Throughout the past four decades, the Star Wars movie series by George Lucas has become one of the most popular fantasy series around the world. The movies depict the saga of Luke Skywalker, a young Jedi warrior who is talented, ambitious, and unyielding. However, he unexpectedly vanished after he defeated the villains; thus his sister Princess Leia led an expedition to both find Luke and protect the galaxy. Although Star Wars is a space opera, but similar to the movie Pan’s Labyrinth, it blends…
When I was six years old, I read Lior’s Magic Glasses by Shula Modan, a children’s story about a boy who sees two pairs of glasses at the store: a pink pair and a black pair. When he puts on the black pair, he sees the world negatively. Yet with the pink pair, the world is filled with joy. However, when the worker at the store tells the boy that “not everything is black or pink, there are a lot of colors in between”, the boy realizes that he can’t wear the pink glasses all the time and needs to…
Romeo + Juliet: a summary Imagine that you are to explain the main plot and other interesting details of the movie Romeo + Juliet to a person that you do not know very well. This means that we can be a bit informal in our language, but not our grammar and punctuation. The summary should be around 300 - 400 words, Ariel and 1.5 spacing The summary should include: Film title. Plot: what happens in the film? Does the plot make sense? Is it easy enough to follow? Is it believable?…
Young love is a common subject used by teenagers lately. They may understand the definition from reading out of a dictionary, but at such a young age you cannot fully comprehend the emotion of love. Romeo and Juliet are a strong example of young love, for they may think they're in love. In reality, they were truly an example of being infatuated with each other, leading to their demise for each other. Between Juliet saying how she wishes to no longer be a Capulet or Romeo and Juliet getting…
2. The Climb (2009) In 2009, Miley appeared with her performance in Hannah Montana: The Movie. The movie which reached its popularity by scoring $79 Million revenues tells about the daily life of Hannah Montana who had a double life as both superstar and ordinary girl. Through the movie, Miley appeared as a girl who was known as cheerful, funny, sweet and perfectly clean. Besides, Miley also appeared in more maturing image in this year. She was facing controversy when performing her single that…
It remains the charge most frequently leveled against science fiction and fantasy: that these genres offer nothing but an irresponsible escapism, a way for their readers to avoid the grim truths of the real world. It is the same criticism against which J.R.R. Tolkien defended genre fiction in his 1939 essay "On Fairy-Stories," but also the one that most relentlessly persists in the sphere of literary studies. Even the harshest of critics, however, would hesitate to describe Guillermo del Toro's…
Water I love getting whisked away into stories of adventures and heroism. Stories that made you look at our world and seem to think it was so astonishing yet so simple, that we were yet to create the futuristic tools books spoke of. Or that we were yet to find the magic that was hidden underneath all the layers of science. I was the only one in my family who had the love for the alternate realities that everyone spoke of. That was before my step father came in. I finally had someone who…
In chapter four of The Westing Game the author uses the plot and Turtle’s reactions to it to develop her character as quirky, smart, determined, prepared, brave and feisty. She is quirky because even though she plans to do something scary and dangerous, she comes dressed in a full witch costume, wart and all, which is not the best attire for sneaking into someone’s house. The author suggested that Turtle is also smart and determined because she is saving to pay for a subscription to the Wall…
The last step of the hero's journey is the Return. The Return is when the hero is able to come back to the old world with his accomplishments. Sometimes the hero may feel content in the new world and refuse to return to the old world. In order for the hero to fulfill their destiny and become the leader they need to return to their old world. An example of a refusal is when Jack fights against the cops and refuses to turn himself in and go to jail. Another step in the Return is the Magic Flight.…
When was the last time you picked up a children's book and actually read it? I am talking just reading it by yourself, not to a little kid. Sofia and Aalyah read two children books titled Horton Hatches the Egg by the famous Dr. Seuss himself, and Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness written by Lynley Dodd. Both of these well written books have a common theme. That theme being perseverance, meaning the characters in each book never gave up, even during difficult times. In the first book Horton Hatches…