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The Journey For The Cure Literary Analysis

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Dear Tidal Wave Publishing Incorporated:
Greetings to Tidal Wave Publishing! I am a 7th grade student at Old Donation School. I would like to submit my original fable based on traditional Irish fables and myths, titled The Journey for the Cure, to be inserted in your upcoming anthology. This story is about a man, Jack Kelly, who makes a journey to save his wife from a curse. On his journey, he meets a leprechaun who throws him off and he has to race to save his wife in time. My work reveals common Irish traditions, archetypes, and morals that are relevant with youth.
The purpose of storytelling in Irish culture was to pass along morals in an entertaining way, in order to impact the lives of the reader. From the traditional Irish literary works I have read, they all have morals that are about being loyal, and not being naive or selfish when encountering other people. For example, in the Irish fable, The Field of Boliauns, the protagonist, Tom Fitzpatrick, is very greedy and selfish when he encounters a leprechaun. In the end, Tom ends up without any gold, because of his selfishness and how naive he was. In my story, The Journey for the Cure, the reader is taught that being naive and selfish can affect you negatively in life. When the protagonist, Jack Kelly, wants the leprechaun’s gold, the leprechaun tricks him and he almost …show more content…

In the Irish myth, The Voyage of Bran, Bran, the main character, disobeys the wishes of the Chief of the Isles of the Women and returns back to Ireland, finding that he is cursed and cannot step foot onto Irish soil. This Traditional literature also reveals that the Irish people are very close to their customs like believing in leprechauns or using Ireland’s primary crop, potatoes, often in their meals. For example in my story, a leprechaun is a minor character, which is an important archetypal mythological irish

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