Leatherstocking Tales

The panting of a hunt, with the kick of an adrenaline rush. It is impressive how a gray wolf can strive with its survival skill. Strong creatures they are, much like a German shepherd on steroids. While most gray wolves living in the Canadian wilderness have common lives, the male wolf named Buck, is a lone wolf. He is a sleek, tall, and young wolf on his own and living by day. He has been this way since The Allegiance… Buck yelped as his mother pulled the last quill out. “Now you know not to…

The animated movie Tangled became an instant Disney classic with its debut in 2010. Featuring typical Disney characters, the beautiful princess and unlikely hero fight evil to defeat the wicked witch. Eventually, all is right in the kingdom again and they all live happily ever after. However, Tangled has a dark side in the movie that went untouched by screenwriters. The evil witch, Mother Gothel, kidnaps Princess Rapunzel as a baby and keeps her hidden for the entirety of her childhood. The…

advantage of people in the Middle Ages and was more than willing to use his literature to call them out on it. Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is full of unholy religious figures, such as the Nun, Monk, and Friar, that care more about the outer world than their oath to the Catholic Church. The Nun is one of the immoral characters written about in The Canterbury Tales because out of everything, she cares most about her outer beauty. In his literature, Chaucer writes, “At meat her manners were…

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” - Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. Sacrifice like this is the theme of the movie Saving Mr. Banks, in which many of the main characters must choose to make such a decision. Often times, individuals will compromise their happiness by looking at the bigger picture: What’s right for their families or just for others in general. Even if this means working a job they dislike, dealing with insufferable people…

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…

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories that the pilgrim travelers wrote on their journey to the Canterbury Cathedral in London, England. This collection was written by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1342-1400. The group of pilgrims are headed to London in order to give their respect to Bishop Thomas Beckett who has been murdered. There are 46 members on the trip, but only some are able to capture their stories. The captain of the voyage suggests that every one on the trip should tell two…

The Lady of Shalott is about a mysterious young adolescent girl who is cursed to remain in the tower surrounded by water. Her curse is to continuously weave and only see the world through mirrored reflections and not experience life directly. She is forbidden to look out of the window at the world going on around her, so she looks through a mirror that is ever so conveniently placed where it has the view of Camelot. The mirror magically showed the truest colors of the yarn. She longs to be a…

A child hood favorite “The Little Red Riding Hood”and “Goldilocks and The Three Bears” includes two female characters who made decisions that are similar,but with some that are different.As you know Little Red(RRH) went for a walk in the woods to bring cakes to her sick grandmother,Although Goldilocks was present in the woods also,but she was there just wondering and around being some kind of creep.Little Red was responsible while going into the woods and handling what needed to be done,while…

Brutus, and Attila the Hun are a few of the well-known figures mentioned during Dante's journey through Hell. The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer, is a compiled collection of the tales of 29 people embarking on a pilgrimage. One of the people, the Wife of Bath, is purposely made to stand out during the General Prologue. During both the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale, there are characters that would have a place in Dante’s Inferno because of the sins they commit throughout the…

some therapeutic out the source of relieving the pain and hurt. With fairy tales they tend to make the common kid dream of a different future for themselves. For example, a little girl is told that she is not worth anyones time. When she reads a fairy tale she is the princess, hero, and protagonist of her own world. The alternate universe that many people use to escape their own lives are fairy tales. Within a fairy tale they have princesses, hero, princes, and happy endings. However, we can…