Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work. The word literature literally means "things made from letters". Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction & non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose. Literature may consist of texts based on factual information (journalistic or non-fiction)‚ a category that may also include polemical works‚ biography‚ and reflective essays‚ or it may consist of texts based on imagination (such
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his hero‚ Vincent Price. Burton had the opportunity to have Vincent Price narrate his animation as well. Due to his work on Vincent‚ the short was shown the Chicago Film Festival and was later able to work on his first live-action production Hansel and Gretel. After working with just short animations‚ Tim Burton was later able to work on a full length film. In 1988 Tim Burton worked on Beetlejuice. It was a supernatural comedy that fit perfectly into Burton’s dark‚ gothic style. From there Tim Burton
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The first juxtaposition is between the lessons that standard fairy tales teach and the lessons that amoral fairy tales teach. Standard fairy tales‚ such as Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel‚ serve as examples where an extreme good defeats an extreme bad because “polarization dominates the child’s mind” (26)‚ therefore a child is able to understand the differences in the positive and negative moral characteristics. Meanwhile‚ amoral
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Gretel‚ from Hansel and Gretel‚ has common sense and kills the evil witches both of which are not typical of a female protagonist. Similarly‚ Rapunzel and Snow White’s female characters challenge the passivity of their “typical” role through the power of speech (Nanda
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love the way he ends with: “Only its small beak moves. Around a bread crumb.” (Pg.65) I love the rhythm of these two sentences and the way the second comes to a stop and adds a sort of an inside joke. We all know the birds in the original “Hansel and Gretel” eat the breadcrumbs and it also adds a sense of the dread to come. The dove figures prominently. It is a symbol of innocence and spirit‚ Christ‚ but here Coover’s witch rips out the heart of the dove and in doing so turns the myth inside out
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Emotions make us‚ us. They shows our personality they defines us. Most of us go through a huge variety throughout the day‚ from feeling disappointed to feeling like you’re the most joyful person on Earth. The first thing that comes to mind when you are thinking about emotions is the story “Raymond Run” by Toni Cade Bambara and the fighter‚ tough minded-girl‚ and sassy main character‚ Hazel Elizabeth Deborah Parker (Squeaky). Every single day of the week she has to mind her mentally challenged brother
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Carl Warner was born in Liverpool‚ 1963. At seven he moved to Kent and since he was an only child he spent a lot of time in his bedroom just listening to music‚ drawing/creating worlds from his imagination‚ inspired by portraits on his walls by artists like Salvador Dali and Patrick Woodroffe. Warner uses food (mostly fruits and vegetables) as his medium and arranges them to befit a realistic image. Most of his pieces use an array of colours where he would use foods to match the colours‚ shapes or
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fairy tales. The themes of fairy tales are universally understood by the readers. They are able to draw analogies that most readers will be able to relate to. Some of the most common analogies are witches‚ princes‚ and evil stepmothers. Hansel and Gretel is a big universal theme. A present pattern
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been in many characters’ shoes like Bella and her love triangle in Twilight or Hamlet and his abyss of madness in Hamlet. However‚ I’ve always struggled to connect with characters that have close sibling relationships because I never had a Hansel to my Gretel or a Ron to my Ginny Weasley. I was born six years after my brother‚ Oscar‚ making it difficult for us to develop an inseparable bond like other siblings. When I was still listening to Taylor Swift‚ Oscar was already reciting lyrics to explicit
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