Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) is a wide-eyed, blue tang fish who suffers from memory loss every 10 seconds or so. The one thing she can remember is that she somehow became separated from her parents as a child. With help from her friends Nemo and Marlin, Dory embarks on an epic adventure to find them. Her journey brings her to the Marine Life Institute, a conservatory that houses diverse ocean species. Dory now knows that her family reunion will only happen if she can save mom and dad from captivity.Finding Dory / Film synopsis

Monterey Peninsula 'Finding Dory' was Inspired by California's Monterey Peninsula.

Finding Dory shows how challenges and difficulties shape our characters, how we can learn from them and overcome them, and how families play an important factor in a person's life and development. Kids can get these messages, but adults will feel them more keenly.

Dory suffers from short-term memory loss. Dory is the aquatic Good Samaritan who offers to help Marlin on his journey to find his son. She is certainly an odd partner for such a quest, but her optimism proves an invaluable quality to help overcome the impossible.

Once reunited with her parents, Dory realizes that to be happy and whole, she also needs to be with Marlin and Nemo – because they are also her “family.” At the end of the movie, she is with everyone who belongs to her.

The narrative-mandated internal conflict revolves around Marlin insulting Dory's memory (her ability to remember, not the memory of her) but they are separated so soon after the initial slight that the tension never takes off.

“Dory resonated with the world in a way that many of our characters haven't. She represents something people really aspire to or connect to or take strength from.

Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin. When Nemo swims too close to the surface to prove himself, he is caught by a diver, and horrified Marlin must set out to find him. A blue reef fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) -- who has a really short memory -- joins Marlin and complicates the encounters with sharks, jellyfish, and a host of ocean dangers. Meanwhile, Nemo plots his escape from a dentist's fish tank.Finding Nemo / Film synopsis

What are the main themes in Finding Nemo? The main theme in this movie is friendship. There are many different forms of friendship, but one thing they all have in common is that there are two sides to it: giving and receiving.

The big thing that started to reveal itself [was] we were never getting that deeply, emotionally, invested in Dory. We finally deduced she never self-reflected because she couldn't remember things. She couldn't express the growth that was going on. But how to solve it turned out to be just as difficult.

In literature, a conflict is a literary device characterized by a struggle between two opposing forces. Conflict provides crucial tension in any story and is used to drive the narrative forward.

To identify a central conflict in a story, ask yourself what the main character's biggest challenge is: what do they overcome by the end of the story? If the answer is themselves, the central conflict is internal (character vs. self). Otherwise, it's external (character vs.