Comparison: The Story Of Tinkerbell's Fictional Characters

The story of Tinkerbell, she is a fictional character from the land of fairies. She was born from a baby’s laugh and traveled to Pixie Hallows. When she arrived from the main land she was to walk around different talents including fast-flying fairies, the mining-talent fairy, tree-picker fairies which have sensitive noses to smell whether fruit is ripe or not, tinker fairies, dust-talent fairies work with the fairy dust, and lastly the water fairies work with water. As Tinkerbell walked around the talents only one rose up and glowed. Tinkerbell was now a Tinker fairy. Being a Tinker, Tinkerbell now had to fix things. The only problem with this was the fact that Tinkerbell did not want to be a Tinker. She found it to be repulsive and distasteful. Tinkerbell started to form a fixed mindset

surrounding the idea of being a tinker.

A fixed mindset meaning that her talents are fixed and there is nothing to do about it. Just as Dweck said “… the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life” (Dweck 6). The way Tinkerbell looked at being a Tinker ran her life completely till the point of giving up entirely. She decides to try other talents and maybe they fit her better. As she tries other talents they are not working out to well either and she becoomes even more frustrated than before. Throughout the movie Tinkerbell makes a mess of everything and decides to give up entirely. She ruins the preparation for spring and everyone is mad at her. This does not help her whole perspective on being a Tinker. She still has a fixed mindset, but things start to look up when she embraces her inner talent and starts fixing the mess she made. According to Dweck “You can change your mindset” (Dweck 14). This is exactly what Tinkerbell did, she took her talent and put it to work. She changed the way others looked at her and even the way she looked at herself. As Tinkerbell’s mindset was changing, she became better friends with the other fairies and even a better teammate with

her fellow tinkers. Her mindset was changing to have more of a growth mindset outlook. Dweck describes “A growth mindset is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts” (Dweck 7). So the more you put into something the better it may turn out. As for Tinkerbell this was very true due to her taking charge and making spring happen on time. As Tinkerbell’s mindset continued to change she became even less of a fixed mindset person. She never looked at different talents again. As she continued to help out more and more things were getting done. “Simply learning about the growth mindset seems to mobilize people for meeting challenges and preserving” (Dweck 224). This is a good quote for Tinkerbell because she was faced with many challenges, but she was able to overcome them. Just because you are not great at something at first, does not mean you can’t get better. Like some say practice makes perfect and sometimes practice makes your world completely change paths.