Ariel Dorfman and Armand Merrelart reading, Andrew Wells

Let me first off and begin that I was very intrigued about this article. One reason why is because as a kid I remember looking up to the characters and images of Disney. My family and I would go to Disney world at least once or twice, every year till I turned 17. Every time I either watched a disney movie, I would always see the protagonist of the film as a person that set the image that I needed to follow. If the character was bold and strong, I made it my job to learn to be bold and strong until a new protagonist arrived on the screen.

Every Time I watched or visited anything that was Disney related, I got a sense of calm and peace. It was almost like all the characters were apart of my family. In the article, Ariel Dorfman and Armand Merrelart, there was a story about how Disney sent comics and sweets to the children of San Antonio, Chile. The act of kindness was so great that many were wanting to give Walt Disney the Noble Peace Prize. As a result to this Chile decided to ban the ideas and viewings of Disney. The response was that they did not see the use of talking animals as a means to teach children. As the reader continues he/she will come up to this quote: "Thus to attack Disney is to reject the unquestioned stereotype of the child, sanctified ad the law in the name of the immutable human condition (AD, AM 124)."

Furthermore I found out some interesting facts that i would have never thought of as a child. "It is the adult who produces the comics, and the child who consumes them (AD, AM, 126)." As an adult, he/she tends to input ideas and statements learned from their past and they insert them in to the comic creation meant for children. These adults, in connection with Disney, may have learned and bought into the "ideas" of Walt Disney and as a result ignore anything going against Disney. "Thus, the imagination of the child is conceived as the past and future Utopia of the adult... Child fantasy, although created by adults, becomes the exclusive reserve of children (AD, AM,127)."

I don't know if this ties with our reading but i though this to be a bit weird yet funny. Talking animals teaching us... ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZcs1SHVbz0