Structure and Attachment

Things that will help build an attachment

Ordeal builds attachment with admiration

Heroes on a mythical journey overcome an ordeal.

Ideas for application:

Should the story begin with Tuba-Goose as a normal goose, and his journey is into the human world?

Should I try to build attachment through another ordeal.

His ordeal the struggle to fit in (gain respect?). He attains a piece, realizes will never be real, and abandons it. This should be an acceptance of defeat, not a victory.

Gilgamesh breaks the rules:
http://genrehacks.blogspot.com/2013/11/real-myths-are-weird.html

Witnessing injustice builds empathy for the victim
Examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%27s_Keeper_(1992_film)
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/6966574395030477/
Ideas for application:
Maybe if the audience sees Tuba-Goose enduring poor treatment...

Lingering question... Why do people love Travers' Mary Poppins? She does not go through an ordeal, she inflicts one, and you never feel sorry for her, but you feel a loss when she leaves. She is sort of like Yoda.