Around the World in a Heart Shaped Balloon :: Personal Narrative Writing

Around the World in a Heart Shaped Balloon When I was a little girl I adored going to the movies. I especially loved movies with a romantic plot, and a happy ending. As a child, I remember sitting in the theatre and being mesmerized by everything that was happening on the screen. Films like The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, and Beauty and the Beast made a concrete impression on my mind. Even at such a young age I loved the romance of these stories. The thought of one day being carried off by a handsome prince was a very fascinating concept for me as a little girl. Beauty and the Beast was my favorite. My grandparents took me to see it for the first time. After that, I was hooked. I got anyone I could think of to take me to the movie theatre. That year for my birthday I received everything Beauty and the Beast. I received a comforter, sheets, pillowcases, posters, a Beauty and the Beast lamp, even a night light! I was in heaven. Now that I think about it, my family may have gone a bit over the top, but at the time I was the happies t kid on the entire block. That year we painted my walls light pink, and I had a white bunk bed, and white furniture, and everything else was Beauty and the Beast. This was just the beginning of my love affair with fairy tale romance. In the years following my Beauty and the Beast craze I went through a number of different phases. Each one very different, but all of them centered around romance. There was a period of time where I loved movies like Disney's Robin Hood, and Ever After. All the different tellings of the mystical King Arthur story, which we’d been studying in school, captivated me. And, for a brief time I became mildly obsessed with the Medieval Times, and magical romance. The Shakespearian play â€Å"A Mid Summer Night’s Dream† is filled with magic and romance. It became the inspiration for me to plan out a mural on an entire wall of my room. I took a pencil, and began to sketch out my vision. A forrest scene with brightly colored fairies surrounding the marriage of the beautiful Fairy Queen to a half man half donkey creature. On the opposite side I wanted to paint the two love sick couples in the play sleeping in the grass beneath the trees.