Rumpelstiltskin’s Demise
There once was a poor tailor who had a beautiful daughter. One day, he went to a home and was so desperate to impress his peer that claim he did that clothes fit for a king his seamstress daughter could sew. The seamstress was order be brought before the fashionista. The fashionista turned out to be the kingpin of a counterfeit clothing organization. The tailor’s daughter refused, her refusal infuriated the kingpin so much that he had his henchmen break one of the tailor’s legs. The kingpin then had his henchmen lock her up in a room at a textile factory filled with various fabrics and before he locked the door behind him he said, “I order you to sew all this fabric into perfect outfits by the end of tonight, or your
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She was a good seamstress but not as good as her father portrayed her and did not know what to do and began to cry. Suddenly, a leprechaun came out of the shadows and stated, “Sit back me friend, you cry in vain so tell me your story so I can ease some pain.” When she told him the story, he said, “Don’t worry, I will sew all this fabric into perfect outfits, but what will you give me in return?” “I will give you my gold-plated necklace!” she promised. The leprechaun started chanting, “A vision before you, appears to be true, but a leprechauns magic fools humans like you”, as he was sewing all the fabric into clothing fit for a king. The seamstress was so amazed with the leprechaun’s work that she didn’t realize the leprechaun had vanished. As she searched for her helper she discovered a cellphone with an attached note stating, “When next you’re in a pinch, I’ll be here in a cinch, just have me bling at the ready before you …show more content…
The former seamstress had the kingpin order his henchmen to put chains on Rumpelstiltskin, break his limbs, throw him down an abandoned well and fill it with cement. As the cement level neared his head he bellowed, “curse this well that me soul shall dwell till ' I find me magic that breaks this concrete shell. Pray as you may, pray as you might, if I get out you won 't live through the night”. As a final precaution the kingpin bribed some people and bought the deed to the land surrounding the well in order to prevent the excavating of the creature it
Throughout history there have been many odd characters. Russian history was not excluded. Grigory Rasputin, who was an assistant to the Royal Russian family, was an unusual man.
Curley’s wife is a beautiful woman, whose blossoming with love, with big hopes for the future. She dreams of becoming a big actress n Hollywood. She wants to become rich and famous, and have nice cloths. She wants to make something from her life. Because of her beauty she was promised great things. But in reality her dreams never came true, the letters she awaited never came, the promises that were maid to her were never fulfilled. “Could’ve been in the movies, an’ had nice clothes”. She refused to stay where she would be a nobody. “Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere or make something of my life”. So one night she meat Curley at the Riverside Dance Palace, and she married him, he became her ticket out from her desperate life. She never married him out of love and passion just of desperation. “I don’t like Curley. He aint a nice fella”.
which explains well how she had a finite amount of money and thought material wealth was more important than happiness. If she only knew before that she would spend the next decade working off her debt, she would have never asked for the necklace and she would have had a happy life. Furthermore, wealth isn’t the only thing that brings happiness to life. With an easy explanation, it explains how having material possessions doesn’t matter, because the moments we have are more valuable.
When her plan about weaving a tapestry failed she came up with another task. She gave the Achenes an impossible challenge she had twelve little rings put up and told them they had to shoot an arrow through all twelve and who ever could do it would be the one she married. Penelope gave the Achenes time to adjust the bow to their fitting needs and
As she set off into the woods, she followed the path her mother told her too. She meets a wolf, who distracted her from the path. She naively told him to the place to her grandmothers. As she picked the flowers for her grandmother, the baker caught up with her and tried to take her red cloak. She screamed and gave back the cloak. Once she got the cloak back, she went on to her grandmother. She arrives at her grandmother door and she noticed that the door was left open. She went in and saw the wolf protruding as her grandmother. Once she realized that it wasn 't her grandmother, the wolf ate her. And the baker saved her and her grandmother from the wolf by slicing his stomach while he was sleeping. Little red riding hood gave the baker her red cloak for saving her and her
Rose Mary is a selfish woman and decides not to go to school some mornings because she does not feel up to it. Jeannette takes the initiative in making sure that her mother is prepared for school each morning because she knows how much her family needs money. Even though Rose Mary starts to go to school every day, she does not do her job properly and thus the family suffers financially again. When Maureen’s birthday approaches, Jeannette takes it upon herself to find a gift for her because she does not think their parents will be able to provide her with one. Jeannette says, “at times I felt like I was failing Maureen, like I wasn’t keeping my promise that I’d protect her - the promise I’d made to her when I held her on the way home from the hospital after she’d been born. I couldn’t get her what she needed most- hot
She was looked down upon at first, Luo thinks that “She’s not civilized, at least not enough for [Luo]” (Dai Sijie, 27). The seamstress did not know how to read, so After Luo finds himself attracted to the seamstress, Luo takes advantage of reading different books to the Seamstress and claiming that he will teach the seamstress how to read in order to influence her and to trade for her love and obsession to Luo. “With these books [Luo] shall transform the Little Seamstress. She’ll never be a simple mountain girl again” (Dai Sijie, 100). Both Luo and the narrator love the little seamstress, but they want to own her as a part of their property rather than respecting her. At the end of the novel, the Little Seamstress leaves the village, inferring that she does not need their help to know the world; she wants to go check it out herself. This is such an irony because Luo and the narrator’s intension are to influence the Seamstress with more knowledge about the outside world, but after accumulating some basic knowledge about the outside world, the Seamstress does not want to be stuck in the small village anymore; she wants to experience the outside world, because she learned from Luo and the narrator’s book—“a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price” (Dai Sijie,
A common literary device, symbolism is used in this story. Symbolism is when something has a greater meaning within itself. For example, the necklace is considered a symbol in the story. When looking at necklaces at Madame Forestier she finds one that just jumps out at her. She believes it is everything she wants in life. This is symbolic because it was only a necklace it could not fulfill all of her dreams of a rich high-class life. “She wasn’t at all convinced “No… There’s nothing more humiliating than to look poor among a lot of rich woman”. This quote is said before borrowing the necklace, but it is the reason she borrows it from Madame. Furthermore, the necklace is not really going to change who she ...
