Tall tale

him” to make him as tall as children his age. When the boy turns six years old, his parents send him to school; the dead boy is bullied and one day they make him into a kite. Eventually, the bullies let go of the string and the dead boy flies away. After a long time of the boy flying, he lands and finds himself in a gray place where…

down. Whether it is a friend, parent, teacher, or even a stranger never let anyone discourage you from achieving a dream or goal. When reading The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood through a biographical lens, the connection between the author and the text is eminently clear. The connection between Margaret Atwood and The Handmaid’s Tale is shown through the main character, Offred, overcoming obstacles, the theme remembering the past brings hope for the future and the veil the handmaid’s…

Believe it or not but Disney did not come up with their own fairy tales. They got the base of many of their stories from the famous Grimm Brother’s. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklores in the nineteenth century (Shojaei-Kawan). Walt Disney first started with his huge success Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and that is how the Disney Company took off (Stevenson 134). Walt Disney…

Rotten Tomatoes, a respected website devoted to film reviews, gave Shrek a high rating of 88% while Mean Girls received a slightly lower rating of 83%, respectively. IMDb, another website that consists of information related to films, also gave Shrek a higher rating than Mean Girls, with Shrek garnering a rating of 7.9 compared to a Mean Girls rating of 7.0. Although the margin between the two movies is small, it gives Shrek the upper hand as the better satirical movie. Statistics aside, is…

In the short story “Karma,” by Jade Antoine, there is a king and queen ruling in the kingdom of Welbia. The king was repeatedly abusing the queen and the queen had to go to extreme lengths to try and stop the abuse. Queen Victoria reached out to a fairy and asked her to grant her powers so she could stop King Blake’s malevolent behavior. When she was given magic, the fairy told her if she used the magic for evil, the consequences would fall upon her unborn child. The queen went back to the…

She towers tall, dressed horns-to-toe in black and accompanied at all times by her crow, named Diaval. Although Aurora is pale, blonde, and dainty, and always dressed in bright colors the two can happen to look like total opposites of each other but they happen to…

In The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood explores the idea of… Offred is a Handmaid whose sole purpose in the society of Gilead is to reproduce by having sex with a man known as the Commander. However, the Commander has a designated Wife known as Serena Joy, and the Wives of the Commanders cannot produce children due to infertility. These two women, existing both separately and together in a lifeless world with a declining birth rate, interact in subtle yet strained ways. In a particular scene…

In his article, David LaBounty claims that those who write children’s literature take on roles so that they can teach children how to lie and when to use lies in their lives. LaBounty uses several different examples of authors and their stories to show how they teach children about lying. Aesop’s fables, such as “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf,” are the first stories that LaBounty uses to support his claim. Aesop’s fables are used to discuss how being honest is always better than lying and that…

first things that pops up in my head are fairy tales, folklore, and legends. For hundreds of years, tales and legends have been told and re-told to different audiences around the world. Travelers would share the stories that they had previously heard and they would either tell it exactly as they heard it or they would add to the story or change it in order to make it a completely different story. Each tale brings a different perspective of another tale which demonstrates all the endless…

Disney princess movies emphasizes a lot on beauty. For these Disney princess characters, beauty is the key towards happiness. With their good looks and only that, they are able to find future husbands. Disney portrays female characters as being only useful for their good looks and nothing else. They demonstrate it as princesses aren't able to live their life without men. That men are there to marry a pretty looking woman. We examined three different Disney princess movies and took notes of the…