Isabella Osborne

Mrs. Thomas
UWRT 1101-024
18 September 2014
The Little Princess and Her Dreams- Draft 1
A dream is a wish your heart makes when youre fast asleep. Follow your heart. All it takes
is faith, trust, and pixie dust. They say if you dream a thing more than once, its sure to come true.
Always let your conscience be your guide. Just keep swimming. Sometimes the right path is not the
easiest one. Why, sometimes Ive believed in six impossible things before breakfast. GO LIVE
YOUR DREAM! The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. I am on
my way, I can go the distance. I dont care how far, somehow Ill be strong. There is a world where
hope and dreams can last for all time. Remember youre the one that can fill the world with sunshine.
Reach for the sky. Tell me princess, when did you let your heart decide? Dont just fly, SOAR.
Hakuna Matata. I want adventure in the great wide somewhere. Our fate lives within us, you only
have to be brave enough to see it. All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue
them.
Cinderella. Thumbelina. Peter Pan. Sleeping Beauty. Pinocchio. Nemo. Pocahontas. Alice in
Wonderland. Tangled. Mulan. Hercules. The Little Mermaid. Snowhite and the Seven Dwarves. Toy
Story. Aladdin. Dumbo. The Lion King. Beauty and the Beast. Brave. Walt Disney. Yes, I know what you
all must be thinking, this girl is obsessed with Disney. How am I going to reply to that? Simply by saying,
why yes, yes I am, but I also have all the perfect reasons why any girl should be obsessed with Disney.
Love. Sacrifice. Song. Bravery. Silliness. Leadership. Dreams. Inspiration. Positivity. Selflessness.
Strength. Family. All the things that Disney has taught me growing up, which reminds me
Once upon a time, not too long ago, ten years ago to be exact, a little girl (me) had all sorts of
imagination. She told story after story to her little sister as she cradled her in her arms and read to her
stories such as Jack and the Bean Stalk, The Princess and the Frog, Hansel and Gretel, and

Rumpelstiltskin. Every night the little girl would read these stories to her infant sister, and keep on reading
even when her sister was fast asleep. The reasoning as to why she kept on reading? The little girl loved
the stories she told. She loved the adventure, excitement, and bravery within each page. She even changed
her voice for every character as to how she thought they would sound in real life as she read. The stories
were real to her. She believed that anything in these stories could truly happen in her own life, but when
the last word was spoken and there were no more pages to be turned, she closed the book and realized
they were just stories. Stories that were meant to be told until the end of time for all children and even
adults to hear.
As that little girl grew up she kept on reading more fairy tales, and kept on believing in love,
princes, princesses, heroes, magic, wizards, fairies, mermaids, and animals who talked. She would sit
around her desk and write her own fairy tales about a girl who did not know she was a princess because
something evil took her away from her parents, but eventually was found by a prince and slayed whatever
had taken her years before. All types of creatures and animals were in her stories, and in a lot of cases, the
girl in her own stories, was a lot like herself or someone she wanted to be. Perhaps an older girl who was
portrayed a lot in the fairy tales she read about?
The story still goes on, but the little girl is not little anymore. She now lives in a ten by ten room
tucked away in the tower of Moore near the town of Charlotte. For all that know her still catch her
watching movies about princesses, reading about fairy tales in the big book she brought to her new home,
wears clothes that symbolize her heroes, and still believes shes a princess. One day she hopes to find her
prince and ride off to great adventures with him, after she gets her doctorate of medicine, of course.
The End.
Well, that is how my story goes, or to a certain extent. Fairy tales and Disney have impacted me
in more ways anyone could ever imagine. Not only have they impacted me in life, but also as a writer, a
reader, and a leader. The quotes I have written from the various Disney movies and stories are all words I
live by in my everyday life. They help me be a better person and helped me realize the kind of person I
want to be. All Disney movies possess a certain character who overcomes all obstacles whether it is

