Children's Literature: Borders between Worlds
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This 6 page paper discusses the way the characters in "Wind in the Willows" and "Peter Pan" move between the real world and the fantasy world of their stories. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Children's Literature: Reflection of the Time Period
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A 4 page paper which discusses how children's literature reflects the age in which they were written. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Children's Poems/Silverstein & Stevenson
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A 3 page essay that contrasts and compares children's poems by these two poets. Being able to recreate the magic and joy of childhood and to do it from the child's perspective is a rare gift that few poets have exhibited. Two poets who manage to accomplish this feat are Shel Silverstein and nineteenth century author Robert Louis Stevenson. Examination of a representative poem demonstrates not only the technical virtuosity of each poet, but also the fact that each man managed to capture a child's narrative voice without talking down to their young readers, but rather showing empathy and understanding of a child's world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Children’s Fantasy Literature
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This 5 page report discusses fantasy in children literature and agrees with author Ursula K. Le Guin that fantasy is a “different approach to reality” or an “alternative technique for coping with existence.” The two authors briefly looked at are Lewis Carroll and J.K. Rowling. Coleridge’s term “habituate to the Vast” can serve as s single phrase that encompasses the importance of fantasy and imagination in a child’s world. It allows them to become accustomed to the fact that realms exist around them that they can imagine anything they might choose to about those realms. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Christopher Paolini/Eldest Inheritance, Book Two
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A 5 page essay that discusses the structure of Paolini's fantasy novel. Examination of a young adult novel Eldest Inheritance, Book Two by Christopher Paolini (Knopf, 2005) shows that this heroic fantasy tale inculcates all four categories of conflict (man vs. man; man vs. nature; man vs. society; and man vs. himself) with the result that this is enthralling tale that recounts a young man's coming of age in a time of crisis. No additional sources cited.
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Cinderella Around The World
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5 pages in length. Traditional fairy tales are ripe for psychoanalytic perspective in that they present a decidedly obscure picture of how reality actually exists; meant purely as make-believe, young children cannot help but incorporate the purity and innocence of such possibility into their own worlds. When examining the classic Cinderella, what initially comes to mind is the transition that takes place throughout the story; however, when delving deeper, what becomes even more intriguing is the tales historical path and how it has been represented by more than a dozen global communities. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Cinderella Stories
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A 3 page paper which examines how various Cinderella stories influence, or could influence, little girls. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Cinderella Stories
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Fairy tales are more than just stories: they are stories that reflect the social norms and expectations of the culture, provide moral guidance and acquaint children with the important aspects of the social system. They consistently offer a moral dimension that is pertinent to both social and political aspects of the social structure. This 5 page paper argues that the changes seen in the Cinderella stories reflect both the time period and the culture of those telling that particular version. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Cinderella: Text and Film
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A 6 page paper which compares and contrasts the Cinderella story with the Disney cartoon film version. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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