The Gang of Five
The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on March 20, 2015, 11:06:43 PM
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I was wondering, you know how teens sometimes do stupid things because their friends, or those they think are their friends, urge them to or they think they'd like it and want to fit in? Do you think Littlefoot could fall prey to that or do you think he'd be strong enough to resist it? Also, supposing as he got older and around him, he was hit by the unpleasant things of the adult wood as he got older, like segregation for instance. Do you think he'd be one of those who stood up to it just as he does when he is younger or do you think he'll morph into a go along to get along type of character and lose part of what we love about him?
I mean, standing up to peer pressure can get you unpopular, but standing up to injustice in the actual adult realm where it might have the backing of "that's the way things have always been" with a hierarchy backing this injustice could get you punished or made an outcast by the powers that be for speaking out against it.
Could Littlefoot ever be tricked or made to feel, perhaps to want to fit in in more than his oddball gang, that he's "cool" and hence do some less than noble stuff, and perhaps snub his real friends, only to find out that his so-called friends weren't that great and to end up in some kind of trouble and learn a lesson from it?
I mean, I pretty much always followed the rules as a kid, though, due to peer pressure, I've done dumb stuff like prank phone calls and other things before, especially when I hit my preteens and stuff.
Then again, everyone Littlefoot has trusted has proven to be good in the end (I still believe that will hold true for you-know-who in the end too.) and those, like Pterano, that he has had misgivings about, have turned out to be trouble indeed. Could he be duped into, or perhaps foolishly overlook the flaws of someone in order to "fit in" and end up getting led into some bad situations because of it, or is he too noble, strong, and perfect for that?
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We've had more than one instance where Littlefoot resisted peer pressure against his frinds (and a few where he gave in to it).
We had him follow his conviction against the will of his friends (ultimately dragging them along), in the original movie (about the way to the Great Valley), in LBT 2 (about Chomper), in LBT 3 (about following Hyp and his friends into the Mysterious Beyond), in LBT 5 (about Chomper again), in LBT 6 (about Doc), in LBT9 (about Mo)... the list could be continued.
Littlefoot has a very strong (almost stubborn) sense of what is right and what is wrong and is ready to stand for these convictions "on his own" if necessary. I therefore consider him very unlikely to fall to peer pressure wherever it would violate one of his most fundamental convictions (which I am very sure would keep him clear of snubbing his friends, turning racist, turning a bully or anything of that sort).
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So you do think it likely that he'd not want to "be cool" by snubbing his friends to fit in with the "in crowd"?
On the flip side, do you think he'd face the wrath of the Great Valley, including possible banishment, if one of his strongly held convictions would have to be violated in order to appease the Great Valley?
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No to the first.
Unlikely to the second.