- The bad deeds in this first story are so casual and wildly spin out of control.
- One could argue that the daughter is at least partially responsible for her own predicament.
- The King seems especially casual about the whole "I'll cut off your head" bit.
- So the girl successfully uses Tom Tit Tot to produce the skeins
- But then she says his name to avoid becoming his.
- But she never sees him again?
- So how will she survive the next year?
- This could make a fun sort of epilogue story.
- This second story is undeniably dark.
- Though I like the idea of the daughter reincarnated in the bird.
- Maybe a less dark rewrite?
- The third story I did not think would actually work out in the end. I thought for sure it would just get more and more convoluted until the old woman just ended up giving up or something.
- Though it was interesting seeing the relationship between all the objects and animals that the old woman talks to.
- I think the moral here could be:
- It's sometimes easier to do something yourself than to get others to do it for you.
- Two stories now featuring a murdered family member and some kind of "reincarnation" for either revenge or to name their killer.
- The song-like conversation between the cat and the mouse was very interesting. And that ending was sudden if not unexpected.
- Cap o' Rushes was very Cinderella-esque.
- Almost like a Cinderella story inside another story
- Like a more convoluted way of getting around to the point where the father realizes that his daughter loved him.
- Though I don't think the statement "I love you as fresh meat loves salt." signifies more love than the other daughters. Even if it's true.
- So the story of the three little pigs may have been about goats originally?
- Also, the man (or men) who gives these pigs the materials for their houses is very generous. I wonder if one could incorporate a character from another story as this man.
- That was a much longer and more detailed version of the three little pigs story than any I've ever read.
- I like the continuing dynamic between the third (and smartest) pig and the wolf who seems not to learn.
- I can definitely see how the last story inspired Disney's Fantasia and the Sorcerer's Apprentice
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| The Sorcerer's Apprentice from Disney's Fantasia |
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Unit: English Fairy Tales
By: Joseph Jacobs
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