Acceptance In Red Dress, By Alice Munro

When she enters the bedroom, her voice changes from present to past tense and she starts to reminisce and begins to talk about her mother and aunts. She seems happy to remember her mother’s room and introduces her aunts to the audiences. Mary delivers her dialogue saying that the dressing table and the small elephant statue figures are all same. When Mary gently touches her mother’s photo, she delivers a sad tone. Her performance conveys to the audiences that she misses her mother. The tone of her voice represents that she is a gentle, innocent and a loving child. Her verbal and non-verbal interactions conveyed the viewers with a message that she is an orphan.

A Comparison of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault and Little Red Cap by the Brothers Grimm

Everyone loves a good fairytale, and nothing is quite as magical and heartwarming as a Disney fairytale. The themes of love, comedy, and morality deem them as more than just little kids' stories, but suitable and entertaining tales for the entire family. This is known by a majority of the stories' readers. However, what one may not be so familiar with is the origin of these tales. Where did the stories of Cinderella, Ariel, and Rapunzel come from? The Disney writers certainly did not create them themselves. The differences in the originals will shock anyone familiar with Disney. And what about Snow White? There are differences between the original Brothers Grimm version of the ebony-haired, white-skinned princess and the Disney movie, believe it or not. Some major differences between both versions are the multiple ways the evil queen tries murdering her stepdaughter, the cause of Snow White's revival, as well as how the evil queen died. Why the story was altered is obvious:

(Bowen, 2000.) Although not much insight is given into the awful relationship Mary had with her late husband, there’s is evident that she resents her daughter. Precious became the target of neglect and abuse due to the fact that, her father raped her and her mother instead of protecting her became jealous of her own daughter. Mary intentionally tries to impair her daughter Precious by constantly demoralizing her by telling her that she is ugly, fat and stupid. Mary is fixed on the idea of hurting her physically, emotionally and psychologically. Mary is a constant remind to Precious of how she will be nothing without her. As a result, she internalizes this tension and many aspects of her life suffers. Precious is performing poorly at school, her physical health is bad as she is overly obese and she is a loner in the sense that she makes no effort to befriend anyone. She is constantly worried about what her mother is going to do to her for the day or she is constantly on edge with her mother, not knowing what to

Walt Disney’s Cinderella is adapted from the original fairy tale written in 1697 by Charles Perrault. There are some key differences between Walt Disney’s Cinderella and Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. In Charles Perrault’s tale, Cinderella’s father is not dead, but the father is controlled by the stepmother. Cinderella’s younger stepsister is much more polite than the older stepsister, who calls Cinderella Cinderwench. The king in Perrault’s tale hosts a two day Ball, which Cinderella attends with the help of the fairy godmother. During Cinderella’s preparation for the first night of the Ball, Cinderella helps the fairy godmother find a coachman when the fairy godmother could not find one. Cinderella’s glass slipper comes off on the second

This displays that her being ostracized has forced her to change her views on society and realize not everyone is as nice as they appear. Later on in Mary’s life, her aunt says to Dunny: “Now she remembers so little, and it’s better so, because when she does remember she thinks of Paul” (Davies, 129). This proves that she has continuously been ignoring and forgetting about society for a couple of years. She has isolated herself to avoid conflict and hatred. This alienation Mary has experienced has changed her perception of

Author Louise Erdich is famous for composing short stories about Native Americans due to cultural and identity ties to the group. The story “The Red Convertible” depicts joyful and fond memories shared between two brothers, named Lyman and Henry. However, towards the end of the story, a devastating calamity befalls on one of the brothers. This story emphasizes how the two brothers went through difficulty stages and changes that challenged their coping mechanism. The red convertible had a positive influence on the two brothers. The red convertible united the two brothers since it was there means of travelling around the world together, forming a close bond and enjoying each other’s company. However, all the joyous moment came to an end with the impact of war on Henry’s mental health which caused him to commit suicide. The effect of war on Henry cut the connection between the two brothers, causing both of them to experience pain.

