The Disney Stories of My Childhood

My first and all time favorite Disney story was The Lady and the Tramp. Not only that it made me smile and clap my hands, but it also inflicted a great love that I still feel for dogs. Every time I see a Cocker Spaniel I remember Lady and her adventures to find the love of her life. Lady is a well-off she-dog, loved, spoiled and pampered by Jim Darling and his wife. However, Lady makes it outside the safety zone – the fancy neighborhood where the home she was living in was located – and she ends up having adventurous times along with her new friend The Tramp. They fall in love and The Tramp also moves in with her in the loving house she had been growing and living in, having puppies and living happily ever after. My favorite scene is the jazzy song sung by all the vagabond dogs unlucky enough to have gotten caught and taken to the dog shelter, where a very gloomy perspective was casting a sad shadow on their lives. The Lady and the Tramp Story is certainly still up to date and nevertheless it could raise awareness concerning animal rights or even inequalities. This Disney story is still my number one and this is how it will always be!

Disney Studios did the best job ever into transposing the story into a cinematic masterpiece that must have made history by now. I remember that back in those days of my childhood I would have liked to make it myself to the jungle and have such great friends, but probably today I'd rather think twice or actually think about some AttractionTix Disneyland deals to make my day and meet my friends in a much safer and pleasant environment – or, better put it, to rather meet my Disney friends rather than jungle friends for real. From Disneyland I might return happy, but from the jungle my 'friends' would have never let me go once intruding in their natural habitat, if you know what I mean …

…friends would have never let me go such as The Beast would have never wanted Belle to go out of his charmed palace, since there was love growing between them. The Beauty and the Beast was another of my favorite Disney stories back in my early days. A romantic story, one might say: Belle goes to the palace of the charmed prince, turned into a beast because of his arrogance. The two fall in love and, consequently, the prince is saved from his 'beast hood'. Needless to say... or shall I say it? My favorite characters were not the main ones, as I was not a kid set too much on romance. My favorite characters were actually Lumiere, Cogsworth, Mrs. Potts and her little son Chip, all turned into a candelabrum, a clock, a teapot and a teacup, respectively. After enjoying Disney's Beauty and The Beast, I must admit that I did stare for a long time at my teacup in the morning! For sure, I was still enjoying Disney even in my morning dreams!