Analysis Of Annemarie's Number The Stars

In the recent year’s political correctness, or the capability to not offend a group of individuals has become more difficult. Similarly, books have fallen victim to this, resulting in being banned from schools and libraries. The novel Number The Stars follows Annemarie, a young girl who’s family is protecting her Jewish friend Ellen from the Nazis. Even though Number the Stars has legitimate reasons why it might get banned, however, topics such as war, and child innocence, help us develop and understand the world, in addition to teaching moral lessons.

Maria Tatar’s “An Introduction to Fairy Tales” discusses the impact on how the stories help guide the children from their younger age. The first five paragraphs of the article mentioned about how the children can overflow with imagination, and can vividly see their reality of desire and also, fear. The fairytales can also corrupt the naïve minds of the child in a way of making them realize the reality of the world is unjustified, and people can be harsh. Moreover, Tatar gives an explanation on how people grow up with the same fairy tales with different versions; which gives an entirely different personal idea. Fairy tales also develop the child’s intellectual mind by reading various kinds of genre.

Fairy Tales are not just stories that parents tell to their children, but stories with hidden valuable messages which are mostly left on a side. In the article “An Introduction to Fairy Tales,” Maria Tatar clearly explains how people need fairy tales in their lives. Tatar also states how fairy tales have the ability to take the listener, especially children’s, into a journey in which they can play with their imagination so that they can discover their deepest fears and wishes. Personally I agree with the author, because of the fact that in an individual’s lives as they get older, they will try to define themselves, sometimes comparing their own life with a character from their favorite story or Fairy Tale.

In “A Thousand Splendid Suns” Mariam experiences loss, rejection, depression, and helplessness throughout her entire life. I can relate to her life in some aspects. Mariam experienced several deaths and whenever death is brought up it twists my stomach. Everyone is like a gallon of milk- we all have an expiration date that cannot be changed. I have experienced death and loss and it was a major event in my life. Mariam and I experienced similar emotions that both assisted in shaping who we are.

In the novel Number the Stars, Annemarie is lied to for her own protection, she just doesn't know it. When she is being lied to, it is usually because the families are doing something illegal, something bad happened or is happening, or the families don’t think she is mature enough to.

Maria Tatar points out how these stories help shape individuals at a young age. She explores how children reading these stories and using imagination can uncover fears and desires they have. But these fairy tales do not only have a good influence on children, but also

Fairytales and fantasies have existed to tell children’s stories because of their ability to bring a child

A Thousand Splendid Suns, written by Khalid Hosseini explores themes relating to hardships and family, especially having to do with the oppression of women. This novel follows the lives of Mariam and Laila, two Afghan women whose interactions arise from their forced marriage to Rasheed, and the abuse they face together. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of Jalil, a rich businessman, and his former housekeeper, Nana. Struggling with the stigma surrounding her birth and guilt following her mother’s suicide prompts Mariam to be unable to stand up for herself. Laila is quite the opposite and grew up with the desire for an education and the knowledge that she could change the world. After her parents and Tariq’s deaths, Laila is forced to set

The fairy tale helps the child to understand a balance between the good and the evil; it gives him a hope for a good future.” Fairy tales assure the

Fairy tales picture a world filled with magic, love and the triumph of the good over the evil. Fairy tales are a window to other worlds where the wildest dreams can come true and the hero always lives happily ever after preferably paired with his loved one. Although some people argue that fairy tales are full of stereotypes, filled with frightening monsters and promote racism and sexism I believe that they are wrong because fairy tales provide valuable moral lessons to children, teach them other countries' cultures promote the imagination and the cognitive development and therefore they should be read to young children.

In Tatar’s article, An Introduction to Fairy Tales, she draws us in by describing childhood books as “sacred objects.” She takes a quote from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. describing how the stories give lessons about what a child subconsciously knows - “that human nature is not innately good, that conflict is real, that life is harsh before it is happy - and thereby reassure them about their own fears and their own sense of self,” (Tatar 306). She describes how many adults long for the simplicity of enjoying those stories in their childhoods, only to realize that they outgrew them, and instead have been introduced to reality. The original stories were more for adults rather than for children. Nowadays, stories have been adapted to be more suitable for children. Fairy tales may allow a kid to wonder due to their charm, but they also can

There are numerous genre’s in literature, but the level of importance and influence on an individual will differ. Exposure to books and stories is especially important for children because it their chance to acclimate themselves to written language and in turn create their own visuals for the toneless words. “Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative”, by Maria Tatar contains an ample amount of textual evidence from author’s research into fairytales, as well as writer’s personal experiences with fairytales. Although Tatar supports her claims with evidence, her resources are not concrete, and seems excessive at times. Also, her assertions are weakened by her failure to defend her conclusion against competing beliefs.

“Counting Stars” is a song by OneRepublic that came out in march 2013, and has been very popular through the past four years. It has a strong, powerful tune with a fun vibe. It has a slow-ish melody in the start, then speeds up when the vocals come in. They added in clapping and drums for a more powerful effect. It uses a bit of harmony, and the lyrics make the song very intellectual. The texture of the song is very mighty, warm, dark, strong, and slightly rebellious,as the lyrics say, “I feel something so wrong with doing the right thing”. The band consists of Ryan Tedder(lead vocals), Zach Filkins(lead guitarist), Drew Brown(Guitarist), Brent Kutzle(Bassist and cellist), and Eddie Fisher(Drums). Tedder was a songwriter for many famous artists such as Beyonce, Adele, and U2, and was known for writing some of “the best songs of all time”. Ketzle grew up in Newport Beach, CA, and also wrote songs for Beyonce along with Ellie Goulding, and Matchbox twenty. Filkins went to a christian high school in Colorado Springs, CO, where he met Tedder, and intensely studied guitar during his childhood in Barcelona, Spain. Fisher grew up in

Fairy tales are something that everyone has read or seen, they all seem to have important lessons at the end of each one to teach young children some of the lessons they need for life. These fairy tales when we were younger all seemed innocent and something we all hoped that would happen to us. Little did we know as we got older that the fairy tales we all knew and loved when we were younger, weren't as innocent as they seemed.

As we grow up, we hear fairy tales and we read them into our lives. Every word and every image is imprinted into our minds. The fairy tales we read are never abandoned. They grow with us and our dreams become molds of the many morals and happily ever afters fairy tales display. We tell children fairy tales when they go to sleep and they read them in school and we even have them watch Disney adaptions that reinforce them further. Generally, they were everywhere while we grew up and they continue to be present while children are growing up now. But what influence do these stories have? We casually expose our children to these tales, but in some cases they can have particularly, harmful personal effects on them, although there is nothing completely or visibly “bad” about them or about the characters in them. Before we divulge our youth to these stories, we should assess their substance and see what sort of effect they may be having on them. They have received so much scrutiny and have been studied by many. Recognizing fairy tales effects on the minds of children is vital in their development. This paper will focus on the underlying messages that the average person wouldn’t recognize in these everyday stories. There’s a modern distort with fairy tales because while they still are widely popular with the youth, they influence children’s self images, outlooks on reality and expectations for their futures, especially for young women.