Carlo Collodi's The Adventures Of Pinocchio

Charles Chesnutt’s “The Doll” is a story of seeking truth, facing discrimination, and making bold choices for the sake of one’s own livelihood. Through Tom Taylor’s slow-building narrative, Chesnutt reveals the complications keeping the barber from exacting his revenge on the man who murdered his father, Colonel Forsyth. Despite having the perfect opportunity to do so, Tom remains steadfast in the face of the colonel’s taunts, ultimately deciding to stay silent. Aside from highlighting Tom’s emotional turmoil throughout the tale, “The Doll” also ponders how black Americans are to advance and protect themselves, especially as individuals within a societal system built against that very idea of social mobility. The story therefore

As the child continues to accomplish a variety of different accomplishments in the mainstream society, the people already familiar with the child from the county will perceive him entirely different than others who lack knowledge of him. The child’s “uncle will still call [him] Roy Boy” and the “corn may grow so high if you stood in the field you’d disappear, the fact aiming your eyes down the road”. This demonstrates the difficulty of altering the perception of certain people who are already familiarized with the child. These people are unable to abandon their initial perception of the boy due to their strong, ineradicable association with him; rather, they will find it more awkward and uncomfortable seeing a completely different suave gentleman due to his significant change. Regardless of how many achievements the child has accomplished, he will never be able to erase his past as a little boy in the county. Even if the boy never comes back to visit his county again, the past will linger with him for the rest of his life due to his inability to change his innate characteristics that shape him as a person today. It is because of the boy’s past that he is able to adapt and continuously achieving numerous different

Petruchio has one of the main parts to play in the book as 'the tamer'

but he climbed his extensive ladder and was ready to get the job done. Nonetheless, his father wanted him to have a broom just like his, but the grandfather wanted him to use his mop like broom, and the young boy felt miserable. He didn’t have a say in any of it. Significantly, the boy felt like he didn’t know who to listen or who to pay attention, because of such the great influences brought to him to be a good son and grandson he forgot to follow his heart.

A Bronx Tale was written by Chazz Palminteri and produced by the Longacre Theatre company. The story is based on Palminteri’s childhood life story. Palmieri’s was born in 1952 and grew up in a tough area of the Bronx, on Belmont Avenue. Palminteri wrote A Bronx Tale to tell the story of a coming of age Italian boy, and his struggles encountered. At nine years old, Palminteri witnessed a murder as he was sitting outside his building. After learning the killer was Sonny, a mobster who controlled much of the neighborhood, young Palminteri kept quiet to police. This moment sparked the events shown throughout the Broadway musical. Additionally, another essential part of the play included the quote that Palminteri’s father constantly repeated, “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent” (Kerr). Palminteri believed that what he learned from both his father, a working man and Sonny, a mobster, would make a great story (Kerr).

A Boy Named “It” By: David Pelzer The book A Boy Named “It” written by David Pelzer is full of suspense and tragic events. This book is about David’s life living with his alcoholic mother constantly abusing and beating him. David was always seen as a troublemaker when he was one of the sweetest kids. David’s chores became unreasonable and harsh as days went by.

Young girls are often stuck in a world of make believe, they are fed fairytales, dream up unimaginable views of reality and believe everyone will find their prince charming. This unrealistic perspective is formed through their experiences with different fairytales. As G.K. Chesterton tells the fairytale are a realistic world for children, “Fairy tales are more than true — not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten”. Fairytales lead these girls to believe that in order to find true love there is some sort of intense journey one must go on. This idea of a journey for love has created a specific ideology for what love is and how to achieve it. In the text Beauty and the Beast by Madame Le Prince

As someone who lives in the United States of America, the Freedom Capital of the World, it can be hard for me to completely understand the horrors one endures under a dictatorship. Practically every aspect of one’s life is tightly monitored and controlled 24/7. The paranoia of being caught doing something you should not be doing starts to wear you down more and more every day. And god-forbid you break a law or a well-known rule, because there is a very good chance that the government already knows about it. Within the stories of Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, the main characters were terrorized by two different dictatorships with their usage of scare tactics, surveillance abuse, and the stripping of their citizen’s basic human rights in order to oppress and terrorize the people and obtain complete power over them.

