Pursuing Dreams Monologue

"Pursuing Dreams"

As Universal Pictures hired away Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who was the character I created in the year of 1927, everything was taken away from me. For all the hard work and effort I've put into creating this character with his big button nose and floppy black ears and filming series of shorts that were instant hits, all of this ended up with not much success. "Everything was gone, and I didn't deserve this. All the nights I struggled to create this character, designing every detail of his body, filming several piles of paper for series of shorts, yet they took him away from me. Oswald expressed my whole life in character, has made me part of who I am, and so, what could I possibly do now? For this, made

"Mortimer Mouse, you said?" asked my wife. "Yes, is there anything wrong with the character? Or is it the name?" I curiously asked. "In fact, yes it is the name. Mortimer, well Mortimer seems too—I do not know how to describe it. I apologize if I do not think that the name coordinates with his character," said my wife. "No, I will change it to-Mickey Mouse. Instead of Mortimer Mouse, it will be Mickey. There, I hope that sounds better for the character's name," I stated. "Indeed, it does," my wife said. On the following day, since we had already figured out our new character for Disney Brother Studios, we started our great project of making a series of short films of our Mickey Mouse, just as we had done to Oswald. Unfortunately, these films didn't draw out much attention as we had hoped, but I anticipate that something big will come soon. "For, we should create something new, something different, and something better. We cannot be afraid to enter new territories, for it is kind of fun to do the impossible," I

It would be such a dream, such a hope, such a miracle to do that. And, I certainly know that I will accomplish it," I confidently thought. Before I knew it, I got together with my fellow animators and hired new employees to add several different kinds of sound effects to match up every detail in this upcoming film that we were currently making, and we decided to title it Steamboat Willie. I think this would be the first animation ever to have sound, so I know that this is a huge step towards creativity. As the 18th day of November in the year of 1928 arrived, our film was premiered and became an instant hit! And furthermore, I quickly made a line of Mickey Mouse merchandise and a Mickey Mouse Club, in which children loved.

About seven years after my Mickey Mouse became an instant hit, there was a young animator, whose name was Fred Moore, came over to my studio to give Mickey Mouse a makeover. Although I adored the original way I drew my Mickey Mouse, I am glad to admit that he gave my Mickey Mouse a sense of color, a more shaped body to move better, white gloves, and a shortened nose, in which all these details made him look