Teenagers of every race, religion, and clique relate deeply to the words of the anonymous teenager within the book Go Ask Alice, by an anonymous girl whose life enters a place where, as most teenagers, she has no idea who to turn to, or where to go. "Oh dear god, help me adjust, help me be accepted, help me belong, don't let me be an outcast and a drag on my family," (Anonymous, 13). With these words, we are accepted into the girl's life, and into her heart and mind. I chose this quote because it is one quote that I think relates to the theme. She writes in her diary about her life, and her diary is like a best friend. It is someone she can spill all of her secrets to and something to express her feelings. Everyone needs to

In the story Red Dress 1946 by Alice Munro Individuality and Conformity is discussed. Some examples of this is during the story is “there was a carnival atmosphere of brutality in the room at such times, scaring weak and suspect people like me”. The reason this is important to the text and idea of the essay is because we often feel left out when we are ourselves. In life, we want to fit in we are made to want this just like the main character in the story she wants a “dress like my friend Lonnie had.” Is it implied that she is in a poor finance situation, as many were at that time.

Snow White has been a beloved princess of Disney films for many years but why? Is it her kindness, her beauty, or maybe her villainess stepmother has something to do with it. The Evil Queen is know very well for her jealousy, hatred, and drastic measures she will take to get rid of Snow White for all these reasons she is one of the most greatest vilest villains of all time. The Evil Queens motives where always her vanity, she couldn't imagine another person being more beautiful, more fairest, and more beloved by her kingdom than her. In the movie it shows her asking her magic mirror who is the fairest of them and every time before she was always the fairest of the land in till one day the mirror had spoken another name, Snow White; The Evil

In Alice Munro’s “How I Met My Husband”, fifteen year old Edie has come to work for the Peebles family as somewhat of a housekeeper and nanny. “Separated from her own mother and forced to work for the mother of two other children, Edie performs household drudgery while Mrs. Peebles has her hair done, goes on picnics, and takes daily naps.” (Sutton). She is at the point in her life when her body and mind are changing and she begins to think of love. Furthermore, when Mr. Chris Watters comes to town with his air plane, Edie is taken aback with him and very easily falls in love.

“To lie forever in unlovely sleep(Bennett)” This quote comes from our first poem, “The True Story Of Snow White”. The poems are similar, but they are also contrasting in several ways. Some may start out with the grueling fact of both poems include death, but I will start out with the ‘happy endings’ to both poems.

Who is the best villain I know, umm that's tough. The best villain I think is the evil queen in Snow White. She would do anything just to become the fairest of them all. She even sent a hunter to take snow white’s heart. She turn herself into a evil old lady so snow white wouldn’t know her and she gave her a poisonous apple and she fell into a sleep like death. I mean that is so evil, that is evil on a different level.

In Sleeping Beauty (1959), centering on how Disney portrayed Maleficent and Aurora, they are totally different; very opposite. Maleficent was portrayed as the very wicked one, the ugliest and the very unfortunate one. It was as well mentioned that Maleficent was an outcast, no one wanted her to join in any gathering, and she never knew about love, kindness and never felt the feeling of a genuine happiness. Thus, one can say that Maleficent was a lonely and a pitiful character in the movie.

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why” (Vonnegut 76-77). There are notable depictions of a sense of entrapment among protagonists in works such as Alice Munro’s Dimension and Train. In these short stories, the central characters, Doree and Jackson suffer from a sensation of feeling trapped, due to their life experiences, which ultimately leads them becoming motivated to go onto the next chapter of their lives. There are overlapping themes and writing styles in each story, therefore accentuating the similarities between the experiences of Doree and Jackson, and bring the two stories closely together, evoking strong emotions and pathos within the reader. Thematically, Munro shows parallel ones in both Dimension and Train, with the most prominent ones being isolation, and relationships with family members and its affiliation with sexuality and gender. Munro’s writing style rings identical in both stories as well, as each one incorporates the use of flashbacks, once again implementing a way to compare the characters, as the flashbacks provide explanations for being emotionally confined. Lastly, a prominent technique used is the way in which each story ends abruptly, stimulating a response in the reader of wanting more to the story, as the endings both foreshadow a start to a new life, although Doree breaks free whereas Jackson seemingly follows his cycle as a result from feeling trapped.