The Franklin's Tale

The book Linger is the second book in the trilogy, ‘The Wolves of Mercy Falls’, written by Maggie Stiefvater. Every chapter is told from the perspective of different main characters so you get a good understanding of all the characters feelings. The story continues on and connects to the first book Shiver which is a love story about a girl and a boy/ wolf who fall in love. The main character is Grace Brisbane who, in the first book, gets bitten by a wolf when she was a child, but was locked…

Daughters of the Air who offer her another chance to achieve her goal in exchange for good deeds during 300 years. Andersen 's tale reveals that the story is a far more complex fairy tale compare to the classic one: through the several separations, the complexity of the protagonist…

Chapter 1 every Trip is a Quest (Except When It 's not) Summary: Foster discusses the idea that though many details are different, every quest has the similar archetype or makeup. There is always a protagonist on a quest, a place they must go, a stated reason to go to their location, and challenges and trials they encounter on their way. Also, Foster states the reason any quest truly occurs is self-knowledge. This is proven by the fact people who go on quests are young, showing they have an…

for which she yearned; her beauty could only get her so far. The mermaid is so depressed by not having a voice, and losing what she loves because if it, that she decides to let herself die. Anderson teaches readers another lesson through his fairy tale, as well. When the mermaid dies, she finds what can make her happy: eternal life. And this was granted not because of her beauty earning her a place at the altar next to the prince, but because of her kindness. So along with the importance of…

“He pulls down one of my straps […] I lie there like a dead bird […] I can’t afford pride or aversion” (Atwood, 294). The Gate to Women’s Country by Sheri S. Tepper and The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood are dystopian novels where the roles of men are women are explicitly distinguished to achieve one goal. In both novels, men oppress women from their feminism ideologies to reach the paramount goal of restoring the ability to conceive babies without deformities; however, the women differ in…

Cinderella Fairy tales are not what most of the world thinks they are. Quite a few of them are horrifying and gruesome but all of the stories have a specific meaning to them just like any other. In more ways than one, “The fairy tale demonstrates what it meant to be beautiful and heroic and how to achieve “royal” status with the help of grace and good fortune”(Zipes 4). Many of these stories have stood up against the test of time due to ethnic groups using storytelling to recover history and…

The way power is utilized, can change of life discomforting one state of life. In society, many struggle to remember their past and to keep their language alive in order to resist the desire and pressure to forget. Similarly, Offred in, The Handmaids Tale struggles to forget her past no matter how much she efforts to. The fact that Offred is unable to forget her past is further clarified through Offred’s flashbacks, her state of mind causing her to imagine components and revising times of her…

is a fairy tale! Claire Battershill’s “Two-Man Luge” displays strong evidence towards the famously known fairy tale, Cinderella. Two-Man Luge possesses a similar structure and several factors that give readers’ thoughts just as fairy tales would, like the famous “happily ever after”. Throughout the centuries Fairy Tales have provided a specific design for authors to follow and for audiences to react. “Two-Man Luge” is an unintentional Fairy Tale that does just that. What’s a fairy tale without…

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales in 1392. The tales are a collection of stories from many different members of Chaucer’s society who went on a pilgrimage and traveled to the Canterbury Cathedral in England. Some people believe that the stories and characters in Chaucer’s tales are mirror images of people in present-day society. In fact, the Canterbury Tales are very relevant to current society. The morals and characters represented in the tales reflect normal everyday people and…

The Garden, The Machine, and the American Voice Perhaps one of the more discernable conflicts in art and literature is that which takes place between appreciating nature and expanding society. Many writers and philosophers, from Aristotle to Shakespeare, have naturally gravitated towards this fundamental dilemma, and shared their sentiments through art, poems, and literary works. Such tendencies did not escape the realm of American literature in the mid-nineteenth century. Up until then, before…