Walt Disney: a Dream Come True

It’s Sunday and my sisters and I are watching the “Disney Channel Original Movie” for the night. It’s the typical Damsel-in-Distress having to be rescued by the favorable, handsome Prince Charming. While on commercial break, the preview of the newest Disney Princess movie appeared on the television screen. It seemed like the classic movie of the beautiful princess having to kiss a frog to see her wonderful prince. It even had the very literal title, “The Princess and the Frog.” Only this time, when she kissed this frog, he didn’t become an attractive brown-haired bombshell, instead, he remained the green slimy frog. “What a twist to the story!” my sister exclaimed. It definitely wasn’t what we expected.   Nobody would ever expect that to happen, especially in a Disney movie. But that is exactly what makes the Disney Company so successful. Revolution in animated films and innovation of new story lines keep their wide-range of audiences wanting more and more every time a movie comes out. This revolution of mass media and public love for the infamous Disney characters started because of one person. One individual changed the full-length animation production forever and gave this nation, this entire world a special way of interpreting animated films. The rhetoric of Walt Disney gave imagination to the youth of America for generations and many more generations to come.
Walt Disney began his love for drawing at an early stage in his life. While living in his farm house in Marceline, Missouri he developed his love for drawing. He also found his interest for trains and often found himself anticipating the sounds of an oncoming train. When he moved to Kansas City with his family, he attended Saturday courses at the Kansas City Art Institute. There, he became the cartoonist for the school newspaper. His cartoons were very patriotic, focusing on World War I. After his attempt at joining the army (but being underage, he was declined) he decided to pursue his artistic career....