Literacy Narrative On my 12th birthday I was given one of my favorite books‚ the original Grimm’s Fairy Tales‚ as a present from my aunt. I have been a big reader as long as I can remember so I was used to getting books as presents. This book was special. It was the first leather bound book I had ever owned‚ with its gorgeous blue cover and beautiful gold filigree. It felt special before I even opened the cover. Once I dug in and started to read the stories it opened up a whole new world to me. Receiving
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In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass‚ Alice a seven year old girl‚ falls down a rabbit hole and enters wonderland; a place full of nonsense and puns‚ which Carroll aptly uses to illustrate several points about life. Alice begins her journey at a tea party hosted by the March Hare‚ and Mad Hatter whom murdered Time‚ but seems to understand time very well; followed by her summons to join the Queen of Hearts in a game or croquet‚ nearly resulting in her death
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Madeline Allen English 243 February 27th‚ 2013 Annotations of “Agreeable” “Agreeable” by Jonathan Franzen was enjoyable for me because I could easily relate to the story of young athlete‚ Patty. In Franzen’s story‚ Patty struggles with the relationships within her family and she becomes somewhat of an outsider due to her love for sports. Her mother has never really focused on Patty and their relationship is put to the test when Patty is raped at a party. Originally she confides with her coach
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Finally‚ the Shinto religion is quite concerned with the idea of balance. This usually results in a concern for the balance between humans and the natural world. In Miyazaki’s films‚ there is also a lot of emphasis placed on balance. In fact‚ his protagonists often undertake a voyage of balance‚ either between humans and nature such as in Princess Mononoke‚ or within themselves like in Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. Princess Mononoke makes peace with the humans rather than yielding to
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Lizzy Barns was thinking about Jonas Vanstrom again. Jonas was an understanding hero with scrawny stomachs and tall tongues. Lizzy walked over to the window and reflected on her beautiful surroundings. She had always loved awe-inspiring Grand Tetons with its motionless‚ mashed mountains. It was a place that encouraged her tendency to feel ecstatic. Then she saw something in the distance‚ or rather someone. It was the an understanding figure of Jonas Vanstrom. Lizzy gulped. She glanced at her own
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Someone once said “Family like branches on a tree‚ we all grow in different directions‚ but our roots keep us all together”. This mean that we all become diverse individuals yet what keeps all of us united as one is our genealogy. In the story A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan we come across a character named June May who is on her mid thirties and embarks on a mission to China to meet her lost twin sisters to notified them of their mother’s death and also to make her not existing mother “Long-Cherished
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In my short analysis of “Cindarella”‚ understanding the basic concepts of the story was not as easy as I had once predicted. The author Elisabeth Panttaja explains in her essay different views and ideas in the sense that Cinderella is successful because of the magical powers created by her dead mother. The author tells that “It is not suprising . . . that modern criticism of (Cinderella) . . . has been so strangely indifferent to the roles that Cinderella’s mother plays in the story.” This to my
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Cinderella‚ the main character of the world’s most famous children’s tale‚ exhibits traits that‚ if looked at carefully‚ show she is a morally compromised character with sadistic tendencies. This is what Elisabeth Panttaja‚ an ex-professor at Tufts University‚ argues in “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”. Panttaja uses the role of Cinderella’s mother to highlight the heroine’s unsavory actions. Cinderella and her mother constantly employ treacherous tactics to manipulate people in the name of
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1 Book review on Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter By Caren Shin In wealthy families‚ babies are born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Not quite for Adeline. In fact‚ the recount of Adeline Yen Mah’s childhood is a relatively sad one even though her father was a millionaire. She was seen as bad luck to the family as her mother died after giving birth to her. She is always frowned upon by her older and younger siblings‚ neglected by her father and scolded by her
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Brother Grimm’s version of Cinderella hold many symbolisms that posses many different meanings in the story. The first symbolism is the stepsisters symbolize our society of the world‚ and how cruel it can be to the innocent. The second symbolism is stepmother’s envy she has for Cinderella. The envy that originates from the stepmother is the jealousy she has for Cinderella’s beauty‚ and how it bothered the stepmother that her daughters are not as beautiful as Cinderella. The third symbolism is the
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