During World War II, the German Reich marched across the entire continent of Europe. During the Holocaust, many people became discouraged and lost hope in the future of society. However, the excerpts from “Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,” written by herself, and “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow” by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, prove that being positive and persevering is the best thing that someone can do. Whether hiding from the Nazis or already taken by them, the best response to have during conflict and chaos is maintaining a positive outlook on life and to persist through difficult times.
This week I read pages 85 through 152 of The Princess Diaries Mia Goes Fourth by Meg Cabot. In this part of the book, Mia started her second semester in high school. Unfortunately, due to jet lag, she was already behind by the second day. When she came back to school to catch up, Grandmere pulled her out for some “important” reason. Grandmere told her principal that her dad was sick.
Girl, Interrupted, written by Susanna Kaysen in 1967, is a thought provoking memoir following her and fellow parents’ tragic and twisted experiences in McLean Mental Hospital. As a young adult Susanna Kaysen tried to commit suicide by swallowing a bottle of pills and following it with a bottle of alcohol. Her parents were very worried about her and suggested her to go to a doctor that her dad once knew. Kaysen visited the doctor who, after talking to her for a while, requested that she be sent to one of the best mental hospitals in her area. She had been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Claire Standish is labeled “The Princess” of the group as she is rich, beautiful, and possibly the most popular female at her school. Many people assume her life is perfect and a dream when in reality her parents are on the verge of a divorce. They use, pamper, and indulge her in order to spite each other and Claire is painfully aware of this. The group initially see Claire as a “snobby stuck up bitch” assuming she is solely shallow and materialistic.
The Princess Bride has many conflicts and themes but love is the main theme. Buttercup and Westley would go to the ends of the earth for each other. Fezzik and Inigo depend on each other to do a lot of things. Inigo dedicated his life to get revenge on Count Rugen. The Princess Bride is a novel about love.
Zadie Smith’s “The Girl with The Bangs” is a vivid account of a romantic relationship between two incompatible characters with vastly different personalities. Told from a first person perspective, it traces the narrator’s journey through an unusual relationship with the girl Charlotte, exploring what it is like “being a boy” – enthralled by a girl’s physical features and thus willing to tolerate any faults of any magnitude (188). His optimism and attraction to Charlotte eventually leads him to grief, where, blinded by their relationship, he is caught unawares and replaced by another boy. Yet, he also achieves an epiphany: that the relationship is built on irrational obsessions and motives and is thus ultimately unsustainable. Told in introspection,
Maggie Wilkinson #51 Miss Coleman Language Arts 8-1 Due November 17, 2017 Truman Essay - I Am Princess X The book I read this quarter was I Am Princess X by Cherie Priest.
Everyone faces challenges sometime in their life, something that blocks them from moving forward in life. However, sometimes these challenges seem too hard, and that leads a person to give up on the reward offered at the end. These challenges differ from person to person, some people face challenges like physical disabilities, like Kayla Montgomery who has multiple sclerosis (MS). This disability makes her legs go numb when she pushes her herself too hard running. However, that does not stop her doing the thing she loves most, running.
The movie “The Princess and the Frog” is not your typical “boy saves girl” movie. Instead, this Disney movie presents us with a strong female lead who doesn’t need a man to achieve her goals. In many previous Disney movies, it is demonstrated that a girl needs a man in order to get her happily ever after. Without a prince, she is nothing. In “The Princess and the Frog” the gender roles are presented to us as equal, even reverse at times.
In “Kate the Great” by Meg Cabot, Jenny realizes people change even if you don’t think they will change overtime. Jenny has realized that Kate was pretending to be someone she is not just to keep a good image on herself. Kate is being someone she is not because Kate thinks that Jenny won’t let her come inside after she realizes Jenny was babysitting Molly and that Molly’s parents didn't ask her to babysit Molly. “I wasn’t nervous just because it was Kate and every time Kate saw me lately she called me a baby,” (Cabot, pg. 33). Jenny has also realized that Kate has matured over the past couple of years.
In the novel Clockwork Princess the author, Cassandra Clare, writes about William Herondale and his best friend, Jem Carstairs. These characters are similar by their protectiveness over a woman named Tessa Gray. This woman is cared for deeply by both men. For example, when wounded in battle, both men worry only about if Tessa is alright. Jem is bedridden, but when he sees Tessa, the first thing he says is, “Are you hurt, my love?”
Maybe one of the most shocking point is that it has actually taken Carrie Fisher as long to fess up. The notoriously honest star and also memoirist has actually been asked many times whether there was a real-life love on the collection of Star Wars, to mirror the partnership in between Princess Leia as well as Han Solo. No, certainly not, she would inevitably respond: she was a teen, Harrison Ford was 14 years older, they could not have actually been much more various, just what a daft concept. Currently she has actually composed The Princess Diarist, where she gets in touch with the journals she composed at the time, to expose that she had an extreme event with Ford.
This week I finished reading The Princess Diaries Take Two by Meg Cabot. I truly love this storyline. This series is incredibly fascinating, and it is so interesting to read about a girl coming of age as a princess. Meg Cabot did an amazing job writing this story. Because of this, I am very excited to read the next book.
A Room Providing Freedom? A woman is given limited freedom. Something as simple as a room could give her a sense of liberty. In Virginia Woolf 's article, she claims that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Once upon a time, in a faraway kingdom, there was a princess who was cursed. On her sixteenth birthday, she would prick her finger and fall into a deep sleep, woken only by true love’s kiss. When she was woken, and the kingdom rejoiced. She married the prince, who awoke her, and all was well. Until she met the prince.
