The fairy tale Rapunzel by the Brother’s Grimm is about a girl who is stolen from her mother and locked in a tower. She is never allowed to leave the tower. One day a prince comes‚ climbs the tower and Rapunzel and the prince fall in love and get married. The original story was so popular that Disney made it into the movie Tangled. The producers have added scenes like running from the royal guards and almost drowning in a dam to bring more action and suspense to the movie. One of the new scenes
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Byatt’s enticing tales of a dark forest‚ monsters and two little girls creates a fantasy or fairy tale that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The fairy tale starts out with two little girls meeting on a train with other evacuees heading to an unknown place. Penny and Primrose‚ who became fast friends on the train reconnected later in their adult life. When they met again the two girls attached themselves to each other just like the time they met on the train. The children were told to play until
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Candy Land Once upon a time there lived a simple girl who lived a simple life. Her name was Elena brooks and she lived in a small town of Freeport‚ Kansas. Elena lived with her mom‚ Adriana and her dad‚ Chris. She was a star student and was on the tennis‚ track‚ and debate team for her school. One day Elena was walking to her house when she saw a guy from her school named Eliot‚ they talked for a while and he decided to invite Elena to a party he was having this evening before their school’s football
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Fairy tales help to establish gender roles at a young age to characterize and represent the ideals‚ values‚ and roles that each gender should succumb to. Females are taught to be kind‚ sweet‚ week‚ honest‚ self-sacrificing‚ and beautiful. On the other hand‚ males are taught to be courageous‚ brave‚ saviors‚ and wise. Many of these characteristics are shown in Snow White. However‚ in lemony Snicket’s‚ A Bad Beginning‚ the novel challenges many of these ideas by providing the reader with alternate
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The book Twice Upon A Time-Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair‚ by Wendy Mass‚ is about a girl named Rapunzel getting taken away from her home and the story of her life in a tower and the story of how she was saved. In the beginning of the book‚ it is Rapunzel’s birthday and she is very excited. But all of a sudden a witch comes to take her away from her house and her parents. Her parents try to stop the witch from taking Rapunzel. Rapunzel gets to either stay with her parents‚ but then the witch
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The book‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ was always thought to be a child’s tale‚ a “modernized fairy tale” until Henry M. Littlefield wrote an article about how The Wizard of Oz was actually an allegory for the Populist era. Littlefield believed that each character and significant place in the book correlated with a person or place in the Populist era. L. Frank Baum wrote this children’s book as a political allegory‚ whether he intentionally did it we are not sure. However‚ the unwavering proof that
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Ballerina slippers The dirty ballerina slippers hung loosely on her small feet. The subbing sound that came every time she moved them echoed off of the tall walls decorated with vines and weeds. She smiled to herself. There was nothing more beautiful than nature claiming what used to be theirs. Her little heart jumped in her chest when the threads of the shoes made her trip. The shoes were at least two sizes too big‚ but her correctly sized wellies were thrown into one of the corners of the building
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The godmother in "Rapunzel" was seen as a terrible godmother because she put Rapunzel in a tower to protect her from entering her teen years. She was a great godmother‚ other’s may say because she cared for Rapunzel like any other parent would. She tried to protect her from loosing her virginity and purity because she was just entering her teen years. The godmother showed her love for Rapunzel through protecting her and keeping her safe. The godmothers first step into protecting Rapunzel‚ "...took
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Judging a Book By Its Cover Every person has there own style: what they wear‚ how they walk‚ who they talk to‚ or better yet what is playing in there headphones. When looking at someone’s outer appearance one can usually take a guess what kind of music there listening to. Fashion can become a big part of music. people sometimes want to copy the style of clothes that their favorite artist wears or act the way the person does as well. There are a few major stereotypes of people. Probably the easiest
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Amelia Farmer 9th Grade Honors Literature 27 July 2014 Ella Enchanted: A Hero’s Journey The famous author Peter S. Beagle once said‚ “Great heroes need great sorrows or burdens‚ or half their greatness goes unnoticed.” Everyone has burdens‚ but it takes a true hero to overcome a huge burden. In the movie Ella Enchanted‚ directed by Jane Starz‚ Ella has been blessed‚ or really cursed‚ with the gift of obedience by a fairy named Lucinda. She does anything and everything people tell her to do and
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