*My Book and Heart Shall Never Part*

I thouroughly enjoyed My Book and Heart Shall Never Part. Stuart Weber did a wonderful job with the music which was wonderfully incorporated into the content of the movie. It was a wonderful way to contemplate the origin and the purpose of literature for chilren which is also literature for the adults who provide these stories for their impressionable kids. The allusion of reality is shaped by these stories for children. In the little books shown in the movie, people would color in the pictures and decorate the covers. They would mend any rips on the pages, showing the significance these little books had on the family or group of people that read them. The children in the movie did a wonderful job of acting. The main character transformed herself from a girl into a character in the stories she read which brought back fond memories of my childhood. I was in Kindergarden when Disney's The Little Mermaid came out in theatres. I made my mother put salt in my bathtub. I was under the allusion that I was the Little Mermaid. I think my red hair may have had something to do with it. The narration was something that was also pleasing to me. There was a man, a woman, and a child which gave lots of diversity and fun. The movie was a nice break from the busy world us grown-ups live in. It was a nice time to meditate and think of the wonderful stories that have shaped our lives as we know them. For years people have been reading fairytales and have been shaped by these stories. They are all-encompassing in our society whether we recognize them in our adult lives or not. The movie was great. Good job Colin, McWilliams, Stuart Weber, Michael Sexson, Lynda Sexson, and the cast!

The Portal

Alice in Wonderland begins wonderfully. Alice is a small girl who is bored with her sister reading a book. She abandons her sister all together when she sees a rabbit hopping around with a clock. Curiosity leads her to a hole that happens to be big enough for her to enter. Upon entering the whole, she falls down into a land that will bring many incredible adventures. The rabbit hole acts as a portal. Portals are common in fairy tales. In the Little Mermaid, the exit from the ocean onto the land represents a portal. In Jack and the Bean Stalk, the Bean Stalk acts as a portal for Jack. In,Rapunzel, Rapunzel's hair acts as a portal for the prince. Portals are everywhere in fairy tales. It gives children the chance to easily imagine transcendence from the normal world into a world of make-believe. It lets children easily accept abstract ideas once the character has entered the portal into the realm of "the make-believe.

questions for the test

Q. What is the Archetypal woman's name in Finnegan's Wake that we discussed in class?
A. Prank Quean

Q. multilevel world invented by Lewis Carol used by Joyce (combining several meanings in a word)
A. Portmanteau

Q. Privileged #s in fairy-tales
A. 3 & 7

Q. All marriage is _____.
A. Rape

Q. What is misplaced concreteness?
A. Rapunzel's hair, a fallacy

Q. #333 fairytale
A. Little Red Riding Hood

Q. Collective unconcious manifests itself as _______
A. archetypes

Q. "If you're really crafty you'll get them both"
A. Little Red Riding Hood (grandmother and grandaughter)

Q. 3 parts of the universal quest (according to Joseph Cambell)
A. separation/ irritation/ return

Q. Triple Goddess
A. maiden, mother, crone

Q. Why is there no such thing as the original?
A. everything is a displaced myth

Q. one bows or gives recognition to ______
A. to the divine

Q. Genie from Alladin (the Disney version): "I'm not history, I'm___"
A. "...mythology"

Q. Difference of Grimm than Perot's in Cinderella
A. Cinderella's called "Ashgirl" in the Grimm version

Q. Motif index: Hans My Hedgehog, Beauty and the Beast, East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
A. The search for the missing husband, Beast group

Q. Parent's aren't trying to concieve in:
A. Bluebeard

Q. Mythological mother daughter duo
A. Demeter and Persephone

Q. Write a haiku for one of the stories

Q.What is the significance of Blue in Bluebeard's beard
A. All of the above

Q. What causes the transformation of the Beast in Beauty and the Beast?
A. love

Q. Archetype of the talking animal, shown in____.
A. The Golden Ass

Q. Why did Cupid wake up when Psyche was looking at him?
A. one drop of hot oil hits him

Q. What is spoonerism?
A. siste uglies

Q. We aleading know everything there is to know, just a matter of discovering it.
A. Wordsworth

Q. Where did the mythical story of Beauty and the Beast come from?
A. Cupid and Psyche

Q. Who wanted to marry Little Red Riding Hood?
A. Dickens

Q. First novel ever written
A. Don Quixote or The Golden Ass

Q. What phrase begins most fairy-tales?
A. "Once upon a time,..."

Cupid and Physche/Cinderella/Snow White

The story of Cupid and Physche is can be seen as a variety of displaced fairy tales. These stories include Cinderella and Snow White. In Cinderella evil step sisters get in the way of the beautiful maiden and her prince. Physche's sisters tell the girl to go against her husbands wishes which only puts her into a world of trouble. The moral in both stories is never listen to your rotten sisters. In Snow White, the beauties step mother disdains the fact that her step daughter is more beautiful than she. Physche's future mother-in-law Venus is equally jealous of Physche's beauty and wants her killed. The moral of this story is to try and avoid crones that are over the hill and bitter that there is a new and more fair damsel in the land.

Cinderella

In the end of the tale "Cinderlla" in Tatar's book, Cinderella's shoe fits! The prince will now marry the woman who has been identified. Her sisters are shocked and Cinderella, being the nobel, "goody-two-shoes" that everybody hates to love, has a big deciscion to make. Should she forgive her evil step-sisters who have been nothing but cruel to her. If I were Cinderella I would have a hard time justifying a nice way to go about this. I would flee my rags and run for the riches soon to be given to me by the gorgeous and gentle prince. I would leave my step-sisters in the dust. I might make them wait on me hand and foot. I would make them do my laundry and all the other dirty work I could think of. However, Cinderella takes the nobel path and lets her step-sisters live in the palace with her and her prince. I denounce her good-hearted decision which makes every other mortal look bad.
<--Would you really want THEM living in your palace?