Essay Option #3

DJ Rivera

Mrs. Boresen

Expository Writing, Period 4

Option #3

May 6, 2011

            Time after time again, people are always trying their hardest to fulfill their dreams, it’s so easy to do, but everyone overlooks it and makes it harder and more frustrating. Chicken Little is a perfect example of this; he’s the guy who wants to help out his town when nobody will believe him till he sees how to make it come true. Chicken Little is a movie that definitely shows off a little of the secret with the help of Walt Disney by showing that if you keep going after what you want, you’ll get it in the end. Chicken Little plus the song, has a whole lot to do with the secret with positive thinking bringing you positive results.

            In the movie “Chicken Little”, he becomes the fool of the whole time because people thought that the piece of the “sky” that hit him on the head, they all assumed it was an acorn instead. Later in the movie he is in his bedroom after hitting the winning ball for his baseball game and then becomes a hero to his friends and even his dad. While in his bedroom he is celebrating and then the piece of the sky flies into his bedroom window and then the whole thing starts again. When I first saw this movie of course since I saw the piece of sky fall on him before, that I was on his side for it from the beginning. As a quote from kidstvmovies.about.com, “His cute optimism and perseverance inspire a desire to cheer on the underdog”. Even though his own father didn’t believe Chicken Little, he never gave up on the fact that what he saw was what he saw and he was going to prove it one way or the other. By the time everyone believed Chicken Little about the piece of the sky falling, it was a little too late for everyone in the town. An alien invasion then attacked the town for that piece of the “sky” and Chicken Little wasn’t going to let his town down. He did everything he could to save his town and had tons of confidence that his town could make it out of this mess and finally the town was saved and everything was alright again.

            In the movie, the one song that stuck out to me as one of the songs that really related to the whole story of this movie was Barenaked Ladies ‘One Little Slip’. The lyrics of this song explain the movie almost word for word. I feel the lines as stated by stlyrics.com, “It was a cup of good intentions, a table spoon of one big mess.” Chicken Little really thought that he could make the town proud by helping them realize a piece of the sky fell out and that something bad may come out of that. But when everyone thought it was just an acorn that hit him over the head, everyone thought he was a fool and that’s when his life turned upside down. This song has taught me one valuable lesson that I should bring into life is don’t assume everyone will believe what you have to say. That’s the whole thing in life, everyone has their own opinions and what someone might have to say is the other person’s choice to believe it. Both the song and the movie have many similarities to ‘The Secret’, and it would be very hard not to see it.

            ‘The Secret’ was all about if you think positively and get rid of the negative thoughts and replace them with the good thoughts then good things come to you. I saw the same thing when I watched Chicken Little. He was a little chicken that had so much faith that his town was in danger and that something bad was going to happen, and when he put his mind to it and never gave up on it, the town finally believed him because he found the ‘piece of the sky’ and showed everyone. When it comes to the song “One little slip” by the barenaked ladies, I hear nothing but things about the secret. “It was a cup of good intentions” is a line in the song that just screams out the secret from stlyrics.com. Everything in life no matter what happens has something good come out of it whether or not you chose to see it. With a quote from lightparty.com “What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.” Chicken Little had on his mind that octagonal piece from the sky that it came at him a second time for him to deal with it once more.

            When Chicken Little wanted something to happen, he didn’t give up on what he believed and he keep throwing his thoughts out there until someone really understood him and then started to help him out in saving his town. Chicken Little was a fool at first, but with a little heart he finally got everyone to believe him. One Little Slip proves that if you keep trying over and over, but still you don’t get your results, keep going for it and you’ll get it sooner or later. The Secret and Chicken Little are both very similar in the learning aspect, Chicken Little believed that he was going to get people to believe him and after a while, everyone realized he wasn’t a fool and he got what he wanted because he thought positively. When something like this happens in your life, keep going for it, when people don’t believe you at first, it’s still possible to change people’s mind, so don’t stop chasing. I’d like to end with this, a quote from lightparty.com, “You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.”

Bibliography

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