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“All you need is faith, trust, and a little pixie dust.” This is a quote from Peter Pan a fun, energetic boy that never grows up. With Peter Pan’s story there’s scads that goes into it, some of these points are where he originated from, why he never seems to grow up, and why Captain Hook wants to see him dead. I know it may seem captivating that Peter doesn’t age, but that’s not all of his “talents”. At just seven days old Peter Pan fell out of his crib and just flew to a mystical place called…

He found great inspiration for this play from his time with the Davies family. The famous character of Peter Pan first appeared in a book titled, The Little White Bird, in 1902, two years before Peter made his way to the stage. Audiences loved the tale of a flying boy who managed to never grow up. Peter’s adventures in Neverland with the Darling children captivated audiences. Modeled after his own characteristics…

I saw the play Peter and the Starcatcher, written by Rick Elice, on Tuesday, November 15, 2016. Elice’s comedic play acts as the prequel to J.M. Barrie’s play Peter and Wendy since it gives backstory to the character Peter Pan. Peter and the Starcatcher features the protagonist Peter Pan, originally a nameless orphan, who meets the brave Molly Aster while on a ship. The kids have a run in with Captain Black Stache’s band of pirates as they try to recover a chest filled with the Queen’s treasure.…

After reading the essays and having discussions in class, my favorite essay was “A Plague of Tics” by David Sedaris. In the excerpt, Sedaris uses a witty tone when writing about his obsessive-compulsive and anxiety disorders because his disability often makes people uncomfortable. Sedaris takes the audience through a series of examples of his obsessive compulsive behavior and the reactions of his teachers, family, and friends as they tried to deal with it. Sedaris, a satirist, chose humor to…

Maya Angelou writes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to inform the reader about how rough growing up as a “Unattractive” black child was. She writes the book using the themes of family, race to appearance, and the resistance toward racism that is shown multiple different time. She also uses multiple different symbols throughout the story like the store or the easter dress that her “Momma” makes her to support her themes. Maya supports her themes with the beautiful, intense writing styles that…

Emily Dickinson was an American poet in her time. She was well known for her many works and she was most likely one of the most famous females of her time. Taking a look into her work, a person will see how passionate she was with it. Students and teachers all over the world still use her works today as a method of education in the literature department. Many people still read her works for a good time. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Emily Dickinson,…

Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 in Missouri, was a Civil Rights poet and activist and was an inspiration to many. Maya Angelou served as a voice during the Civil Rights Movement as she showed the brutality of racism, highlighted in her poem, “Still I Rise.” “Still I Rise” is written towards the white oppressors as Maya shows her defiance in overcoming their oppression and speaking up for a change. Maya Angelou lived an eventful life that inspired the themes of many of her poems. Maya Angelou…

autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings works by singer, poet, writer, and actress Maya Angelou, it is one of the most widely read and taught book by an African American woman. The title of the book comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "Sympathy." The connection of the poem with the novel is where a little persistence bird (Marguerite) struggles against the bars of the cage life barriers , but she gets up, she rises and pushes forward. Although I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings covers…

The first autobiography ‘’I Know why the Caged Bird Sings’’ unravels a number of questions posed in regards to feministic reading. Questions such as whether the characters of main focus are strong, aware females, whether these females bond with each other in the pervasive patriarchal social order, and…

out how to make their dreams come true, they’re worrying about all the things that might go wrong. They’re worried that even the things they have will be taken away from them by some cruel twist of fate. Maya Angelou’s poem, “Caged Bird” presents a metaphor of two birds that are thought to represent the controversy between optimists and pessimists. The first…