Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

Do you like story Charlie and The Chocolate Factory? Great ! This is one of the fictional film that full of imagination.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a fantasy film in 2005, directed by Tim Burton. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Roald Dahl, starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy dan Christopher Lee.

                This film tell the story of Charlie is a boy who live with his family in small house. His family six people consisting of parents Charlie, Mr and Mrs Bucket, and two pairs of grandparents, Grandpa Joe and his wife, and Grandpa George and his wife.  They are very poor. Only Charlie’s father that worked to provide for the family.

                A large chocolate factory Wonka’s mysterious. Where his granfather hadbeen a worker there. For the last 15 years no one has ever seen come out or go to the factory. But production the chocolate still continue and marketed to stores all over the world.

WOMEN EMANCIPATION

In the modern era , equality between women and men is very necessary enforced . there should be no oppression between both of them . all rights and obligations must be obtained in a balanced manner . and now after the emergence of figures womanhood , RA Kartini , eventually all of it can be realized . emancipation of women is much benefit for the women to get their rights. but , also creates a different impression for them , men who feel overwhelmed by or even undefeated in the presence of this emancipation .
               Look out . most women agree and like presence of the emancipation of women because it is profitable for them . they were previously , should not be educated , they may only sit at home , taking care of the house . now they can be free , women now have the same rights as people can easily adam.mereka school , career and even now be able to exceed the males . for example , women can be president , taxi driver , a builder , a pedicab driver , etc. . can occupy only profession that used to be occupied by men .
               While some people , especially men make most women assume emancipation became lawless aka not aware of his position and will forget their nature as women . many of them are free career so sometimes the women are often perceived neglect their families , do not take care of their children . letting their baby nurtured and cared for by their maid

The dog and the shadow

Do you like keeping an  animal in your house? Okay. Do you know the reason why people keep a dog in their house? Don’t you know that sometimes a dog can be so greedy that he steals all we have? This is a story about a greedy dog. It happened that a dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way home, he had to cross a plank lying across a running brook. As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water and was never seen any more

So, what lesson can you learn from this story?

                     (Adapted from: ‘Learning from life’, Aesop’s Fables)

The goose with the golden egg

Well, here is the story. One day a farmer was going to the nest of his goose and found there was an egg all yellow and glittering. When he took it up, it was as heavy as lead and he was going to throw it away, because he thought a trick had been played upon him. But he took it home on second thought and soon found to his delight that it was really a pure gold. Every morning same thing occured and he soon became rich by selling its eggs. As he grew rich he grew greedy and thought to get at once all the gold the goose could give. He killed the goose and opened it: only to find nothing.

(Adapted from: ‘Learning from life’, Aesop’s Fables)

Bear and Rabbit

Here is a story for you enjoy. Listen !

Once upon a time there lived as neighbors, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit was a good shot and the bear, being very clumsy,could not use an arrow to a good advantage.

The bear was very unkind to the rabbit. Every morning, the bear would call over to the rabbit and ask the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and come with the bear to the other side of the hill.

The rabbit, fearing to arouse the bear’s anger by refusing, consented and went with the bear. The rabbit shot enough buffalo to satisfy the bear’s family. Indeed, he shot and killed so many that there was still lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.

However, the bear was so greedy and evil that he didn’t allow the rabbit to get any of the meat. The poor rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering, as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day’s work.

The bear was the father of five children. The youngest boy was very kind to the rabbit. Knowing that the youngest boy was a very hearty eater, the mother bear always gave him an extra largepiece of meat. Instead of eating this extra meat, the youngest bear would take the meat outside and pretend to play ball with it, kicking it toward the rabbit’s house, and when he got close to the door he would give the meat such a great kick that it would fly into the rabbit’s house. In this way the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.

(Adapted from : www.narrative.com)

HALLOWEEN

Many of the ancient people of Europe marked the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter by celebrating a holiday in late autumn. The most important of these holidays that influence later Halloween customs was Samhain, a holiday observed by the ancient Celts, a tribal people who inhabited most of Western and Central Europe in the first millenium BC. Among the Celts, Samhain marked the end of one year and the beginning of the next. It was one of four Celtic holidays linked to important transitions in the annual cycle of seasons.

Samhain began at sundown on October 31 and extended into the following day. According to the Celtic pagan religion, known as Druidism, the spirit of those who had died in the preceding year roamed the earth on Samhain evening. The Celts sought to ward off these spirits with offerings of food and drink. The Celts also built bonfires at scared hilltop sites and performed rituals, often involving human and animal sacrifices, to honor Druid deities.

