The two characters i will choose to relate on staying true to themselves is Gang-Du from the Host and Olive Hoover from Little Miss Sunshine. I decided on these two protagonist not only because i like the movie and the character they play but i also believe that they had a goal and they both stayed focused on completing it but both of them fail but have something to gain from it.
Olive Hoover is a nerdy looking little girl who is clearly not made out to be a winner in a beauty pageant. Gang-Du is a silly immature father and he clearly isn't suitable to be a parent but he is a single dad and still tries to take care of her like Olive tries to win the pageant. They both are faced with a goal in the movie that changes there lives at the beginning of the movie.
Gang-Du lives in Korea helping his father with his small family business. Olive is the youngest in a dysfunctional family dealing with money issues. Gang-Du's live changes when a giant mutated monster comes from the river and takes his daughter. Gang-Du and his family then goes off and tries to find her. Olive gets a call saying that the first place winner in a beauty pageant has dropped out and that she has won first place. Olive and her family then set out to make it to the pageant before it's to late. Both families set off to meet there completely different goals.
Both families with odds against them run into many set backs that prevent them from getting to where they need to go. Olive's family not being able to afford a plane out to the beauty pageant has to drive there. They end up facing many challenges such as a dead grandfather and a car that won't start on it's own. Gang-Du family ends up becoming "infected" by the same disease the giant monster has and they are contained in a quarantined area. When they finally break free they are listed as "wanted" and everyone is after them.
Gang-Du finally meets the monster with his daughter head on and his family helps him kill the monster, the daughter is found to be dead after the monster dies but there was another little boy was found to survive the horror his daughter went through and he ends up keeping him and raising him as his own. Gang-Du remained to be immature and silly thought out the whole movie and although his family didn't approve of him in any way and blamed him for the death of his daughter he still was himself and he did the best he could.
Olive Hoover made it to the beauty pageant at the end of the movie and even hearing her family say that she couldn't do it and she was going to embarrass herself in front of everyone she still knew she could do it deep down inside. She went on stage and did sadly embarrass herself. She didn't think it was embarrassing though, she was doing what she wanted to do by staying true to herself. She also gained the respect of her family and they all jumped on stage with her and danced around also making themselves look stupid.
Both protagonist were put threw very stressful situations and they didn't come out on top but they stayed true to themselves adn over came there fears.
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