The Other Sister

For example, there is always an evil villain, or in this case the stepmothers and stepsisters. In the two stories, Cinderella and Cendrillon, both of the girls are treated poorly by their stepmothers and sisters. The stepmothers represent the evil villians/antagonist and the stepsister/sisters as the villains minions. The evil villain/antagonist, represented in Cinderella as the stepmother, helps bring out the social necessities in the story. For example, the stepmother treats Cinderella very…

about families affected by the war. In “The Perfect Day for Bananafish” Seymour’s mother in law and wife are in constant fear as to what is to come of Seymour. The mother in law is constantly worried because of Seymour’s change in personality. On the other hand, his wife’s inability to believe that he is psychologically unstable is the biggest tragedy of it all. Her certainty that his mental health is fine leads to his unfortunate suicide. In Seymour’s case the war followed him home. But unlike…

The traffic and chilly wind doesn’t look to discourage people from coming out to City Creek Mall. I took a seat near the fountain where everyone seems enthrall to. The millennial music playing in the background, combined with traffic honks booming in consumer’s ears. The wind caressing the trees, whispering melodies in our ears, and the leaves bid farewell to its mother. The sun parted way with the sky early today, leaving only gloomy clouds greeting the city. I sit behind a group of young…

Mothers and daughters have good bonds with each other, but some of them end up in conflicts. This is a part of a life skill between mothers and daughters. The relationship with the two must create boundaries to help improve their relationship. The mothers’ job is to manage their daughters and help them fix the problems, such as break-ups with boyfriends or help with their schoolwork. The daughters’ job is to obey their mothers’ rules and follow their guidelines. Mothers and daughters can be a…

In the Times of the Butterflies is a novel written by Julia Alvarez. The novel followed the four Mirabal sisters contrasting roles as females that sets their decisions on whether−or not−they wanted to follow the anti-Trujillo movement throughout this movie. The sisters are, Dede, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Patrai. Dede and Minerva are the most conflicted on the whole movement, while Maria Teresa and Patria’s was less conflicted and their participation in the Trujillo movement was more of an…

the morals of the story: “to hold on to the best in one’s past” (Bettelheim, 262). Even though it is vintage and is nothing compared to what her sisters are wearing, she decides to put it on so she would not cost her stepmother a penny. That alone already shows what kind of person she is. Rather than spending a fortune on a gown just like her sisters, she fixed it herself with the help of her rodent friends. Cinderella’s hair is always down and messy, unlike her stepsisters and stepmother, they…

be. In the beginning of the novel, present day Dede, her sister, describes Minerva, saying that “‘Minerva was always into her wrongs and rights.’ Dede realizes she is speaking to the picture of Minerva, as if she were assigning her a part, pinning her down with a handful of adjectives, the beautiful, intelligent, high-minded Minerva… Dede affirms, used to this fixed, monolithic language around interviewers and mythologizers of her sisters” (6,7). Alvarez uses the word “monolithic” specifically…

Success is best described as the act as a group or as an individual to achieve a set of goals, target or purpose. Success comes when legal hard work has been made known in a career. The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah, a book about the daughter of a big drug lord growing up in a very materialistic, proud, and troubled lifestyle. Materialism, beauty and pride led Winter Santiaga sticking with the wrong set of people. The amount of wealth her father had made their family’s name stay at the…

tried it on but it did not fit them so one cut of her toe and the other cut off her heel. The two pigeons call out that they had blood in the slipper and said their not the right one. Then he went back and asked if it was anybody else and the father said Cinderella but he doubt it was her. The prince insisted that he should try anyway. The Cinderella came down and tried it on. France is similar to German but Cinderella had the other slipper in her pocket when she tried on the slipper. That made…

they live happily ever after. The movie stars a young girl named Cinderella that lives with her evil step mother and step sisters, who treat her very poorly and as if she’s the house maid, living in the attic. Her father passed away after remarrying a woman and moving in with her and her two daughters. Cinderella spends her days cleaning up after her step mother and two step sisters, getting through her days by singing and hanging out with the animals she had befriended. One day, she heard about…