Asyouwish 2/18/ Disney

This transparent world is designed both to conceal and reveal blatant traces of real and painful tensions"(126). For example in Disney's Aladdin deals with this idea of real painful tensions in that Jasmine and Aladdin are from two different social classes and thus are not to socialize let alone marry. Such an occurrence also takes place in Pocohontas where an native american girl is prohibited from interacting with the white man. Even movies such as Bambi feature a young child (or fawn in this case) losing their parent. Fox and Hound also features characters who because they are different animals are prohibited from being friends because one is supposed to be the predatory and the other the prey. Disney is full of these lifelike stories, most of these types of story-lines relate to historical occurrences that took place in real life. The discrimination that is forced between fox and hound is much like the discrimination that occurred within our own country during the 1960's. In my opinion many of the plots of disney films are based on that of historical moments and thus in there own way teach young children. While not all disney films teach a lesson of history, in my opinion they are least somewhat educational. In many of the disney movies a character falls victim to a problem that the other characters must help them resolve, thus showing the children that people (or characters with human-like traits) must help each other. Most disney movies are also about friendship, take the Lion King for example, Timone and Puma show their new friend how to get over his problems and when the problem comes back they help him resolve it. Friendship in disney movies is probably the most important plot theme and it is also one of the most important parts of real life. Thus by watching disney movies children learn many important aspects of life and history.