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Moana is a curious young girl who is raised on Motunui Island. She is drawn to the ocean as soon as she can walk and has a connection with it, the ocean makes way for her as to protect her and draw her closer in. The movie starts off with Moana’s grandmother, aka “the crazy island lady” as she refers to herself and she is telling a story which appears to be a legend to young children. It’s about the trick playing demigod Maui who stole the Mother Island Te Fiti’s heart thousands of years ago.…

The Awakening by Kate Chopin showcases the metaphorical awakening of a married woman named Edna. Throughout the novel, Edna deals with the temptation of her raging hormones and desires for other men. Edna also seeks to separate herself from the idea of a typical mother-woman and identify as equal to man. While I am all for the empowerment of women and equal rights, I feel that Enda fails to properly address pressing issues within herself. This leads to Chopin’s book leaving readers to shake…

difficult ideas and concepts in ways that are understandable or significant to the reader. Authors tell their stories on two different levels, a literal level and a figurative level. Allegory is a symbolic meaning used to reveal a moral truth in the story. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour”, used three examples of allegory-the locations within the house, the protagonist’s heart problem and an open window. First, the two different locations used within the story represented two different…

The film complys completely with trend and framework of the novel and take three-step composition to describe the three women’s one day in different spacetime. At the beginning, it builds an atmosphere of death, and the environment is water. Water has always been a symbol of softness, which fitly suggests that the female theme of this film, from the beginning to let audiences find everything fresh and new. At the end of the movie, it repeats this picture. The sound of water for a long time can…

“The Story of an Hour” is an excerpt of an ill lady, Mrs. Mallard, who encounters the forbidden happiness of being free after her husband’s death, falsely concluded from a railroad disaster. Her feelings of freedom are interrupted when her sister, Josephine, drags her to the door where Mr. Mallard stood, alive. The theme of the story is an ironic and it presents the audience with an optimistic message with the reminder that every cloud has a silver lining. Often times during fiction, the story…

Kate Chopin’s, “The Storm” begins with a storm rolling in around New Orleans, Louisiana. Calixta, seeing the storm coming, steps outside to take her husband and sons clothes off the clothesline and encounters her previous lover, Alcee, whom she invites in her home out of the elements. After she voiced her concern for her husband and son during the storm, lightening frightened Calixta, and she shared her fear of the house being hit by lightning, Alcee held her for comfort. They spoke of past…

A wise man by the name Martin Luther king Jr. once said, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Everyone should, and needs to believe that a color of a skin simply shouldn’t justify if a person is good or bad. In “Roll Of Thunder, Hear my cry” Mildred D Taylor explains the story of the Logan Family, a family living in the 1930’s. Only one thing is different…

One of the most prevalent desires in a person's life is to find what he or she is meant to fulfill in his or her lifetime. Especially for adolescents, finding where one stands in a world full of chaos is a daunting struggle and a strenuous journey. In The Cather in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger, Holden is a troubled boy who is struggling to find himself and his place in the world. His journey to achieving this goal makes The Cather in the Rye an overall optimistic book because teenagers can…

Into the Dark Water by Lauren Tarshis has many quotes from a boy named Jack Thayer, who at the time was 17, and sailing on the Titanic. The exact quotes from Jack really made the story more believable and made me feel like I was really there. Furthermore, it can be confusing why the author added in the quotes, as some have profound meanings. And even though they they are nicely hidden, they help the article in unthinkable ways. Jack Thayer stated on April 14, 1912, “It was the kind of night that…

“First Lady of the Renaissance”, this is what Isabella d’Este was called. She was born into a ruling family, and received fine education. At the age of 6, she met her husband ___, the prince of Mantua, and married him 10 years later Isabella supported her husband, but not the way how normal wives would do. When ___ was in jail as a prisoner in France, she took over his job. To let him know what was happening to the city, she wrote letters and reported to him. In her life, she wrote over 2000…