The Lion

The lion and the mouse by Jerry Pinkney is one of my favorite picture books by any author. I remember seeing the cover of the book when I was at the library looking for a new book to show the class where I was an assistant teacher and it was my first time for story time. The main point of this story was how the lion had the choice of either eating the mouse or letting him go free. The mouse small in size but there is much he can do for him in return. At first I thought the children might not be…

- 4 - 15 The Lion King An archetype is a typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature (http://literarydevices.net/archetype/). Swiss Psychologist, Carl Jung says that archetypes are symbols of character that every human understands because they are passed on from generation to generation. Many movies and books have archetypes but one that really stood out was one of Walt Disney’s Animated Classics, The Lion King. The Lion King is…

William Shakespeare's Hamlet can be compared to Disney’s Lion King, because of their similarities of characters, plot line, and intervening themes of loyalty and power. Both stories center on these themes and even progressively change together when the main characters morals start to change and fade. Throughout Hamlet and The Lion King there are examples that link both of these plots together. The first example being both stories is the king being killed and the revenge is being sought after by…

in Disney and the others for adults. The two movies I am talking about are Hamlet by David Barron and The Lion King by Don Hahn. In the movie Hamlet the main character comes home from school to find out his fathers dead, his uncle married his mom, and he can not go back to school. Later in the movie he finds out Claudius (his uncle) killed his father, and Hamlet seeks for revenge. In The Lion King Simba is just a little kid when Mufasa (his father) starts to show him around since he is the…

Both Simba and Hamlet were sent away by their uncles following the deaths of their fathers. In The Lion King, Scar murders Mufasa and then encourages Simba to run away after convincing him that he caused Mufasa’s death. In Hamlet, Claudius sends Hamlet to England in order to keep his murder of King Hamlet a secret. Simba and Hamlet were sent to exile in order for both uncles to prosper as kings without rumors of wrongdoing that could damage their reputations. Simba and Hamlet differ due to their…

The Greatest Villain: Scar from the Lion King, Mufasa’s brother. In the order of wild Africa, the consequences of Scar's actions, leads to the destruction of the Pride Lands. it can be concluded that he is the greatest villain to have existed. Because of his actions, and the willingness, to do whatever it took to become king even through despicable and horrific actions, which would result in another's life. Through Scar's horrific actions that he took to become king, resulted in ending his…

My assigned artwork, The Assyrian Lion Hunt Reliefs expresses a desire for power, permanence and a need to find meaning in the world. The artwork illustrates the Assyrians being led by a king, and as we all know, the kings are the most powerful in a monarchy. The artwork also illustrates the lions being held captive in cages, only released to fight another lion in the ring, showing which lion is the most powerful, almost done as in the gladiators times. The way the artwork shows how to find…

brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian home and sent to Christian boarding schools, C.S. Lewis wrote, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe about controversial views such as religious faith and skepticism, which were two topics few others wrote about during the time, and lead to controversy.…

The Golden lion tamarin (GLT) was first listed as endangered in 1982 according to the International Union of Conservation (IUCN). After an assessment in 1996, IUCN classified the GLT as critically endangered. In 2003, after conservation efforts, the IUCN re-classified GLTs as endangered. GLTs are listed as a regionally threatened species in the state of Rio de Janeiro and listed in appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (IUCN, 2008). Several conservation…

Published in the early 1950s, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis, took 7 years to get off the presses to the public, according to “The Parallel World of Narnia” by Chad Walsh, and became one of Lewis’s best-sellers (2005). In this story four siblings, stumble upon The Wardrobe in their guardians room, which leads them into a secret mystical world, filled with mystical beings and magic, no one knows about. The Witch has taken over the world and has left it cold for many years,…