Aunt Maria









I read Aunt Maria by Diana Wynne Jones. It was an ok book it just had a slow start. As I continued to read it got better and towards the end it was interesting. Throughout the book Mig's mom was a constant pain to me. She fit every bad archetype that a woman could have. There are any, such as being in complete denial. When Mig was trying to explain an urgent situation to her, she would just completely deny or would except anything Mig had to say. She was completely oblivious to pretty much every situation. This woman made me so irritated and eventually I thought that if every woman was like her then there would be no hope for the human race. I can say this because I'm a woman and the fact that this character aggravated me so is a sign that there are such archetypes.

Aunt Maria on the other hand is very manipulative and evil. She feigns as being an old woman who cant help herself, but she is actually a very cruel witch with secrets. In my opinion she fits the typical stereotype for a witch. She is older, mean, doesn't like people unless they can be useful to her, and she lived alone until Mig's family showed up.

After being with their Aunt for a while they started to notice strange things about her. Kids will be kids and they eventually figure out that their aunt isn't just a mean old hag. She's a mean old witch and tends to turn any threat into an animal. Including Mig's brother Cris, who was turned into a wolf after confronting Aunt Maria for being a witch. No need to worry he turns back to his original form eventually.

I believe that the witch is slowly making a comeback on the horror scene. They are starting to just exhaust zombies, vampires and werewolves. By doing this the genre is slowly starting to die in my opinion. There is only so much you can do to the point ridiculous failure. Take Sharknado for example. That is one of the most stupid horror films I have ever seen. It is literally as the title states, a "Shark Tornado". They just need to delve back into the old horror and get some new inspiration. This is where I think that Witches have a chance to dominate the genre. I haven't seen a witch movie in Hollywood in  that was actually worth the eleven dollars to watch in a very long time. A movie that I have just recently seen that has any kind of witch in it was Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters. It had some pretty cool witches, and I would like to see even more. Hopefully they reintroduce them back into the horror scene. I want to see some epic battles of magic and nightmares.