Operation Snow White

He is left with a sad feeling leaving his friends. At the end of the movie, I saw a more caring Lightning, he was excited to see that his friends showed up to the race to support him in his pit crew. He valued friendships and did not care about winning. On the last lap of his race, a fellow race car gets into a wreck and McQueen helps that car across the finish line before him. All of this showed me that Lightning McQueen was definitely a dynamic character due to the love from his friends. The…

Fairy God Medium: Gender roles through shifting adaptations of Cinderella Once upon a time, there lived a story told far and wide. This story goes by many names, but we best know it by the name Cinderella. The Cinderella story is a truly inter-medium story. Its basic structure can be found in books, comics, television shows, the news, and movies. A Cinderella story needs three features: a slipper, an ill treated heroin, and a fall from grace followed by the rise to a greater positon after some…

Do you know a story that is told from much different point of views with the same meaning behind it? Cinderella, the story about a young orphan child who goes to live with her evil stepmother and stepsisters, is one of those various stories. Although there are stories told alike, many are also told differently. In the French story told by Charles Perrault, “Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper”, Cinderella forgives her stepsisters for all the misery they caused her and allowed them to live in…

Flying across the ice, the two time U.S. gold medalists Alex and Maia Shibutani danced their hearts out to Paradise by Coldplay only to lose their third gold medal at the National Figure Skating Championships. Their dance and song choice touched the lives of people all around the world, but wasn’t enough to hold their own against the skaters to come. Although the title was the lost, the words to the Shibutanis song of choice speaks volumes. Songwriter Christopher Anthony pulls at the string’s of…

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…