Sunday, October 11, 2009

A lesson taugh in fairy tale




The fairy tales that we read earlier in this semester I think they were not the very good materials for today's kids, because those versions contained a lot of improperty things for kids, such as: violance actions, bloody movements, and incest relationships. But when I read the chapter for "Beauty and Beast", I found out some versions for this story are pretty good for today's kids to read, such as: "The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich" and "Urashima the Fisherman". These two versions of "Beauty and Beast" taugh a very valuable lession to kids: "to keep your promises".

In "The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich", the little princess made her promise to the frog said: if the frog can help her to find the golden ball that she got lost into the deep river then she would do whatever the frog is asking her to do. But when the frog did what she asked and found the ball for her, she jus ran away and forgot about the promise she made. The king was so angry with the action that little princess commited, and commanded her to what she had said to the frog. Fortunately, with king's assistance, the princess do everything in frog's desire, and eventually the frog turned into a prince and they had a happy ending.

The version "Urashima the Fisherman" taugh the same lesson-"to keep your promises" as the "The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich", but the ending of this story is opposite from the previous one. In this story, Urashima have a very happy live with an angle in the begining of the story, but when Urashima left the paradise and went back to his village, he figure out the time in his village was passed for three hundred years and his family and friends were no longer exist. Then he broke the promise which he made to the angle and not to open up the box. When he opened the box, everything was disappeared, and the angle left him forever, and he has nothing left with by the end.

This two versions of "Beauty and Beast" taugh us, if we keep our promises we can get everything we want, or if we broke our promises we will lost everything we have.

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