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Once upon a time, there was a princess in the land of Starville. Her name was Amber. Amber had long blond hair and beautiful blue eyes. She lived in the kingdom’s castle with her mother, who looked just like Amber. Amber and her mother were the only people in the land who didn’t have the power of to cast spells and make potions. One, a wealthy woman and her daughter cast a spell on Amber’s mother, which sadly killed her. Then, they took over the kingdom and threw Amber into the prison. They spared her because they wanted her to suffer. Amber would sit there day and night dedicating her time to escape from her cell in the dungeon of the castle. Five long and depressing years later, a rival kingdom attacked and killed the people who stole Amber’s …show more content…
Later that night he went to visit her. This time the prince told Amber his name, with was Brad. They talked all night and Amber learned that Brad was a total jokester. From that day on, the prince would visit her every night when everyone was asleep and every night he left Amber with a kiss on the cheek. Over several months, Amber realized she was falling in love with Brad. Some of the things they talked about at night were how Brad didn’t like being a prince and his day to day schedule. Finally, Amber devised a plan to end her life in being in a cell. She would convince Brad to set her free and they would both run away together to a far, far, far away kingdom. Amber was going to tell Brad when he came that night. But she knew that he wouldn’t agree, so she asked her friend, Mae, to concoct her a potion by that evening so that the prince would do whatever she said. Mae delivered the potion that evening. When Brad came down that night, she proposed her plan. Surprisingly, he agreed with her plan. Amber would have to save the potion for someone else, maybe the three guards. By the end of the month, Amber and Brad had worked out all of the details. First, like their usual routine, the prince would come down and tell the three guards that he was just checking up on their prisoner. Then, Brad would take Amber up to the main floors of the castle and use the potion on Brad’s parents so they wouldn’t know
Kate ran away to a whore house and there she tortured and blackmailed many important men in the community. These man could not stop coming back, as though she had some power over them. All the while Adam was home trying to deal with the heart break of Kate leaving and her almost killing him.
Firstly, Alice’s betrayal centers on her husband, Arden. She betrays Arden in two ways; she plans his murder in a cunning way, and she does not remain faithful to him. She, along with some help, contrives a plan to murder Arden, so that she and Mosby may bring their secret relationship to the surface. Though Alice prefers to be with Mosby, and not to kill Arden, as noted when she states “…Might I without control/Enjoy thee [Mosby] still, then Arden should not die;” Alice understands this is impossible if she truly wants a relationship Mosby (“Arden” 274-275). “It is the fulfillment of Alice’s … desire for Mosby that is most blatantly presented as dependent upon the termination of Arden’s life” (Schutzman 290). Therefore, Alice creates a plan
...hat exist in this story follow the fairy tale tradition. The princess is transformed into a young woman with the aid of a helper. This helper is her grandmother, who gives her the tools to cut the invisible thread, and be led by her own powers. The princess discovers another world beyond her nursery and the walls of the palace that becomes more and more real every time she lets go of someone's hand.
In James Baldwin's second novel published, we meet a young American called David. He has left his home country to live in Paris. In the first meeting with this man, he stares out a window and thinks about his life. Even this early in the book we get an impression of everything not being in its right place. This is where emptiness lives.
The inside was nothing like the outside. It was full of intricate rooms and many stairs leading to unknown places. “My name is Glendella,” she told me. “I am a co-finder of the Order of the Forbidden. I’m sure you have never heard of me, for everyone thinks I am dead.” “Tell me, Cinderella, what do you know about your father’s passing?” I chocked up a bit when I heard her mention my father. “All I was told is that he passed of natural causes and he’s in a better place now,” I said between my soft sobs. “Cinderella, I need you to breathe and prepare yourself, because everything you have been told is a
While growing up in life children need their parents to teach them and lead them on the path to a successful future. In the Glass Castle Rex Walls, Jeannette’s father, neglects to take care of his duties as a father figure in Jeannette’s life. In the same way he teaches her to be strong and independent at a very young age. As we read through the story we see the special relationship that Jeannette shares with her father. Even though he, in many instances, failed to protect his children, refused to take responsibility for them, and even stole from them, Jeannette still loved him until his death for two reasons: one, for his ability to make her feel special, and two, because he is a never-ending source of inspiration.
She watched as they were tortured and raped. She was then raped by Fred and sexually assaulted by Rose. She was one of the lucky ones that left with her life.
