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Lightning Mcqueen Identity

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Our identity is something that is always adjusting throughout our lifetime. As we grow older we discover new things about ourselves and how we identify ourselves, through the experiences we face in our lives. People in our lives such as friends, family, teachers, and heroic figures also affect the way we identify ourselves; they are a big factor in building our personality. A film that deals with the idea of identity and how it changes is Cars. Lightning McQueen, the main character, experiences a change in his identity through being involved in a different environment with different people. Identity formation is defined as the combination of personal, social, and cultural experiences that combine to form an individuals identity. Cars is a …show more content…

Being the famous race car that Lightning is he is always showing off what he has whether it is his fast speed or his shiny paint job and stickers. Lightning McQueen is very confident in the way he carries himself, he thinks he is the best of the best. All he cared about was himself and what made him better than all the rest of the race cars. Thats why he believes the other two race cars have no shot in winning the race and it is all about him. Whenever they would interview him, he would be confident that he was going to win the race before he even got on the race track. Lightning also believes that he does not need anyone to help him such as his pit crew. In the first scene, which is a race leading up to the Piston Cup race, he never stops to change his tries to make sure he is first place winner. His pit crew advises him that he should stop but Lightning McQueen is to confident and keeps going. The outcome of him doing this is that both his tries exploded on the race track almost causing Lightning McQueen to lose the race. As a result of him being the best looking race car and being so fast people worship him like a God. His fans scream in the stands when Lighting McQueen is out on the race track. An example of how Lightning McQueen thinks of himself is a quote from the ReMix book, “At Calhoun, virtually all the popular kids are physically …show more content…

Radiator Springs has a lifestyle that Lightning is not used to. It is a small town that used to be very busy and booming in business but is now rarely visited by anyone. Whenever someone does visit this town all the cars that have a business there, try to advertise their products and get people to buy stuff or stay there because they need it desperately. Lightning McQueen of course does not fit in with them because he is used to always being pampered and never having to work for anything hard he really wanted. At first he sees the cars as weirdos and outcast because they are not into the same things as him and he is always used to everyone following what he likes. He tries everything to get out of the town as soon as possible but because he messed up the road he has to stay and fix it. Throughout his time spent in Radiator Springs he eventually makes friends like Tow Mater for example. Tow Mater is an old and rusty tow truck who is nothing but friendly to McQueen and only wishes to be his friend. The eventually become very close friends even though they are not into the same

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