Just Keep Swimming, Just Keep Swimming...

Write about the film you think works best for the hero’s journey.

I have always loved the movie Finding Nemo. Not until now have I realized that there is a hero’s journey in it. Dory, the cute blue fish who has short-term memory, rises to the occasion and helps Nemo’s dad help find Nemo. I think that she is underrated in the film because everybody focuses on the fish that the movie is named after: Nemo. However, Dory is in high spirits throughout almost the entire movie. When Marlin (Nemo’s dad) is about to give up all hopes of finding his son, Dory pushes him to keep going. She even has her own little motto; to “just keep swimming!” She is a hero in the very sense of the word. Dory reads the origin of the scuba diver’s mask to Marlin when he is busy almost getting eaten by a horrifying electrical fish in the dark depths of the ocean. Her optimism helps her achieve the impossible on the long journey to finding Nemo. Marlin even suggested that if Dory hadn't comforted him so much he may have never even reached Sydney and found his son!