Analysis Of Beast Of The Southern Wild

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The film Beasts of the Southern Wild is a coming of age movie, told from the point of view of a six-year old progantist Hushpuppy. Hushpuppy is a six-year old girl living on the outskirts of Louisiana society, where HushPuppy learns to survive in an off the grid community called the Bathtub. Through the lenses and point of view of Hushpuppy, the audience is about to see the human experiences of Hushpuppy’s transition from dependence to independence. Through the use of adult figures, motifs, and overall ways Hushpuppy learn how to cope with the hand she is dealt. Hushpuppy is able to unfurl her story of how she learned how to subsist with the loss of her mother, illness and death of her father, and forced evacuation, all while learning how to …show more content…

Hushpuppy lives alone, not too far away from her alcoholic, abusive, seriously ill father. As a result, Hushpuppy is left to fend for herself: to cook, clean, care for her pets, her ill father, as well as herself while living during a storm with threaten to destroy the Bathtub. In the beginning scene of the film, Hushpuppy’s teacher, Miss Bathsheba, gives Hushpuppy some advice that she begins to implement: “Cause any day now, the fabric of the universe is coming unraveled. The ice caps gonna melt, the water's gonna rise, and everything south of the levee's going under. [..] Y'all better learn how to survive” (9). Hushpuppy runs home and checks for her father. When she realizes he is not home, she starts to think about how her life will be in the future: “Kids that got no Mamma, no Daddy and nobody. They got to live in the woods, and eat grass, and steal underpants. If Daddy don't get home soon, it's gonna be time for me to start eating my pets” (11). The point of view of Hushpuppy at this exact moment is when Hushpuppy realizes her situation in terms of learning how to not only survive, but survive on her own. She learns how to cook, clean and fend for

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