Fairy Tale Conventions
Dongjiao Li
Professor Sandra Orser
English 3331
Feb 3rd 2014
A Study of the conventions of Fairy Tales:
Lily and the God of the river
Fairy tales are not only popular in children but also appeal to adults because they always provide people with good wishes. For hundreds of years, fairy tales have become a very important part of children’s literature. As we learn more about fairy tales, we found out that there are several conventions of the fairy tales, such as a specific setting to remove the readers from the real world; a hero or heroine has a dangerous adventure; with a theme of maturation. I would like to present you my own fairy tale based on some conventions of fairy tale, called Lily and the God of the river.
Once upon a …show more content…
They married the god of the river and Lily by the river; they lived happily ever after and gave birth of many children. Those children all lived by the river and swear to guard the river for generations.
In creating this story, I have used several conventions of fair tales, such as a setting to remove the readers from the real world, characters who is outcast, motifs of helpful animal and impossible task and magic.
Fairy tales always used “once upon a time in a kingdom far far away” as the beginning of the story, thought very simple but this sentence is actually very important to a fairy tale because it makes every thing about the story divorced from the reality and allow things impossible in real life, such as talking animal present in the story. Especially for fairy tales, animal personification is a very important part. In my story, the folks in the village are animal and human, they are equal, thrive together, sharing the land, however human is the master of the world in the reality, so I need to put that sentence to lead my readers to a different world. In addition, the main characters are not prince and princess so I used a “village” rather than a “kingdom”. I think this sentence had added some feelings of mystery into my …show more content…
According to the convention of fairy tales, magic power should be treated as a normal part of the daily life. I would like to compare a fact, that is a matter of strength and weakness. There were a lot of folks in that village and pouring garbage into the river however there was only one god in this river who also became a victim of the pollution. At the end of the story, after Lily cleaned the garbage and mud from the god of the river, the river had changed back to what it was. This is actually where magic works. I chose this convention because magic is a dream of children, they always expecting something magical happens so I think magic is very necessary when writing a fairy tale. The existence of magic can explain a lot of things that are ineffable in the story, such as changed the river into what it looked like in the
Professor Sandra Orser
English 3331
Feb 3rd 2014
A Study of the conventions of Fairy Tales:
Lily and the God of the river
Fairy tales are not only popular in children but also appeal to adults because they always provide people with good wishes. For hundreds of years, fairy tales have become a very important part of children’s literature. As we learn more about fairy tales, we found out that there are several conventions of the fairy tales, such as a specific setting to remove the readers from the real world; a hero or heroine has a dangerous adventure; with a theme of maturation. I would like to present you my own fairy tale based on some conventions of fairy tale, called Lily and the God of the river.
Once upon a …show more content…
They married the god of the river and Lily by the river; they lived happily ever after and gave birth of many children. Those children all lived by the river and swear to guard the river for generations.
In creating this story, I have used several conventions of fair tales, such as a setting to remove the readers from the real world, characters who is outcast, motifs of helpful animal and impossible task and magic.
Fairy tales always used “once upon a time in a kingdom far far away” as the beginning of the story, thought very simple but this sentence is actually very important to a fairy tale because it makes every thing about the story divorced from the reality and allow things impossible in real life, such as talking animal present in the story. Especially for fairy tales, animal personification is a very important part. In my story, the folks in the village are animal and human, they are equal, thrive together, sharing the land, however human is the master of the world in the reality, so I need to put that sentence to lead my readers to a different world. In addition, the main characters are not prince and princess so I used a “village” rather than a “kingdom”. I think this sentence had added some feelings of mystery into my …show more content…
According to the convention of fairy tales, magic power should be treated as a normal part of the daily life. I would like to compare a fact, that is a matter of strength and weakness. There were a lot of folks in that village and pouring garbage into the river however there was only one god in this river who also became a victim of the pollution. At the end of the story, after Lily cleaned the garbage and mud from the god of the river, the river had changed back to what it was. This is actually where magic works. I chose this convention because magic is a dream of children, they always expecting something magical happens so I think magic is very necessary when writing a fairy tale. The existence of magic can explain a lot of things that are ineffable in the story, such as changed the river into what it looked like in the