When you where a kid did your parents ever tell you stories about your culture or about your family’s values? Chances are they where telling you a folk tale. Folk tales are stories passed down usually by word of mouth but often they are written down. Folk tales teach a valuable life lesson while entertaining the reader or in some cases the listener. This essay will give examples of three folk tales and go into depth on how they teach lessons and still remain entertaining for children and even
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“Lamb to the Slaughter” a short novel written by Roald Dahl‚ Mary Maloney who seems very much as the average wife soon learns to use cleverness and the skills of her husband to cover up a terrible doing. After she bashes her husband over the head for leaving her while six months pregnant tries to elude the police that were once dear friends. Mary a loving and caring wife who wants nothing more than to please her husband‚ changes from quite the normal wife to a completely different person. Mary
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Deep Holes by Alice Munro http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/06/30/080630fi_fiction_munro?currentPage=all 1. What happens to Kent? Kent really changed after his “dear-death”experience. After many years of probably just travelling around and trying to find his place‚ he settles down and does what makes him happy‚ helping others. 2. How does his life develop? After he left college‚ no one but Kent himself really knows what happened. He becomes a person who cares for and help
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There are many reasons why we love fairy tales and other made up stories. Some could argue that the purpose of creating these stories is a way for all of us to escape the real world and create our own worlds. Also it is a way to entertain ourselves with made up creatures and adventures that would not be possible in real life. We include things like evil jinnees‚ horrible monsters‚ wealth and locations that have not been heard of by anyone. We see all of the adventures and and so much more in Tales
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Story Telling Humans like us tell stories because it’s a way of expressing ourselves and because we can. Stories tell us a lot of things. People like to tell people their experiences and what they have created. There is no way to have something supper cool in your head without sharing it with other people. People just have a natural tendency to tell stories to other people. When people find something cool out they usually tell someone. Then that person tells someone else and it continues
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The fairytale ‘The Lady or the Tiger’ is a fantasy story. Nevertheless‚ the story itself is examined to be more fanciful and unrestricted than other fantasy fairytales. The story comprises of a spiteful king‚ an envious princess and an ardent suitor-long the staple elements of fairy tales. Enclosed in this fairy-tale are three major factors that make the story so vital: the style‚ structure‚ use of language and the story’s ending; are all things that must be considered. At the end of the story
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Frankenstein: Methods and Techniques: Structure & Narrative Form From Top Notes – Pattinson & Stanners Epistolatory Narrative Form “Frankenstein” is written in an epistolary narrative form that was popular at the time in which it was written. The original publication was presented in three volumes and this emphasised the Chinese box structure of the story within a story within a story. This structural device adds a great deal to its stark drama as well as ensuring greater reader engagement
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The Book of Lost Things The Book of Lost Things is written by John Connolly. It told us a fantastic story of a young boy‚ David. With a background of World WarⅡ‚ the story began with a sad story: Little David’s mother was badly ill. To make his mother come back to life‚ David tried his best to do things which he believed that they could bring good luck. He believed even numbers are with good luck‚ so he would count to an even number at anytime. If he get stroke‚ he would strike himself again
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Marquez’s story is representative of the genre of magic realism. This type of work is very imaginative and fun-loving. It can also be meant as "pleasant realism" or a joke upon it‚ suggesting a new type of fiction--one where we can appreciate‚ learn‚ and grow. Basically‚ it is about a town that finds the body of a dead man wash ashore. He is a stranger to those parts‚ and being the people they were‚ the townspeople decide to look more into the person. The men try to find his town‚ while the women
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As a Canadian writer who had won numerous world-class writing prizes‚ Margaret Atwood is famous for being as a novelist‚ many of her poems were inspired by fairy tales. In her work the readers can always find traces about woman: their powers‚ their status‚ their spiritual world. Combine the two significant traits‚ “The Blue beard’s Egg” is a short story which retell a traditional classic fairy rale that originated from Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard”. Atwood takes a modern peek of the old tale. In
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