They say he’s been to Alcatraz. They say that he’s escaped. The world is searching far and wide and yet never have they found him. They say he was an experiment gone wrong. They say no one knows anything about him. They say he is immortal. They know nothing. There is only one who knows. There is only one he can trust. That one just happens to be my Papa. I walk out to the enclosed wooden porch to find my Papa slightly rocking in his bluish green lazyboy. I head over to the giant plushy couch sitting across from him. He looks up at me with a grin on his face. I ask him about who he is. Papa starts to talk about it. I quickly stop him and ask for his name. He says, “His name is Teeny Weeny.” “Papa,” I question, “Why is his name Teeny Weeny? …show more content…
Papa chuckles and says, “His name is Teeny Weeny because he is really tiny.” “Why is he so tiny?” I ask. “When he was born,” starts my Papa, “He grew. But, instead of growing up in size, he grew down in size! He eventually stopped shrinking when he reached about 2 inches!” “That is crazy! Why are you the only one he talks to and trusts?” I question. Papa starts up with a story of how he met Teeny Weeny. He tells me, “When I was a young adult, I met Teeny Weeny. It was really funny because he was on a shelf at the pet store. I picked him up because he looked cool and he started flailing around and yelling at me! My heart almost jumped out of my chest! I apologized to him because I thought he was a misplaced toy or something! He and I both laughed. He explained to me who he was and then explained to me why he was in the pet store. Teeny Weeny told me that he was looking for a loyal companion. He was looking at the bullfrogs. Teeny Weeny said, ‘That’s the one!’ He pointed to a medium sized bullfrog. I chuckled and told Teeny Weeny, ‘That one is almost 5 times larger than you! Are you sure you want that one?’ ‘Yes!’ Teeny Weeny pronounced. ‘Do you know what you are going to name it?’ I asked With disbelief, Teeny Weeny exclaimed, ‘I’m not going to change his name.
It would be weird to change his name to something else!’ ‘Well, what is his name?’ I jokingly questioned. With a confused look on his face, he said, ‘He already said his name! Did you not hear him?!’ It was then that I had to explain to Teeny Weeny that humans can only understand other humans. He was very shocked.” I ask my Papa why people thought that Teeny Weeny was bad. “Teeny Weeny stopped lots of bad people from doing bad things,” my Papa tells me. “Teeny Weeny was in the wrong place at the wrong time, a lot. He was actually being very helpful and kind, but people never realized it. Whenever he tried to explain himself, they locked him in jail. The people who took him forgot that he was small, and he slipped right out through the bars. Police set out on a manhunt, or a tiny-man hunt, because they called him an escaped prisoner. The next time they took him in, he went to Alcatraz.” “Could you tell me how he escaped?” I question Papa. “Honey!” my Nana calls out. “The chocolate chip cookies are ready!” Papa chuckled and says, “I’ll tell you that another time.” “I’m coming, Nana!” I happily
exclaim. As get off the couch, I think about Teeny Weeny. I wonder how he escaped Alcatraz, where he is right now. I look forward to talking with my Papa so I can hear more stories about Teeny Weeny. I hope these chocolate chip cookies taste good!
Similarly, Big Tom from One, Two, Three Little Indians also experienced judgement from the people around him. Big Tom is judged because of other people's stereotypes for him and his culture. When Big Tom goes to sell baskets in order to earn a living he states, “A man took a series of photographs of him with an expensive looking camera, pacing off the distance and being very careful in setting his lens opening and shutter speeds.’I wish he’d look into the camera,’ the man said loudly to a couple standing nearby, as though he were talking of an animal in a cage.’You can’t get anime good picshus around here. Harold tried to get one of the five Dionnet kids, but they wouldn’t let him. The way they keep them quints hid you’d think they was make of china or sump'n’, The woman said. She glanced at her companion for confirmation’ (Garner, pg. 3). This shows the judgement Big Tom faces because it shows how non-native people see him as something to spectate and not
In “Tweens: Ten Going on Sixteen,” Kay S. Hymowitz points out the fact that in modern society kids mature too early, creating a negative trend called tween phenomenon; it occurs when kids become teenagers at a young age and skip the preadolescence period. According to Hymowitz, the evidence presents a troubling picture, tweens are too concerned with the way they look, are involved in criminal activities, are having sex, and are doing drugs and alcohol. The author concludes that the causes of the negative trends are complex, and I believe that she states a reasonable case that should be considered by parents, educators, and psychologists. Without a doubt, the three most negative behavioral trends of many tweens are their need for attention,
could not bring himself to kill a innocent little boy so he gave him to a
As in all stories, characters are forced to make some of the toughest decisions. They must walk the line between right and wrong, a line that isn’t always clear. In the story Of Mice and Men, George Milton makes the unforgettable decision to shoot his friend, Lennie Small. While there is argument between whether George’s decision was right or wrong with no true answer, the ideas of morality and friendship play into his decision. There is also truth when saying that George did make the right decision to shoot Lennie. It is a scarring decision that he had to make, but the history, setting, and environment portrayed in this book makes this distressing choice the right one all the same.
