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    Kul Gurung Professor Born English 101 16 February 2018 The Three Little Pigs The Three Little Pigs‚ retold by Little Green is a very famous tales people heard and read of. There is a reason that children are really excited to read this book because when the huffing and puffing of the wolf are acted out for them."The Three Little Pigs" teaches the nursery age child in a most enjoyable and dramatic form that we must not be lazy and take things easy‚ for if we do‚ we may lose everything that we created

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    Companion Animals as Mediators” that “animals are able to provide [people] with a form of stress-reducing or stress-buffering social support” (Serpell 108). When animals are involved in the fairy tales like “Cinderella‚” it tends to bring out a calmer and more pleasant atmosphere. Children that read fairy tales begin to understand the role and importance of animals and start to believe that animal companions are more than just wild creatures or ‘play toys‚’ but are in fact‚ intellectual creatures

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    poor maid girl that‚ with the help of fairy godmother‚ gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love‚ get married‚ and live happily ever after‚ and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark comedic poem Cinderella‚ Anne Sexton forces the reader to examine this question. Utilizing literary devices such as tone‚ imagery‚ and style‚ Sexton encourages the reader to think about how silly and unlikely a fairy tale ending actually is. Sexton’s take

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    children growing up‚ we were enriched with stories‚ folk tales and fables passed from generation to generation. These fables served as entertainment and taught life lessons that we still carry on today. These stories helped to preserve our innocence and youth until adulthood. Fables were stories that teach a moral (right vs. wrong) or valuable lesson to the reader. Fables and fairy tale heroes were a big part of my childhood. The tooth fairy was one of my favorite heroes. When I lost my first tooth

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    For hundreds of years the Grimm brothers fairy tales have been captivating readers all over the world. Although the Grimm brothers would surely be pleased with how their work has become spread throughout the world since their deaths‚ there is one thing that they would likely hate‚ and that is Disney’s rewriting and changing of their fairy tales original forms to children’s movies with no regard for the original aspects. Disney has taken two mens life work and turned it into something those men would

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    began as a fairy tale passed down through the centuries‚ especially by peasant women to their daughters since folklorists often belonged to the peasant culture (Tatar 3). The peasants who were farmworkers and domestic laborers needed something to do while working tediously‚ so they told each other tales. That’s why the Little Red Riding Hood story’s original plot had a peasant girl who “outwitted a lecherous aristocratic wolf” (Tatar 3). Storytellers’ major altering of the fairy tale “Little Red

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    literature‚ a more modern film that reflects the fairy tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. In many ways Sleeping Beauty and Shrek 2 have evident parallel story lines. To begin with‚ Bell and Fiona are similar in their own stories because like Bell‚ Fiona can be identified as the Sleeping Beauty. Since Princess Fiona is spellbound in the ogre‚ she needs to be kissed by her true love‚ in order to transform her body back to human. Similarly‚ in the actual fairy tale‚ Beauty and the Beast‚ Bell who is also spellbound

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    story is ‘Rosemary and the Four Gutsy Gnomes’‚ while the poem is entitled ‘Grandma’s House’. The reason why I chose these two literary texts is because each story has its own strength. The fairy tales of Rosemary and the Four Gutsy Gnomes is very interesting as it has several unique characters such as the fairies‚ elves‚ gnomes and monsters. Children love to read a story with the element of magic. Thus‚ I believe that the children would love to read this story and enjoy themselves. Apart from that

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    Goldilocks and the Three Bears We worked with the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the three bears”‚ The Story of the Three Bears" sometimes known as "The Three Bears"‚ "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" or‚ simply‚ "Goldilocks" is a fairy tale first recorded in narrative form by British author and poet Robert Southey‚ and first published anonymously in a volume of his writings in 1837. The tale was not an original creation by Southey‚ but was a retelling of a story that had long been in circulation. Southey

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    Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother represents the “divine help” sent to assist the protagonist‚ Cinderella‚ in her journey to happiness and success. Her magic wand and spells make all the midnight magic possible as well as Cinderella’s happily ever after. One could say Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother also represents her mother reincarnated. “A particularly felicitous expression of feelings is to be found

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