Comparison Of Finding Nemo And Out Of The Rolling Ocean The Crowd

Family bonds and bonds of friendship stand unbroken over time and distance. For instance, a college student, a missing or the loss of a family member’s bond can never really be broken whether it be the time or distance that comes in between. There are many works that address the theme of unbroken love. Two works that are representative of this idea are Finding Nemo and Out of The Rolling Ocean The Crowd, which are both centered around the ocean. The Pixar Movie Finding Nemo and Whitman’s poem Out of The Rolling Ocean The Crowd use ocean imagery to suggest both a separation and a union, seemingly contradictory ideas which prove that shared bonds transcend physical space.
The movie Finding Nemo demonstrates the strength of a love so powerful that it reaches across great distances. Marlins life has been dominated by the traumatic loss of his wife and soon to be born kids when a barracuda attacks them and leaves only one egg, Nemo. Marlin plays a loving father who’s very over protective and worries over his son. Marlin grows to protect him. "I promise, I will …show more content…
It also represents that even as big as the ocean may be, strong bonds cannot be unbroken and will manage to find their way back to each other because they have hope. Even through all the struggles that Marlin went through, when he felt like giving up, there had always been that one reason to keep him going. Same with the speaker in the poem when he knew that the separation from his lover and him would not be eternal, but that it would take time and he would have to wait to reunite with her. In both narratives the ocean represents the distance and space that keeps the bonds apart, but in the end they become hopeful outcomes. Both Marlin and the speaker had faith and never gave up on the day they would reunite with their loved