Bahauddin ran from the salt caverns all the way to Balabad as soon as he saw his keys were gone despite the fact that he was old and actually very weak, and as soon as the invader handed Zim the baby girl Bahauddin came smashed the doors and started punching all the invaders “DON’T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER YOU HALOGENS!” Bahauddin yelled and Zim looked down at the baby, “Hello Lilac..” Zim smiled evilly “Kill him and his putrid wife for stealing my beloved daughter.” Zim commanded and the invaders rushed into the Queen's bedroom and stabbed Bahauddins wife to death. As Bahauddin was fighting the invaders he heard his wife's screams of terror, she screamed bloody murder. It made Bahauddins heart skip a beat as he saw and heard the woman he loved so dearly being stabbed to death. The invaders ran at Bahauddin and he gained some sort of strength and started fighting back even though he was so weak and frail. Bahauddin fought and fought for what seemed forever till finally Zim was only invader left and Bahauddin panted as wiped the sweat from his forehead. He took a knife from one of the invaders and stabbed Zim in the
The narrative, Dealing with Dragons, written by Patricia C.Wrede, the author discusses how a princess named Cimorene, runs away, or better yet, liberates herself from the torment of the “proper” Medieval society. Certainly, Cimorene is an outrageous character, who just simply does not settle for anything less than perfection. For this reason, she thrives for a better life, full of adventures. Cimorene was justified in ignoring the expected social norms of Medieval society because, it is in her best interest to escape women's’ unequal rights among the society, have the freedom at her own will in the activities and studies she does, and be able to gain knowledge in an unusual field, that many humans do not know about, life with belligerent
In the book The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls goes through more than enough traumatizing events in her childhood. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” is an accurate cliché describing her childhood. Many times, in each of our lives, this cliché has been said to us or we have thought it when something hard is happening. In April, I moved out of my childhood home and into my cabin which was forty-five minutes away from school. For Jeannette, simply moving houses wasn’t a big deal and more of an excitement; for me it was a big step in my life. Many times, throughout this experience of moving out of my house, then into my cabin, and then into a new house a couple months later, I thought of the cliché “what doesn’t kill you
“It is I, Lady Amber of Cuzzart,” Amber replied, “Good sir knight, my companions and I would like to enter your master’s castle and spend a day at the festivities within.”
As soon as the door closed, and Jace was finally at last gone, Clary immediately sprang to her feet and locked the door. Tears had all ready formed at the corner of her eyes, before she ran towards the pretty canopy bed, and fell down upon its soft, gentle surface and sobbed as if her heart would break. Inside, she was completely devastated. She began to wonder just what exactly had minute, she'd been at home, relaxing in the bright, warm golden sun, working on a brand new painting, and the next, she was off riding into the deep, dark woods with Wayfarer following her father's very trail, and they'd stumbled upon the mysterious dark castle, and the final moment she was trading her life for her father's in order to save him.
Already forgets how long she has been in the upstairs prison, Antoinette said that hundreds of days and nights slipping through her fingers(184). She r...
Children develop normally by stimulation and from the experiences around them. Usually when a child is shut out from the world they will become developmentally delayed, but that is not the case with Jack. In the novel Room by Emma Donoghue, Jacks mother, Ma, has been kidnapped and held prisoner in a shed for seven years and five year old Jack was born there. This room is the only world he knows. But, despite being locked in a room for the first five years of his life, according to the four main points of development, Jack has developed normally intellectually, physically, socially, and emotionally.
Summary: In the quiet town of Malgudi, in the 1930's, there lived Savitri and her husband, Ramani. They lived with their three children, Babu, Kamala, and Sumati. Savitri was raised with certain traditional values that came into internal conflict when she took Ramani, a modern executive, as her husband. Savitri has endured a lot of humiliations from her temperamental husband and she always puts up with his many tantrums. To find solace and escapism, she takes refuge in 'the dark room', a musty, unlit, storeroom in the house. But when Ramani takes on a beautiful new employer, Savitri finds out that her husband has more than a professional interest in the woman. So, at first, she tries to retreat to her dark room. But she realises that hiding in there won't help. So she tries to leave the house. She stayed with a friend in another village. But after staying there for some time, she can't help but think of her husband and their children. What would happen to them? After doing a lot of thinking, she finally decides to go back home. In the end, Ramani has finally stopped seeing Shanta Bai, the other woman, and I guess you could say it's a happy ending. It's now up to you to go and guess the rest. Savitri is very much real. She is basically quite like most people. They treat problems like that. They find ways to escape it. Like booze, drugs, suicide, etc. In Servitor¡¯s case, she stays in the dark room, and finally, leaves her family. As I was reading "The Dark Room¡±, I felt compassion towards Savitri. I can clearly see that she was a confused woman. It was depicted through the first part of the story wherein her son was ill and she told Babu, her son, not to go to school that day. But Ramani intruded upon them and said that Babu has to go to school and that his illness is merely a headache. Savitri didn't know what to do then. She was concerned for Babu¡¯s health, but at the same time, she didn't want to argue with Ramani. In the end, Babu had gone off to school. As for Ramani, I felt like shouting at him while reading the novel because of his bullying.