Stepfamily

The Long Road Home Danielle Steel’s fictional book, The Long Road Home, is about the Harrison family, which consists of Thomas, the father, Eloise, the mother and Gabrielle, their seven-year old daughter. From her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison looks at the guests and imagines being in their mansion like palaces in Manhattan. At the age of seven, she knows she is intruding on her parents’ party, and on her parents' life, but she cannot resist the magical attraction.…

The Struggling Path to Adulthood I know many of my peers whose parents were uninvolved in their developmental years and after. The same can be said for me. One thing in common between my peers and I is that it took us a little bit longer to find a foothold as young adults cast into the world of responsibility and adulthood. Parents who do the bare minimum, feed, house, and clothe, are missing a vital link in the chain; emotional and developmental guidance. I can attribute several of my own…

A Step-Mom but a Real Mom She changed my whole entire world. She made me who I am today. She may be my step-mom but she is the real mom I’ve never had. No one has ever loved me as much as she has. She took care of me ever since I was a baby. Making me the young woman I am today. I never thought anyone could care for me as much as she has. She helped me see how people are really supposed to care about people and their children. She turned my whole entire life upside down. In the early ages of my…

Today, in the United States, it is estimated that forty to fifty percent of married couples will file for a divorce (“Marriage and Divorce”). For every ten new marriages, four of those will involve a person who has previously been married to a different partner (Peralta). The image of a modern family has changed significantly, expanding to include same sex couples, adopted family members, and most commonly, step family members. But for these modern, blended families, is there a happily ever…

The movie Sleepy Hollow is a movie where a Proppian analysis can be applied, but because the story line is unique it doesn't follow all of the steps included in this analysis. The preparatory part starts with the initial situation, which was that Crane was facing imprisonment for using new age forensic methods while investigating, so instead of sentencing him to prison the judge decided to send him to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings. The next step this story follows is the…

Top 10 Creepypastas With a Halloween Theme If you're a horror fan, you've likely come across the word 'creepypasta' at least a few times. These modern-day equivalents to folklore have been circulating the world wide web for nearly a decade, gaining in popularity when The New York Times did a story on them in 2010. (LINK 1) Many creepypastas are stand-alone stories, but there a few main characters like "Slenderman", "Jeff the Killer", and "Laughing Jack" whose stories are carried on by both…

Dear Lucy, Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella” is not like the classic fairytale we all know and love. In this version, Cinderella is portrayed as a beautiful young girl; however, she is impoverished. Ever since she was little, her father, stepmother, and stepsisters treated her with brutality. Later on, with the help of her magical dove, Cinderella gets her wish of going to the ball, where her and Prince Charming meet. In contrast to the original fairytale, Prince Charming has an absence of…

Elves instill an encompassing fear on humans. Whether it be giving an explicit fear through practices of control and nightmare or an implicit fear through practices of gift giving and non-threatening power demonstration, elves produce multiple degrees of fear into the inferior, unfortunate humans. Elves use multiple methods to make themselves feared explicitly. Some methods found in folktales include: task requests (cf. The Godmother, Elfin Woman in Childbirth), physical control (cf. Hild Queen…

The story of the “The Landlady” starts off when Billy, a naive and innocent person, steps into the little nest of the evil landlady. The landlady looks like a warm and welcoming middle-aged woman but hides a cruel and malicious intention that Billy is unable to recognize. Therefore becoming a victim of the landlady. It hides a theme of that appearances are deceiving and that people are not like how they seem to be. The film adaptation and the original story developed this tale of the landlady…

As Saranell grew up, Geneva continuously neglected her, causing Saranell to feel unwanted and not cared for. In the midst of a blizzard, Saranell drifted to her mother for warmth and protection. When she arrived to her mother, Geneva immediately disregarded Saranell's needs. "'Go into the parlor,' Geneva ordered from Fanny Culver's four poster bed as soon as Saranell appeared. 'The servants have saved some cornbread for you.' She turned toward the wall and coughed. 'And shut that door so what…