Another Cinderella Story

In Life Of Pi, Pi tells the story of surviving the Pacific Ocean. The story that Pi used involved various animals, such as; an orangutan, zebra, hyena and a tiger. Later in the novel, Pi tells a different story to two investigators because they didn’t believe the story with the animals. Then Pi replaced the story with actual people, his mother as the orangutan, the sailor as the zebra, the cook as the hyena, and Pi as the tiger. (Martel 303-306) The second story was more…

Have you ever heard of the story of “Cinderella”? Most of you most likely have, probably because of the Disney film that was created of the “Cinderella” stories, but there is more of the “Happily ever after” of these stories. The popular princess has been recreated thousands of times in many differents countries like Germany (Aschenputtel) and Ireland (The Irish Cinderlad) which have many different changes. “Aschenputtel” and “The Irish Cinderlad” are very different from each other, but they…

this day. One of my favorite fairy tale movies tells the story of a young maiden girl named Cinderella who lived with two horrible stepsisters and one evil stepmother who found her way to her true love and happiness with one fairy godmother and one glass slipper and lived happily ever after. However, many people, rather than getting the magical ending like Cinderella, do not get the happily ever after they desire. Into the Woods is the story of a couple, the baker and his wife, who seeks a…

“Never let anyone define who you are or decide who you should become” (Mbiaka). This quote by Edmond Mbiaka implies that no one can change a person for the better. It is who that person chooses to be, makes them unique. In our daily life, people put titles on others by the way they walk, dress, and communicate. This can be taught in a positive and negative way. As children grow older, they learn judgment through their parents. Even though parents explain to their children the importance of…

when he is going to a fair and Cinderella requests for him to bring her back the first branch that brushes against his hat. Later on, he attends the ball with his wife and her two daughters, knowingly leaving Cinderella at home. He is most likely aware of all the work his daughter is made to do because she is always covered in ashes, hence the name Cinderella. The ball he attends with his family goes on for three days and he has a growing suspicion that Cinderella is the one that the prince…

modernism is the era around WWI and WWII with writer such as William Faulkner and James Joyce. There are two type of methods in telling a story. The first method is a narrative method which tells the story from a personal point of view, but it is not always necessarily first person. The second method is the mythic method which uses mythology as an outline for stories. A writer takes a long time to write a good piece. “I’m really saying is that we reader sometimes forget how long literary…

My first experience with fairy tales is at a young age. I ran to my bed excited for that nights new book before bed; which was always a fairy tale. These stories gave me hope for happily ever after’s and dreams of fantasy as a would be swept off to sleep with snow white, Cinderella, and beauty and the best still fresh in my mind. Fairy tale have important conventions in them such as; to help with solutions to how to navigate through life, shows cultural differences, helps create an imagination,…

Hello, I’m going to talk about how language gender and power are portrayed in children’s fairytales. Fairytales are those innocent and indispensable bedtime stories that have practically been a child’s practice for many generations. For instance, who hasn’t heard of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow White? We all grew up with these bedtime stories and are so familiar with their tales and characters that we scarcely have the time to figure out the real message which they are trying to convey…

Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book) is a compilation of fairytales with a unique twist of life’s hard lessons after getting what you “wished” for. The play’s main story line is composed of well-known fairytales such as: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Jack and the bean stock. These fairytales are all intertwined in order to help the protagonist (the baker) collect all the ingredients the witch has asked for in order for him and his…

Born Under a Bad Sign I was born into this world on the darkest night. One lost soul passed and another lost soul was born to wander the path in her place. Sometimes, I think back to that night and what she must have looked like, how her breast must have felt, rising and falling with its last breaths. What was it like, to finally exhale, finally pass, nice and peaceful, on to somewhere and have a place to belong? Once, I asked our matron after I’d taken my rations from her, and Mrs. Brewer put a…