fairytale

once upon a time there was a little girl names lisa. Lisa was terrified of going down the slide at her local playground. Every day her mom would take her to the park and Lisa would play on the swing set, the merry-go-round, then sandbox, and even the monkey bars. But the one thing Lisa did not go on, was the slide.
One day, Lisa was playing in the sandbox with her two friend Mark and Sandra when she heard "last one to the slide is a rotten egg!" Mark and Sandra both jumped up from building sandcastles and mud pies and ran over to the slide where the rest of the children were playing. Lisa wanted to join her friends but she didn't want to get made fun of for being scared of riding down the slide.
"Come on Lisa!" Yelled Sandra.
"Were gona race!" Echoed Marc who was already climbing the ladder to the top of the slide. Lisa, was nervous but decided to walk over. Sandra was already on her way down when she pointed to Lisa and said, "Its your turn!"
"I dont feel very well, im not going down the slide." Lisa began to make up excuses to hide her fear in front of the other kids.
"What, are you chicken!" Mark began to squawk and the other children chimed in. Lisa was still terrified of sliding down the slide. She remembered when she was very young and she once tried going down the slide and bumped her knee on the ground below. She remembered getting a scrape and then a band-aide. Was it really that bad? She thought. Finally Lisa decided to try the slide. She put on a brave face and began to climb the ladder.
When she reached the top, she began to shake and all her fear came back to her. She was thinking about the pain when she scraped her knee and how much she cried when it happened. Suddenly WOOOOOSHHHHHH. She sat down and slid all the way to the bottom. When she stood up she looked down at her knees, which were scrape free! Never again was she going to let a silly fear get in the way of her fun!

dialog about media

dialog about media
literature and media studies
Georgie Landy

Pam (babysitter)
Lisa (child)

Pam: Did you have fun at day camp today Lisa?
Lisa: We watched a movie!
Pam: (holding Lisa's hand walking home from day camp) What movie did you watch?
Lisa: Aladdin!
Pam: (with excitement) Oh wow Aladdin! Thats my favorite cartoon movie. Did you like it?
Lisa: Yeah, i like Jasmine she's the prettiest one in the whole movie. She has a tiger and is a princess. Aladdin is a stealer and turns into a prince and he marries Jasmine and becomes king of the desert land!
Lisa: (sounding surprised) He's a thief? (she then tries to remember parts of the movie.) OH yes, thats right, at the beginning of the movie he has no money and steals food for himself.
Lisa: (Interrupting) the bad guys try to get him and put him in jail. They were gona' cut off his arm! My counselor told me they really do that in the desert. They cut off your arm if you steal.
Pam: who is they?
Lisa: The bad guys, the ones with the dark faces.
Pam: (shocked at what is coming out of Lisa's mouth, tries to find the right words to describe the dangers of orientalism.) You know Lisa, just because you see something in a movie or here something from another person doesn't mean its true. Aladdin is a movie, and sometimes movies can be false and they use stereotypes...
Lisa: Huh?
Pam: Just because they bad guys in Aladdin had darker skin, doesn't mean that the darker your skin is, the worse of a person you are. Sometimes movies make people with dark skin, or people who look different form you and i, a bad guy in the movies. You know what happens then Lisa? (lisa shakes her head) Then those people in real life get offended and hurt but the way they make them look in movies. Sometimes movies even make girls like you and i look stupid compared to a man, or a boy.
Lisa: Yeah, sometimes girls on tv do silly things that boys don't do.
Pam: And sometimes women in magazines look very beautiful, but thats not how little girls should try to look like. Because the truth is, the women they put on magazine covers are sometimes very unhealthy and young girls like you should eat good healthy meals so you can grow up to be strong! (Pam and Lisa both ran the rest of the block home and turned on the tv. Lisa dint quite understand what Pam was saying but the two of them munched on potato chips watching cartoons and laughing.)