John Snow

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…

The next novel is the paper Bag Princess. Princess Elizabeth was a brave and resilient young women who risks her life to save her "to be" husband, Prince Ronald. She lives in a castle happily and one day a dragon comes and takes her prince away. He has a green scaly skin, an alligator's belly, wings, four feet and can breathe fire. The Paper Bag Princess is a story which is set in the middle ages. Just because he can breathe fire he feels superior to the mankind, which was a thought of medieval…

Analysis of Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty is one of the most popular fairy tales heard and recited around the world. Some people have tried their best to make this fairy tale disappear from a historic collection of fairy tales, as the heroine was deemed “the most passive and repellent” (Tatar, pg. 117, 2017). However, different versions and film adaptations of Sleeping Beauty has been created for centuries. Hence, this version of the fairy tale that will be analysed throughout the essay has…

Maleficent is a 2014 American adventure fantasy film directed by Robert Stromberg from a screenplay by Linda Woolverton and starring Angelina Jolie, Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville. Loosely based on Charles Perrault's original fairy tale and inspired by Walt Disney's 1959 animated film, Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent portrays the story from the perspective of the eponymous antagonist, depicting her conflicted relationship with the princess…

In the movie, Frozen written by Jennifer Lee, Queen Elsa creates an eternal winter with her magic, which causes her to run away from Arendelle. Princess Anna goes on a vigorous journey to find Queen Elsa to stop the eternal winter and bring back summer. On Princess Anna’s quest, Anna hopes to learn her place in the world and her relationship to those in her community. Princess Anna’s journey is considered as a quest for the search of her sanity and morality, this helps Anna understand the…

Dragons, witches, princesses, knights. These are the imaginary friends in so many children's lives. For young adults, those fairy tale characters give away to darker characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in stories. Two stories that are interesting are The Giver by Lois Lowry, and "A Christmas Memory" by Truman Capote. When Jonas in The Giver turns 12, he is picked for something special and finds out some secret things. Buddy in "A…

The reading questions and discussion boards were particularly important in helping me analyze and research especially for my RA. For example, this particular question made me ponder upon several things until I researched and found something interesting to use for my RA. “George Cruikshank – “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper” Q: The stepmother is portrayed as proud, selfish and extravagant which makes her unjust and cruel, in contrast to Cinderella whose “disposition was even better than her…

my parents who are just infatuated with Japanese culture. They say they named me after the snow that fell the day I was born. I also have a white cat who so happens to have the name of Shiro. What are the odds? Considering the cat is older than me by a year, I often wonder with their terrible naming sense if they named me after a cat. Of course they franticly insist that I was named after the pure white snow on that day and by no means after a cat. I mean they do realize that we live in the age…

character that affects the princesses life in a dramatic way. Some stories that were compared were Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Tangled, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, both the original story…

The story of The Three Spinners is a well-known Grimm fairytale. Number 14 of 211 stories and legends, and only three pages long, it is often overlooked. If you have not heard this story, it goes like this: a lazy girl was beaten by her mother for not spinning flax. The Queen took notice. Her mother lied to the Queen saying the girl wouldn’t stop spinning. The Queen took the girl to her castle where she gave the girl three rooms full of flax to spin. Then told her when she spins it all she will…