Outline of First Term Paper

Physics in "Ponyo"

I. Introduction – The Little Goldfish...

• a. Physics still apply
  
• b. Ponyo: The girl who walks on water
  
• c. Beings or parts of nature are able to defy the laws of physics
  
• d. Thesis statement: Everything follows some law of physics, but if you have special powers, then those laws don't need to apply to you if you feel like it.
  

II. Physics in the world of Ponyo

• a. Sosuke and Ponyo
  
• b. All the older characters. (ie. Lisa, the father, the old ladies)
  
• c.Hair in Miyazaki's film react according to the person's emotion

• d. water
• e. The world under the sea
  

III. Ponyo: The girl who walks on water

• a. Ponyo walks on water in two part of the movie when she escapes from her father's underwater home.
  
• b. When she is in the room, she floats down slowly back and forth like a leaf.
  
• c. Ponyo and her sisters bursts out of the water at extreme speed.
  
• d. Running on the waves
  

IV. Beings or parts of nature are able to defy the laws of physics

• a. Ponyo
• b. Gran Mamare
  
• c. The Tsunami and the Moon
  
• d. Ponyo's sisters
  
• e. Nature itself
  

V. Conclusion

• a. Summation of points
• b. Restate thesis