Red Queen

For my independent reading selection, I have chosen "The Red Queen", by Victoria Aveyard. I just got the book for Christmas and read it two days ago. It held my attention very well, with humor and other attributes. It's a very unique book, as far as I know. The sequel, and the prequels, are just as good. The Red Queen, a book about a girl named Mare Barrow, shows a journey from living in "The Stilts", Mare's hometown, to Mare living in a palace, betrothed to a prince named Maven, who is…

novel “Red Queen”. The kingdom of Norta is divided into two parts; those with red blood, common humans who were born to serve, and those with silver, titans with extraordinary powers and hearts as cold as ice. Mare Barrow, a red, lives in the poverty-stricken Stilts and steals to provide for her family. Her entire life is flipped upside down when she is taken from her common life and sent to serve in the summer palace of the royal family. It is quickly discovered that Mare, despite her red…

contrast/battle between good and evil in Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. [Ensure that your focus is on filmic elements] Alice in Wonderland heavily weighs up the idea of good and evil, this contrast is brought under the spotlight by the White Queen and the Queen of Hearts and their areas of dominance. This battle between good and evil employs a wide category of film techniques to show this struggle such as; setting, costume, soundscape, actors’ ensemble and performance, and camera angles. A…

be to ace the next test. The more you look at your failing grade, the more inspired you are to do better. Failing also helps you to learn. When you fail, you look at what you did, fix it, learn from it, and become stronger from it. In the book Red Queen, Mare Barrow has to join with her friends to overtake the evil royals who rule. She came up with a plan, attempted it, and failed. After failing a first time she waited before she jumped into it again. She took the time to look over her plan,…

I chose the book The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley because I have always been fascinated by how our culture views sex and how it has had an effect on our evolution. The author discusses how the biological factors of sexual selection has affected human psychology. You probably remember the Red Queen hypothesis from recently. From Through the Looking Glass, Alice meets the Red Queen who is constantly running just to stay in one place and not fall behind. This is…

colors; black, white, and red. On a deeper level though the story is also about the feminine aspects of people in general, the Evil queen being the shadow and negative aspects, Snow White’s mother could be considered the earth mother role as she begins the story and starts it with both life, Snow White’s birth, and her mother's own death. Snow White's story begins in mid winter with her mother sitting in an ebony wood chair and pricks her finger with a sewing needle. “The red on…

evil queen with super powers. How she not only wants to be the most beautiful and powerful person, but can take life from other people to maintain her beauty and power. The opening of “Snow White and the Huntsman” is done just as the story in the Grimm brothers’ book. The queen pricks her finger (on a rose instead of a needle) and three drops of blood fell. Just like in the story, she describes what she wants in her child. She hopes that her child can have a child as white as snow and as red as…

by a fair King and Queen. One day, the King and Queen were blessed with a gift of a daughter, and they named her Ophelia. But something wasn’t quite right with Ophelia. She was born with a deathly illness, so the noble King and Queen asked for the most powerful fairy godmother in the Kingdom. “I do not have the power to cure the princess from her illness, but I can give her a gift to help her. The gift I bestow upon Princess Ophelia of Venlighed is a necklace.” The King and Queen both looked…

In modern versions of Snow White, she is depicted as a young maiden who enjoys cooking, cleaning, and speaking to animals. Traditionally, she was the object of jealousy by the evil queen and was ordered to be killed in the name of vanity. She is asked by the huntsman to run away so she can live, but when the queen discovers that she still lives, she decides to do the job herself. Snow White is an “innocent” child whom sees no reason to think that the strange old woman giving her an apple (The…

friend to all animals. One day, Snow White met a charming prince. As they sang a song of love together, Snow White's evil stepmother, the Queen, watched them. The Queen was so jealous of Snow White's beauty that she ordered her Huntsman to kill the young princess. But the Huntsman couldn't bring himself to hurt Snow White. He told her to run far away so the Queen would never find her. Snow White ran deep into the woods. She was lost and scared but soon found herself in front of a cottage. The…