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  1. Oct 2019
    1. But over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell, Snow White is still alive and well, And none is so fair as she

      the mirror told the queen where snow white resided

    2. "If you will take care of our house, cook, make the beds, wash, sew and knit, and if you will keep everything neat and clean you can stay with us and you shall want for nothing."

      the deal that is Made in a lot of fairytales. something u want with conditions

  2. Sep 2019
    1. she was seven years old she was as beautiful as the day, and more beautiful than the queen herself.

      despite her very young age, she was extremely gorgeous

    1. the Grimms worked in the hope that their tales would benefit us in unimaginable ways

      bring us into a new light and makes us think about things we prefer to ignore

    2. but mainly from literate people whom the Grimms came to know quite well.

      wasn't interpreted in a different way, was kind of like it was collected from the source itself

    3. those people who should be preserving them are becoming more and more scarce

      does he mean this as they no longer are being listened to or that all those who would tell the stories have died now?

    4. inspired folklorists in Europe and Great Britain to gather tales from their oral traditions to preserve as part of their cultural heritage

      without them, basically folklores wouldn't have been recorded as they are now

    5. they wanted to preserve them before the tales were lost forever

      our memory only serves us for so long before we begin to forget certain things or forget something in its entirety

    6.  each one different from the last, until the final, best-known version barely resembled the first. 

      as time goes on, the changes made to the stories become more and more, resulting in the stories seeming so different

    1. I never knew how much I loved you till just now, when I feared I was too late to save your life.

      you never realize what you have until it's almost gone

    2. But as I did the mischief it's only just that I should suffer for it

      even though this went really her fault, she's willing to suffer for it because of the guilt she feels

    3. "The only thing I wish for is to see you come home safely,

      the daughter was less materialistic than her sisters, her beauty was not only on the outside but inside too

    4. I beg that you'll bring me a rose.

      rose represents beauty, but it's also that beautiful things are dangerous or can cause harm, such as the rose having thorns

    1. He felt so very happy, but he wasn't at all proud, for a good heart never grows proud. He thought about how he had been persecuted and scorned, and now he heard them all call him the most beautiful of all beautiful birds.

      he left his old life and came into a new one where he was appreciated but instead of letting it go to his head he seemed humble

    2. How wide the world is

      When we leave home, we finally realize how small a world we live in and that it's actually much bigger than we could have thought

    3. It was so beautiful out on the country, it was summer- the wheat fields were golden, the oats were green, and down among the green meadows the hay was stacked.

      very descriptive imagery, paints a picture in the reader's mind

    1. In the afternoon, when they began playing, one child said to the other, "you be the little pig, and I'll be the butcher." He then took a shiny knife and slit his little brother's throat.

      Shows how children imitate what they see, no matter what it is, because they don't know the difference of right or wrong until taught

    2. for they realized it had all been part of a children's game

      It should not matter if it was just a game, but the thoughts going forth into playing the game. The children understood what was going on and i believe it shouldn't be taken lightly just because they're young

    3. threw him to the ground, and slit his throat open with a knife

      It's hard to tell whether the kids are just imagining the scenes or if they no longer are playing a game and are in fact killing others

    4. They chose one boy to play a butcher, another boy to play was to be a cook, and a third boy was to be a pig

      definitely strange for children so young to be playing a game like this where they role play the slaughtering of a pig for food.

    5. "How Some Children Played at Slaughtering" [Children's Literature]

      i find this to be an odd title because you wouldn't have the children playing at a slaughtering, but the brothers grimm are known for their gruesome tales

    1. The fairy way creates sense. Creates logics. Creates feeling. Creates time and space.

      The separate sentences for each creation emphasizes what the fairy way can do. Shows each separate thing is important.

    2. They seem happy about this and their work flourishes

      This is because it's open to interpret any way you'd like so there is no right or wrong thoughts. Because of this there is a positive impact on the students since now they can do what they'd like and be as creative as possible.

    3. there is no predetermination as to how they will perform this assigned task

      This is because everyone thinks differently and therefore they interpret things differently and want it to be done in a specific manner. You can never be sure of how someone will react to the task until they actually show you

    4. allows the artist and reader room to experience – to invent – new ways of sensing primal and inexplicable wonder

      It now becomes open to interpretation

    5. avoid representation of a three dimensional world in order to reach a pure state

      This is done in order to take the abstract into something more clear and simple

    6. From this sort of story no reader can escape unchanged back into the world outside of the story

      It's like in Alice in Wonderland, where Alice falls down the rabbit hole and when she escapes she has a completely different outlook; she's changed

    7. The fairy way does not represent a world.  The fairy way is a path to a world. 

      there are multiple ways to reach a destination, but the fairy way is one invented by the author as a short cut because they create their own path

    1. if there are such Beings in the World, it looks highly probable they should talk and act as he has represented them.

      It's interesting to think about how when we aren't exposed to something, and someone informs us of it we have no reason not to believe them so we automatically go with what we’re told

    2. Frauds were made use of to amuse Mankind, and frighten them into a Sense of their Duty.

      Fairy tales are fiction and a lot of them are used to teach children how to behave or scare them into listening

    3. We are pleased with surveying the different Habits and Behaviours of Foreign Countries,

      Is this because we grow tired of what we're used to? To this day we love looking at other cultures and observing them, to see what differences can be found and what we can adopt

    4. we cannot look upon the Representation as altogether impossible; nay, many are prepossess with such false Opinions, as dispose them to believe these particular Delusions

      the text gets hard to read at some parts because the language used is different from modern diction

    5. make his Fairies talk like People of his own Species, and not like other Setts of Beings, who converse with different Objects, and think in a different manner from that of Mankind

      In order to make a well written fairytale, the author must first have a good background knowledge to go off of so that his supernatural characters behave in a manner different from how we do.

    6. because he has no Pattern to follow in it, and must work altogether out of his own Invention.

      A fairytale is completely based on the author. There is no structure to it, no guidelines to follow which makes it difficult not only to create but to follow because you must be able to understand the author's creation.

    7. the Poet quite loses sight of Nature, and entertains his Reader's Imagination

      Instead of saying a truthful story, the author creates a mythical realm with magical attributes given to the characters to entertain the audience