Bruno Bettelheim‚ author of The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales‚ explains that children’s minds work differently than an adults mind. He argues that children are searching for moral guidelines in order to have a foundation to cope with life’s inevitable problems. He believes that fairy tales‚ rather other texts‚ supplies children with that foundation. He also believes that adults should read The Grimm’s version of stories to their young children as a way teaching them
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Wolves. Humans changing into wolves. A high school girl who was attacked. A wolf boy. The Minnesota winter. These things are all very important to the story of Sam and Grace in Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. Grace is a high school girl who has an obsession with the wolves in the woods behind her house‚ even though she is attacked by them when she as a young girl. This only made her interest in the wolves grow. There is one wolf in particular who she remembers clearly and who she is very found of. The
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Larry frowned as he looked up at the repulsive‚ gray clouds that hoovered the sky. As he sat down‚ he wondered how he could let this happen‚ how he should’ve reacted to Lucinda. This all started on a beautiful‚ sunny day and Larry‚ a short troll was giving directions to a dwarf that wanted to get to the castle‚ when suddenly‚ a gorgeous fairy walked up to him. She started pushed away the dwarf and Larry was to enchanted by her beauty that he didn’t even notice. Once the troll was out of the way
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SUMMARY-THE ENCHANTED CASTLE Gerald‚ Jimmy and Kathleen were at school in a little town in the west of England-the boys at one school and the girl at another. They used to see each other on Saturdays and Sundays at the house of a kind maiden lady named Miss Hervey. As the holidays were fast approaching‚ they decided to go home instead of being at the house of Miss Hervey. After a lot of letters and telegrams‚ it was arranged that the boys would go and stay at their sister Kathleen’s school where
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The third version of the narrative‚ written by acclaimed horror genre author Angela Carter‚ offers a darker take. Her version is entitled “The Company of Wolves‚” and begins with the story of a sheltered child who travels through the woods in order to bring cakes and treats to her sick and elderly grandmother. The girl is young and inexperienced‚ so she rejects the potential danger that the woods may possess. As she is traveling‚ she hears loud howling‚ and then the huntsman appears from the depths
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Fourth Period Choclate I sneak through the forest watching as the children creep by‚ I wait for the moment to spring the trap. I hear them whispering to each other as they travel through the dark woods. The dark woods have been my home since the beginning of time‚ the trees are gnarled‚ the bark darker than night. As I stalk the children the moss clings to me whispering for me to join it."Soon others will be joining you" I whisper to it. The children have now gotten to the point of enactment
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In the Lay of the Were-Wolf‚ there was man who was known as … and also a baron. After sometime being with his married wife‚ they loved each other‚ and cared so much to the extent that they cannot stop thinking about each other. For the husband to leave the house without the wife knowing his where about was not easy for the woman to cope with it. One day‚ the husband left the house for days and when he came back‚ the wife asked where he went. Then the husband revealed his long hidden secret to the
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Goldilocks is disrespectful because. she enters the bears house without their permission‚ broke their chair‚ ate their soup‚ slept in the little boys bed‚ also she didn’t even say sorry for what she did to their house. Her mother tells her not to go in the woods be she doesn’t pay attention and goes ahead. as she goes into the woods the bears are about to leave to go out to do some shopping at the market. And goldilocks found a house in the middle of the woods. Then without questioning goes inside
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As a Canadian writer who had won numerous world-class writing prizes‚ Margaret Atwood is famous for being as a novelist‚ many of her poems were inspired by fairy tales. In her work the readers can always find traces about woman: their powers‚ their status‚ their spiritual world. Combine the two significant traits‚ “The Blue beard’s Egg” is a short story which retell a traditional classic fairy rale that originated from Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard”. Atwood takes a modern peek of the old tale. In
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I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom‚ Bottom‚ Cobweb‚ and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play‚ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour‚ yet have common courtesy and manners‚ and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three
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