Roald Dahl

1 Oscar nomination for the Best Achievement in Costume Design, the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory successfully made it to the international film industry. Directed by Tim Burton, the movie is derived from a children storybook written by Roald Dahl and its main casts starring 3 times Oscar nominee Johnny Depp, who played as Willy Wonka, and Britain born Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket. (Anon, 2005). The movie began by an invitation through the attainment of the Golden Ticket for a…

There have been millions of books and short stories written and published in the world that make information and entertainment easily tangible and have recorded the history of Humanity and the world for generations. Books and short stories centered around telling a story nonfiction and fiction alike all have one thing in common, something that creates all the love, suspense, and horror that makes stories enjoyable, Protagonists and antagonists. They are the people, animals, or things that drive…

Transferring Power from Hero to Heroine Throughout literature and film, women are often portrayed in a distinct manner; subservient to men, naive, and powerless against the forces of evil. Childhood fairytales reinforce the idea that a woman’s duties are to take care of the home and children, and follow the rule of the husband. Women are portrayed as naive, fragile, and very innocent. Often times when that distinct line between innocence and adulthood is crossed, also known in fairytales as,…

“You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts it will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” I smiled as my brother Josh read from my favorite Roald Dahl book “The Twits”. Reading me bedtime stories was not something that my twelve-year-old brother was readily admitting to his friends. He was one year my senior and gauging solely upon our differing popularity at Frankford Middle School you would…

Throughout history many societies have attempted to control the uncontrollable, one of the most basic parts of human nature, the thirst for knowledge. And it is with books such as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley; that readers can witness the complications of living in a society dystopian society, where everything is being controlled by an outside force. This project will seek to explore how authors across different times have foreseen…

Newberry Award Winners: DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie. Candlewick Press, 2000. Summary: Because of Winn-Dixie is a story of a young girl, Opal, who moved from one small town in Florida to another with her father who was a preacher. Her mother left them when Opal was very young and she struggles with this throughout the book. While in the supermarket, Winn-Dixie, Opal found a dog that was tearing apart the store. She claimed the dog as hers and she and her father took the dog home. She…

falls within my personal definition of a leader. Though it has only been 66 years since his year of birth, Pratchett has sold over 85 million books, just shy of the just over 100 million sold by Lewis Carrol (182 years), Ian Fleming (106 years) or Roald Dahl (98 years). I know how much the books I had read have affected me, and having read several of Pratchett’s novels I can attest to the fact that they are rarely purely fictional and often parody or satirise real life people and events. Though…

Madiha is six years old. Her birthday is March twenty-ninth. Madiha enjoys reading books and doing her homework. She loves to play with her friends. Once upon a time, there was a girl named Mia. Every day, she would go to her aunt's house. Every day, she thought the walk was boring. Until one day, she went to a shop, and she found a beautiful rug. She took the rug home, and she found out that it was a magic carpet. She flew everywhere. She went to India to see an elephant. She went to…