Lesser Zachary Dilbeck's 'Textual Analysis My Fairytale'

Jared Morisue-Lesser Zachary Dilbeck Composition II 10 March 2024 Fairytale Textual Analysis My fairytale is about a girl named Rose who wasn’t pleased with her life. She felt bored and dull from the monotony and wished to travel elsewhere to find joy and fulfillment. She wandered around her house when she stumbled upon a portal in her basement. She walked through the portal and met a boy named Marin, who was stuck in this new magical land with her. They met an old lady, Pesh, who helped guide them through the realm. They have many adventures and meet four dragons who take them back home through the portal in the sky. Though Rose traveled away from her house like she wanted, she didn’t find the fulfillment she sought. She finally realized she
My fairytale is set in an enchanted forest that is similar to our world. “The grass was cyan, and the trees had deep violet leaves and orange bark... The grass didn’t feel the same as it did back in Rose’s homeworld. It felt soft and almost fluffy” (Morisue Lesser 1). These small differences in the color and texture of the trees and grass add enchantment to a world that mirrors our own. The visual of a forest with trees and lush grass is familiar to us; however, changing their color makes the setting faerie. The dragons in my story add to the setting because they are mythical beings that could never exist in our world. Fairy tales allow us to escape from the evil and progress of the primary world into the world of faerie. “It is part of the essential malady of such days— producing the desire to escape, not indeed from life, but from our present time and self-made misery— that we are acutely conscious both of the ugliness of our works, and of their evil” (Tolkien 32). In my fairytale, I use juxtaposition to show the main evil in my story, the waiting room. “It seemed eerily modern compared to Pesh’s old house and the barrenness of the