“The Necklace” is an ironic, amusing and witty short story which deals with themes such as the deceitfulness of appearance, the threat of martyrdom and the power of objects. The main protagonist in this short story is Mathilde Loisel. Born in a family of clerks, the alluring Madame Loisel is convinced that her social status the “Petite Bourgeoisie” is simply a blunder and Mathilde is destined for a life of prosperity. She pursues her life in perpetual revolt against her circumstances. However she is not living in poverty, with a comfortable home and a caring husband, yet she remains oblivious of all other than the riches she craves. Her lust for wealth is a continual torment and turmoil.
The plot of the story is quite simple. A governess, Charlotte Prime, attends the funerals of her uncle, a vicar, and his second wife. The couple died within a month of each other. The Vicar¡¯s son, Arthur Prime, gives his cousin Charlotte some cheap costume jewelry which had belonged to his stepmother from her pre-marital career as an actress. Among the old jewels, a pearl necklace strikes Charlotte as having some value, alt...
Ten years of suffering is the cost of having pleasure for only one night! In “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant presents Mathilde Loisel, an attractive, charming but vacuous and selfish middle class lady transforms to selfness, poor, satisfied and hard-working lady. Even though, Mathidle owns a comfortable home and married to a faithful and kind husband, Monsieur Loisel, who seeks her happiness and satisfaction; she was ungrateful to the things that she had been given, because her greed and desire of wealth had captured her thoughts and blurred the real meaning of happiness in her perspective. Mathidle spends most of her time surfing in her day dreams of being wealthy and suffering from accepting the reality, because her imagination was more than she could not afford. One day Mathidle’s husband brought his wife an invitation for a fancy party, but as a result of their low income, Mathidle’s was ashamed to wear flowers as decoration, so she decided to borrow an expensive looking necklace from a friend of her, Madame Forestier. After attending the fabulous party and spending a memorable great time looking stunningly beautiful, Mathidle discovers that she had lost the expensive necklace that she borrowed, so she decides to buy a similar copy of the necklace to her friend after loaning an enormous amount of money and narrowing the house outcome. The author surprises his readers with a perfectly detailed twist at the end of the story. Losing the necklace was a turning point in Mathidle’s life and the best thing that ever happened to her.
She borrows a beautiful necklace from a friend.The necklace is lost after the party. Poor Monsieur Loisel goes out alone and searches all night and day for the jewels but has no luck. Loisel comes up with a plan to buy another necklace and return it to Mathilde's friend.This is quite a man. He takes his inheritance from his father; then, he borrows the rest of the money. They return the necklace. But that is just the beginning. For the next ten years, the Loisels work together to pay for the replacement necklace. Monsieur Loisel works a second job at night. They even give up their apartment. Both of them age tremendously over the years. Mathilde is no longer beautiful. She has hardened:She came to know the heavy work of the house, the hateful duties of the kitchen. She washed the dirty linen, the shirts and dish-cloths, and hung them out to dry on a string; every morning she carried up the water.The author never lets the reader know if Mathilde appreciated her husband for taking care of her. They did accomplish something together, and she did rise to the occasion and do the hard work of the home. In reality, the hero of the story is Monsieur Loisel who worked alongside his wife to pay back the money for
In the short story “The Gift of the Magi”, there is a lovely couple living around the early twentieth century. It is a day before Christmas and Della needs to buy a gift for Jim. But she is low on money. She decides to cut her hair off and sell it. With that money she buys a fob chain for Jims pocket watch. On Christmas Della show Jim her cut hair and he gets disappointed. Not because she looks different but because he bought her hair combs for her long beautiful hair. Little did Della know that Jim sold his pocket watch to...
It took ten years for Mathilde and her husband to pay off the debt of buying a new necklace. Those ten years were not spent with the luxuries she experienced so many years ago at the party, nor were they filled with the simple things she once owned and despised. She came to know “the horrible existence of the needy. She bore her part, however, with sudden heroism.” When passing her rich friend again in the street, she was barely recognizable. Who she was the day she ran into her friend was not who she was the night she wore that necklace.
At the death of her mother, a rich old lady takes her to her home and brings her up. The widow of the cobbler gave Karen a pair of red shoes, which she wore for the first time at her mother’s funeral. The old lady who adopted Karen disliked, the red shoes greatly because of Karen’s obsession with them and so she burnt them. Then Karen saw the princess wearing beautiful red shoes. Her love for these shoes got re-ignited.