Response Essay on the Movie "Brave"

Writing- Response Essay

       The Movie "Brave" is a fantasy movie about the main character Merida, trying to change her fate. Merida is a princess who is adventurous and loves archery. She is forced to marry a person she doesn't even know and try to change her fate by putting a spell on her mother. Merida's mother loves her daughter and wants Merida to follow her footsteps. When Merida has a huge argument with her mother 

about the marrige, Merida goes into the forest on her own and follows the wisps, which are magical things that leads you to your fate. Merida followed the wisps and found a witch's house. She asked for a spell that would change her mother and she found out that the spell turned her mother into a bear. The story continues on with Merida finally finding a solution to her problem. The story ends in a happy ending~ In this response essay, I would write about the lessons I learnt, will write about parents should listen more carefully to children and I will compare and contrast between my parents and Merida's parents and Merida and me.

      After watching this movie I learnt a few lessons. I learnt that parents are always important and they are always going to love you no matter what.I think I would recommend this movie to children who quarrel a lot with their parents. If they watch it together, I'm sure that their relationship will be much better. Also I learnt that I cannot live without my mom. Never! I realized I should always be a good daughter and even though my mother scolds me , always think that she is doing it to help me.

      In the movie Merida's mom did not listen to her daughter carefully. That is the reason why the conflict between them happened between Merida and Merida's mother. I strongly believe that parents should listen to their child's opinion and accept them and respect them. Most of the adults might feel insulted if a child is correcting them because they are older. However  children's imagination is actually more creative so they could think of better ideas. If Merida's mother had respected and accepted Merida's thoughts and opinions about the marriage  maybe the argument between them wouldn't have happened. The video below explains more about adults should listen more to children.

      While watching the movie "Brave", I noted many similarities and differences between Merida's parents and my parents. The similarity was that they both want their child to be perfect all the time. My mom usually scolds me because she wants me to improve ans wants me to be brilliant at everything. My mom, like Merida's mom wants me to listen to her all the time. However, like Merida's dad, my dad listens to my thoughts carefully and respects my ideas. The difference is that Merida's mother wants Merida to follow her footsteps but my mother wants me to do succeed more than her. Me and Merida have some differences and similarities too. Merida was brave enough to follow the wisps and she was brave enough to change her mother. If I was her, I'd never do that because I haven't got the courage. Also the similarity is that I've been thinking about wanting to change mt fate too.


    In conclusion, I compared and contrast between Merida's parents and my parents and me and Merida, I believe that parents should listen carefully to their children and I learnt lessons from the movie "Brave"