After being teased mercilessly, Elsie concocted a plan to fool the adults. 'Elsie got tired of the joking and one night suggested to me that she would copy the dancing figures of fairies from one of my most precious possessions, my Princess Mary's Gift book... 'That will shake them!' she said. 'They'll have to stop making fun of us then.'' The next time that the two girls were teased by their parents, Elsie challenged her father, telling him that if he lent them his camera, a Midg quarter plate, the two girls would try to take a photograph of one of the fairies.
Also towards the end of the story in, The Grimm Brother’s Version, the two white pigeons attack the two stepsisters and pecked out each of their eyes. [Cinderella wanted to go the ball, but her stepmother gave her a huge list of chores to complete first.] This is why the animals make her a dress because she has no time to fix up the one that she wanted to wear, in Disney’s “Cinderella”. They also are turned into her horses, and the chauffeurs of her carriage, by the Fairy Godmother. These differences were made because the point of Disney’s version was for children to watch and enjoy it, compared to the Grimm Brother’s version which was just to spark interest into myths while placing cruel elements into the story of Cinderella.
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.
Rash Paper We started off the new quarter reading a book called Rash by Pete Hautman. This book is about a boy named Bo in the future United Safer States of America. The book goes through the events of how Bo gets in trouble with the very controlling government and how he is sent to labor prison for doing crimes that are considered being just plain mean today. Rash is similar to the book The Hunger Games by Suzaane Collins, though they have their differences too. Rash is very similar to The Hunger Games.
Rats: Gilbert Graytail: A mapmaker that sold maps to Firedrake. The maps are used to navigate to the Rim of Heaven. Lola Graytail: She is Gilbert’s niece. She flies her tiny airplane. Rosa: Rosa is Gilbert’s cousin and warns the dragons about humans.
The symbolism of the holocaust is engaging as fairy-tales are always considered to have a happy ending but using such a dark topical matter which seems to have no happy outcomes is able to surprise the audience and to keep them reading as the audience is waiting to see the “Happily ever after” (pg. 239). Yolen has used topical/subject matter and intertextuality to great effect to produce a novel which is engaging and intriguing to the
After arriving at Farquaad’s castle, Shrek agrees to try and rescue the beautiful Princess Fiona from the castle where she is living, trapped by a fire-breathing dragon and in return he will get his swamp back. Soon after, Shrek and Donkey head off to rescue Fiona. They were able to free her from the dragon. Fiona Changed Shrek in a positive way because she knew what it was like to be an ogre herself and was cursed to live as one. Shrek fell in love with Fiona and this had significant influence over him.
Foreshadowing was another ingredient added in the story to introduce the readers to ideas of incidents that become main parts of the story as it proceeded. “To the storyteller we turn for mental excitement, ..... for the pleasure of traveling in some remote region in space or time....” and when reading Steinbeck's books, especially Of Mice and Men we received fully those factors that Nabokov has described for a storytelling
Upon ‘birth’ Tinker Bell soon finds out that she will become part of the Tinker fairy family. They are the fairies that invent and fix things. Immediately she meets Clank and Bobble, two Tinker fairies who teach Tinker Bell their craft. All of Pixie Hollow was working on the upcoming spring season. Painting ladybugs, teaching birds to fly, and preparing their rainbow tubes among many other things.
Irony is hard to understand, even for me. I have the basis for it, and with that knowledge, I think irony is great with stories. I like stories with irony in it because it throws everything off, and catches the reader off guard. It adds more wonder to the story, more anticipation, and makes everything that much better to read. I like to think of it as the " oh what the _ _ _ _!"