Although psychology class is most likely not the first thing to come to mind when watching a Disney movie, many psychological concepts can be drawn from them. In Andrew Stanton’s 2003 animated film, Finding Nemo, various psychological concepts are exemplified. Finding Nemo tells the story of an overly cautious clownfish named Marlin who losses his son, Nemo, to a pair of divers. He meets a fish named Dory who together seek to find Marlin’s son. Throughout their journey they encounter a storm of jelly fish, surfing sea-turtles, sharks participating in a “Fish are Friends, Not Food (Graham, 2003)” support group, and numerous other conflicts. Hidden between the lines of their comic misfortunes, Marlin suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, many characters fall to acts of conformity, and altruism is a theme that defines the movie.

Leonard Wibberley wrote The Mouse That Roared. Wibberley published this novel in 1955. “He also published under the name Patrick O'Connor, among others, was a prolific and versatile Irish author who spent most of his life in the United States” (Wikipedia, 2017). The book was written to show how a small country could amount to something great. The small imaginary European country Duchy of Grand Fenwick was very small but ran with enormous hearts.

When Dumbo is told how silly he looks and is kept away from the other elephant children, he realizes that he is physically different and develops a low self esteem. Dumbo is then lost and lead by a circus mouse to never give up. The circus mouse says, “Never let go of who you are meant to be. It’s an advantage, take it.” As an attempt to fully devote awareness to the group, the circus mouse tries to convince the others that Dumbo is special in his own way, but not too far off from everyone else. Dumbo then tries his best to fit in and take advantage of his special qualities. Misconception leads to misunderstanding because one is apart of society’s expectations and assumptions, not focusing on their own speciality. Misunderstanding, as the theme, is illustrated by the symbolism in Dumbo, the metaphor in “Self-Reliance,” and the misunderstanding of being unique to an immutable society in both pieces. Misconception leads to misunderstanding because one is apart of society’s expectations and assumptions, not focusing on their own originality. The theme is illustrated by the symbolism in Dumbo, the metaphor in “Self-Reliance,” and the misunderstanding of being distinct to an immutable society in both pieces. At the end of the movie, Dumbo becomes the star of the circus and recalls his past while

The Count of Monte Cristo is fabulously entertaining with its mixture of revenge, love, suspense, and action sequences; transporting audiences back to a time when honor and loyalty were highly valued and a man’s last name was more important than the man himself. It seems there is something for everyone in this film. While the beautiful love story speaks to the romantic, the dueling swordplay and thought of buried treasure speaks to the inner child. Everyone in between will likely be moved by some aspect of the film. While the plot is exciting enough on its own, the awe-inspiring scenery, flavorful language, and superb acting are what turn this classic story into a truly enthralling and passionate film.

A narrative bears many similarities to a snowflake. All snowflakes are composed of exactly the same material, but when scrutinized, no two are the same. The same can be said about two narratives which may contain the same story but the meaning can change when recounted by different narrators. The difference in narratives can be observed in the novel and film adaptation of Me and You written by Niccolò Ammaniti 's and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. All stories contain a mixture of constituent and supplementary events. The overall constituent events that must be present in Me and You are that Lorenzo must first lie about leaving for a week long ski trip, then he must hide in a cellar, after which Olivia rest with her brother until the week ends. Both Ammaniti and Bertolucci insert supplementary events that although do not move the story forward or directly affect the constituent events, add meaning to their perspective of the story. The supplementary event which Ammaniti attaches to his narrative occurs when he writes the scene about Lorenzo and his mother were stuck in a traffic jam on the Corso Vittorio. On the other hand, Bertolucci incorporates the scene where Oliva invites a friend to the cellar to further strengthen his vision for his narrative. Meanwhile Ammaniti crafts his narrative to present the reader with Italy’s imperfections and perfections, Bertolucci limits the audience’s knowledge of the Italy outside of Lorenzo’s bunker to bring us to a closer meaning of

Pinocchio so wanted to become a real boy and therefore did not fully understand how complicated and confusing it can be. It showed that Pinocchio must first learn to overcome temptations control his desires through a self discipline and educate before he can achieve his goal.

The tale takes place in an Italian village, initially in Geppetto’s workshop which is full of wooden gadgets and chiming clocks, yet he does not know what time it is. The gentle woodcarver is wishing upon a star for the puppet to come to life and to be his son. The Blue Fairy brings the toy to life out of compassion for Geppetto who is a good man, but is lonely and wanting someone to love. The puppet named, Pinocchio, is not yet a human boy. He must earn the right to be real by proving that he is brave, truthful, and unselfish (The Walt Disney Company, 1992). It is not an easy world for the puppet. He must learn what it means to be a good person, including: going to school, working hard, making friends and putting others’ needs before his own. In the end, after learning some important life lessons, Pinocchio is transformed from the wooden puppet into the real boy Geppetto has always wanted (The Walt Disney Company, 1992).