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Disney's Affect on the American Child

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Anne Sexton (only half the poem) Looking glass upon the wall. . . Once more the mirror told and once more the queen dressed in rags and once more Snow White opened the door. This time she bought a poison comb, a curved eight-inch scorpion, and put it in her hair and swooned again. The dwarfs returned and took out the comb and she revived miraculously. She opened her eyes as wide as Orphan Annie. Beware, beware, they said, but the mirror told, the queen came, Snow White, the dumb bunny,  opened the door  and she bit into a poison apple and fell down for the final time. When the dwarfs returned they undid her bodice, they looked for a comb, but it did no good.  Though they washed her with wine and rubbed her with butter it was to no avail. She lay as still as a gold piece.

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet. First your toes will smoke and then your heels will turn black and you will fry upward like a frog, she was told. And so she danced until she was dead, a subterranean figure, her tongue flicking in and out like a gas jet. Meanwhile Snow White held court, rolling her china-blue doll eyes open and shut and sometimes referring to her mirror as women do.

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A child growing up in America has without a doubt seen almost all of Disney's classic films. However, looking back it is hard to image watching these films where every main character has a missing parent. I will give a list.

Beaty and the Beast = mother dead, father taken away The Little Mermaid = mother dead Cinderella = both parents dead Finding Nemo = mother dies in first scene The Hunchback of Notre Dame = mother dies in first scene Pocahontas = mother dead Aladdin = mother dead Snow White = both parents dead The Lion King = dad dies Tarzan = both parents die in opening scene The jungle book = both parents dead

These are most of the movies of my childhood and for a child to have to see movies where their worst fear, a parent dying, in their favorite movie is crushing.

Disney's Effect on the American Child, Reflection

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