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Gramma Tala Tells Story
Exopsition
Gramma Tala uses a painted tarp to tell toddlers of the story of Te Fiti and her heart. She tells how the demigod Maui made the trip to Te Fiti. He shapeshifted into some creatures to make the trip, and finally grasped the stone. Te Fiti, now heartless, begins to turn to darkness and dust from the absence of the magical stone. Maui is ready to get out of the island on his boat, but runs into Te Ka. Te Ka and Maui battle, and Maui leaves, defeated, and drops the heart into the ocean. -
Cheif Tui Says No
Exposition.
Cheif Tui, Moana's father, then enters the tent, telling Gramma Tala to stop telling the children such scary stories and that such monsters don't exist. He accidentally brushes up against a post which drops multiple tarps that are adorned with paintings of evil creatures and animals. The toddlers all scream, except for Moana, who slips away during the craziness. -
Ocean Gives Moana The Heart
Exposition
After Moana escapes to the beach, she walks down to the water. The ocean comes alive, a wave forming above her head. It plays with her hair and face. Baby Moana sees a shiny green stone and picks it up- she picked up the heart. Her father calls her and she drops the stone. Cheif Tui picks her up before she can grab the stone again. -
Moana Grows Up
Exposition
Moana grows up, each scene showing her parents telling her to stay at the island and stay close to home. Moana is drawn to the sea, but she is needed on her island. Gramma Tala encourages Moana to go to the sea, but her parents tell her to stay at home. -
Heihei Gets Introduced
Exposition
Moana is midway through her chief training and helps villagers with their tasks. An elderly man points to a stray chicken trying to eat a rock. He says that they should eat the chicken, but Moana tells him that in some cases, someone's strength is sometimes hidden. She names the chicken Heihei. -
Disaster Starts To Set In
Exposition
After Moana saves Heihei, a woman approaches her and her parents to show her a blackened, rotten coconut from the harvest. The villager says that the entire harvest had the same appearance. Moana suggests to cut down all of the sick trees and start a new grove on the other side of the island. The woman and her parents approve of her choice. Then, a young man approaches Moana and tells her that the fishing trips brought in absolutely no fish. -
Cheif Tui Gets Defensive
Exposition
After the fishermen tell Moana that the fish traps were empty, Moana suggests fishing beyond the reef of safety that Moana's father has a strict policy of not passing. After Moana suggests passing the reef, Chief Tui gets angry at Moana and storms off. -
Sina Explains
Exposition
Sina, Moana's mother, explains to Moana why Cheif Tui stormed off. She told her that her father had been like her when he was young; wanting to go to sea. Sina explained that he had gone, with his best friend, and had been trapped in a vicious storm. He survived, but his best friend drowned. He has had reservations against the ocean ever since. -
Moana Debates With Herself
Exposition
After her mother's explanation, Moana stays loyal to her islanders. She continues her duties as chief trainee with confidence and determination but eventually breaks. She sings the song, "How Far I'll Go" and debates whether to take the chance at sea or not. -
Moana Goes Out To Sea
Exposition
After a troublesome time debating with herself, Moana finally decides to take her chances, give up against the ocean's restraint, and go out to sea. While finishing her song, Moana takes her pet pig, Pua, out on a canoe. -
The Wave
Exposition
As Pua and Moana go out to the sea, they seem to be fine. After they sail for a couple of moments, a large wave knocks the canoe over and Pua and Moana go underwater. As Moana pulls towards Pua to help him towards the surface, she gets her leg stuck in a piece of coral. She struggles, trying to pull herself up. She then grabs a rock and crushes the coral. free her injured leg. After swimming back to the shore, Moana searches for Pua to find him safe on the beach. -
Gramma Tala
Exposition
Gramma Tala walks to the beach and sees Moana and Pua. Gramma Tala tells Moana that whatever happened, to blame it on the pig. Pua snorts in disgust and Moana tries to hide her injured leg behind her other leg, but Gramma Tala is not fooled. She pulls her grandaughter's bruised ankle with her cane to the point where she can see it, but promises not to tell Moana's parents. -
Moana Tells Tala
Exposition
Moana is relieved that Tala isn't going to tell her father, but she continues to tell her that her father was right about the ocean. Gramma Tala absently walks in the water and starts to dance around the stingrays that have gathered by the beach. She starts to tell Moana that when she dies, she wants to come back as a ray. Tala laughs and says, "Or else I chose the wrong tattoo!" Moana's grandmother turns to show off her tattoo of a large stingray that was printed on her upper back. -
Tala Takes Moana To The Cavern
Exposition
Moana notices that her grandmother isn't condraticting Moana about what she had said. She asks Tala if there is something that she would like to tell her. Her grandmother leads her to a holed up cavern, where Moana goes inside. Inside, she bangs a drum, like her grandmother directed, and she gets swooped into this story of her people, and how they used to be voyagers. -
Moana Is Told The Truth
Exposition
