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Did you know that the Disney movie Peter Pan has a prequel book to the movie? The book Peter and the Starcatchers written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have new and more characters than what the movie has. Alongside Peter, the other main character is a girl named Molly. Mostly every book or story has an antagonist in them well in Peter and the Starcatchers the antagonist is a cruel captain of pirates whose name is Black Stache. You probably heard of The Never Land from the movie but the main…

The original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” by the Brothers Grimm and “The Girl, The Wolf, The Crone,” by Kellie Wells have many similarities and differences throughout the stories. However, Kellie Wells takes a different approach to the story; she takes the story and uses symbols to let the reader know what she feels about the Catholic religion. The original story is not based on religion. It is simply telling a story about a girl who visits her grandmother, who was eaten by a wolf, but…

“The Tale of Three Brothers” was first introduced in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling. In the story arc, one of the main character, Hermione Granger, narrates the story from her copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. These tales were commonly read to children as bedtimes stories because they’re “told to amuse rather than instruct” (Rowling 409). “The Three of Three Brothers” relates how three brothers cheated Death…

To most audiences the story of Pinocchio is a lighthearted one, filled with the adventures of a jovial puppet and his cricket conscience with the occasional unnerving scene. Yet this is not the dark and death defying tale that author Carlo Collodi originally wrote in his 1883 novel. As is the case with many Disney adaptations, the original story of Pinocchio has been erased from the public consciousness and replaced by that of the adaption. This erasure is due to the quality of the film and its…

The Darkness and Sorrow of Pan’s Labyrinth Today’s fairytales are often transformed into morality tales to fit our current values and are often stripped of the darkness and sorrow that is surrounding the story. However, this is not a common occurrence and it has been done over years, so that the more gruesome fairytales, with dark, and gruesome scenes, would be more suitable for younger audiences. In “Pan’s Labyrinth” Guillermo Del Toro is able to incorporate those gruesome and darker scenes to…

I believe that the poem tells a Muggle fantasy tale rather than showing that Muggles had any knowledge of a magical creature. Yes, Erl means elf and Erklings are related to House Elves and both Erklings and the Erlking in Goethe's poem attack children, but the similarities end there. The names of the two creatures are spelled differently. The creatures in the lesson are Erklings, whereas the creature in the poem was THE Erlking. One word can be transformed into the other by transposing two…

In her book The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s intended to extract the latent content from the traditional stories, fairy tales, but to not make her own version. She saw fairy tales in a new way. Not the same way as beginning with once upon a time, a princess needs help, prince save the day and they all lived happier ever after. No, Carter draws out the theme of feminism by contrasting traditional elements of Gothic fiction, which usually illustrate female characters as powerless and vulnerable…

Author Stephen King once said, “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” I love this quote because it rings true to me. As a little girl, I remember opening the pages of my favorite fairytale and becoming part of the story. I was the princess waiting for my knight in shining armor. or the peasant girl waiting for my fairy godmother to come and turn my life right side up. Everything seemed real—I didn’t know why—but it did. It wasn’t until recently that I learned of the magic authors created…

The original Brothers Grimm fairy tales include a variety of stories, some of which include violent scenes. Some believe that children should be kept from these stories; they say that adolescents should only read a sanitized, more appropriate version of them. They argue that the main message of the stories are still present without the violence. Some, however, say that children should be taught the original stories. They claim that letting kids read these stories at a young age will introduce…

Cinderella with a Y Chromosome Fairy tales have been communicated to one another for centuries; they all tell a story of each culture’s views by the way people convey it. There are many diverse fairy tales, but one of the most iconic, which has been around for a long time, is Cinderella. One version from the 1960s is a film entitled Cinderfella. In this comedy, Jerry Lewis plays Cinderfella, a male Cinderella. I chose this text because I feel it is a good example of Linda Parsons’ reference to…