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Fantasy Presentation!

By: Vik Patcha , Kristen DeMayo, Eric , Pat Mcclellan and Laura Michaels

The Wonderful World of Fantasy

• The intriguing world of Fantasy has captured the minds and curiosity of people from all ages for centuries. The interesting and unbelievable detail to the characters their settings and plots set a Fantasy story alone in its genre.

• The Fantasy genre demonstrates stories of the unimaginable or the impossible. These stories often include talking animals, alternative worlds, time travel, and magic.

The Wonderful World of Fantasy Continued

• Many of the stories in the Fantasy genre contradict the laws of nature.

• Many Modern Fantasy’s got its ideas and roots from many traditional folk tales.

• However, the modern Fantasy worlds are far more complex then those of folk tales.

• There are many different types of fantasies such asAnimal fantasy, toy fantasy, magical fantasy tall tales, enchanted journeys, alternative worlds, heroic or quest fantasy, the supernatural, time shift fantasy, science fiction and space fantasy

Animal Fantasy

• Animal stories were considered an illogical and unholy practice

• Usually spoke good English• Show human emotions• Wear clothes• Human in story has a minor role• Magic only happens when the human

remains innocent or young.• Animals have human qualities• Stories demonstrate the importance

Toy Fantasy

In the toy story like the animal fantasy the toys:•Come to life in the story•They have human like qualities•They can talk•They live in a home•The humans usually have a small part in the story•These toys wish to become human

More Toy Fantasies

Magical Fantasy and Tall Tales

• All Fantasy stories contain magic which is any phenomenon that is contrary to the laws of the natural world.

• However, in some fantasies, this becomes the main focus of the story.

• These magical stories always has conditions attached to them. There are always restrictions to ones powers.

• People have a tendency of getting very uncomfortable when no strings are attached to the character.

Enchanted Journeys and Alternative Worlds

•In many fantasies the main character goes on a journey very often it is to a fantasy world or an alternative world.

•The Journey motif goes back as far as Homer’s the Odyssey.

•Enchanted journeys normally begin in the regular world and he or she enters the enchanted realm.

•Most of the time the protagonist is on a journey to complete some goal.

Enchanted Journeys and Alternative Worlds Continued• The credibility of these stories are normally

helped with the fact that the fanciful events can only happen the new world not the primary one.

• These plots are usually loose normally stringing together different adventures and one relies on the main character to the touch back into reality.

• Many children enjoy these types of stories because it demonstrates how the weaker characters can dominate and beat the bigger bullies.

Supernatural and Time Shift Fantasy

• These are among the most popular types of Fantasy. These types include ghosts, witches, mysterious or unexplainable occurrences. These also include stories about Time Travel.

• All of these are taking place in our primary world. • Younger children like nicer ghost stories while

older teenagers like scarier ones. The more violent or gruesome, the more they seem to enjoy it.

Science Fiction and Space Fantasy

• These types of fantasy are very close related to the supernatural and time shift fantasies.

• Science Fiction usually focuses on a life in the future on earth or another planet.

• Usually contain stories about Aliens from outer space.

• Many times they dramatize technology to the extent of them dominating human kind.

Heroic and Quest Fantasy

• There is a hero or heroine that is in a colossal battle against a all powerful evil. Very often the fate of the society rests on the conclusion of the battle.

• The Heroic fantasies are normally better woven then those of the supernatural fantasies.

• In some heroic fantasies, the hero is taken from the primary world to the secondary world.

• Most of these stories focus on the hero’s quest for identity.

Special Qualities of Fantasy

• Children demand two things from fantasy: They demand no nonsense and no treachery

• Even though fantasy stories are of the impossible, children expect them to represented as if they were possible. They expect that every secondary world has certain rules in which the writers must abide by.

• People expect Fantasy to be original and believable. In fact, more believable then realistic work. Readers desire a lot of detail, consistency and rooted in reality and human nature.

Conclusion

Conclusion is going to be by Eric via tape. He is going to sum up this project. Following that, we are going to have a discussion and have a guessing game.

Video Fun!What do you think are the types of fantasies that fit these videos?

1. Winnie the Pooh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IziHR8gtR-c

2. The Wizard of Oz

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UFpVsTuOpK8 3. Harry Potter

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dmPrfYkpwTY

4. The Haunted Mask

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jFZfXmuJjgk

5. Charlottes Web

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKvuj9lAfCc

Video Fun! Continued!

6. James and the Giant Peach

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wfwnUwb08Pc 7. Toy Story

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ppL_9VNdZhI

8. Lord of the Rings

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pki6jbSbXIY

9. Star Wars

http://youtube.com/watch?v=OeTVZkIPbrA