Storytelling & Heroes Literature & Composition 1 2012-2013 Essential Questions: Why do we tell stories? How can fiction reveal the truth? What patterns exist in stories? Objectives: To recognize and emulate different types of storytelling To gain knowledge of the archetypal hero’s journey and the journey hero To read and annotate text for understanding Texts: Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon Excerpt from
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Sexual Objectification of Women means‚ to treat women like an object created for the eye as a sexual instrument; as well as‚ treating a woman without acknowledgement to her own person with a voice within. This has become a large issue within our population‚ and it has been ignored. The objectification of women is everywhere in our society. Females can be just as guilty about the sexual objectification of themselves as males are. One must understand the entirety of the sexual objectification of women
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Professor Rania Said Re-visioning Fairy Tales 26 June 2015 Reimagining Violence in Modern Fairy Tales Often times in literature we see modern adaptations created by authors in order to display mild to significant changes on the original piece of work. These modern adaptations reimage themes displayed in traditional versions of the fairy tales. For example‚ violence is often tamed in modern adaptations but exaggerated in original versions such as “Snow White”‚ “Hansel & Gretel”‚ “Little
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modern fairy tale "Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer establishes itself as a modern fairy tale. It tells the story of a happy family living in an affluent suburb of South Africa who moves emotionally from contentment to fear as they protect and isolate themselves from the rest of the population. It is a reverse fairy tale in order to represent her views of apartheid South Africa. A fairy tale is a type of short story about fairies or other mythical or magical beings. Gordimer uses fairy tale
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Fairy-tales are fictional stories created to give a moral lesson to the readers. They could be‚ and most likely are‚ filled with excitement and adventure. These stories also contain mythological creatures that will boost the child’s imagination. Even though fairy-tales contain all of these amazing features some parents still doubt them. Some parents could argue stories similar to Cinderella stereotype females. Those parents feel Cinderella does this by having the female lead completing tons of housework
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and gender in fairy tales. Most of the contemporary fairy tales are criticized and explored as retellings of popular fairy tales that explore the gender in fairy tales. These writers (most of are feminists) wished to shed light on the images of women in literature. They wanted to exhibit female empowerment and independence in their works to build the foundation of female identity. However‚ in some works‚ they tend to be bias on their representations. They reversed gender roles: women as powerful and
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“Beauty and the Beast” a Fairy-Tale? At some point in our lives we are all charmed by the magic found in fairy tales. Beginning with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiering in 1937‚ Disney set the standard for fairy tale movies that continue to entertain today. With Snow White’s love and connection with nature‚ being tricked by a witch‚ and then saved by a prince‚ there is no doubt this is a fairy tale. Cinderella seems to be one of the most recognized fairy tales with her fairy godmother‚ a pumpkin
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Anonymous Disneyfied Fairy Tales Everybody knows how Cinderella found her glass slipper after dancing at the ball. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were awoken by true loves kiss and lived happily ever after. The Little Mermaid longed to live on shore to be with that one special person. The thing that people don’t know is that the tales are wrong. Grimm Fairy tales are the original fairy tales dating back to early Germany. Disney took the fairy tales and put their own spin on them to be more appealing
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and goddess. Similarly‚ in the tale of Cupid and Psych‚ the beautiful Psych fails to overcome her curiosity in two insistences. Finally‚ in The Grimm Brother’s 1944 Fairy Tale The Blue beard‚ the man with the blue beard gave his wife clear instructions to specifically not go into one room. She too proves to succumb to the burning desire to know what is behind the closed door. In the myth‚ How the World and Mankind Were Created‚ Pandora‚ like many women in fairy tales is extremely curious. She was
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The story “The Seven Ravens” was a fairy tale written by the Grimm brothers‚ Which tells about a young sister/maiden who goes on a adventure in hopes of finding her long lost brothers. This story is a very interesting story with an unexpected twist that is not like most fairy tales and that is why I have chosen the fairy tale “The Seven Ravens” to use for my fairy tale analysis. “The Seven Ravens” opens up with a father who has seven sons who wishes for a daughter. The parents wishes are granted
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