This is important as, in children’s literature, narrative is ‘almost always described in terms of its ability to secure the identification of the child with the story’ (Rose 1993, p. 62). For the majority of children to identity with him, Quasimodo could not be too disfigured. Not only do both of his eyes work well but so too do his ears, a vast change from Notre Dame de Paris in which ‘the bells had broken the drum of the ear; [rendering Quasimodo] deaf’ (p. 126). In fact, the first deaf character to be in a Disney feature length film who was not a subject of inappropriate comedy was not until quite recently, with the brief cameo of a child in Toy Story 4 (2019) with a cochlear implant.