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From the film Chicken Run I have chosen to study the character Ginger. Through her character along with the use of narrative elements and filmic codes, the viewers are positioned to accept Ginger’s values of loyalty, helping others and freedom for all. This helps the viewer to understand her beliefs that it is important to have determination and never give up. Chicken Run focuses on Ginger and throughout the film, she is portrayed as a stereotypical heroine. This is shown in her first main scene when the chickens plan to escape from the Chicken Farm by going under the wire fence that surrounds them and escape. Ginger is positioned in the shadow but with a light facing on her. This makes her seem small, meek and defenceless in what is regimented to appear similar to a prison of war camp. The prison of war camp feeling is created with the fast, exciting and triumphant music that is taken from the movie The Great Escape a movie about war and the many references such as the chickens