After seeing the lives of her ancestors, Moana rushes back out to Tala. She asks her grandma why her people stopped voyaging. Gramma Tala tells her of Maui and how he stole the heart of Te Fiti and how that let out darkness and explained how the boats went missing. They started to stay back on the island, and eventually forgot their voyaging past. After this, Tala gives Moana a green stone- the heart- and her necklace, saying that Moana was the chosen one, chosen by the ocean. -
Tala Shows The Hook
Exposition
After Tala tells Moana this, she shows her grandaughter the constellation of Maui's hook in the sky. She tell her that Maui will be beneath the point of the hook. She tells her that Moana is the chosen one and must fufill her duty and telling Maui to come with her to restore the heart. -
Moana Asks Tui
Rising Action
Moana frets because she can't sail. She then remembers that her father can, and runs to find him. Tui is discussing plans to restore the fishing grounds and the coconut trees. Moana interrupts and tells her people that she knows how to do these things. She holds up the heart and tells them what Tala told her. Tui leaves in anger, and throws the heart into the bushes, telling his daughter that it is just a rock. Moana goes to get the stone and finds Tala's walking stick. -
Gramma Tala
Rising Action
Moana starts to worry. As she looks upon the ground, a warrior calls to Moana's father, telling him that his mother is sick. Moana and Tui run to see Gramma Tala lying in bed. Tala tells Moana to restore the heart and to not worry about her. Moana leaves, tearful, and starts to pack. Her mother comes and helps her. Moana gets a canoe from the beach and sets out onto the ocean, the heart in hand. She looks back to see her grandmother's spirit in the form of a ray. -
Heihei Comes Back
Rising Action
Moana continues to struggle with the canoe. She eventually falls asleep, and wakes up the next morning to find two surprises- Heihei, the chicken, asleep in the canoe; and that she had lost track and was sailing in the wrong direction. -
Maui's Island
Rising Action
After she is thrown off track, Moana gets caught up in a storm. She barely survives it to the next morning, where it shows Heihei and herself washed up on a rocky island. Frustrated that the ocean didn't help her, she starts to yell and kick at the ocean. She then is relieved that the heart is still around her neck. Moana notices the hook-shaped marks on the rocks around her. She then realizes that the ocean brought her to Maui's island. -
You're Welcome
Rising Action
As soon as Moana realizes this, she ducks behind her canoe as soon as Maui comes into view. He lifts up the canoe in one hand, happy to see that a vessel has finally arrived on his island. He sees Moana. Moana tries to comfront him, but Maui starts to boast, singing "You're Welcome." -
Goodbye!
Rising Action
As Maui finishes the song, he deposits Moana into a cave and shuts it closed. He then takes the canoe and starts to sail off, but Moana climbs up to the top of the cave and jumps into the ocean after him, landing in the water about three feet behind him. Moana swims up to catch up, but the ocean quickly deposits her on the canoe next to him. Maui throws Moana offboard again, but the ocean still places her up next to him. It becomes clear that Maui is fearful of the green gemstone. -
Kakamora
Rising Action
As the pair argue, a large ship with tiny coconut figures emerges from the fog behind them. Maui gasps and tells Moana that the coconuts are after the heart. Maui gives Moana directions to sail the boat and is disgusted as soon as Moana tells him that she cannot sail. The Kakamora hook spears onto the canoe and start to board it. The heart falls out of Moana's necklace and Heihei eats it. The Kakamora steal Heihei in attempts to get their hands on the heart of Te Fiti. -
Safe!
Rising Action
Moana goes after the Kakamora that has Heihei. Maui tries to sail away, but the Kakamora surrounded him. Moana retrieves Heihei without being paralyzed by the red darts that the Kakamora blow at her. She and Maui escape before the Kakamora's boats collide. -
Moana Convinces Maui
Rising Action
Maui argues with Moana about restoring the heart. She convinces him by reminding him of the glory that people would give him if he did save the world. He agrees, as long as they retrieve his hook during this expedition. Moana agrees and the two set off. -
Asking To Sail
Rising Action
As they set out, Moana asks Maui to teach her how to sail. He laughs and says no, but Moana doesn't give up. She pierces him with a Kakamura dart and tranquilizes him so that he can't move. He now has to teach her to sail, or else they would get lost at sea! -
Tamatoa
Rising Action
Maui directs Moana to sail to a large rocky tower-like island in the middle of the ocean. Moana asks what it is, and Maui tells her that a lousy mortal couldn't survive the trip to Lalotai, the realm of monsters. She disagrees and starts to climb with him. Once they reach the top, Maui and Moana drop into a large hole that leads into Lalotai. Once they get down there, Maui shows Moana where his hook is- in the cavern of Tamatoa, a giant snail. -
Moana As Bait
Rising Action
Moana asks Maui how they will get the hook back. He tells her the plan- Maui plans on using Moana as bait as he climbs through the cavern to get his hook. -
Fooled
Rising Action
Moana and Maui's plan gets ruined when Tamatoa starts to sing his song, "Shiny," and catches Maui. Moana uses her brain and fools Tamatoa by tricking him into thinking that a normal stone covered in green moss is the heart of Te Fiti, and Maui and Moana make it out of the realm of monsters with his hook. -
Safe, Again- And Set Sail!
Rising Action
When Moana and Maui finally get out of the realm of monsters, Maui has a sense of respect for Moana for helping him save his hook. Then, the pair set out onto the ocean in hopes of restoring the heart of Te Fiti.
