants to fix them. Secondly, after his wife died, he bought a house with a rundown zoo to start a new life to the delight of his daughter, Rosie, and dismay of his son, Dylan. He took on the challenges

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