The short story spunk wwas written by zora neal hurston was based on guilt and revenge in witch the characters were face with much conflict and discouragement zora was born in 1891 originally from notaslelga alabama and moving to eatonville fla, she naturally picked up her stories from neighborhood gossip. the story spunk was a short about a man fooling around with another married mans wife . zora didnt like the fact that spunk wanted to marry lena . lena was already married to a man named joe . lena didnt care about joe even though joe loved her and wanted to get his wife back zora grew up in a pridefull home were she believed in speaking up for herself many of her short stories and writing styles were much influenced by events that took
And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in. He stopped short by the door.
Bruno is getting really upset that he can no longer see his friends or his grandparents. He is stuck in his house and can’t explore as much as he would like because there is no one to explore with. He notices something out his window one day, a large fenced in area with little tiny dots moving. He asks his sister and maid Maria what they are but they don’t know. He decides one day that he is going to explore the fenced in area, so he leaves when no one is looking and explores it for about two hours walking up and down the fence looking for something. Finally he comes across I boy about the same size of him so he goes up and talks to him. The boy’s name is Shmuel and they are the same age. Bruno learns that he is stuck behind the fence and has nothing to wear but the striped pajamas. Bruno doesn’t understand why he is there but is told how awful it is behind the fence.
At first glance, what makes a fairy tale a fairy tale may seem obvious—some kind of magic, hidden symbols, repetition, and of course it’s evident it’s fiction—but fables are more than that. As Arthur Schelesinger puts it, it’s about “[expanding] imagination” and gaining understanding of mysterious places (618). While doing this, it also helps children to escape this world, yet teach a lesson that the reader may not be conscious of. A wonderful story that achieves all of this is Cinderella, but not the traditional tale many American’s have heard. Oochigeaskw, or The Rough-Faced Girl, and Ashputtle would be fitting for a seven-year-old because they get the gears of the mind turning, allowing for an escape on the surface, with an underlying enlightenment for children of the ways of the world.
Max scampered to the big green tree. He ran all around, until... there it was! A tiny box, WITH MAX'S NAME ON IT! "Oh boy, oh boy!" said Max. "Could it be?!" He pushed the box into his hole and began to open it in front of his Mama and Papa.
his family,or even reality. He lives as a hermit, he is locked away in a
Imagine waking up on a normal day, in your normal house, in your normal room. Imagine if you knew that that day, you would be taken away from your normal life, and forced to a life of death, sickness, and violence. Imagine seeing your parents taken away from you. Imagine watching your family walk into their certain death. Imagine being a survivor. Just think of the nightmares that linger in your mind. You are stuck with emotional pain gnawing at your sanity. These scenerios are just some of the horrific things that went on between 1933-1945, the time of the Holocaust. This tragic and terrifying event has been written about many times. However, this is about one particularly fascinating story called The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.
Buttercup is a 12 year old girl from Florin, and she really wants a horse for her 13th birthday. During school the only thing Buttercup talks about is getting a horse for her birthday. She draws horse pictures during art class in school.
One day Nate went to school and his friend ben was screaming and crying. Nate asked him what happened. Ben said someone stole his rubber ducky. He was devastated. Nate the Detective was there to help. He told him to retrace his steps. So he went to ben's house and they went to the bathtub. They saw ben’s wet towel on the floor. They looked for the rubber ducky but could not find it.
Ms. Harrison run into little Timmy- her neighbor, seven years old- one Saturday morning at the store wearing her brand new fur coat. Little Timmy, surprised by the size of the thing asked Ms. Harrison what that was. She said it was her very expensive coat that she bought the other day hoping that little Timmy was going to admire her good taste in fashion. When little Timmy asked what was that made from, she replied “fur” hoping that he was not going to be able to put the pieces together, but when little Timmy asked “Fur, from who? How was it taken off?” Ms. Harrison could do nothing else but turn away in shame and head home.
When examining adaptations of fairytales you must look at the original source. This can be a very difficult task because with fairytales we never really know where the original came from. I will base my paper on the theory that the original tale of Cinderella comes from the Grimm Brothers version of Ashputtle. In comparison we will examine two movies. First there is the Disney version Cinderella. Secondly we will look at the movie 'Ever After'.