Felician Sisters

Imagery is a technique frequently used by authors in order to promote the theme(s) that they are attempting to convey to the reader through their work. It is the use of figurative language to represent objects, and communicate ideas to the reader so that they may mentally visualize them, and understand themes in the work of literature. Generally speaking in literature, the reader may only recognize or relate to a few of the themes that the author is portraying through contrasting imagery, but to…

The Fire of Revolution A desire for change gives fire to the spirit of revolution, yet few dare to chase it. One such person is Martin Luther King, Jr. who fought for racial equality. The fire that burned inside him was, in his childhood, just a flicker lit by watching his father protest segregation. Then, it was fanned by his own treatment in the South and he started the bus boycott. As a result, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and his house bombed; however, each incident simply motivated…

Both the chinese version and french version of the cinderella stories have similarities and differences. There are four main similarities that both stories have. The first similarity is also the one that most little kids know of. Which is the part that yeh-shen and cinderella get married to a prince. The second similarity is that both moms die and get mistreated by their stepmothers. They get mistreated because they get treated like servants. The third similarity is something “magical” helps…

Once upon a time, there lived a teenager named Cinderella.Cinderella lived with her wealthy,but horribly evil stepmother and stepsisters who tried to make her out of their servant. Cinderella wished for nothing but to leave the horribly people more than ever. So, she wished to meet the prince and it finally happened. Then Cinderella and the prince fell in love and lived happily ever after. The formal Cinderella is a classic fairy tale that has been around for a very long time. Some people have…

Trick or treat! It is Halloween! I dress up as a super girl while my classmates are batman, superman, princess, wolf, pirate, etc. Scary-looking ghosts walk past me I am scared of them. My teacher said, “That the Halloween parade will happen after lunch on the blacktop near the basketball hoops.” “Remember to stay on the line,” she said. I am not worried, besides I am not going to get myself lost in the middle of scary-looking monsters or ghosts. By the time, we line up on the blacktop ready for…

Luciano truly believed that Igea Lissoni was a blessing. “I first set eyes on Igea Lissoni before the Christmas holidays in 1947. There was a lot of days in my whole lifetime that was especially important and they stayed with me clear as crystal. But that was the most important one.” (Gosch, 1975, p. 335). Igea Lissoni was then twenty-six; Luciano was fifty. Lissoni early revealed a talent for dance and was encouraged by her family, who enrolled her in the ballet school of La Scala Opera Company…

The Star of Kazan is a historical mystery book written by Eva Ibbotson. Taking place in Vienna from 1900 to the 1920, a girl was abandoned at birth in a church and found by a cook, named Ellie. Feeling sorry for the little baby, Ellie took the bundle home with her to her to the three professor's house (Emile, Gertitude and Julius), where she worked. Growing up with a cook and a maid (Sigrid), Annika was bound to be good with her hands. Annika had 2 best friends, Pauline, the granddaughter of a…

better than them, she was human unlike the others who were two faced. While the other two sisters got to go out and have fun Cinderella was left at home scrubbing floors and tending to laundry. Cinderellas fairy god mother showed up after several accounts of neglect, and boy oh boy are her sisters in for a surprise. Days came and went and nothing had quite changed yet. Until the day the two sisters went shopping for ballgowns for the princes…

gotta spice it up a little bit, right? First off there were 2 step sisters, their names were Gertrude and Edna, (I know, what horrible names) they had large noses, and they were a little bit on the chubbier side, and they both had hateful personalities. These sisters were so terribly mean and were also ugly that is was disgusting to even look at them. They made babies cry, and everybody was scared of them, but they also had their sister who was always somewhere around. She was beautiful, she…

Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is the story of the Mirabal family during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. The story is told through the perspectives of the 4 sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva and Maria Teresa as the family is slowly torn apart by the Military Intelligence Service. Minerva was the first of the sisters to become involved in the underground movement against the government. She made friends at Inmaculada whose family had been arrested, tortured, and even killed by…