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Personal Narrative: The New Character Of Universal Studios

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As I walk up to my door getting home from a long walk through the park, I hear the faint sound of my telephone ringing. I unlock my door and quickly rush in. I set down my bag and pick up the phone.
"Walt," my boss, Charles Mintz says, "I need you to to do a favor for me."
"Anything sir," I say with joy.
"I need you to make a brand new cartoon character," he said with such encouragement.
With that, he hung up without another word. So I had only a few days to make a new character for Universal Studios. Who knew that when I made this new character, it would lead to me make a world-famous phenomenon a year later.
The year was 1927, a fellow cartoonist, Ub Iwerks, and I had created a rabbit named Oswald, who happened to be very lucky. We named …show more content…

"Yeah, way more famous than Oswald could ever be," I chuckled a little bit while opening the door.
When I walked inside, I realized that this was it,Disney Brothers Studio, the place where it all happened. The place where we made Mickey Mouse. Every family in America knew who Mickey was, and I thought that if people loved Mickey so much that they would want to buy some Mickey merchandise. I was going to put Mickey on everything. People would have Mickey shirts, Mickey stuffed animals, and maybe even Mickey toothpaste. Okay, I doubt the toothpaste, but people get the idea. I knew Mickey was going to go far in this world.
After Universal took Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and all of my employees, I didn't give up, I just kept going and eventually created Mickey Mouse. I was so crushed when they took him, I could not live with myself. Opening my own studio was the best thing I have ever done, I would have never created Mickey. Also with the help of Ub Iwerks, which I also worked with at the Universal studio. By the end of 1928 business was booming and so was Mickey. Almost everyone in every household knew who he was. Mickey Mouse would live

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