The Lion

Females are well known in Disney movies to be only wanted as a wife, a mother, or a home-maker. They are there to support their husbands, calm them when they are angry, and are there for them whenever needed; you rarely ever see a woman go to work in any of these films. This being said, in the beginning of Beauty and the Beast, Belle is walking down the street when Gaston runs into her, taking her book and throwing it into the mud, he tells Belle, “It’s not right for a woman to read, then…

Roosevelt: The Lion and The Fox It is often said that Franklin D. Roosevelt was not as great a President as his cousin Theodore Roosevelt, but leading the United States during the Great Depression, he had to be as strong as a lion and as clever as a fox. James McGregor Burns does an amazing job at describing Franklin’s life as a young boy to the day he was re-elected for the third time to be the president of the United States. Mr. Burns was a prize winning author that specialized in…

screaming and laughing as he was having a heart attack. I always felt normal when I was with animals like that. I always grew up knowing I wanted to do something with the animals or with nature. Correspondingly, these experiences led me to want a baby lion when I grow up, I always had…

our traits to other beings or objects in hope of better understanding them. We do this to be able to relate to them. I like to believe this is the reason we come up with so many tales about animals or creatures facing many of our same problems. The Lion King is a good example of this. A power-hungry sibling who will stop at nothing to obtain power. If this was the real animal kingdom, they would simply fight for leadership and be…

for the spider, a new start. Though weaved with care it does have its limitations in strength, weak and miniature bugs will get caught, but the powerful and big will destroy the web. Incidentally, while reading Michael Ondaatje’s “In the Skin of a Lion”, Paulo Coelho’s “The winner stands alone”, I begin to question what the purpose in reading is? Tired of flipping through pages and pages of words I can see a glimmer of light, as the end comes near.…

Reading The Cat’s Table was an eye opener for me as I watched Michael Ondaatje’s young characters make bad decisions and learn from their mistakes. The young narrator named Michael, narrates his 21-day journey at the age eleven as he travels across the world to live with his mother, someone he has really no relationship with. He encounters people on the ship who become his friends that later on help shape him as a person. Ondaatje continuously demonstrates Michael’s innocence which leads to…

year, they returned to Canada, settled down together in Waterdown, and bought dozens of Disney VHS tapes. I showed up a whole decade after their “happily ever after”. I was indoctrinated into the Disney philosophy as soon as I could sit through The Lion King without screaming during Mufasa’s death. I actually believed that my parents were a king and a queen because they met at Walt Disney World. I had to inherit my parents’ fairy tale someday; therefore, I had to fit my parents’ expectations of…

as going to the Cinema with his brothers. These recollections insinuate that though his childhood is irregular, it also contains an abundance of instances that not only benefit making it bearable but also enjoyable for Saroo. Throughout the Memoir Lion, Saroo Brierley often states that he feels thankful for his life in Australia, nonetheless he still yearns to someday find his birth family, his origin. There are a great deal of reasons why Saroo might want to find the place where he came from…

The biblical allegories and symbolisms in The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe Many books in the world contain their own meanings by many symbols in their stories. And they affect the readers to think and imagine about the symbols. After we realize the meaning of those symbols, then we learn some information from those meaning. But, can you believe that a story you have read contains the stories from bible? If you read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, then you would have learned the…

As depicted by the countless sold copies of this sort, tragedies appeal to the pathos of human pity. Having been distinguished from their beginning in ancient Greece, when authors such as Sophocles and Homer wrote rhetorics that are still being taught today. In fact, famous, talented Elizabethan playwright, William Shakespeare is best known for his tragedies including the acclaimed Romeo and Juliet. Therefore, it is no surprise that he exquisitely produced the play “Othello”, illustrating the…