Year 9 ENGLISH UNIT 4: LET’s GET SPIRITED AWAY!

Australian International Academy, Kellyville

7. SPIRITED AWAY CHARACTER ANALYSIS DATE: …../ …… / ……..

Aims: (1) analyse the characters (2) describe their contexts and challenges

TASK 1 SORTING OUT CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Choose one of the characters from the film: Spirited Away.
Complete the chart and information for the character

What obstacles do they need to overcome? How do they overcome their obstacles?
Character Personality
Chihiro  Stubborn Chihiro faced the obstacle of being To overcome this issue, Chihiro met Haku
 Fearful exposed to this new “realm”. In this and received a job at the bath house. In the
 Caring new world, her parents were turned bath house, she behaved and followed all the
 Curious into pigs. rules and instructions. She ended up meeting
with Zeniba to give the zeal back and Haku
made a deal with Yubaba that if Chihiro
comes back with her baby, then she will
remove the contract and return her parents.

Haku  Compassionate Haku faces many obstacles. His main Chihiro ended up breaking the curse with
 Protective obstacle was when he stole the zeal “love” and killed the slug that was
 Caring and faced the consequences. He had a controlling Haku. She also helped him
 Polite curse and was still controlled by remember his name, as he was the river spirit
Yubaba. that helped her when she almost drowned.
Yubaba  Greedy Yubaba faces the obstacle of losing To overcome this issue, she made a deal that
 Rude her baby, no-face ruining the if the baby returns then she will remove the
 Controlling bathhouse and the river spirit entering contract. She also used Chihiro to overcome
 “Evil” twin the bathhouse. the issue of no-face as she removed him from
the bathhouse, and took care of the river
spirit.

No-Face No-face faces the issue of loneliness. No face faced the obstacle of being lonely
 Mysterious and to overcome this issue, he stayed and
 Protective protected chihiro, and followed her to
 Generous Zeniba’s house where he ended up staying
 Lonely with her.

Zeniba  Understanding Haku, Yubaba’s apprentice, stole her To overcome this issue, she followed him to
 Caring Zeal. the bathhouse and had a curse put on him.
 Loving Chihiro ended up returning the zeal and
 “Kind/nice” breaking the curse with love.
twin