Wink tells his daughter his daughter that she “shouldn’t be cryin’”, as tears stream down his face. Hushpuppy rests her head on his chest, listening as his heartbeat fades away, and then he is gone. The final scene of the movie is truly inspirational. Hushpuppy, along with the rest of her rag tag community, set his funeral pyre ablaze. With an expression of true courage, she holds her head up, and puffs her chest out. As Hushpuppy sends her father off, she affirms that she is a small part of a big universe and someday it will be known that, “once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the