Pearl's Odyssey

   Dear Reader,     Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have pixie dust?     In life even the smallest of tasks can seem like the hardest: making your bed, cooking a meal, finishing an assignment, even sleeping can seem daunting when the dark tendrils of insomnia creep up in the corners of your mind, and drive you mad before you could even possibly imagine of entering the Kingdom of Dreams . But what if that's all we could do... dream? Dream our lives away, dream our worries away in an eternal slumber?     Today's article is not a review dear reader, if anything far from it. Today I'd like to discuss the magic one can find just by dreaming, today I want to reach out of the screen you're reading this from and whisper a possibility in your ear. The possibility of pixie dust , a gift found in literature, making its way into our lives.     Pixie dust , what a funny word. A term coined by none-other than J.M. Barrie in his no...

      Dear Reader,    Today we delve into one of the most wonder-filled films I must declare is out there: Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle ! If you didn't know, fellow reader, is that this film was adapted from the book of the same name by Diana Wynne Jones and let me tell you, the tale is phenomenal !     I have decided to touch on this tale with the reason of showing how through literature and film, one can form an amalgamation that resembles a true masterpiece. Tying both reality and fiction, love and loss, despair and self-discovery, the way film can not just contrast literature but essentially add on to it is one of the greatest things I must say a director, like Hayao Miyazaki, can do.      The story incorporates a sense of wonder and magic as it circles around the major theme of self- discovery within a romantic sub-plot. Following the 18-year-old, Sophie Hatter works at her family hat-shop trying to make ends meet ...