The Disney Princess Effect Summary

A classic and often overused claim in today's society and culture is that technology and innovation is ruining the lives of children and making them into absolute monsters, or at the very least ruining their lives forever. Are these claims always true? No. But they do also stand on some merit, perhaps not as much as it’s put out to be, but some nonetheless. Stephanie Hanes, in her article Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect, uses a large amount of interesting, and sometimes questionable, sources, constantly brings the reader through an emotional roller coaster ride, and continually changes up what topic she is talking about in order to, ideally, persuade the reader to believe and follow the ideas that she puts forth. The

Stephanie Hanes manages to do something quite similar to this. Throughout her article, she tells a story of a woman who battles with rescuing her beloved children, then proceeds to give us even more stories of how people are suffering so horridly. Then, as all seems lost, a light in the clouds appear and some people are able to manage it with their children, and make them stray away from the curse of Disney. People have managed to find a path through the darkness, there is hope. But alas, the threat is still out there, perhaps she was wrong, perhaps the hope was just an illusion. No, there is a way out. Bringing everything back to the first story, the girl is cured and everything can be better. Now the reader must do the same and go through the same epic that Hanes just brought them through. If any of this seemed over dramatic, then it seems that the point of the emotional rollercoaster has made itself clear. People are drawn to this use of progression, it's the classic progression that many stories and dramas go through. It catches the reader's attention, and if done well, makes them believe

She is by no means an incompetent writer. She manages to use a large number of sources, bring out the emotional narrative within the piece, and move the report on so it doesn’t seem stagnant. But in doing so she does seem to make some mistakes, and as a result, it does slightly lower the quality of her writing. She would perhaps find it very easy to preach to the choir, to those who believe something similar to what she already put out there, but she may as well struggle to convince those who are against what she say. As previously stated, the opposition to this argument really wasn’t given enough, if any, recognition. Hanes is a writer with a cause and a purpose, and it does come to show that she indeed did forward that cause and purpose, but like most things in life, she did not do so