The Wishing Spell Book Report

In this novel Awake and Dreaming by Kit Pearson It talks about a little nine-year-old girl Theo, and her mother Rae who are living together and are a very poor and un-wealthy family. Theo is not your typical child during her spare time, she likes to be alone and curl up to a good book if not she is always daydreaming about unrealistic things. Even if Theo tried making friends they wouldn’t last long since she always moved schools and switched apartments. Her mother was a smoker and waisted all their money on clothing and expensive accessories. There was nothing about Theo’s life that was normal no loving parents to come to after school, no clean clothes, and no toys so she made up her own fantasy. The perfect functioning family she had 2 loving

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

As I helplessly watch my fifteen year old roommate fall to pieces in front of me, I feel everything around me slow to a crawl. Blood pounds my ear drums, I feel the color drain from my cheeks, and my feet take me forward as if they have a mind of their own. I fall to my knees and suddenly everything speeds up again – the pounding in my ear drums intensifies, my hands are trembling but I manage to grasp the side of the bed in an attempt to bring myself close to her. Her face is buried into her sheet. Muffled screaming escapes her as I whisper gentle reassurances in her ear, hoping with everything I have that she can hear me. I know she doesn’t. Even if she does, she can’t make sense of it right now. She’s stuck somewhere else, somewhere she revisits every day of her life and every time she closes her eyes to sleep.

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

Most cultures have traditional tales about wishes that don’t work because, these wishes probably won’t happen in real life. For example, if your wish is to be able to fly. It can’t actually happen. And, if you had to choose a wish. It will probably be a wish that is unreal. And these wishes will never come true, so why would tales want to give false hope. In conclusion, some tales have wishes that come true. But, the tales in which the tales don’t come true, are more realistic.

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.

When making a wish, it has to be specific enough to not cause anything bad to happen, if possible. Although both characters in these two stories learned valuable lessons, the ghost of wishes past will forever haunt him. Whether it’s the paw of a monkey or a magical being that grants your wishes, be careful what you wish

Sarah Davis is fourteen years old and she is in the 9th grade. She live with her mom Karen and two little sisters Alexis and Taylor in Montgomery, Alabama. Her father died when she was 8 years old so it was just her, her mom, and her sisters. One of her favorite thing to do with her family was bake. It was their family traditions to bake different sweets and watch movies on Friday nights. Sarah started to realize that her mother wasn’t around for their family tradition and she wanted to know what was going on.

It all started one normal afternoon after a school day. She was in her room doing her math homework when she heard, “CLANK, CLANK” on the door. It was her mom and dad knocking on the door to her bedroom. She answered, “Come in”, and her mom and dad slowly closed the door and sat on her double sized bed. Ellie then noticed that they were being awfully quiet so she decided to go join them. She sat on her bed and her mom started to whisper to her dad like they had something to tell

“Maggie. Maggie! Wake up!” I shook my sister gently on the shoulder. “There’s something I need you to do! Are you awake? Maggie...Maggie! Please wake up!” All efforts at rousing my older sister were in vain, for she stubbornly kept her eyes closed. Maggie has always been stubborn as a mule. She always stayed in her own sweltering hot room instead of sharing my own air conditioned room, even in the summer. One of her many charms I suppose. It was early in the morning, just past midnight. The sky was still dark even with the moon’s light. Directly under her bed, thick comforters lay abandoned on the floor along with several empty water bottles. My sister snoozes peacefully in the midst of this mess,

Once upon a time, there was a mermaid named Taylor. She was the daughter of Poseidon. Poseidon was the king of the sea. She lived in the Bermuda Triangle with her father. She feels like her dad is controlling her and telling her what to do all the time and she wants to get away from him. Taylor decides to lie to her dad that her brother died from getting hit by a speed boat. When she tells her father he goes out searching for his body. He tells Taylor to stay home and not leave but, she decides to leave and run away. While Poseidon was swimming to find his son he runs into him. Poseidon starts freaking out and says I thought you were dead. The son was confused on what he was saying. As they were talking they heard

Ellie and I lay in our beds, neither one of us knew what to say. In the other room, our host parents were arguing. We didn’t know what about, but we knew it was serious. Then we heard a “THWACK” followed by silence. Ellie and I sat up in our beds and looked at each other, I could tell she was as scared as I was. “Was that? Did he just?” she asked me. Then the arguing started back up again. We calmed back down until we heard it again. “THWACK” We knew then, the noise we heard, was him beating her. We got up, our hearts racing; neither of us knew what to do. We got our nerves together to go get help. When we opened the door to our room we saw the children sitting on the couch crying out for their mother. I could see the fear in their face and I knew something needed to change.

Upon reflection of the Five Wishes, several thoughts came to mind. First and foremost, having a designated advanced directive is critical. There are countless examples of clinical experiences in with which families were overwhelmed with unexpected end-of-life decisions. As an educated caregiver, we should personally take the necessary steps to assure these tough decisions are known to someone who can facilitate the level of care desired. Such consideration of these elements of care in advance can help to support our loved ones during this emotional time. After review of the five wishes, I recognized that I would not want life-support measures if faced with irreversible deleterious outcomes that resulted from

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.

The book, The Wishing Spell, is one of my favorite books from the Land of Stories series. Written in the genre of realistic/fantasy, The Wishing Spell, by Chris Colfer has both the right balance of realistic people and times but also of fairytale places and characters. In this story the setting happens in both modern times as well as partially in Chris Colfer’s fantasy world he has named “Land of Stories”. We see this point of view through the eyes of two main characters, Alex and Connor Bailey. Brother and sister, twins to be exact, have grown up reading fairy tales, and recently have been studying them in Mrs. Peter’s 6th grade class. As I read, it seemed the classic concept of good overcoming evil was the overarching theme of the story. The book opens with a lovely family who have recently gone through the death of their son, husband, and most wonderful dad. The Bailey family now has to start all over and rebuild their lives. During this time up upheaval in their family, the twins grandmother gifts them a story book; one she’s read to them since they were little. The Bailey twins discover this cherished book has mysterious powers and soon Alex and Conner leave their world behind finding themselves in a new land, full of magic. In the Land of Stories, the siblings come face to face with the fairy tale characters that they grew up reading about.