Foster: The Allusion Of Fairy Tales

Archetypes are found in many stories. An archetype is a recurrent symbol, behavior, and even term found in in literature. For example, in the story “Cinderella”, one can relate the helpful fairy godmother to other stories, such as “Sleeping Beauty” and “Pocahontas”. These common ideas are also shown in the story “Ashputtle”. This story was about a young girl whose mother dies and later in the story, her father remarries a woman who had two daughters who treats Ashputtle terribly. Throughout the story of “Ashputtle”, many archetypes can be identified, but two in particular stand out, which are the person who remains good is rewarded and the people who are evil are punished, and some supernatural force that helps the main character achieve their goals.

Robert Olen Butler, a fiction writer, enjoys that he is able to create a story in which it can take any route. When he says, “Fiction is ultimately the art form of human yearning” he is referring to his own work in a sense. One of his texts, “Fairy Tale,” tells about a nonstandard fairytale. A Vietnamese immigrant comes to the United States and works as a prostitute as she is trying to make a living for herself in her new home (“Fairy Tale” 1). Miss Noi ultimately meets her prince charming and ends up living in “a nice little house and she is a housewife with a toaster machine” (“Fairy Tale” 7). Like all fairy tales, the prince comes into the woman’s life and rescues her from whatever trouble she in. In Butler’s fiction story, it is evident

“Sometimes a meal is just a meal, and eating with others is simply eating with others. More often than not, though, it’s not” (Foster 7). Thomas C. Foster’s book How to Read Literature Like a Professor examines several literary devices and techniques used by authors to make their books interesting, relevant, and genuine. Foster supports many times in his book that authors almost always include certain scenes only if they serve a purpose in their plots and character development. Allusions serve to connect readers to legends, history, and culture while symbols force readers to read past the obvious and use their imaginations to give an object meaning. Foster also writes about why authors include meal scenes in their novels. Whether it is

President Lincoln utilizes rhetorical strategies, hoping to emphasize his idea of an auspicious future. At the time the address was given the war has come to a close. In his address, Lincoln attempts to try and reconcile the North and the South through allusion, parallel structure and diction.

When you enter the world of fairy tales it opens the door to learning life lessons by the means of entertainment, fascination and creativity. The most important information fairy tales provide are valuable lessons you can use during life, like how to act appropriately when confronted with bad behavior or the importance of knowing who to trust. When you are reading fairy tales it is easy to correlate the stories to events that you may have experienced, witnessed or are related to problems and challenges life throws at you. By using symbolism fairy tales use fictional characters to teach important critical behaviors and decisions needed for life lessons in a way that peaks the interest of the reader or the person listening. No one has ever encountered a dragon in their daily lives unless it is a Komodo Dragon at the local zoo. However, they may

Many families have many traditions, but one tradition that is common among all households is that they read fairy tales to their children right before they put them to sleep. They do this to fill their minds with good positive thoughts and leave them with something to think about. Religion dictates the characteristics of familiar fairy tales as religion provides a moral and ethical framework for having a good life, an ideal goal parents want their children to have. On the whole, fairy tales are constantly changed to adhere to cultural or social beliefs that are deemed important by diverse people in a community.

Chapter 1: In chapter one, Foster discusses the “quest” side of literature. During this, he states that the journey is one of the most important parts of the quest type genre. He tells you that some of the main components of the quest genre includes but is not limited to a dragon, princess, and an evil knight. He then furthers that the reason they go on a quest is due to the challenge of the quest and the reason that the person came. At the end of the chapter, Foster then goes on to state that a journey may have no other significance than just being a simple journey but to however, stay aware of the journey at hand.

“The Hero’s Journey”, Grimm’s Fairy Tales he talked about a little story name:Snow-White and Rose-Red.Well in the story all they showed about was that if they had some things to do all around them, but as in the story what on Snow-White would always do to Rose-Red and to show that there is a point where they would had some issues, “He held on to all the reeds and rushes, but it was of a little good,and he was forced to movements of the fish,and was in urgent danger to being dragged into the water.”

Charles Perrault and the Grimm brothers both write about a young girl, dressed in red, on a journey to visit her grandmother with some special treats, but each version offers a different meaning.

With this story coming about in the fourth century AD, certain details differ slightly between stories. However, the structure of the story surprisingly remains the same throughout. By the time this tale was recorded and written down, it had already gone a centuries-long period of change. Each version brings its

Fairytales have majorly altered throughout history in a variety of disturbing ways. Grimm’s fairytales were known as gruesome parables that spoke of harsh realities and were told to people of all ages. Disney is identified by their hopeful and imaginary stories aimed at the audience of children. The reasoning behind this stark contrast of fairy tales is for numerous diverse explanations.

This dark version of the many original Cinderella stories is by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, better known as the Grimm brothers. Cinderella is about a young girl who sadly loses her mother due to some kind of sickness, her father marries a woman who has two daughters, shortly after her mother’s death. The daughters are referred to as Cinderella’s “false sisters” due to their evil and wicked tactics during the story and also because they are not related to her by blood. Her father gets completely brainwashed by the stepmother and begins to treat his own daughter the same way they do, like a pest. The stepmother and her daughters use Cinderella’s father for his riches and make her

Children’s literature is the body of written works and accompanying illustrations produced inorder to entertain and instruct young people.The fundamental goal of children’s literature is to instruct and entertain. It covers various diverse themes such as mystery, fantasy and war. Some themes are discernible to the young reader, whereas some are more likely to be understood by an adult reader. This means that children’s literature is accessible to all ages, with different pieces of information within the text becoming clearer each time it is read. After studying various children’s texts, many themes, that most, if not all books shared, were noticeably alike. However, it is the lessons that children borrow from the portrayal of adult characters

There are many types of genres (categories) that a story may fall into. In my essay below I am going to identify and discuss 5 of them, namely: - Myths, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Aesop Fables and Legends.

The first distinct element that the reader notices in the narrative is the use of quotation references preceding the beginning of each chapter. The use of these epigraphs reinforces the Victorian ‘feeling’ of the story, and certainly, it also aims to recreate the Victorian context in relation to the current perspective. Fowles is trying to comment on the period and on how things have shifted. Somehow readers are still reminded that the story is set in Victorian