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Compare And Contrast Chicken Little Fairy Tale

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This essay is about the comparison between "Chicken Little" and the original fairy tale. The most know interpretation of the fairy tale is the movie "Chicken Little" released in 2005 while the original narrative was published in 1823. The fairy story is most known for its quote "The sky is falling". Now the question is... What are the differences between them?

"Chicken Little" is based on Henny Penny but they are indeed different. For example the movie version is long because it is a movie and Henny Penny is a short fairy tale. And because Disney made the movie for children it isn 't dark like the original fairy tale.

The ethnicity and the aesthetics are different between the two. In the original fairy tale, the main character, Henny Penny,

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