Sunday, September 21, 2014

Week Five: Witches

       This week, I read the book of Aunt Maria, the story is clearly aimed at younger readers, but it also is a bit scary for those too young. I'd say readers from 12 up would enjoy this enormously. I loved the main character and really disliked Aunt Maria. Unfortunately, she was so well developed, and her motives so normal, that I loved her too. Despite her frightening abilities, she was only human. She wants to keep the world the way she has been used to and is scared of change. There are many people in our world these days that are just like that. I also loved the way the main character found ways to do things her aunt disapproved of. Of course that got her deeper and deeper into problems.

       A powerful woman character in a fantasy or horror type of story or film is usually in the form of a witch. Witches have magical powers and are usually more evil than good. But when talk about witches, they are usually very ugly and a bad character. But in the other hand, good witches are usually very beautiful. I recently watched a TV show called American Horror Stories the 3rd season, it is a story of a bunch of teenager witches, powerful and attractive, I think it is kind of fit nowadays young people’s imaginations of witches.


         But the Movie Kiki’s Delivery Service we watched in class is another whole different story. A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service. I feel the witch Kiki is neither the ugly one nor the untouchable beautiful ones. She is more close to a normal person.


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