This is a relative unique style of writing of a fairy tale version for Disney’s Cinderella. There are two speaker in the text. Basically, they are building up a story, which is suppose to be a fairy tale, but the second speaker is considering other options when the first speaker speaks infers on the sugar coated details needed for a fairytale. The first speaker says ,[” There was once was a poor girl, as beautiful as she was good, who lived with her wicked stepmother in a house in the suburbs.” That’s better. But I have to seriously query this word poor.” But she is poor! “Poor is relative. She lived in a house, didn’t she?” “Yes” Then socio-economically speaking, she was not poor”. The first speaker was to make a perfect story, while the second is contradicting by bringing up reality opposed to fantasy. The second speaker brings up the reality of what is happening in urban areas. This is the notion of what the  fairy tale should be told a story that others can relate and what the second speaker is trying to do is give insight to the truth on reality of situation and not the glamorized story .

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“The Story Of an Hour”, by author Kate Chopin, is a very interesting but tragic story that depicts the theme of freedom. The story is based on a woman named Mrs. Mallard, who suffers from heart problems. Her husband Mr. Mallard is believed to have died in a car accident. The family does not know how to tell her , because they fear what might happen to her after hearing the news. Mrs. Mallard is feeling sad and hurt by the news, but there seems to be something strange happing to her. She begins to have feelings of joy and feeling free. It is from that moment that moment that the theme of freedom plays from there to the end of the story. The narrator states,[ “When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath:”free, free,free!”], showing how Mrs. Mallard is not restricted and has freedom to as she pleases. The theme of freedom is also portrayed when she states, “There would be on one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself”. This shows that there was frustration and feeling of being told what do. Now she no longer had to deal with this. Her Husband was the cause of her unhappiness. It is because his death she is truly happy. Unfortunately for Mrs. Mallard her time of joy is cut short. While is alone having these thoughts of freedom and how to live the rest of her life, somebody is at her room and when she goes down the stairs and someone is opening the door, she sees her husband. Mrs. Mallard has a heart attack after seeing him alive. Her joy and freedom was only for the spur of the moment because she dies due to the heart attack.

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The story, Woman Hollering Creek, is based on a woman named Cleofilas. She is Mexican woman who gets married to Juan Pedro after falling in love and throughout the story she relates every aspect of her life to the telenovelas. Telenovelas are Spanish soap operas.  She thinks about every how she might react like the certain character from the telenovelas.This story really brings back memories, when I was young, my mother and my grandmother would watch telenovelas from mornings to evenings everyday. I understand why Cleofilas used telenovelas as a form of expression. Telenovelas paint these really nice picture image of what life should be like. Unfortunately for Cleofilas, this did not happen way she saw it on T.V. Juan Pedro ended up being abusive and struck her a few times. When he first slapped her, she taught she would cry and scream and run away and instead she stood there and took the slapping till she was bleeding from her mouth. She was looking for love and thought she would be living a good life with a good husband like in the Telenovelas. Cleofilas is unable to separate the fiction that she sees to t.v. to real life, and is always in surprise that it does work out that way. Cleofilas is able to leave her husband, Juan Pedro, who has brought her pain and unhappiness. Telenovelas played a vital role in the story and it was a form of cleofilas to escape.

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I have no idea when this picture was taken. I do believe that I was one or so. The photo itself is ripped at the top and was stuck to the plastic in one of my various family photo albums. The two people standing next to me are my mother and father.When I look at this photo I find it really interesting because I think that I looked pretty funny as a baby, but I really like this picture anyways because out of my three other siblings, I have the least baby pictures. I like that I have a solo picture with my parents. Although I have only a few, I love them all. I remember my mom would always dress me and my siblings up. If we went somewhere, you would always see me and my two sisters dressed in these puffy dresses. I loved them. My aunt always tells me stories about how my mom would always have us dressed like little dolls. She would tell us about all the hair accessories she would buy us. I always thought that was really cute. Its really funny that we still have a lot of our gold baby jewelry

I’ve always had the best parents ever. They were always so loving and basically amazing. It’s funny because I have very old fashioned, strict parents and although it can be annoying at times, I appreciate it. In the end, it just means that they love us and want the best for us. I think my dad looks pretty  funny here too with that weird mustache, but I appreciate that its in the photo because if not, then I would have never gotten to see it and make fun of him. That was the good thing about my parents growing up. They were strict, but were also very playful and loving. This photo reminds me how lucky I am to have such great parents.

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