Alice's Adventures in Wonder Land, James and the Giant Peach
'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was written by Lewis Carroll in
1865. It was written for children and is a story of a twelve year old
girl who falls down a rabbit hole. On her adventures, the protagonist,
Alice, comes across many weird and wonderful scenes, sites and
characters. She comes across many creatures and animals with
anthropomorphic behaviour. The entire story is set in a strange world
of continuous change.
'James and the Giant Peach', written by Roald Dahl in 1965, is also a
book written for children. It is about a boy called James, who is also
the protagonist and is also a similar age as Alice, and he comes
across a huge peach. This peach contains giant insects, which talk.
There are several similarities between these two stories, including
the fact that the protagonist is a child who goes through magical and
strange scenes that are packed with fantasy and wonder. Also, the
characters that they meet along their way are, in both stories,
creatures and animals who behave anthropomorphically.
James is taken through many adventures and situations of great
excitement. He lives in and lives off the peach which he has become
stranded upon whilst floating at sea. Eventually, in the climax of the
story, the peach ends out flying over New York City with the aid of
Seagulls. This is a modern child's story, and even with a century
between the publishing of James and Alice, the two stories are
incredibly alike in scene structure and character relevance.
In both stories there are wonderful but bizarre characters that
influence the story and how it develops. In Alice, a strong influence
of the story is the Cheshire Cat. Using riddles a...
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...er influence, I have come to the conclusion that
'Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland' simply isn't as enjoyed by
children as it used to be. It is too out of the ordinary and merely
unbelievable. Fantasy works with the imagination, but this story is
just too fantastical. The introduction of the animated film has also
discouraged children from reading the book, because not as much effort
has to be put in just to understand what's happening. This is the case
with modern stories as well. For example, the Harry Potter stories are
released as films as well as in books, yet many children still enjoy
and are inspired to read the books as well as watching the films.
Basically 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' has passed its time, and
in the modern day requires too much concentrating, hard work and deep
thought to be enjoyed. Easily read stories, are easily enjoyed.
Women haven’t always had the freedom that they have today. Women were supposed to live a certain life even though sometimes they didn’t want to. They had to tend to their husbands at all time, stay home and do housework while still taking care of their children or being pregnant. Women were abused physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Although women were perceived to act and present themselves in a certain way, some young women went against the cult of the true woman hood not only to be different, but to escape he physical, emotional, and psychological abuse that they will or have encountered. In novels, The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Path and Lucy, by Jamaica Kincaid both young women have the similarity to rebel against the cult of true women hood but do it in many different ways.
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Jane Stewart in 1845. Although it is unclear as to the actual date of her birth, it is known to some
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Calkins, Carol C., The Story Of America The Reader’s Digest Assn., Inc.: Pleasantville, New York, 1975.
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Harper Lee wrote this book in the 1930’s and was later published during the Civil Right Movements. A reason she could have written this book is to prove how unequal society was at the time. Society was so unequal that they shunned their own kind if they treated black people as humans. Luckily, society has made huge improvements toward inequality, and this book has helped with it. This is why Nelle Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.
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