The Frog Prince - Original Writing She almost got away with it, she nearly did but one perky young prince caught the evil old witch as she was about to turn the towns food, which was stored in a great cellar under the castle, rotten. The boy was playing with his favourite toy, a simple bat with a ball on a string. When the string snapped and the ball went flying down the 151 stairs to the great cellar he was distraught. He could hear the ball bouncing off each step and getting further and further towards the town’s food supply. Eventually he decided that although his Father had told him on numerous occasions not to go down the grand stairs it was only to get his ball and that he wouldn’t get in any sort of trouble. He crept down the stairs one by one and eventually reached the bottom, he rummaged around for a bit in the pitch black until he finally found his ball and started the long ascent upwards. After about 5 steps he started hearing something. He listened harder now; it sounded like someone laughing. He quickly turned round to see what was going on. The laughter seemed to be coming from the food cellar. He crept towards and forced the heavy doors open, and to his horror he saw the ugliest thing he had ever seen, a witch. She had green eyes, greasy black hair and a crooked nose covered in warts. The witch looked just as scared prince, and nearly fell over in shock when she saw him. After a few seconds though she regained her composure and started screeching all sorts of things about him ruining her big plan. He didn’t know what to do, so in a moment of panic he turned round and tried to escape the witch. The witch was a fat monstrosity so he had little danger of her catching him. He was nearly at the top, the prince thought he was safe when, POW! Magical green sparks started flying up the staircase.
The Maiden, the frog and the Chief’s son is not along the tale of the traditional “Cinderella” story that most people have grown to know. In Nigeria, a man had two wives. Of course, he favored one wife more so than the second. Both wives became pregnant with girls. The second wife grew ill and ended up passing away, leaving behind a child “with no mother of her own, just her fathers” (Cinderella 349). The motherless child lived with her stepmother and step sister, being forced to do hard chores such as gathering wood, pound the fura and tuwo, and other strenuous jobs. She could only eat what was left in a pot, usually burnt bits. The girl would bring frogs and feed them some scrapings. Day in and day out of the girl being so kind to the frogs, the told the maiden to come back tomorrow morning, so they could thank her.
It all started in 1955 when a man who lived in the area of Loveland Ohio saw three humanoid frog-like creatures who seemed to be waving around wands that shot out bright, fiery, scolding sparks.It had webbed hands and feet, like a frog, toad, or duck.And was a couple fo feet tall, most say 3-4 feet.It had bumpy skin, and was a green chromaticity. It walked like a human with good posture, bipedally. It was said to smell like drupes from almonds, and the plant alfalfa.But yet again, in 1955 there was another report of something strangely linked to the loveland frog. Mrs.Darwin Johnson, had said that she was attacked violently under water one night, in the Ohio River near Evansville, Indiana.She
The moon has been worshipped as a female deity since the beginning of time. Not only is the moon a feminine principle, it is also a symbol of transformation due to its own monthly cycle of change. With this in mind, it is clear upon a close reading of The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald that the grandmother figure is a personification of the moon, and as such is a catalyzing agent for Irene's maturation and transformation through the course of the novel. Taking this a step further, the elder Irene contains the threefold aspect of the Moon Goddess. She is Artemis, Selene, and Hecate; the crescent moon, the full moon, and the dark moon; maiden, mother, and crone (Rush, 149).
This book is about a princess named Emma who is clumsy always trips over herself and when she laughs she sounds like a donkey. She has an aunt Grassina who’s a witch. She goes to a near by swamp and meets a talking frog. The frog claims to be a prince and he wants her to kiss him. But the princess just goes home and tells nobody, what she found. Feeling bad she goes back to the swamp and decides to kiss the frog to see if he really is a prince. And he said that if she would kiss him that he would turn back into a prince. When she sees the frog again she kisses him. To her surprise it does the opposite of what the frog told her it would and it turns her into a frog.
that he go see if anyone needed help. He drove around the area but saw nothing
The Victorian Age; the Industrial Revolution and the Civil War in America, all played a role in the shift of literary styles from the Romantics to the Realists. At the time preceding the Civil War, realists wrote about the apparent human condition in fiction and non-fiction form, portraying an accurate depiction of the people and events of that time. Along with this literary form, there was a new style of writing that became known as Regionalism. This new style used local "settings, customs and dialects" (Bedford 331). This regionalism depicts the life and times of a less educated, common, lower class fragment of society. One such writer of this style was Mark Twain, who wrote from a regionalist's standpoint in his depiction of the American Old West of California. He wrote as a western humorist, detailing out-of-proportion tales and folklore, of people indicative of the new territory. Twain's creative use of western colloquial diction heightens his reader's sense of region in his writing entitled "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County".
hurt him. He stuck his head out the door looked down the street it was
Animated films are seemingly the least reliable source to discover historical information. They are produced mainly to capture the audience’s attention and imagination towards the story especially films produced by the widely known Walt Disney Pictures. Although in 2009, Disney released a traditional animated film, The Princess and the Frog, which takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana during the 1920’s that accurately depicts the aspects of the Roaring Twenties. The opening of the film displays the people’s lifestyle differing between the blacks and whites. Whites lived in luxury, in extravagant houses with grand landscape capable of hosting large celebrations, while the blacks lived in communities full of shabby, small homes. After World War I, an economic boom occurred throughout the American nation, allowing the people the opportunity to strengthen their economy and lifestyle. As for the blacks, although still living in poverty, small job opportunities became available for them. Blacks often served under whites and before the time of the Civil Rights Movement, they had been continuously discriminated and had little to no freedom especially in the South, which the film lacks to present (Trueman, 1). Instead, the film chooses to illustrate the close friendship between Tiana and her friend Charlotte who live on opposite ends of the economic spectrum. The segregation of the blacks and whites appeared to have been poorly presented making the reality of the bond between the races during the era inaccurate.
of his mother in the best way he knows how, this means that he is
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his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in
turned the corner to his home, and braced his body to prepare for the "shock" he would
...eaming in the woods he began to run through the woods as if a strong
The tone of The Little Prince is often lonely and fragile-sounding, much like the little prince himself, when he ventures into the world of adults in an attempt to understand them. The writer emphasizes, throughout the story, that loneliness is what isolates the adults rather than children because they are unable to see things with their minds, hearts, and imagination. Both the protagonist (the little prince) and secondary protagonist (the narrator) lead lonely lives because of this isolation due to the differences between the minds of children and adults. "So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to," writes the narrator, before his plane crashes in the middle of the Sahara. He explains this in the first few chapters - living his life alone - because this 'world of grownups' does not understand him and wishes for him to talk of their idea of 'sensible' and 'practical' things. This made him very lonely, not so much in a physical sense, but so that he could never really find anyone to relate to. The narrator explains that after flat responses to his imaginative observations to things, "'Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars. I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and gold, and politics, and neckties. And the grown-up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.'" In one of my magazines is an article called, "Popularity Truths & Lies," where popular girls talk about their social status. In large, red print, it says, "Lie: Popular girls are never left out or lonely." The girls then go on to explain how sometimes, they feel as if they are making so many friends only because of their popularity. They say that it's great to be popular, but difficult to find someone that really wants to befriend them for true qualities rather than social status. The situations between the narrator of The Little Prince and these popular students is that it seems that they would never be isolated (popular students from their admiring peers and the supposedly sensible-minded narrator from the adult world) - physically, at least - but inside the kind of friend they are really longing for is someone to understand and honestly talk to in order to end the abstract barriers between these worlds of people.