Felician Sisters

the gap. Introduction: One surprising moment on a bride's wedding day left the audience completely stunned. Most brides wait their whole live for the father-daughter dance at their wedding. In an amazing moment, Michaela gave up her dance to her sister. The selfless act for her dying father left everyone in tears, but this was not the only secret in the works. A few weeks before the wedding, the daughters found out that their father, George, had only three…

Most people have read or heard of the stories of Cinderella or saw a movie of the traditional princess story which always seems to have the same cliché “happily ever after ending.” In the poem “Cinderella,” written by Anne Sexton, she switches up the old-fashioned mythical story by adding in a touch of mockery and telling the story with her sense of reality. Sexton’s sarcastic tone being used in the poem causes the readers to identify and get a sense of the message the version of her story gives…

The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a play that takes place in a 19th century rural town in Russia. The Prosorov siblings, Olga, Masha, Irina and Andrey are unsatisfied with their life in this provincial town, so they dream that one day they will return to Moscow. Moscow symbolises hope for the Prosorovs. They identify Moscow with their happiness in which they feel they can fulfil their dreams. But their constant fantasizing of Moscow makes them neglect their present. There are references to…

tearful needy people. It was her birthday, and she wanted to relax. She wanted to feel loved.” Rachel is also looking forward to her mother’s birthday. She buys a dress, which she really wanted to wear on her mother’s birthday party. Flora, Rachel’s sister, steals the dress. She has an Italian boyfriend and she wants to impress him. She knows that Rachel wants to make her mother happy with the dress but she does not care about Rachel, her mother or the family in general. Flora acci-dently…

they live happily ever after. The movie stars a young girl named Cinderella that lives with her evil step mother and step sisters, who treat her very poorly and as if she’s the house maid, living in the attic. Her father passed away after remarrying a woman and moving in with her and her two daughters. Cinderella spends her days cleaning up after her step mother and two step sisters, getting through her days by singing and hanging out with the animals she had befriended. One day, she heard about…

The book, In the Time of the Butterflies, opens in the Dominican Republic with Dede Mirabal preparing for an interview. The four Mirabal sisters each write from their perspective about living in a time with the dictator Trujillo. The story follows the start of a rebellion that the sisters become the leaders of. Three of the sisters, Maria Teresa, Minerva, and Patria, join the rebellion along with their husbands. Dede is the only one who does not join the rebellion, partly because her husband…

discover life outside of the sea and finds herself in trouble with her overprotective father after she ventures to the surface. Her father has forbidden her to go to shore and tasks her with things to occupy her time. For instance, singing with her sisters in an under the sea concert which she misses. Ariel saves Prince Eric from drowning and instantly falls in love with him. Ultimately Ariel goes to see the wicked sea witch to exchange her voice in return for legs for three days after her…

Butterflies by Julia Alvarez takes the reader through the lives of the Mirabal sisters as they are living in the Dominican Republic under the rule of Trujillo and leads up to the death of the three sisters, which, was ordered by Trujillo on November 25, 1960 (“In the Time of the Butterflies”). Trujillo was a dictator who controlled his country in every aspect and exterminated those who opposed him including three of the Mirabal sisters who are “symbols of both popular and feminist resistance”…

the morals of the story: “to hold on to the best in one’s past” (Bettelheim, 262). Even though it is vintage and is nothing compared to what her sisters are wearing, she decides to put it on so she would not cost her stepmother a penny. That alone already shows what kind of person she is. Rather than spending a fortune on a gown just like her sisters, she fixed it herself with the help of her rodent friends. Cinderella’s hair is always down and messy, unlike her stepsisters and stepmother, they…

Alvarez’s work would be the Mirabal sisters—Patria, Dedé, Minerva, and María Teresa. Three of the sisters were killed by Trujillo’s henchmen after leading an underground uprising in the Dominican—the same one that Alvarez’s father belonged to—shortly after the family moved back to the United States (Kapai). Growing up and hearing their story had always left Alvarez feeling unsettled. She would later say, “My three sisters and I had made it. Three of those four sisters had not. I knew I had a…