Good Overcoming Evil In The Wishing Spell By Chris Colfer

relationship with Abby and the rest of her family. Including her older sister Megan. Megan and Nev

The fairy tale helps the child to understand a balance between the good and the evil; it gives him a hope for a good future.” Fairy tales assure the

The interests in the two sisters are amazing to compare. For example, Ally and Mady both love all kinds of music, but Mady’s favorite kind is Country while Ally’s is Rap. Another interest that the girls both adore are animals, but Ally’s is a frog, while Mady’s is a dolphin. Mady’s favorite color is pink while Ally’s is mint green.

Similarities between the two siblings are not very hard to point out. Both of thecharacters are very curious and get into a lot of mischief .The two of them are

Fairy tales always seem to end with a lesson or happy ending. The Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” exhibits both of these factors by the end of the story. Not only are morals and happy endings found in the tale but religious symbols are incorporated, leading us to believe that the main characters are good. Although Hansel and Gretel are not always good, we learn that their evils may be forgiven. In the tale “Hansel and Gretel,” the Brothers Grimm leads us to believe that in the end, good triumphs evil.

The central focus of this unit is to identify the elements of stories and how their themes may relate to each other in a variety of ways. Students will be guided in a variety of comparison and contrasting activities in order to gain understanding of main ideas, characters, and cultural themes across similar fairy tales from different cultures. This unit focuses on three different versions of Cinderella from different cultures. I chose to focus on the common elements of the fairy tales and the cultural differences because this was something the students were struggling with previously.

Siblings, the ones we call our best friends, brother, sister, family. They are the ones that we have a special bond with, the ones that we can tell our deepest secrets to in confidence. The funny things about siblings though is that they have their own way of seeing the world around them. You have the same parent(s), but see things in different perspective, that’s what makes you and your siblings work well together like a running machine. Or maybe the perspective of one throws the metaphorical wrench into the gears of that machine, causing change, a difference in thinking. In the story of Everyday Use, by Alice Walker, two siblings, Maggie and Dee, face differences. From their appearance, to personality, and even the family heirlooms, they have a different perspective from each other.

Really nice things about them. Both sister’s Helen and Phoebe are very smart funny girls who

There is nothing more precious and heartwarming than the innocence of a child. The majority of parents in society want to shield children from the bad in life which is appreciated. Within human nature exists desires of inappropriate behavior; envy, deceit, selfishness, revenge, violence, assault and murder. The most well-known fairy tales depict virtue and the evil in life. Even more important, the form and structure of fairy tales suggest images to the child by which he can structure his daydreams and with them give a better direction to his life. (Bettelheim).

Fairy tales picture a world filled with magic, love and the triumph of the good over the evil. Fairy tales are a window to other worlds where the wildest dreams can come true and the hero always lives happily ever after preferably paired with his loved one. Although some people argue that fairy tales are full of stereotypes, filled with frightening monsters and promote racism and sexism I believe that they are wrong because fairy tales provide valuable moral lessons to children, teach them other countries' cultures promote the imagination and the cognitive development and therefore they should be read to young children.

A minor theme in the novel We Were Liars by E. Lockhart that is particularly interesting is the use of short fairytales to highlight key plot points or conflicts. The main character Cady receives a stack of fairy-tale books from her father when she is eight, and goes on throughout the rest of the book to tell variations of those stories in the context of her family. The first story she tells is of a king who is having trouble deciding which daughter should inherit his kingdom. He tests the three princesses and asks them to show much they love him. The two eldest say they love him as much as a possession in the kingdom but the youngest says she "Loves him as meat loves salt" (Lockhart 43). The king is unimpressed and banishes her. This story

Fairy tales like Snow White and Cinderella both contain the struggle of good vs. evil. The struggle of good vs evil in these tales teaches us that good always prevails over evil. The fairy tales often times contain common elements that represent good and evil in the story. Both of these tales show the good and evil elements in similar forms. Both tales have the same outcomes where good prevails and they live happily ever after. These tales expose important concepts like good and bad for young readers. Tales such as these two can also teach young readers about good and bad things in life and ways of handling them.

Sagas about princes and princesses, beauty, magic, and love, fairy tales like Snow White and Cinderella among others have become children’s favorite bedtime stories. However, as parents tuck their sons and daughters in, they fail to realize that there is a much more daunting purpose to these stories. American writer and poet, Jane Yolen suggests that fairy tales indicate life values. Furthermore, Yolen insists that these tales are “thumbprints of history” (Yolen 27). Studying fairy tales in depth, she proves that the “functions of myths” consist of “creating a landscape of allusion [and] enabling us to understand our own and out culture from inside out” (Yolen 18). Yolen confirms that these stories comment on, “the abstract truths of our

The protagonist, Conner Bailey was offered a trip to Europe for the Grand reading of the Grimm Brother’s last stories/warnings to the “worlds” before dying. He travels all over Europe and Germany to connect with the Fairytale world. Weeks later he is fighting for his life and trying to survive a war that took place hundreds of years before, while discovering many haunting things. He continues going around warning everyone and bringing people to the royal kingdoms and into safety from the armee and “their dragon.” They win the war and Alex, Connor’s twin sister, takes over the Fairy Godmother’s place. As leader to the people and to prevent any other harmful things towards the world.

Fairy tales are something that everyone has read or seen, they all seem to have important lessons at the end of each one to teach young children some of the lessons they need for life. These fairy tales when we were younger all seemed innocent and something we all hoped that would happen to us. Little did we know as we got older that the fairy tales we all knew and loved when we were younger, weren't as innocent as they seemed.