In Britain, Romans blended local Samhain custom with their own pagan harvest festival honoring Pamona, goddess of fruit trees. Some scholars have suggested that the game of bobbing for apples derives from this Roman association of the holiday with fruit.

In British folklore, small magical being known as fairies became associated with Halloween mischief. The jack-o’—lantern, originally carved from a large turnip rather than a pumpkin, originated in medieval Scotland. Various methods of predicting the future, especially concerning matters of romance and marriage, were also prominent features of Halloween throughout the British Isles.

Between the 15th and 17th centuries, Europe was seized by a hysterical fear of witches, leading to the persecution of thousands of innocent women. Witches were thought to ride flying brooms and to assume the form of black cats. These images of witches soon joined other European superstitions as symbols of Halloween.

(Taken from: Encarta Reference Library, 2005)

The faithful lovers

             The following story will be special for each of you who want to know the real meaning of love.

              Hmm, there once lived a chief’s daughter who had many admirers. All the young men in the village wanted to have her for a wife and were all eager to fill her skin bucket when she went to the brook for water.

               There was a young man in the village. He was a good hunter but he was poor and had a mean family. He loved the maiden and wished he could marry her. So, one day when she went for water, he threw his robe over her head while he whispered in her ear :”will you marry me?”

               For a long time the maiden acted as if she hadn’t heard anything, but one day she whispered back telling that she would be willing to marry him if he took a scalp.

              So he made a war party of seven, himself and six other young men. Before they started, they sat down to smoke and rest beside a beautiful lake at the foot of a green knoll that rose from its shore. The knoll was covered with green grass and somehow as they looked at it they had a feeling that there was something about it that was mysterious and uncanny.

               One of the lover’s friends was so curious about it that he ventured into the knoll. Four of the young men followed. Having reached to the top of the knoll, all five began to jump and stamp about in sport.

                  But, suddenly they stopped. The knoll had begun to move toward the water. It was a gigantic turtle! The five men cried our in alarm and tried to run, but it was too late! They cried; but the others could be do nothing. In just a few moments, the wave had closed over them.

                 The other two men: the lover and his friend, went on, but with heavy heart. After some days, they came to a river. Worn out with fatigue, the lover threw himself down on the bank. Fortunately, the lover’s friend came to help him.

                   The following day, his friend told him that he found a fish which he had cleaned and asked him to eat the fish together. The lover said that if he ate the fish, his friend had to promise to fetch him all the water that he could drink. When they had eaten, the kettle was rinsed out and the lover’s friend brought it back with full of water. The lover drank the water at a draught. Again his friend filled the kettle at the river and again the lover drank it dry but still asked for more water. The lover’s friend then took the lover to the river. When the lover saw the river, he walked to the river, sprang in, and lying down in the water with his head toward land, drank greedily.

                  Then, he called out his friend,. The friend came and was amazed to see that the lover was now a fish from his feet to his middle. Sick at heart he ran off a little away and threw himself upon the ground in grief. After a while, he returned to find that the lover was now a fish up to his neck.

                    The friend went home and told his story. There was great mourning over the death of the five young men and for the lost lover. In the river, the lover had become a great fish and its fin was just above the surface. Canoes had to be portaged at great labor around the obstruction.

                     Meanwhile, the chief’s daughter mourned for her lover as for a husband and nobody could comfort her. Day by day, she sat inside her mother’s tepee with her head covered with her robe, silent, working, and working. Whenever her mother asked, the maiden did not reply.

                     The days lengthened into moons until a year had passed. And then the maiden arose. She left her mother’s tepee with holding lots of things in her hands. There were three pairs of moccasins, three pairs of leggings, three belts, three shirts, three head dresses with beautiful feath-ers, and sweet smelling tobacco.

                      One day she had a new canoe made. Then, the next morning she stepped into the canoe and floated slowly down the river toward the great fish. Her canoe came and stopped to the place where the great fin arose. One by one she laid her present on the fish’s back, scattering the feathers and tobacco over his broad spine.

                     “oh, fish,” she cried, “oh, fish, you who were my lover, i shall not forget you. Because you were lost for love of me, i shall never marry. All my life i shall remain a widow. Take these presents. And now leave the river, and let the waters run free, so my people may once more descend in their canoes.” Slowly the great fish sank, his broad fin disappeared and the waters of the St. Croix (Stillwater) were free.

(Adapted from: Encarta Reference Library,2005)