The Struggles of Growing Up

Throughout Alice in Wonderland there is a constant struggle internally as well as externally with Alice and growing up. She has the idea in her head that growing up is wonderful and the older one aquires more knowledge. But then fights the idea of growing up because she doesn't want to miss out on her childhood. Her complex thoughts about the whole ordeal is quite intelegent in itself and yet she doesn't see the intellegence she already possesses.
Than there's the whole struggle she is gowing through with her physical size. One minute she's too big then she's too small and then she's perfect and then she's entirely too big even to be in a house. Her struggle with her size Alice associates with adulthood as well as the mind and knowledge. In Alice's mind size is just as much a part of growing up as knowledge.
We all might have thought this way when we were children. Once we surpassed someone in height that meant superioroty over their small stature. Perhaps it's becaise we can physically see and experience the body growing easier than seeing the internal mental growth of our peer's minds. It's a battle between sizes that adulthood and childhood are associated with in poor little Alice's mind-or could it be poor old Alice?

my book and heart shall never part

We "answered" the question, "what is a child?" And even though everyone came up with a different answer, there is no right answer as we all know. And after seeing the movie on Thursday it only provoked more questions, for me as least. This may seem a bit demented or perhaps uncalled for, and before asking this I have to make clear that it's all based around the question "what is a child?" And not meaning the physical younger human being, but the idea of a "child."

Ok now that I've explained myself here's my question: "Is a child expendable?" Are children just figments of our imagination? Creating a hope in the adult mind of innocence, and guilt free conscience? Are children a one time only thing, that is tainted after their first experience outside the mothers womb? And is a child even a child inside the mother or is it just a soul-anima-of the mother that is carring it, waiting to bring a miniture human into an adult world?

Whatever the answer may be, it is hard to grasp the concept of a child outside of what I have grown up thinking. Or maybe it is just that I haven't thought outside of my prior knowlegde of a child, and doven deeper into the quesiton more psychologically, or methophorically, rather than physically.

Even Munchkins are Faking it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYSPIZk1egc

I don't know how to make the video actually appear in the blog. it might do it once i hit publish but i don't know! if anyone can help me that would be nice.

anywho! this commercial is great. it is the Munchkins of The Wizard of Oz, faking their voices.

Exam Notes

Little Mermaid
Little Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Hansel & Gretel
Beauty & the Beast
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Rapunzel
East & West
Blue Beard
Juniper Tree

The Prank Queen is an archetypal in Finnegan's Wake
Portmanteau- multiple level word i.e. SMOG-fog + smoke = smog
Privileged numbers of fairy tales- 3, 7
333 Type tale - Little Red
collective unconscious manifests itself as archetypes
"If you're really crafty you'll get them both" - The Wolf in Little Red
3 parts of universal quest- separation, initiation, myth
Triple Goddess- mother, maiden, crone
Everything is displaced no such thing as original
To bow at someone- recognition of the divine
Aladdin- Genie is Mythology
Grimm's Cinderella - Ashgirl
East & West, Hedge Hog, and B&B is search for missing husband motif
Mother Daughter Duo- Demeter & Persephone
Significance of Blue in Blue Beards beard- everything
Archetype for talking animal- The Golden Ass
Why Cupid wakes up- drop of hot oil
Already knows everything needs to know - Wordsworth
Beauty & the Beast came from Cupid & Psyche
Blue Beard is against female curiosity
Which Grimm story has a witch in it? Hansel & Gretel
Who wanted to marry Little Red? Charles Dickens
First phrase to open a fairy tale? Once upon a time...

What really happened to the town of Bodie, California?

In the Ghosttown of Bodie, California there was once a prosperous gold mine that gave the town life. For years miners came from all over the country with gold fever and the dream of wealth and living the good life in the golden state.

As the town grew in size so did its residences egos, and the bad reputation of the town. Dangerous men became the normal bystanders on the dusty roads of this tiny town tucked in the Eastern Sierra Mountain Range close to the Nevada border.

The mines produced over $34 million dollars in gold, and at it's largest had a population of 7-8000 individuals running wild between the church, school house, and bar.

Now this sounds like many of the old mining ghosttowns that are scattered throughout the west. But there's something disturbing about Bodie, something that leaves visitors questinoning when the view the town from outside the locked doors, and perring in barred windows.

This once prosporious town now lays still, but will all the memories of the inhabitants that onces dwwelled in the mysterious valley that seemed to have just up and left in the middle of a meal around the dinning room tabel, having a drink at the bar, and even filing mail to be sent out of the town-perhaps to loved ones in Cincinnati, or a morgage broker in San Francisco. But for whatever reason, the down was diserted! Some speculate that it was the mine going dry, but that would be no reason to leave food on the tables, and a drink at the bar! What could have possibly happened in Bodie to make its residences leave all their belongings behind with hot plates full of food and perfectlly good wiskey behind the bar?

If you wish to visit this creep old town, all you have to do is head to the eastern art of California, along highway 395 outside of Bridgeport, and turn east at the sign. There you will come to the skeleton of a town once known throughout the west. And perhaps figure out what really happened to all the residences.

The Express: The Earnie Davis Story

So There's a movie coming out about Ernie Davis, whose obituary Jill read in class the other day for her displaced fairy tale. Check out the trailer. It looks like it could be a good movie with qualities that hold true to the displaced fairy tale of Cinderella.

http://www.theexpressmovie.com/site.html#/videos/

the true moral

If you focus only on the beauty of a woman,
you're nothing but a dull and materialistic human,
Look at woman, but don't forget
what lies within is much more legit.

Appearance fades like the sun at sundown,
but knowledge lingers like the world is round,
Focus too much on yourself and your beauty
And no longer will anyone make you their duty.

Love for oneself and another
will leave you with many a sister and brother
For they do not need to be impressed
especially with the way you're ridiculously dressed.

Be true to yourself
And you'll have more than material wealth
Be strong and humerus
But remember never to boisterous.
For there are moments when less is more
And more can turn into a giant snore.

what is...

What is a child? Well there is a literal definition, but that just does not seem like the kind of answer that would keep interest, because we all know what a child is. Perhaps a child is someone with no worries, or cares in the world. But then again children care about many things, and on the rare occasion worry about the potential trouble they will get into if their parents find out about undesirable acts they have engaged themselves in. Perhaps a child is someone that is oblivious to the negatives in the world around them? But then again some people we consider adults are just as, it not more, oblivious. I think I got it! A child is a soul that believes in the unbelievable, that believes in magic, and what could never be possible actually can be. A child is a soul that does not stop to think hum...this does not make sense because of certain things I have been told just simply are not supposed to make sense. A child makes sense out of anything they want to make sense out of. That is a child. There is no age involved in my mind.

What is a book? A book is a generator for the mind, a place to go for any occasion, providing comfort and knowledge. Books are a portal to the deep inner minds of others, that trigger the readers’ inner mind to think either outside their box, or even parts inside the box that the reader hasn’t thought too much about.

What is nature? Could nature be the essence of all imagination? Well at least in my life, it is. All inspiration for anything in this world has come from something in nature. Nature is the first and the best at creating stories, and letting imagination run wild. Things humans cannot even come up with in the depths of their mind, nature has created out of atoms we as humans cannot see without some form of invention—that was created from the mind of someone who saw something in nature that helped them with their invention. Magnifying something is not a human creation, it is natural, water can magnify fish to make them look like huge sea monsters, when in reality they are just minnows. Nature helps create the imagination in a child that can be put into a book, that can eventually provoke more thought and more imagination.