At the beginning of Spirited Away, Chihiro is represented as a timid and scared little girl who clings to her parents for everything. This is shown as when she moves into the tunnel, the camera is a close up on Chihiro which is kept at her eye level, cutting off her parents head. This shows that they are a lot more powerful than her as they are posed higher up than her. This is reversed by the end where her parents can be seen in full, symbolising her no longer having to rely on her parents.
At the beginning, we hear dialogue between Chihiro and her parents about how she is nervous about starting a new school and moving house. This shows how she is scared and it implies that children are often scared about having to start a new life and not having much confidence. But by the end, the last line in the film is 'I think I can handle it' showing how she has grown braver and more confident over the film, which represents how young people get braver with time.
Throughout, the film we see her get more and more confident and do more dangerous activities without the need of her parents, but we also get to see her care for others, which challenges the stereotypes of teenagers being a bit arrogant. For example, at the beginning Chihiro dislikes her school without ever going there and sticks her tongue out at it, showing her displeasure with it, but by the end she is focused on trying to save Haku after being injured, (accidentally) setting Haku free from Yubaba and even going as far as to meet with Zeniba, to ask her to forgive Haku for stealing her seal. As well as that we also see her care for Boh and Yubaba's bird while they are in animal form.
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