A Little Princess (1995) Part 1 The film A Little Princess (ALP) is a children’s story that also highlights social issues of Britain in the World War I time period. A child, watching this film, would be intrigued by the animated mind of the main character (Sara) and her vivid imagination. Her constant neglect from the malicious headmistress (Miss Minchin) endorsed her sympathy gained from the audience. Even as Miss Minchin mistreated Sara, her character grew tougher and her imagination grew stronger. Sara would use her fantasy stories to fill the void whenever she missed her father or felt hopeless.
On Monday I went to school, head held high. You looked at me in a really weird manner and eventually you swallowed your pride and asked me how my party was. I, in basic terms, lied. Ruthlessly lied, but since you weren’t the opposite of ruthless either, what did it matter? It was great, is what I told you, we were at a ice rink and there were these funny clowns giving us free lollipops since I was the birthday girl.
One night one of her employees, a girl named Sheila makes a pass at Patti by telling her she loves Patti. Then she grabs Patti’s breast. Patti tells her she "doesn’t swing that way", but says that she loves Sheila, just not in the way Sheila loves her. After that incident, the narrator describes a party that he and Patti hold for all of Patti’s employees. The vitamin business was not doing as well as before so Patti holds a party to cheer all her employees up.
The following two lines and second stanza speak of puberty and what her class mates think of her. This is a classic case where a social circle has profound impact of how young people see themselves; not for who they are, but for what their friends think of them. Further irony comes as the magic of puberty is not all magical and the only thing that changes is a girl changing into a woman with thick ties and big fat nose. In the third stanza she begins her quest for acceptance; diet, exercise, smile and wheedle. This is not who she really is and soon the pretense wears away, “Her good nature wore out.” when the real façade revealed who she was, she removed that which people dislikes about her, her nose and her legs and eventually gave up living.
Mini Barbie Dolls Child beauty pageants should be banned. The expanding trend of child beauty pageants is growing rapidly in the United States and should be stopped immediately. Mothers enroll their daughters into these beauty pageants and the little girls, sometimes as young as four years old, compete against one another almost entirely based off of their outer beauty. The pageants throw in the “talent” section for the girls to compete in where they show off a gymnastics routine or something physical that supposedly directs the judges eyes off of mainly beauty, but all in all that is exactly what they are judging these little girls on. These children are way too young to be worrying about what they look like when they look in the mirror.
The song was inspired by the everyday childhood disappointments experienced by Chris Martin's then eight-year-old daughter, Apple. This song represents the attempts by a girl to maintain a child-like innocence in her life by dreaming. The first verse tells of a young girl who had high expectations (When she was a girl/She expected the world); these expectations could be the product of constant attention to fairy tales - expecting the world to be fair and just, where all girls can be princesses, marry their Prince Charming and live happily ever after - or simply being subject to an optimistic upbringing where the philosophy 'the world is your oyster' underpinned every lecture by parent and teacher alike. However, evidently the bar was raised too high and the expectations not reached (But it flew away from her reach) suggesting maybe a life not lived - plans not made, dreams not followed, opportunities missed, feelings not acted upon. At this the girl withdraws into her mind, acting out the life she would have led if Fate allowed her in her dreams (So she ran away in her sleep/And dreamed of para-para-paradise.../Every time she closed her eyes).
Moreover is she not only unpopular at school, she is also a diabetic child. “And we laughed at her because she was a chubby, diabetic child …” 1.4. Celia is now introduced as the exposed girl, and we are now guessing that the headline is referred to her. Even though she is being laughed at, she wants to be a part of them so desperately, that she follows them every day till and from school, but she is being ignored. We are introduced to just a few people in the text, other than Celia.
It is a surprise ending type of story but I see few people as really being able to read this story.) The night of the big party comes, Bella is dressed so perfectly, the house is wonderful and awesome food and drinks for 100 people are at the ready. Two hours past the start time and Bella is in despair as no one has come then she is so happy when the first guests arrive. But wait, the guests are undesirable types who may have money but lack breeding. Bella has no choice (in fact she loves it) but to tell her butler that she is not
Sylvia Plath's Child depicts her disappointing emotional statement owing to the world in which her child is being raised, and radically it derives from her instinct and affection as a mother. The poem begins with a cheerful and sincere tone represented by the symbols of beauty, innocence and the wonder of childhood. Stacks of positive metaphors, like" The zoo of the new" "April snowdrop" and "Indian pipe" reinforced the idyllic form of childhood. The positive tones turn negative by the sentence 'Pool in which images should be grand and classical'. Besides, 'wringing of hands' and 'ceiling without a star emphasize her concerns to her child and explicit her disappointment towards this horrible world.
Dorothy and her mother had a great relationship, they where always making fun of aunt Lucy and how she was the ideal mother and wife. One day, when Dorothy is a grown woman, her mother dies. Meanwhile, aunt Lucy had lost her husband and has turned 75, so she is an old lonely woman. Of gratitude for all the summer holidays Dorothy had spend at aunt Lucy’s, she invites her to stay at her place for a couple of days, so she doesn’t have to be alone while she is grieving over her sisters death. At first Dorothy can’t even recognize aunt Lucy, she has always pictured her as this kind chatty woman, but now she is cold and quiet.