Uglies

The Dress The short story: ”The Dress” is written by Julia Darling in 2006. The story is about a mother living alone with her two daughters called Flora and Rachel. It tells about their tense relationship and how it all climaxes at the mother’s birthday party just because of a dress. Being a mother living alone with her family will never be easy. You will have a lot of things to take care of. Children always need a lot of attention and when there for instance is no father then the mother has…

The Disney Movie Cinderella is a classic children’s movie based on a poor mistreated girl that meets a prince who sweeps her off her feet and 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…

Similarly, The Little Mermaid and Cinderella are both classic Disney favorite movies about two teenagers that fall in love despite family interactions, parental restrictions, and magical influences. In The Little Mermaid, Ariel wants to discover life outside of the sea and finds herself in trouble with her overprotective father after she ventures to the surface. Her father has forbidden her to go to shore and tasks her with things to occupy her time. For instance, singing with her sisters in an…

One particular mise-en-scène that was one of the most important in this Disney film version of “Cinderella” is the costume. Anyone who has not seen the film, or has never heard of any version of the story of Cinderella would be able to tell who is the protagonist and who is the antagonist. A costume could speak a lot of words, whether the author describes what they are wearing or not, film adaptation could portray a character’s personality more with their costume. A costume is not just their…

Mulan is a story set in Imperial China, the story is about Mulan a sixteen year old girl who dresses as a man and takes her father’s place in the army and saves all of China from the Huns it was produced in the year 1998. On the other hand Snow White is set in a perfect, fairy tale land and is about a beautiful young girl who falls in love with a prince but is forced to leave her palace because of her evil step-mother and falls into a sleep like death and is awoken by loves first kiss, it was…

One of the more interesting films of this time period was, Ivan the Terrible, directed by Sergei Eisenstein. The film was actually commissioned by the Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, who admired and idolized Ivan. This two-part historical epic, however, went against Party lines when it portrayed Ivan in a negative light. This resulted in the banning of the film on the order of Stalin which terminated the proposition of a third-part to the series. Oddly enough the first Part of the series, Ivan…

In the movie “Cinderella”, there are many life lessons to be learned. Cinderella lived with her evil stepmother and her two evil stepsisters, who were very mean to her after her father had passed away. They treated her as a servant and made her do all the chores. Cinderella faces many difficulties in her life, but she always remains strong. Not only was Cinderella kind, but she was also brave and willing to take risks. Cinderella always believed in herself and she always dared to dream.…

The meaning of discrimination is unfair or damaging treatment of a difference in people or object does to the race, age or sex. As in the poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” by Langston Hughes where he explains his path and knowledge of rivers. The speaker is a member of a slavery making him part of African community and faces racism in American, when “Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans,” traveling the Mississippi river. (Hughes) The speaker in the poem seems to be telling a story for example,…

The Grimm Brothers have written many fairy tale stories that have had a huge impact on society today. Ashputell is one of the stories that is still important in todays society. There are some differences in the original story compared to what we know today, but the major themes have remained the same. Overall, the major themes of Ashputtel are the same as when the Grimm Brothers first wrote the story. Ashputtel is about a young girl who lost her mother, was left with her father who got…

a tree that she had planted on her mother’s grave. The Chinese version receives her clothes by breaking the pot she had placed her mother’s bones in. The Disney and the German version do have some similarities while the Chinese is still different. These variations both have it to where Cinderella loses her glass slipper on the stairs while running out from the ball before everything disappears. The Chinese has it to wear she loses her shoe on the road while riding her horse and that is when the…