Home alone 2

The McCallister family prepares to spend Christmas with Peter and Frank's brother Rob
in Paris, France, gathering at Peter and Kate's home in Chicago the night before their
flight. Eight-year-old Kevin, Peter and Kate's youngest son and the protagonist of the
film, finds himself the subject of ridicule from the other children. After getting into an
argument with his older brother Buzz because he ate Kevin's cheese pizza on purpose,
he is sent to the third floor bedroom of the house, wishing his family would disappear.
During the night a power outage resets the alarm clocks and causes the family to wake
up late. In the confusion, Kevin is left in bed and not missed when a neighboring boy is
mistaken for him in a headcount. The family hastily departs to the Chicago O'Hare
International Airport, for a flight to Paris-Orly Airport. During the flight, Kate realizes
that they have left Kevin behind, and once everyone is in Paris, she immediately tries to
book a return flight back to Chicago. Kate manages to fly into Dallas and Scranton, but
the flight to Chicago was full. However, she does manage to hitch a ride with a man
named Gus Polinski and his polka band, the Kenosha Kickers, who are driving to Milwaukee
after their flight was canceled due to a blizzard.
Meanwhile, Kevin wakes up to find the house empty and is overjoyed to find that his wish
came true. He gets away with taking Buzz's life savings, practicing shooting with Buzz's
BB gun, jumping on the bed, watching a gangster film, and eating a large amount of junk
food. However, Kevin finds himself scared by the appearance of the Chicago Police
Department called by his parents to check on Kevin via payphone from Paris after Kate
figures out that they left him at home by accident, his next door neighbor "Old Man"
Marley, who was rumored to have murdered his family many years earlier, and the
appearance of The Wet Bandits, Harry Lyme and Marv Merchants, who are breaking into
other vacant houses along the block. The Wet Bandits are aware of which houses are
vacant, as Harry impersonated a police officer doing wellness checks on families before
the holidays. On Christmas Eve, Kevin manages to overhear Harry and Marv discuss plans
for breaking into his house that night. After conversing with a Santa Claus impersonator
and watching a local choir perform in a church in hopes to have his family return, Kevin
comes across Marley. The two of them talk, and Kevin learns that Marley is in fact a
very nice man, and the rumors about him are not true. Marley tells Kevin that he is
watching the choir because his granddaughter is in it, and he never gets to see her
because he and his son are estranged and have not spoken in years after a big argument
they had. Kevin, now knowing how it feels to not have his family for Christmas, advises
Marley to reconcile with his son. They shake hands and wish each other a Merry
Christmas. As Kevin leaves, he hears the church bells ringing and remembering the plot
to break into his house, he hurries home.
Kevin sets up various booby traps inside the house. Harry and Marv, who were initially
fooled by Kevin's illusions that the house is occupied, now realize that he is home alone
and attempt to break in, running into the various traps. After the two spring almost
every trap in the house, Kevin flees to the second floor of the house, and dials 9-1-1
from a landline. Harry and Marv manage to chase Kevin out of the house; he then flees
to the vacant neighboring home, which was unlocked and unoccupied. The Wet Bandits
catch Kevin when he runs to the top of the stairs connecting the basement and the first
floor and hang him from a coat hook on the door. They decide to do the same things that
Kevin did to them and Harry decides to bite Kevin's fingers one at a time first, but
Marley has sneaked up behind them and knocks them out with his snow shovel and takes
Kevin home. Shortly after Kevin is safely returned home, Harry and Marv are arrested.
Additionally, the police were aware of every house The Wet Bandits have hit because of
their habit of leaving the household's water running to leave their mark. Kevin watches
and mockingly waves to Harry and Marv as they are taken to jail.
Kevin wakes up the next morning and is disappointed to see that his family is still gone.
While upstairs looking at a family portrait, Kevin hears Kate come into the house, calling
for him. He goes downstairs and the two of them meet across the hall. Kate tells Kevin
she is sorry and Kevin smiles at her and runs into her arms. Shortly afterward, the rest
of the McCallisters, having traveled directly to Chicago from Paris, arrive. Kevin keeps
silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harry's missing
gold tooth and wonders what it is. Kevin and Buzz have a moment of reconciliation. Kevin
then goes over to the window, looks out and sees Marley greeting his son and his family.
As Marley is hugging his granddaughter, he looks up to see Kevin watching them. Marley
waves at him and Kevin waves back, smiling. He watches as Marley heads inside with his
family. However, Buzz interrupts Kevin by calling out, "Kevin! What did you do to my
room?!". Kevin immediately runs to Buzz's room and the film ends.
Cinderella
"Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper" (French: Cendrillon, ou La petite Pantoufle de Verre;
Portuguese: Cinderela or A Gata Borralheira; Spanish: Cenicienta, literally "ashery", stained with ash
or dust) is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of
variants are known throughout the world.[1] The title character[2] is a young woman living in
unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. The word "cinderella" has,
by analogy, come to mean one whose attributes are unrecognised, or one who unexpectedly achieves
recognition or success after a period of obscurity and neglect. The still-popular story of Cinderella
continues to influence popular culture internationally, lending plot elements, allusions, and tropes to a
wide variety of media.

