The Princess By Claire Standish

In The Book of Stories Beginnings by Kristin Kladstrup, Lucy Martin found her great-uncle's The Book of Stories Beginning and began writing her own story beginnings in the enchanted journal. She wrote about her father being a great magician. Everything written in the journal came to life. Lucy's father turned himself into a raven using his magic potion and flew across the ocean to a mythical land called Cat'n'berd Island. Lucy Martin and her great-uncle, Oscar Martin, went on a search to find Lucy's lost father and save him from King Bertram. Kristina Kladstrup was born Sioux City, Iowa. When she was a child, she loved reading and writing and she decided that becoming a writer would be her vocation. The house that her mother lived in when she was a child inspired the setting of Kladstrup’s novel. Kladstrup had also written two other children books which are Garden Princess and Le Livre Des Débuts D'histoires. She had co-written two children's books. One is A Night In Santa's Great Big Bag with Tim Jessell and the other is The Gingerbread Pirates with Matt Tavares. I chose The Book of Story Beginnings because a friend recommended it to me. She said it was set in an island far away from Iowa. I enjoy reading about adventures to distant magical lands, so I agreed to read this book. Upon finishing to book, the ending of the book was different from what I had predicted. I thought that after Oscar helped Lucy find her father, Oscar

Emily Smith Professor Mary McMyne December 8, 2014 English 110 Rough Draft #3 John Hughes "The Breakfast Club": Judging a Book by it's Cover A rigid, oversimplified, often exaggerated belief that is applied both to an entire social category of people and to each individual within it.("Stereotype") Everybody has been in a situation where they have been stereotyped or themselves have stereotyped others. The way we present ourselves, the way we dress, and the friends we hangout with, these are all things that people stereotype.

The Breakfast Club is about a small group of individuals and how they interact with each other during one Saturday Detention.

There are a great number of stereotypes present in both the films, The Breakfast Club, and Mean Girls. The most obvious of which include the stereotypes among the students. These stereotypes include the prep, nerd, jock, troublemaker, and a goth. These stereotypes show a significant presence in both films. In The Breakfast Club, Claire Standish is known as the popular princess because of her love of materialistic items,

The iconic coming-of-age movie The Breakfast Club, focuses on the development of five, seemingly very different high school students. In the movie we are presented with the five main characters all with stereotypes that they identify with. Claire is the princess or the beauty queen, John, often referred to by his last name “Bender,” is the criminal, Brian is the brain or the nerd, Andrew, is the athlete, a wrestler , and finally Allison is the basket case or the weirdo. The story is set in saturday detention where they are forced to spend eight hours with people from other cliques that they would normally never interact with. The day progresses and the characters interact with one another, smoke, dance, break rules, and reveal very personal parts of themselves with the others. The story ends with some of the characters making an attempt to change their identity with the realization that even with the boxes they have been put into they are not that different from one another.

Claire Standish is the typical popular, mainstream, and rich prom ruler at her high school. When she decided to ditch school and instead go to the mall she got served a Saturday Detention . Claire’s parents also don't have the best relationship and they mostly use Claire as an excuse to get at each other's throats. Claire is stuck up, snooty, and has clearly stated that she will not hang out with you if your so called not popular at school. In the movie she also states that she her decisions mostly are not based on her own feelings, but her peers and parents feelings or so called, peer pressure.

In the movie the “Breakfast Club” there were five main characters. One of them being a girl named claire. She's known as the princess of the group. Claire is very popular in their school, she's in all the clubs that make her popular. In the movie Claire is made fun of for a lot of things, the person making fun of her is a guy named Bender.

The movie The Breakfast Club exemplifies many aspects of society and societal norms. It also shows how if you put your differences aside and focus on what is on the inside, you can find a lot more in common with each other than you would think.

“The Stolen Party” is a short story written by Liliana Heker and revolves around Rosaura, a daughter of a maid, which the author characterizes as innocent and guides life in an optimistic way but, ultimately succumbs to being understanding and realistic. For example, Rosaura asks her mother if she can go to the party but her mother explains, “‘Ah yes, your friends… Listen, Rosaura… That one’s not your friend. You know what you are to them? The maid’s daughter, that's what’”(1). Rosaura’s mother, obviously aware and in distress, indirectly pleads Rosaura to not go but still innocent to the idea of social class Rosaura replies, “Shut up!

Romance of the Republic written in the eighteenth century by Lydia Marie Child has an underlying theme of race and racism. This novel illustrates to the reader, the dedication that Child had towards raising an awareness of and challenging the widespread attitudes that individuals have towards discrimination which includes racial and sexual. The book explores the written and underlining rules African Americans had to follow. Lydia Marie Child criticizes the laws and attitudes against African American in the South. Also, Child allows the reader to have a clear interpretation and an insight look on how African Americans and Abolitionists were treated during this era. Although the novel does shine a light on the effects of slavery, it also has an underlining theme of seduction.

Claire Standish, the prom queen, fits into Identity vs. Role Confusion, Conventional Morality, and the Moratorium stage. Starting with Kohlberg’s Moral Development, Claire fits into the Conventional Morality stage. Claire is the most popular girl in their high school and is constantly surrounded by many friends. Bender even goes as far as to say, “School would probably shut down if you didn’t show up!” Claire agrees with this statement and when talking to Alison later in the movie she says, “You're not friends with the same kind of people that Andy and I are friends with! You know, you just don't understand the pressure that they can put on you!” When Claire makes certain judgments or decisions she bases them on social rules by looking at

John Hughes’ films. Almost all of the characteristics and themes she has described in the article: suburban setting, vague social concerns, high school cliques, uncaring parents, characters wearing the latest fashions and top 40 soundtrack music have been proven true in The Breakfast Club.

In the novel Island of the Aunts by Eva Ibbotson mysticism is used to address serious topics that are rooted in reality. The problem plaguing the Aunts that drives them to their decision to kidnap children is their concern about the Island and its continuing existence as a shelter for creatures, magical or otherwise. The reason they are so overwhelmed with the continued care of the Island is that there have been so many visitors staying on it, and while it is never explicitly stated, a theme of environmentalism is evident throughout the book. It is never named as such, but the aunts’ determination to protect their home and its inhabitants speaks toward this message.

I recently finished reading the book Isle of the Lost. It is a fiction novel written by Melissa De La Cruz. The protagonist, Mal, is the daughter of villainous Maleficent, who is thee unelected leader of the Isle of the Lost. The Isle of the Lost is the island where all the villians of Disney tales go to be imprisoned forever. When Evie, the daughter of the Evil Queen, doesn’t invite Msl to her sixth birthday party, Mal tells her mother, who as the leader, gives the Evil Queen and Evie and banishment. Now, it is ten years later, and Mal is still mad. Evie has been ‘castle schooled’ for those last ten years, and Evil Queen thinks it’s about time that she go to a real school, Dragon Hall. However, Evie will soon find out that Mal is still angry

In the reading, the narrator talks about perfection in a way that indicates he has a high standard for quality of work. "...I have to admit that I have not even suggested, let alone have done justice to the virtues of the Duchess, because not only is my style incapable of expressing them, but my mind of conceiving them" (Castiglione). I think it is evident that this man was focused on producing a book that reached his standard of quality and perfection. He did not believe he could do the Duchess justice based on her persona, which he admired greatly. Moreover, when the author mentions perfection, he indicates that his work has no point because “you cannot learn what cannot be reached" (Castiglione). He brings light to possible judgement from