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    Tears Go Into the Urn Fay Lanser Savage Girl- Sophie Rubenstein In addressing the savage girl I will say in words that are rushed and spilling from my mouth: “Hey you, savage girl; spit in the corners of your tulip lips, your hair is a mess savage girl, did you know?” And the savage girl will respond, words not rushed but kind, “yes I know my hair is a mess, yes I know my savage lips are snarled, my shirt unbottoned and falling off my savage breast.” And I will say, “Where is your mother savage

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    Carroll 's Wonderland is a queer little universe where a not so ordinary girl is faced with the contradicting nature of the fantastic creatures who live there. Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland is a child 's struggle to survive in the condescending world of adults. The conflict between child and adult gives direction to Alice 's adventures and controls all the outstanding features of the work- Alice 's character, her relationship with other characters, and the dialogue. " Alice in Wonderland is on one

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    Unknown Adventure tales are driven by the presence of strange lands, as characters venture to and through them, finding fantastical things they have never seen before. In Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice enters a nonsensical world where both the location and the rules of the world itself are foreign. The characters Alice meets do not follow the rules of the real world, so she must navigate both the terrain and the logic of Wonderland to return

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    How does the character of Sarah develope due to those surrounding her in the film labyrinth? “A complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one 's way; a maze:” (Oxford Dictionaries:2017) In the 1986 fantasy/action film Labyrinth (Jim Henson:1986) The plot closely follows the story of the protagonist Sarah in this coming of age film. The story follows Sarah on her quest to find her younger brother Toby,  who has been kidnapped by the Goblin King, Jareth

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    Children’s literature is the basis of what shapes the way people think, how they behave around others, and the knowledge that they will carry for the rest of their lives. Every piece of writing, real or fiction, has a story and some lesson behind it. How the story and the lesson are presented will affect people in different ways. Some of these ways are going to be for the better and will teach children necessary morals for the future. For example, a common moral is teaching children not to steal

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    The faces thick with greasepaint leapt between reality, animation, man and woman. It was easier to keep my eyes closed as they moved like a spasmodic stroke with my vision challenging the kaleidoscopic craze of Alice in Wonderland. Later that year. I began hanging out with Trystan within a small group. Ordinarily, mutual friends pulled us together. It wasn’t surprising to see that Trystan, the paragon of cool, was so confident. His instincts weren’t normal, he took control

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    Tim Burton’s Films: Style Analysis Essay Throughout Burton’s films, one simple thought is true in all of them. From Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children to Alice in Wonderland, Burton emphasizes that “Visions are worth fighting for. Why (should you ) spend your life making someone else's dreams?” Deviating from the predestined path created for the main characters emulates Frida Kahlo’s “Along the Border Line Between Mexico and the United States ” The majority of Burton’s characters find themselves

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    from the dialogue. In the film The Matrix the main character Neo (Thomas Anderson), finds out that the world he is living in is controlled by false intelligence to hide the truth about the real world. Some references from this film are Alice in Wonderland and Plato’s Allegory of the cave these films are used because of how both of these films use imaginary worlds and also machinery taking over society. These films all revolve around one metaphysical question, “what is real?” and both of these films

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    Unbeknown to many, Alice in Wonderland borrows a lot from the reality of its author. As a matter of fact, Alice in Wonderland has as much to do with its author as it has to do with creativity. Lewis Carroll’s beliefs are written all over the story as one navigates through the alternate reality he presents in the novel. Before exploring the evidence of Lewis Carroll’s spiritual beliefs in Alice, it is important to understand what actually constitutes Lewis Carroll’s beliefs. Notably, other than being

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    A mirror only reflects who people have become on appearance, but whispers to the psyche of its audience to reveal who they desire to be in their fantasy. A mirror plays a rather important role in most of our mundane lives routinely used to fix erratic hair, oddly looking at ourselves brushing our teeth, and for some, correcting the red mountain flaws against the skin. To a ballerina a mirror represents a sense of alignment with one’s body. To Nina Sawyers, perfecting her technique is important and

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