Early versions
The Cinderella theme may well have originated in classical antiquity. The Greek historian Strabo
(Geographica Book 17, 1.33) recorded in the 1st century BC the tale of the Greco-Egyptian girl
Rhodopis, "rosy-cheeked", who lived in the Greek colony of Naucratis in Ancient Egypt. It is often
considered the oldest known version of the story:
They tell the fabulous story that, when she was bathing, an eagle snatched one of her
sandals from her maid and carried it to Memphis. While the king was administering justice
in the open air, the eagle, when it arrived above his head, flung the sandal into his lap. The
king, having been stirred both by the beautiful shape of the sandal and by the strangeness of
the occurrence, sent men in all directions into the country in quest of the woman who wore
the sandal. When she was found in the city of Naucratis, she was brought up to Memphis
and became the wife of the king...[3][4]

Herodotus, some five centuries before Strabo, supplied further information about Rhodopis in his
Histories, writing that Rhodopis came from Thrace, and was the slave of Iadmon of Samos, and a
fellow-slave of Aesop. She was taken to Egypt in the time of Pharaoh Amasis, and freed there for a
large sum by Charaxus of Mytilene, brother of Sappho, the lyric poet.[5][6]
The story later reappears with Aelian (ca. 175–ca. 235),[7] showing that the Cinderella theme remained
popular throughout antiquity.
The magical significance of the pumpkin in the Cinderella story (which has led to a modern expression
for a person who desires an early bedtime, 'after midnight, I turn into a pumpkin') might derive from
the 1st century comic work of Seneca 'On the Pumpkinification of Claudius', playing on a pun for the
word for deification and the word for pumpkin.[8]
Another version of the story, Ye Xian, appeared in Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang by Tuan
Ch'eng-Shih around 860. Here, the hardworking and lovely girl befriends a fish, the reincarnation of
her mother, who was killed by her stepmother. Ye Xian saves the bones, which are magic, and they help
her dress appropriately for a festival. When she loses her slipper after a fast exit, the king finds her
slipper and falls in love with her (eventually rescuing her from her cruel stepmother). Another version
of the story, which is similar to the Chinese version, exists in the Philippines. The story is known as
"Mariang Alimango" (Mary the Crab). In this version, the spirit of her dead mother reincarnates as a
crab, hence the title, and serves as her "fairy godmother".
Several different variants of the story appear in the medieval One Thousand and One Nights, also
known as the Arabian Nights, including "The Second Shaykh's Story", "The Eldest Lady's Tale" and
"Abdallah ibn Fadil and His Brothers", all dealing with the theme of a younger sibling harassed by two
jealous elders. In some of these, the siblings are female, while in others, they are male. One of the tales,
"Judar and His Brethren", departs from the happy endings of previous variants and reworks the plot to
give it a tragic ending instead, with the younger brother being poisoned by his elder brothers.[9]

Cenerentola, Cinderella and Aschenputtel

n 1634, Giambattista Basile, a Neopolitan soldier and government official, wrote Lo cunto de li cunti
(The Story of Stories), or Pentamerone. It featured the tale of Cenerentola, which features a wicked
step mother and step sisters, magical transformations, a missing slipper, and a hunt by a king for the
owner of the slipper.[10]
One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written by Charles Perrault in 1697. The popularity
of his tale was due to his additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the
introduction of glass slippers.[11]
Another well-known version was recorded by the German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the
19th century. The tale is called "Aschenputtel" ("Cinderella" in English translations) and the help
comes not from a fairy-godmother but the wishing tree that grows on her mother's grave. In this
version, the stepsisters try to trick the prince by cutting off parts of their feet in order to get the slipper
to fit. The prince is alerted by two pigeons who peck out the stepsisters' eyes, thus sealing their fate as
blind beggars for the rest of their lives. In this story, the prince is tricked twice but is spared by the
birds. This lowers the Prince's status and he seems less heroic, raising Cinderella's status as a strong-
willed individual.[12]
In Irish Gaelic myth/lore, there is a story of Geal, Donn, and Critheanach, or Fair, Brown and
Trembling. The Stepsisters' Celtic equivalents are Geal and Donn, and Cinderella is Critheanach.