What if the prince who comes to save the day is actually a princess? What if the evil queen isn’t so evil after all? What if the curse is more than it seems? It’s questions like these that are at the heart of the best fairy tale retellings.īelow, we’ve compiled 20 of the best modern fairy tales, from new stories that read like time-honored classics, to retellings that tip our age-old assumptions on their head and breathe new life into tales as old as time. They’re the stories that have woven themselves into our childhood dreams, and they’ve never really left us.Īnd yet, they’re also brimming with new potential. Fairy tales have been with us for so long that it’s hard to argue their appeal. 20 Modern Fairy Tales to Make You Believe in Magic AgainĪ witch’s curse, a magic door, a princess finding her ever-after.
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Here, the man who asks the questions knows that even though the camp will close their houses, the ones they lived in before the war, may have been stolen. His narration reads, “The irony was that the barbed-wire fences that incarcerated us also protected us.” One man says, “We’re free! We can finally go home!” His companion responds with questions: “You think our homes are still there? You think white people will welcome us with open arms?” George stares at the men with a quizzical look on his face. The fence separates us from the men and Takei. We see all three of them behind the barbed wire fence, us as the reader looking into the camp. When the news comes down of the camps’ closure, Takei overhears two men talking. Children need stability and routine, and the camps became just that. Home has become, for Takei and siblings, the camps themselves, the routines, the knowledge of what will occur. They have been stripped of their homes, herded up and incarcerated all over the United States, labeled as “enemy aliens.” Their property seized or stolen. So, when the order comes from the camps to close in December 1944, Takei, along with others, are left thinking about home and what that word actually means for them. For Takei and his family, what does home actually mean? They live in an incarceration camp for years, and Takei, the oldest of three children, is only about five or six when they enter they camp. Over the course of George Takei’s They Called Us Enemy, home plays an important thematic role. While reading this book, I really felt a connection to Ronnie, one of the main characters. Through highly relatable characters in the novel, the reader is able to connect with the emotion and struggles faced in the lives of these people. Sparks creates a memorable read through the use of relatable characters and a universal theme along with an appropriately selected setting enhancing the tone of the novel. After a rough start, Ronnie finds herself succumbing to her true feelings she has toward Will, and experiences some of the greatest emotions of her life. Adjusting to her new life in the south, Ronnie meets Will, “a beach volley ball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer” (132). Forced to reunite and improve a broken relationship, Ronnie finds that the task at hand is easier said than done. The novel begins as Ronnie, a teenage girl, is sent to spend her summer vacation with her estranged father, miles from where she wants to be and a far cry from the kind of place she is used to. By no surprise, Sparks has managed to write another tear jerker set in eastern North Carolina, where two people fall unexpectedly in love. The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks is a great read for any female. I never forgot, not for a single day, yet I was also convinced that sometimes, the past really was the past. My father knew nothing of it-and I didn’t even discuss it with my mother, the only person who was there when it all happened, almost as if we took an unspoken vow of silence, willing ourselves to let go, move on. Not to my closest friends in my most intoxicated moments or to my boyfriend, Peter, in our most intimate ones. But I truly believed I was the exception to such portents, and never once breathed the smallest mention of my nearly two-decade-long secret to anyone. Maybe that’s the case for some people and some secrets. That in the end, only the truth will set you free. That they can poison relationships and divide families. |