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Comparing Piper In The Sacred Valley And The Magic Pipes

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The story of the piper is definitely a journey, one can easily imagine. It takes a person into scenes of imagination that almost seems so real. However, in reading both, ”The Piper in the Sacred Valley” and “The Magic Pipes”, coming from two different authors, allows the reader to take slightly two different paths, and yet still have some similarities. According to the author of The Piper in the Sacred Valley, a girl is called by the sounds of one's pipe and is pulled emotionally to follow it. The girl is convinced that the sound is meant for her and at once she must go and find it. While preparing to go and find where the sound of the pipes is coming from, the girl is first taken on a journey into a sacred valley. She allows nothing to …show more content…

However, the sound of the magic pipe did cause it to summon her. According to this author, as the girl journeys to find the piper, it was her “beauty” that allowed her into the valley. And when the girl meets the piper at last, they too also marry. But the girl falls into a deep sleep for months, causing the husband to go island to island in grief.
Later, it is said that the husband goes into a long engagement with another woman, but eventually calls it off due to the return of his wife. As his wife comes out of her deep sleep, it is said that she cries. In the two versions of the stories, it is obvious that one had a wonderful journey of love, fear, excitement, and passion -while the other story was just so specific and to the point. One story allowed the readers' imaginations to explore, while the other story doesn’t. The conclusion to both stories: one ends up with a broken heart, but still leaves the readers to wonder, and the other was cut short of an ending. The Piper in the Sacred Valley, was definitely a better read. The author not only allowed the reader to travel with him through imagination, but he has left the reader to desire

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