Three Sisters

In Barbara Neely’s and Julia Alvarez’s short story narratives of Spilled Salt and Reading to Mr. Torres, they are comparatively filled with similar themes that connect the stories in very reflective and uncanny ways. Both of these stories contain the theme of forgiveness, a theme that’s apparent in both main characters in how they deal with it. These narratives are also heavily immersed in themes of trying to deal with the past in different ways. They both deal with atrocious crimes committed by…

“Never let anyone define who you are or decide who you should become” (Mbiaka). This quote by Edmond Mbiaka implies that no one can change a person for the better. It is who that person chooses to be, makes them unique. In our daily life, people put titles on others by the way they walk, dress, and communicate. This can be taught in a positive and negative way. As children grow older, they learn judgment through their parents. Even though parents explain to their children the importance of…

Subsequently after Cinderella’s story begin the first thing the story mentions was the death of Cinderella 's mother. After Cinderella 's mother died, her dad gets married to an evil stepmother, that has two daughters that are very spoiled by their mother. To emphasize on how evil and wicked they were the stepmother and stepsisters prevented any possibilities for Cinderella to live a happy life. Under those circumstance Cinderella goes through a lot of mental abuse that have no justification.…

Chapter 1: In the beginning of the chapter the managers of the Opera house are hosting their last performance before their retirement. After the performance, a group of young ballet dancers run into La Sorelli’s dressing room in fear that they had seen the Opera ghost. After some time a mother of one of the dancers told them that Joseph Buquet was found hanging by a rope underneath the stage. The managers blamed the missing body on the dancers, however Gaston Leroux suggests that this was done…

A common fairytale motif is that of the evil stepmother, in such tales as Aschenputtel, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and The Almond Tree. A character whose main purpose is to oppose the hero/ heroine at all costs, the polar opposite of our main character. This polarization is essential for us to understand the goodness of the hero, to want them to succeed, and to see how good triumphs over evil. The most thought of evil-stepmother is that of the Queen in Snow White. This character is…

The following is a case study of a female named Cinderella. Cinderella is a story about a young girl whose mother passed away. Her father remarried and she lives with both her father, stepmother and stepsisters. Her stepmother treated her cruelly. Cinderella had to do her chores, her stepmoms and stepsisters. The way Cinderella was mistreated affected her life. When she wanted to go out, she couldn’t. She was going through sibling rivalry, emotional/social abuse and child cruelty/physical…

Mother Teresa: An Angel Walking On Earth She was called "Mother" by millions, yet she had no children. Dedicating her life to God's children, she was Mother Teresa. During the eighty seven years of her life, she devoted it to helping those in need. She considered everyone she met part of her family, part of God's family. Mother Teresa is influential on others today because she devoted her life to the poor, her focus revolved around Missionaries of Charity, and her work impacted adults and…

story of a couple, the baker and his wife, who seeks a child by ending a revengeful witch’s curse with a four fairy tales crossovers, which are the Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. The couple had gone through a three days journey to acquire items from the four fairy tales and were able to break the curse and obtain a child: however, they, along with the fairy tales character, did not get to live their peaceful life they expected afterwards. A female ogre…

I feel that the story, “The Girl Who Drank the Moon” has many of the same characteristics that are found in fairy tales. For example many fairy tales have magical elements and characters that are witches. Most fairy tales have evil and good characters, and animals that talk. Fairy tales also have a clearly defined problem and something happens within a group, it could be characters or events. I found all of these elements in this story, “The Girl Who Drank the Moon.” For example some of the…

Fairy tales have been around for centuries, but underneath the sugar coated, Disney films we have come to know and love, lies a dark truth. The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the tradition of written stories. Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation. After years of these stories being passed down orally, two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, became fascinated with old folktales, fables, legends, and…