Walt Disney by Henry M.

 

Have you ever seen a Disney movie or been to one of their theme parks? You probably think that the person who started it had a successful life but in reality, he faced a lot of challenges. Walt Disney faced many adversities in his life and some were about getting a job. At a young age he didn’t have much time for school and faced many difficulties. I will write about Walt Disney overcoming adversity.

Walt Disney was born in 1901 and raised in Missouri. A text called “Walt Disney-Overcoming Adversity” said that when he was young, he would sell his sketches to neighbors and at high school he would draw comics for the school paper. At the age of 16 he dropped out of school to join the army but was rejected for being underage. In 1923, he made “Alice’s Wonderland” which was successful. After that he made “The Alice Comedies.” In 1928 he learned he didn’t own the rights to his most successful character “Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.” This had to be devastating for him. He quit making “The Alice Comedies” and got on a train back to Hollywood.

Walt Disney also had jobs when he was young. In “Walt Disney Failures,” biography.com, it says that when Disney was 16 he lied about his age to become an ambulance driver during World War 1. When the war ended, he and his elder brother named Roy launched their own cartoon business, Laugh-O-Gram Studios, in 1920, but the company went bankrupt a couple of years later. This means a loss of money and a lack of success. Walt Disney made Mickey Mouse in 1928 and after that he made many animated movies. Years later, he made a theme park but at the start it wasn’t working that well. Rides would malfunction and Disney kept fixing them. After much hard work and bumps down the road, the theme park was a huge success.

Finally, I will talk about his family and how he faced adversity. In “The Circular-The Success Story of Walt Disney” it states that Walt Disney had three brothers and a younger sister, Disney and his brothers worked as paper boys and didn’t have much time for school. In one of his jobs, they told him that he had no good ideas and lacked imagination, but this didn’t discourage Disney from becoming a movie maker. Six years later he decided to create a animated movie, he ran out of funding and “borrowed 1.5million for unprecedented budget.” Many people said that nobody is going to sit through an animated movie, but he ignored it and focused on his work. Disney spent three years in the creation of the movie. “It was a huge success, it became the most successful motion picture film of the year”. The movie was called “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs.”

To end this long summary of his life, Walt Disney faced an enormous amount of adversity and despite that he never gave up. Disney started off with a rough start, he couldn’t attend school, and failed many times making cartoons. Disney kept working and in the end he made many memorable movies and many theme parks.