Naruto’s desire to become the Hokage was a reflection of both his parentage and his desire to be accepted by a town that despised him. Who knows anything about Naruto and the idea of the character knows that his ultimate ambition as a teenager is to become Hokage. A long shot, to be sure, but one that came with a lot of hardship and loss along the way for the seemingly hopeless ne’er do well.
Naruto’s goal to become the Hokage represented his desire for attention and praise from a town that despised him, as well as his unknown paternity. It could also be an allegory for Sarutobi’s failure to help the boy in the end. Naruto’s youth and how it shaped him into the Seventh Hokage are examined here.
Naruto’s Tragedy as a Child
Minato Namikaze, the father of Naruto Uzumaki, was the Hidden Leaf Village’s Fourth Hokage, and Kushina Uzumaki, his mother. A fierce fox demon that was only kept at bay by his mother’s determination was the Nine-Tails. Kushina was caught during childbirth, and the Nine-Tails were unleashed from her body, wreaking devastation on the hamlet.
In the subsequent carnage, Minato sacrificed his life and soul to seal half of the Nine-Tails in Naruto for containment, resulting in the deaths of both of Naruto’s parents. In the end, the boy would become an orphan and lose any advantages his parents might have provided. In order to maintain the deception that he wasn’t the son of the Fourth Hokage, he was given his mother’s maiden name at birth.
That he possessed the devastating Nine-Tails inside of him was made public knowledge throughout the village. In the wake of this, the community shunned and despised Naruto, deeming him a plague and practically treating him as the devil. The village provided him with a tiny stipend, but it wasn’t enough to keep him afloat.
As a child, Naruto had no idea who his parents were or why the community hated him so much. Because Hiruzen Sarutobi had barred anybody from mentioning the Nine-Tails, he was unaware of its existence. As a result of this endeavour to prevent youngsters of Naruto’s age from rejecting him the way their parents did, the children avoided him just the same. Even though he was scarcely present for his own children, Sarutobi didn’t appear to have had much of a hand in rearing him.
The Function of Naruto As a Hokage
Naruto’s entire community treated him like a leper, so he turned to pranks and practical jokes to earn people’s attention. His desire to become the next Hokage of his community intensified as he grew up, with the role effectively being the highest sort of recognition anyone could bestow upon him. Despite the scepticism, the young Naruto needed the attention, especially after being shunned for so long.
Resentment toward Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Hokage before Naruto’s father, may have been a factor in his desire to become Hokage. A lack of intervention in the severe treatment Naruto experienced from others, as well as Naruto’s reliance on government handouts, may be to blame for this. This is supported by the fact that he vandalised early photographs of Sarutobi. While Naruto has some anger toward the old man, it doesn’t prevent Naruto from being a type of older brother to Sarutobi’s grandson, Konohamaru.
While his peers and villagers abused and humiliated him, he ended up becoming more accepting of others and sympathetic. Naruto’s buddies include people who once ridiculed and despised him. Since becoming Hokage is his goal, he becomes even more driven to achieve it before the end of the series. Unfortunately, he is unable to spend as much time with his family as he would like because of the position, which is ironically similar to what Sarutobi endured. In spite of this, Naruto is an honourable and powerful leader who has developed an optimistic outlook on life because of his difficult childhood.