The unit I chose to read this week was the Brothers Grimm (LibriVox). I was drawn to this particular unit because I really wanted to read
the familiar stories of Sleeping Beauty and The Frog Prince. I am glad I
re-read these stories because I thought the story of The Frog Prince was
completely different from the original. I thought that true loves first kiss
would break the frog spell in order to make the prince human again. In the
actual story, the only way to break the curse was to have the frog eat from the
same plate as the princess and sleep in bed with her. I understand why the
story did not revolve around true loves first kiss because than it is a short
story and finding true love can be hard. For example, what if the prince did
not fall in love with the princess and but the more time he spent with her, the
more he would grow to love her and then the spell would be broken when they
kissed. So if true loves first kiss was
the only way to break the spell, I could see how that would elongate the story.
When I chose this unit, I thought that all the stories would
be familiar fairy tale stories but I read some that I had never heard of. There
was a story called The Fox and the Horse that was about a horse who was left by
his owner because he was too skinny and old to work. The fox met the horse as
he was leaving the farm and decided to help him. He told the horse to lay down
and pretend to be dead while he tricked a lion, telling him there was a dead
horse. When the lion got there, however, the fox told the lion to pretend to be
dead so he could tie him up then tie him to the horse’s tail. Once the horse
finally dragged the angry lion back to the farm, the owner kept the horse.
Snow White by Anne Anderson (1874-1930).
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