Maria Tatar Fairy Tales Summary

“An Introduction to Fairy Tales” Summary Maria Tatar, a teacher of folklore at Harvard University and an author of several pieces on fairy tale literature, tells about how fairy tales are an escape for readers and that fairy tales help explain why people do certain things. The temptation and memories all lie within fairy tales and Tatar explains all of this in her except in, Writing & Reading for ACP Composition.
Tatar begins with the belief that fairy tales we read growing up are sacred objects that can help open the readers’ imagination expand. In her writing, Tatar includes a thought from Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., where fairy tales tell children what they should unconsciously know, such as, life is initially not good, but going through a conflict and harsh realities can get them to those happy parts of life. Tatar tells the reader that even though humans grow older, and leave the stories in the past, the fairy tales help build the adult imagination and shape how adult see the world they are living in. Tatar brings in her own experiences with the books being held together with rubber bands and tape because of how often she read the fairy tales, to prove how powerful the stories are. With Tatar mentioning her own childhood books, she proves how powerful the fairy tales are to the readers, but not only in the form of
Likewise, Tatar states how the fairy tale world can help both adults and children enter a place that is safe for them to defeat any fears. With the stories, Puss in Boots and Jack and the Bean Stalk, Tatar adds in what caught George Cruikshank’s eye. The illustrator noticed that the characters of those fairy tales, go through lying and theft just to get to the riches, Tatar carries his statement with, her statement of characters always do something wrong or goes against the character morals, just to get a good