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Essay About Fairy Tales

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Fairy Tales are a mystical fantasy of creatures and animals that everyone wishes they could be apart of. When I read a fairy tale, I enter “the realm of fairy-story [that] is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is a enchantment, and a ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords”(Tolkien 1). Fairy tales have been around for hundreds of years and create a escape for people . Fairy tales keep the world going around, when I was a child my mother would read me tons of different fairy tales to help me go to bed. I got older and when my little brother was born I would read him fairy tales also when my mom was at work.
My favorite fairy tale hero from my childhood was “the beast” from beauty and the beast. I grew up reading that story and it had a huge impact on my life and to this day I still watch movies that originated from fairy tales. I am writing this paper because of the massive impact …show more content…

I think fairy tales are crucial to the growth of young people and older people who need to take a break from real life. Fairy tales are very important to life and are my favorite form of literature. Something I really like about fairy tales is the characters, they always represent something more than just a person in a story. They can represent happiness, sadness, ambition, the options are endless. I dislike the length of the fairy tales, they seem to short somethings, I feel like the author could get into more detail and help the reader know the character more. Fairy tales are important to me and others because they help represent something that can not really happy in real life. Magical things occur that seem to be impossible to do or overcome then it happens in the tales. People like seeing the things that happen in fairy tales and it inspires

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