I think that many people see the good in things, and sometimes I choose to find the pessimistic side of things. Growing up Disney movies were the only thing that connected me to being a child. My parents were divorced, my first step dad abused me(pre-kinder), my mother moved to Arizona with my third step dad(4th grade), my mom then moved to Alaska with a forth husband(9th grade) then to another city getting married to husband number five about a month before my wedding which she did not attend. I will not go any further into my history because that is not nessesarily what this blogging assignment is about. What I am trying to get to is what Zipes speaks about on the closing page of our reading. Disney borrowed stories that were kind of gruesome and turned them into this beautiful images that to the viewer could be seen as how things should turn out in life.
I realized young that these stories were fake, but I would go back to them thinking that maybe there were scenes of horror and that things would turn out great after all. The problem with that thinking is that Disney doesn't show what happens after Happily Ever After, as I think we have touched on a little.
I also realized that not every little girl gets to be a princess. My dad is from England and in the midst of all my childhood drama we would escape to England to see family. When I was in England I was awestruck by the castles and jewels. One of the times I was in England I was able to see the whole family outside, it was the Queen Mums birthday and she came out and greeted people with birthday signs and while we were out there the young Princes and Princess Di came up in a town car. I was obsessed from that point on. Which didn't help my mind from thinking that there are true fairy tales because of Di, but I was old enough when she died to understand what was going on- and saw how real happily ever after was not.
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