Coming of Age Essay, Condensed
My coming of age essay was about the 2011 animated movie Rango. Rango starts the movie with zero identity; he literally lives in a cage making up stories where he is the valiant hero to satisfy his crushing loneliness and crisis of self. When he is thrown unceremoniously into the Mojave desert, he has to face the fact that not only is he not as brave as he thought he was, but that the real world is unforgiving, and there are very few people in the desert willing to help anyone but themselves. When he arrives at the main setting, a town called Dirt, people ask who he is and where he's from. It is then that he realizes that as he has no identity, he can spout whatever lies he wants to impress these people, and he does that exact thing. However, when he is appointed sheriff, he has to deal with the reality of having people rely on you, as it is now his responsibility to save the entire town from dying of thirst by retrieving their water. When he fails on his mission and has to come b