Describe Story About Human and Animals Interactions (Essay Sample)

BALTO
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BALTO
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In New York City, an elderly woman and her granddaughter are walking, looking for a memorial statue. As they are resting, the grandmother tells a story about Nome, Alaska back in 1925.Balto, a HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdog" \o "Wolfdog"wolf dog hybrid, and lives on the outskirts of Nome with his adoptive father, Boris, and two HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bears" \o "Polar bears"polar bears, Muk and Luk. Being half-breed, Balto is ridiculed by dogs and humans. His only friend in town is Jenna who Balto has a crush on and is challenged by a fierce and arrogant dog, Steel.
That night, all the children, including Jenna's owner, Rosie, fall ill with HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphtheria" \o "Diphtheria"diphtheria. Severe winter weather conditions prevent medicine from being brought by air or sea, and the closest rail line ends in HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nenana,_Alaska" \o "Nenana, Alaska"Nenana. A dog race is held to determine the best-fit dogs for a sled dog team to get the medicine. Balto enter and wins, but Steele exposes his wolf-dog heritage hence he is disqualified. The team departs that night with Steele in the lead and picks up the medicine successfully, but on the way back, conditions get worse and the team ends up stranded at the base of a steep slope.
When the word reaches Nome, Balto sets out in search of them with Boris, Muk and Luk. On the way, they are attacked by a huge grizzly bear, but Jenna, who followed their tracks, intervenes. However, Jenna got injured. Balto instructs Boris and the polar bears to take her back home while he continues on alone. Balto eventually finds the team, but Steele does not want his help and attacks him until he falls off a cliff. Balto takes charge of the team, but Steele, refusing to concede defeat, throws them off the trail and they lose their way again. While attempting to save the medicine from falling down a cliff, Balto himself falls.
Back in Nome, Steele returns, claiming the entire team is dead. However, Jenna assures Balto will return with the medicine. Using a trick Balto showed her earlier, she places broken colored glass bottles on the outskirts of town and shines a lantern on them to simulate lights hoping it will help guide Balto home. When Balto regains consciousness, he notices the medicine crate still intact nearby, and drags the medicine back up the cliff to the waiting team. Using his advanced senses, Balto is able to filter out the false markers Steele created.
After encountering further challenges, and losing only one vial, Balto and the sled team finally make it back to Nome. Steele is exposed as a liar and abandoned by the other dogs. Reunited with Jenna and his friends, Balto earns respect from both the dogs and the humans. He visits a cured Rosie, who thanks him for saving her. Back in the present day, the elderly woman and her granddaughter finally found the memorial commemorating Balto, The woman, who is actually Rosie, repeats the same line, "Thank you, Balto. I would have been lost without you," before walking off to join her granddaughter and her Siberian husky, Blaze. The Balto statue stands proudly in the sunlight.
Characters
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Bacon" \o "Kevin Bacon"Kevin Bacon as HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balto_%28character%29" \o "Balto (character)"Balto, HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_J._Varab" \o "Jeffrey J. Varab"Jeffrey James Varab and Dick Zondag served as the supervising animators for Balto.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hoskins" \o "Bob Hoskins"Bob Hoskins as Boris, Balto's caretaker and sidekick. Kristof Serrand served as the supervising animator for Boris.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Fonda" \o "Bridget Fonda"Bridget Fonda as Jenna, Rosie's HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet" \o "Pet"pet as well as Balto's HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_interest" \o "Love interest"love interest. Robert Stevenhagen served as the supervising animator for Jenna.
Juliette Brewer as young Rosie, Jenna's owner. HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowers_%28director%29" \o "David Bowers (director)"David Bowers served as the supervising animator for Rosie.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Margolyes" \o "Miriam Margolyes"Miriam Margolyes as old Rosie in the HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-action" \o "Live-action"live-action sequences who tells her story to her granddaughter.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cummings" \o "Jim Cummings"Jim Cummings as Steele, Balto's rival who also has a crush on Jenna. Sahin Ersöz served as the supervising animator for Steele.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Collins" \o "Phil Collins"Phil Collins as Muk and Luk, a pair of HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_bear" \o "Polar bear"polar bear cubs. Nicolas Marlet served as the supervising animator for Muk and Luk.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Angel" \o "Jack Angel"Jack Angel, HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Mann" \o "Danny Mann"Danny Mann and HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Rist" \o "Robbie Rist"Robbie Rist as Nikki, Kaltag and Star (respectively), the members of Steele's team. William Salazar served as the supervising animator for the team.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Dickinson" \o "Sandra Dickinson"Sandra Dickinson as Dixie, one of Jenna's friends who adores Steele until his lies are exposed... Patrick Mate served as the supervising animator for Sylvie and Dixie.
Lola Bates-Campbell as Rosie's granddaughter, who appears in the live-action sequences and is accompanied by her dog Blaze, purebred Siberian husky.
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Roberts_%28voice_actor%29&action=edit&redlink=1" \o "William Roberts (voice actor) (page does not exist)"William Roberts as Rosie's father
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Sinden" \o "Donald Sinden"Donald Sinden as a doctor
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bailey_%28American_actor_and_author%29" \o "Bill Bailey (American actor and author)"Bill Bailey as a butcher
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrick_Hagon" \o "Garrick Hagon"Garrick Hagon as a telegraph operator
HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Welker" \o "Frank Welker"Frank Welker as the HYPERLINK "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grizzly_Bear" \o "Grizzly Bear"Grizzly Bear
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