The chart keeps to what the film itself shows
The chart covers the Madrigal family in Encanto, the animated film released by Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2021. The people and their places in the family come from the film and from Disney’s own character guide. Later songs, books and fan theories are left out. The film gives no years of birth or death, so the chart has none, and the editor writes no ages inside the symbols.
The drawing is our own, made with the editor in the notation of McGoldrick, Gerson and Petry. It uses no image from the film. Mirabel, the only child of her generation without a gift, is the index person, marked with a double outline, because the story is told from her side of the family.
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Three generations of Madrigals on one chart
Read the chart from the top. Pedro and Alma Madrigal are the first generation. Pedro was killed while the young family fled their village, so his square carries an X. Alma raised their children alone in the Encanto and is the matriarch of the household.
The second generation are triplets, Julieta, Bruno and Pepa. A multiple birth is drawn with lines that leave the parents’ line from a single point, so the reader can see at once that the three were born together. The key lists that mark as Twins, because the notation draws triplets with the same lines. Julieta married Agustín and Pepa married Félix, and both husbands married into the family without gifts. Bruno did not marry.
The third generation hangs from the two couples, oldest on the left. Julieta and Agustín have three daughters, Isabela, Luisa and Mirabel. Pepa and Félix have three children, Dolores, Camilo and Antonio, the youngest of the family. Six grandchildren in two sibling groups make the shape of the family plain before any relationship line is added.
Three relationship lines carry the story of the film
The structure of the family is stated by the film. The relationship lines are different, because they are readings of what happens on screen. The chart draws three, each tied to events a viewer can point to.
| Line on the chart | Between | What happens in the film |
|---|---|---|
| Cutoff repaired | Alma and Bruno | Bruno leaves after his visions upset the family, hides inside the walls of the house for ten years and returns at the end |
| Close and hostile | Alma and Mirabel | Alma blames Mirabel for the cracks in the house, and the two reconcile at the river where Pedro died |
| Close | Mirabel and Antonio | Antonio relies on Mirabel for comfort and courage before the night his gift arrives |
What a genogram reader notices in the Madrigal family
What follows is interpretation rather than a fact of the film. The chart shows a family organised around one loss. Alma lost her husband in the flight that founded the Encanto, and the gifts of her children and grandchildren became the way the family proves its worth to the town. A reader of the chart can ask how a loss in the first generation shapes the expectations placed on the third.
Bruno’s line is the clearest example of what Bowen family systems theory calls emotional cutoff, in which a person manages unresolved tension by ending contact while staying emotionally bound to the family. He leaves and yet never goes far. The Bowen genogram guide sets out the eight concepts of that theory and what each looks like on a chart.
The sibling groups invite a second question. Isabela is presented as the flawless eldest and Luisa carries the heavy work, while Mirabel has no gift at all. Birth order alone explains nothing, but a chart that sets three sisters side by side makes their different roles easy to discuss in a class.
Draw a film family in the same order
The same method works for any family on screen. Decide first what the source states and what you are reading into it, and keep the two apart on the page.
- Set the scope
Name the film or the series and the point in the story that the chart describes.
- Draw the oldest generation
Place the founding couple at the top and mark a death with an X, with a year only where the source gives one.
- Add the children in birth order
Hang each child from the parents’ line, oldest on the left, and draw twins or triplets from one point.
- Add the relationship lines last
Draw only the lines you can tie to a scene, and write the scene in your notes beside the chart.
Common questions
Why the triplets are drawn from one point
The notation draws a multiple birth with lines that leave the parents’ line from a single point. Julieta, Bruno and Pepa are triplets, so their three lines meet above them. The genogram symbols guide shows the twin and triplet lines beside the other marks.
Why the chart has no ages or years
The film does not state any year of birth or death for the Madrigals. Disney describes Mirabel as fifteen, but that single age is not enough to date the rest of the family, so the chart leaves every year blank.
Using the Encanto genogram for an assignment
Draw your own version rather than copying this one, and name the film as your source. The guide on how to write a genogram paper explains how to place the chart as a figure and keep fact apart from analysis.
Where the townspeople and Mariano fit
They are left out. Mariano courts Isabela but does not marry into the family in the film, and a genogram records family structure first. A reader who wants the town on the page can add it as an ecomap beside the chart.
Sources and methodology
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