Carlos G. Zamora 09/26/11 Period-3 A Maid in Manhattan, what would Yolen say? “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” This was said by Walt Disney, who made a fortune out of selling stories of dreams and happy endings to many American children. One of these stories was Cinderella. In this story, he planted the idea that, “When you wish upon a star, all your dreams can come true.” Although Disney may have earned a large amount of money and fame with the story, the story is not his. The story of Cinderella has been told in many languages and ways for years.
Both stories,Aschenputtel and Yeh-Shen shares the same sad background. Both stories are about two young maiden with beauty anf grace. They both lost their mother when they were young, raised by their evil stepmother and stepsisters. Just as Aschenputtel her dream of going to the prince’s ball, Yeh-Shen also had her dream; she “longed to go to the Spring Festival,” where young women met their husbands They both weren’t allowed to go to the festival but they got help and support from their Magical friends. At the end of the festival they both lose a golden slipper and later married a royalty.
W’s or what Meg is going through in her life. Also, the movie adds scenes to the begging like Charles coming from under a blanket and telling the family about teratoma, the human teeth and hairball after Meg calls the twins "human hairballs” and Charles claiming he hears people talking to him in his head after dinner. I feel that the only reason Disney did this was to extend the movie time. Instead of adding useless scenes to the begging, they should have just stuck to the book, regardless if the movie isn’t long enough or not it will still be “good” because that’s the way the book depicts it. In the book when we meet Meg she is described as a homely, awkward, with braces and glasses in the movie she is given a more attractive appeal taking away her glasses and her braces.
In Stephen Gould’s “A Biological Homage to Mickey Mouse” (Writing Conventions 279-289), Gould has a biologists’ form of appeal towards Disney’s fascination with changing the character of Mickey Mouse. With Mickey Mouse almost having a type of personification over each of Walt Disney’s characters in relation, Gould as a researcher was drawn to the idea of why viewers have acquired a sense of interest to the gradual changes in Mickey Mouse’s character. Claiming that the stages of Mickey’s alterations cause him to appear more youthful, Gould takes a stab as to how these juvenile traits appear to spectators who have been pleased by these changes over the decades. According to critic Christopher Finch, Mickey Mouse had become a national symbol with many expectations as a character. Finch further stated “he was expected to behave properly at all times… Eventually he would be pressured into the role of straight man.” (279-280) By Gould using factual information of the measurements as well as drawn out examples of the evolution of Mickey Mouse’s being, Gould progressively demonstrates how each transforming character throughout the years have proven to appear juvenile.
This is shown when Simon Wheeler corners the man. The narrator tells, “Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph (Twain, 526)”. The people’s mannerisms also aren’t as good because the guy who frog races with Jim cheats him. The author writes, “So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot__filled him pretty near up to his chin—and set him on the floor (Twain, 531)”. A third example of local color is how Jim Smiley says the name of his frog.
There, Tita, who has never been pregnant, is able to nurse her nephew. She also develops the ability to cook emotions into her dishes. Sadness is cooked into a wedding cake, uncontrollable passion results from eating a dish with rose petals, fiery anger is magically transferred into chiles. All Tita's emotions are infused into her dishes, and those she feeds experience magical results. Each of Esquivel's chapters begins with a recipe and concludes with an ingredient having slightly changed to alter the dish, filling it with magical powers.
“Toad in a Multiplicity of Cultural Contexts and Time-spans.” “O how the mighty have fallen.” One might exclaim in contemplating the toads carved on the porch of the 14th century church of St. Pierre in Moissac, France; for one specimen is seated “at the sex,” as Luyster phrases it, of the female figure personifying bad mothers. Another toad leaps from a demon’s mouth (See Figure 1) .Luyster interprets the scene as an “inverted” Annunciation and designates the role of the leaper as symbolizing a demonic proclamation/impregnation and the female figure of an anti-virgin Mary (Luyster 165). A freeze frame of a nightmare would carry more appeal than this scene. Here snakes and toads torment la femme. Demons frame the figure, and toad has ignored
He finds out that Sarah is one of the temple keepers or sages. Sarah is the sage of the Forest Temple. So Link enters the temple and he sees 4 Poes (4 ghost) so he has to go through multiple mazes to get to the first Poe. Link finds all the items, but missing the small keys and the boss key. Link must go back and find all the keys for the door for the Poes.
While living with her abusive father who she chooses to only call T. Ray, Lily feels that she is lacking certain femininity in her life. She battles with her hair which was “constantly going off in eleven different directions” (Kidd 3) and when she woke up with a rose-petal stain on her panties she was “so proud of that flower and didn’t have a soul to show it to except Rosaleen”(13). Rosaleen is Lily’s housekeeper and one of her only friends. Lily’s curiosities about her mother lead her to the attic where she finds some of her mother’s belongings. Lily keeps everything she finds of her mother’s in a small tin buried in the orchards outside her house.
Tiana and her friends go on a crazy journey through the bayou for their key to transform back into humans. It lets you know that you should never give up on your journeys and always hold on to your dreams. After all of their battles are beaten the frog was kissed by a real princess and turned back into a human prince. Once transformed back into humans they engage in an interracial marriage, because they followed their hearts rather than what other people might