Movie Night

The Tale of Despereaux. I went into movie night last Thursday with a mindset of why do I have to watch this little kids movie, in what way is a story about some rats going to help my character story. Then when there was trouble with the volume, I started thinking ok come on tell everyone they don’t have to wory about watching the movie and all can go home. So you could say I didn’t have the best mindset going into this movie. But as the movie went on my mindset started to change from why are we here to wow this movie does have some good messages. So, as the movie went on I started to think about all the different characters and what they represented and if they were round or flat characters.
The thing that first got me thinking was seeing how the mouse had courage and chivalry, this was interesting because the whole time his parents were telling him this isnt the way a mouse should act. This caused me to think about how we act today, how often do you see people today show courage when it causes them to be looked at as not normal. How about Chivalry, it seems like men don’t even know what this word means anymore.
It wasn’t just the main character Despereaux, but the rat was also a well rounded character. It was this rat that started all the problems that happened in the story, by him falling into a bowl of soup and causing the queen to faint to die. From this the princesses started to hate all rats and she ended up being sad all the time. But the rat ended up saving the princesses life from the other rats that were attacking her. After this she ended up forgiving him and everything went back to the way it was before he fell into the soup. This shows that the rat is well rounded because he doesn’t act like all the other rats and try to eat the princess, instead he saves her and shows his courage and remorse for the pain he has caused her.