Children's Rights Essay

Enter, if you dare… I stood in the middle of the bookstore's children's section, running the pads of my thumbs along the raised, bumpy title of the book that would inevitably change my life. My brow furrowed as I studied the cover. A green creature with horns that resembled a ram's on either side of its head, gazed back at me glowing red eyes. It's gnarled and clawed hands held a sign that read, "Welcome to Horrorland where nightmares come to life!" In the distance, there was an amusement park.…

“Charles” vs. “Miss Awful” Do you think kids need to be disciplined to be successful? The two stories, “Charles” by Shirley Jackson and “Miss Awful” by Arthur Cavanaugh, are about kids’ reactions to their teachers and events that take place at school. Discipline is a major part of the stories. In “Charles” there is no discipline which causes a big problem. In “Miss Awful” the main character changes because of discipline. This is one of the many examples of the differences in setting,…

Fairytales help children overcome their anxiety. The tales bring forth the inner fears of children in an almost tangibility, giving them form in the witches, the wolves, the ogres and any situation that stands in the way of the heroes or heroines. The psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, author of The Uses of Enchantment, declares that because the dark aspects of life are unavoidable and fairytales can present a confrontation to the inner fears of children (8). For instance, the story “Three Feathers”…

While writing entertaining children’s books, Dr. Seuss also wanted to express very distinct social messages. One message that he sends in one is about greedy can lead to lessons learned the hard way of losing valuable friends. He does this in The Lorax in The Sneetches.The Lorax is about an inventor that chops down a tree and goes money hungry and eventual chops an entire forest down.The Sneetches is about two types of Sneetches ones with no star on their bellies and ones with and they get…

est WR 121 Ashputtle Analyzed Growing up as a child we are fed stories of happen endings, fairy tales and moralistic tales that teach us right from wrong. Cinderella, Snow White and even Beauty and The Beast all have hidden messages of triumph, sacrifice and true love, but is there possibly more than we can see? Different countries, authors and religions all have different variations of these magical stories. The story I am going to…

Reading fairy tale stories to children may harm them by enforcing a false belief in the supernatural.Before Disney packed them full of happy endings and singing teapots, Fairy Tales were dark, violent stories told to teach kids harsh lessons. Fathers preyed on daughters, wicked step sisters had their feet chopped to pieces and wayward children slaughtered pensioners in their own homes. While they weren’t exactly family-friendly, the inclusion of a moral tried to justify the tales’ violence—even…

Fairy tales surround children. They are taught from a very young age to believe in a happily ever after and women constantly needing a man to come save the day. They have repeating patterns like a damsel in distress a prince charming and an evil figure. Wherein Anne Sextons “Snow White” all those lessons of happily ever after are torn down, while adding to the same repeating theme only with a twist. Looking at Sextons “Snow White”, we can look at it with two different lenses, the archetypal lens…

Did you know that Dr.Seuss books may be for kids ,but if you look deeper, his books have a deeper meaning in them. In the books The Lorax and Yertle the Turtle, the morals of these stories is greed.The Lorax is about a person named the Once-Ler who invents the thneed and turns into a power-hungry man. Yertle the Turtle is about a power-abusing turtle who abuses his power and gets himself overthrown.The theme for The Lorax is about an ambitious businessman that get greedy over his own wealth and…

Fairy tales put the children in the story in danger or in places of others to save themselves. The stories also make the women look like terrible people because of the way they treat people. Using the kids as their “shield” is not fair to the children because they have to be responsible for saving their own family or anyone else that needs it. Kids are also being stuck doing manly things or they are put up to save themselves in the stories. They do his while the men are able to do whatever…

Hans Christian Andersen wrote unique, never-seen-before fairy tales, used his vivid imagination to innovate ways to overcome his cynical view of life and the critics who ridiculed his work because of it, and illuminated the face of creativity; forever changing the fairy tale genre. Andersen is world-renowned for his fairy tales. The most famous among his impressive repertoire include “The Ugly Duckling”, “The Princess and the Pea”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, and “The Little Mermaid”, but…