Jaquoia Guillebeaux
Dr. Smith
ENG102
December 11, 2013
Borderlands: ‘Real World’ and
Super Natural
In the film Spirited Away, the protagonist (Chihiro) crosses numerous
boundaries, thresholds, and literal doorways before she is able to gain the
knowledge and wisdom that she needed in order to free herself, as well as her
parents from the spirit world. Chihiro is the heroine ( female with courage
throughout the movie), who is ten years old. Her and her parents were moving
into a new house, when they stumbled across a mysterious looking tunnel. The
mother and father wanted to check it out but Chihiro was scared; they all went
through anyway. They thought that it was an old abandoned amusement park. There
was food sitting out, cooked and smelling good. Chihiro parents started eating
the food and thought they should pay later. As chihiro walked away, she ran
into a boy name Haku. He warned her to leave before it gets dark. When she
returned to her parents, they had been turned into pigs. Scared little Chihiro
ran off but it was too late because it had turned dark and the spirits have
come out.
When she reached Yubaba, she was
turned down. Chihiro didn’t take no for an answer and got a job at the spa like
place. In the Supernatural world anything is possible that wouldn’t normally
happen. She had seen spirits walking around at night. There was even a spirit
named No Face that was eating people. Supernatural is basically attributed to
any force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature. The magic that
was endured in the film Spirited away was amazing. In the ‘real world’ as we
call it, things are just plain so it’s cool to read on things that can’t
normally happen. When we read or watch something from the supernatural, it
allows us to experience something we can’t; The characters feels it for us.