Charles Perrault

The author, Sarah Boesveld a journalist for the National Post, a Canadian news journal, uses data from a study conducted at an Alberta elementary school examining grade 1 and 2 students perceptions of gender stereotypes related to the movies and books which they have been exploring in class. The study was meant to see how the children would explain the gender roles and behavioral attributes that the characters posses within each story. Then the author dives into ht e behavioral effects that…

Men and woman today do not always follow their “designated” gender roles as they have in the past and this causes skepticism in the way society views them. This is represented In the story where there is change surrounding the innate nature of men to showcase violence, and unclothed women to stray from innocence. The first example is in this quote when Carter displays the man’s attempt to remain inconspicuous, “The sticks twitched in the grate, the clock ticked and the young man sat patiently,…

An English author and illustrator of children’s picture books, Emily Gravett, brings a fresh outlook to the children’s books where she won Kate Greenway Medal and the Nestle Children’s Book Prize Bronze Award for Wolves and Little Mouse’s Big Book of Fears, Book Trust (2015). Again! is another brilliant of Gravett. A little green dragon wants his mother to read a bedtime story of a bright angry red dragon name Cedric who causes havoc every night, repeatedly that it sends her to fall asleep…

There were two men Henry and Ben. Henry and Ben were delivering a body through the Youkon and to civlization they were traveling by dog sled they had six dogs. They were being hunted down by a pack of wolves and were low on supplies. And as normal they stopped When they awoke the next morning they noticed that they had seven dogs then the next day they only had five dogs as the nights went on. Then one night they saw a she-wolf and they figured out that the she wolf was luring their dogs in…

As a child, I loved nursery rhymes my favorite is Little Red Ridding Hood and Goldie locks.These two stories inform me about being brave and having home training.They teach me to never walk alone in the woods and never walk into a random person house. Little Red Rinding Hood is a brave soul. When the woodsmen told her to not go in the woods she still did. She had the ambition to deliver the cakes to her grandmother. For doing that she was responsible and can be counted on. Although she was…

In the little red riding hood the wolf played a trick on the little riding hood.Goldilocks was walking in woods and saw a house.She walked inside the house and destroyed.One day when they left the house a goldilocks walked into their house.The bears had made porridge but it was freezing.But she tried the wee mans wee mans porridge and it was just right then she ate it all.Then then she sat in all of their chairs but the wee bears chair was just right. The bears came home and realized someone…

“The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.” It can be said that he means to say people who are jealous of others may give others a hard time, but in the end, their feelings of jealousy will be their ultimate downfall. Charles Perrault’s The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods has a few great examples of jealousy in a fairytale. The story begins with the christening of a beautiful baby Princess. At the christening celebration, seven fairies from the kingdom are invited to…

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm was popularly known as the “Grimms Brothers”, were characterized as one of the most dramatic writers in the 19th century. They were categorized by their short, simple sentences, colloquial language, and their well-organized approach to craft writings. Their writing was entitled Little Snow White, it was released in 1937 and it was about Snow White, a princess who falls into a deep, death-like rest after taking a bite from a poisoned apple. My impression about this…

At some point in life, everybody has had dreams, hopes for the future, whether it be as a child, teenager, or adult. In the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck and the short story “The Gift of the Magi” written by O’ Henry, hope is used as a theme and plot device driving the story forward. However different, in these stories the theme of hope/achieving goals can and is seen, George and Lennie's hope to have a better life vs. Della and Jim’s hope for a nice Christmas, how they go…

Chapter 1: Dinky’s Dilemma Dinky was an elf. As everyone knows there are many kinds of elves. There are shoe elves, cookie elves, and forest elves, and there are Christmas elves. Dinky was a forest elf. It’s not that he didn’t like being an elf. Dinky, just didn’t want to be a forest elf. For as long as he could remember in his short 12 years of life, Dinky had always wanted to be a Christmas elf. Wouldn’t it be grand to live at the North Pole with Santa year round and make toys? Every six…