Fairy Tale Background

Like many children throughout history, I grew up hearing stories. Falling asleep at night, I was often read fairy tales. As I grew up, I also watched movies that were fairy tales. Stories bring people together, and fairy tales strengthened my relationship with my parents who often read or watched them with me. There is something so special about the time my parents and I shared while reading stories late at night. These stories were captivating fairy tales mixed with the comfort of my mother’s voice. I think many children experience fairy tales similarly. They are entertaining and fun, but they are also an escape from reality into a world that only belongs to oneself. Fairy Tales belong to the reader. When my mom read me a fairy tale, I could

If I am being totally honest, I had never really thought about fairy tales as a genre until we studied it in class. Like many great things, my study of fairy tales began with J.R.R. Tolkien. That is where my understanding of what fairy tales are started. My study then moved to the Grimm brothers. Originally, I had chosen them because I knew nothing about any of the authors, but their stories seemed more familiar than others. I started with research on the brothers. After learning a little bit about the authors, I had a better understanding of their stories-which is helpful because I then read some of them. After reading their, I took notes on the elements in the stories that were specific to fairy tales. At this point I was able to combine background and application from the first two steps to taking notes on fairy tales. After this I was feeling like a professional when it came to fairy tales. It was then easy to jot down some questions and ask my mother. Questions like “what is a fairy tale?” and “which character do you most identify with?” were hard for her to answer because she had not read them in so long. Even still the impact they had on my mom allowed her to share what she remembered. This lead me to a final test of understanding where I compared a story I read with a movie it was made into. However, every professional knows that there

Disney’s 1950’s Cinderella movie was a huge hit among children across America. So much so, that it has been remade many times and the spin-offs are numerous. What many people do not know, is that it was a story written for adults before it was made into a children's movie. In Disney’s version, Cinderella's father dies while away on business. However, in the original, her father never dies. Another difference is a little bit more graphic. Disney’s version is for children and has to be “edited” a bit to make it appropriate. This can be seen in the step sister’s antics. In the Disney version, the step sisters try really hard to squeeze their feet into the glass slippers. This is different from Grimm’s version where the stepsisters cut off their heels and toes to fit their feet into the slippers. These are just some of the differences between the two variations. The details between the two versions varied somewhat, but did not change the story line. I think the Disney details only enhance or help strengthen the original plot. This story about true love prevailing, kindness, and forgiveness is uniform throughout each version. In both versions, Cinderella ends up with her prince, and the “evil stepmother and sisters” are no longer a threat or pact on her life. Goods beats