fighting for her country, not listening to the crowd, standing up for what she believes in, or looking past
the surface to discover something within. I have used every single one of these lessons in my life at a
certain point, and I am expecting to keep on using them. I am only nineteen. I still have many years of
dreaming lying ahead of me!
Dreaming. That is another huge reason as to why stories such as these ones have inspired me. For
as long as I can remember, I have always had big dreams and goals for myself. I recreate my dream books
all the time. My dream books are literally sheets of paper that have pictures I have sprawled onto, lyrics I
do not want to forget, and quotes that inspire me. A collection of dreams that I hope to someday pursue.
The song quote in Cinderella, If you keep on believing the dreams that you wish will come true, are
words I remind myself every day. I never stop believing in myself, and in great gratitude I thank Disney
for that, but I also thank my family who have also believed in me every step of the way.
Words. Song. Writing and singing have always come easy to me. In all honesty, they are almost
like second nature. If I am not thinking of words I do not want to forget about, I am singing a song or
simply just singing words. Fact: when I do math homework I sing out the problems if I cannot find the
answer right away. Another fact: if I find a book I am reading to be boring for class or in general I will
sing every word to make it more amusing and likable. I guess I also have to give credit to Disney for
giving me this idea. I have always said that I wished my life was a musical. I want random people to start
singing and dancing the same thing without rehearsal, or a song that defines my life and I sing at random
outbursts when things are stuff like in The Little Mermaid when Ariel is in her cove of treasure. I have
always felt that song has helped me understand words. It helps me see the flow and magic within the
word. That is where I believe that words and song could change anything in the world. It takes courage to
open up your mouth and say what is on your mind. Disneys characters such as Mulan, Rapunzel, and
Pocahontas use song and words to do just that. I plan on doing the same.
Love. Family. In every Disney classic, there is importance to both love and family. A daughter
who takes the place of her imprisoned father, a gorilla becoming the mother of a human child, a father
letting his daughter go to be with her beloved, fairies keeping safe a small child until her eighteenth

birthday, and also a mother and father who accept their daughters differences. Of course, Disney also
portrays the troubles of family like in Snowhite and the Seven Dwarves and Cinderella, but those two
things are what creates a family. Moments of happiness and moments of hatred happen in families every
day around the world. My family by no means is a perfect one. I never see my two older brothers, parents
fight about absurd things, my uncle and grandpa are not speaking, and some of them are alcoholic, while
others are addicted to drugs. My dads parents are divorced, and some family members never want to
come to Christmas, Thanksgiving, or any other family gathering. These sort of things are typical in
families, some even worse. I would say I am lucky to have this family because my parents are still
together after twenty years, I have three amazing younger siblings who I call best friends, my mom and I
are practically inseparable, my dad works hard so we could have a great life, my grandparents would do
anything for us, and I have one of the largest families of cousins I have ever heard of, and for the most
part all of us love and support each other. Love, there is that word again. Reading and watching Disney
and other fairy tales have given me the true meaning of family. The example on how I should act towards
my siblings and how I show love to all of my relatives. I could even say this love could go farther than
family; all princesses need a prince and animal friends that is.
Growing up with all the voices and songs around me teaching me about life, following my
dreams, adventures, and love of family and friends have created the nineteen year old girl who still finds
herself looking to be swept away by her prince, but other finding the hero within herself. Along the way
of reading and watching about heroines I found out my likes and dislikes not only in the things around
me, but in other literary works that have also played important roles in teaching me to create my own
destiny, identity, and dreams. I give a lot of credit to The Little Princess teaching me that I am the
storyteller of my life and I should believe in myself. I will not let anyone or anything stand in my way to
becoming who I want to be and where I want to go in my life. There is a quote from the book I have
remembered from the novel. The author writes, I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old
attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they arent pretty, or smart, or young. Theyre still princesses.

This quote in itself helps me look at everything and everyone with beauty and respect as everyone and
everything should have.
Besides what Disney has given me and the inspiration it had on me to read more empowering
novels about heroic women, there has been many more novels like The Little Princesses that teach me the
same great lessons about being your own hero and following your heart. Novels such as, Pride and
Prejudice, The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit Trilogies, Mortal Instruments series, Anthem, A Farwell to
Arms and a novel called The Night Road all have characters that I strive to be like. People who take
adventure into their own hands and make someone of themselves. They go beyond their limits. Many
people cannot say they look up to characters from stories or novels, but I proudly would say that I do. The
way I can block everything out around me when I get into a good book, one that creates life on the pages,
is one of my favorite things to do in life. So, I will keep on believing in fairies and happy endings. There
is a reason why people back at home call me Cinderbella.