The Wizard of Oz

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by Lewis Carroll which tells the story of Alice, a girl who goes on an adventure in Wonderland in a dream. The novel, usually shortened to Alice in Wonderland, falls into the fantasy genre. The novel main setting is in the fantasy world, where Alice finds herself inside a rabbit hole and Wonderland. The setting in the beginning and the ending of the story, however, is in the river bank. Carroll divided the book into twelve chapters, each…

Student Name:____Amanda Stevenson________________________________________________________ Book and Movie Comparison/Contrast Guide (p. 2) Similarities Differences Plot Events: Mags’ death book- In the book Finnick, Katniss, Peeta, and Mags are running away from the poisonous fog. Finnick is carrying Mags. Peeta gets hit by the fog and can no longer run. Finnick gives Mags to Katniss and carries Peeta. Katniss tries to carry Mags but, she falls. Finnick can’t carry both Mags and Peeta. Mags…

The expansive influence William Shakespeare has had on media and the world of literature is undeniable. His poems number into the hundreds and he wrote over three dozen plays which have been performed almost constantly since their debut. Reading Shakespeare is even mandatory in high schools across the United States. Just like Shakespeare’s influence can be seen in other plays throughout history (and even across languages), such as Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell1, it can be found in tons of…

home only to find that her mom is going to a bar for a party even with the impending doom of an approaching tornado. When her mom leaves, Amy is left with only Star for solace as the tornado whisks the trailer she calls home to a strange land. Oz. But Oz isn’t what it used to be. Now, it is a place where the trees don’t talk, the Wandering Water stays put, the Pond of Truth…

Textual illusions In something wicked this way comes the author Ray Bradbury uses textual illusions to reveal both Charles Halloway’s position in the book as well as future indicators. When in the book when the carnival is asking for a volunteer for the bullet act the crowd separates from Charles as “the sea before Moses(Bradbury 244)”. The author uses this biblical illusion to compare Charles to Moses from the Bible as a savior to this story. Charles is the only reason that the carnival is no…

The film Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film set in America, which involves two main characters, Wink and Hushpuppy. Hushpuppy is Wink’s daughter and they both overtake many obstacles together. Spirited away is an animation film whose main characters are a family of three: Chihiro and her parents. The family is moving to another Japanese town when they come across a hidden spirit world that seems like an abandoned theme park. The films Beast of the Southern Wild and Spirited Away…

A story about luck, friendship, brotherhood, love, adventure and fate, Slumdog Millionaire is an excellent portrayal of Mark Twain’s famous quote: “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Though the movie is not completely based on a true story, some of the key plots are based on and were inspired from real life events, meaning that these things did and do happen to real people. The movie has marvelously captured human emotions as the protagonist rides up and down his life’s roller coaster. The movie…

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different” -Stephen King. I find that the movie paints a perfect picture well, on the other hand, reading the book you have to let your imagination take over and create images in your head of what might the scene look like.“ The cat in the hat” was a well-written book by celebrated children’s book author Dr. Seuss, originally published in 1957 and a well-developed movie directed by Bo Welch, after reading…

V Daisy Amber Flanagan is a dog with a dream. Daisy has caramel color fur, and black marble eyes. Her dream was to go to outer space. She dreamed that she would find a unknown planet. She had an amazing dream but sadly it would never come true. Daisy needed a spaceship. But even if she had a spaceship she couldn't go to space, because she was a dog. Sometimes Daisy wished she was a human. Humans get to do a ton of stuff .(the chocolate is so creamy and smooth but Daisy cant eat it) there's…

The object I has selected for this essay was a Tinkerbell Fairy Puzzle. This puzzle is a 63 piece puzzle and is a Disney puzzle. This puzzle isn’t a full puzzle, this Tinkerbell puzzle is missing one piece. If you were to look at his puzzle you would see it has all the main fairies from the Tinkerbell movies. In the upper left corner there is the Fairy Iridessa she is wearing a sun yellow dress with a picture of a sunflower seed on it and a brown belt. The dress is a strapless, short, dress and…