The Stories We Read and Reality an Essay by Brandy and Megan

The Stories We Read and Reality

The stories I chose are mostly stories about talking animals.

The stories I chose about talking animals show exaggeration and some life choices. One of the stories that I chose is called The Tortoise and the Hare which is known as a tall tale, just as The Three Little Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, as well as Molly Whuppie and The Little Mermaid. A tall tale is an exaggerated story. For example, the Little Mermaid is about a woman, that is a half human and half fish, and she so happens to fall in love with a prince that loves her right back. It’s in these stories that we can find some relationships between the stories we read and real life adventure and expectation

Goldilocks and The Three Little Pigs are stories about talking animals and so is the Tortoise and the Hare. In Goldilocks and the Three Bears (pg 56) in 365 Stories and Rhymes Tales of Magic and Wonder, Goldie Locks is a girl who finds a house that's open and she walks in to find that nobody is home. She sees porridge, a couch, and a bed to sleep in and so she does. She said that each one was either too cold, too hot, just right, or too big too hard, to just the right size. The bears find that somebody trespassed in their home and Goldilocks runs away and never returns.

This reminds me of a story for homework called Molly Whuppie for she also ran away after being caught stealing from magical creatures called giants. There seems to be a connection between the stories and another story called The Three Little Pigs (pg 306) in 365 Stories and Rhymes Tales of Action and Adventure, where a wolf goes home and never returns after trying to blow down the piggies homes. The characters that go home and never return are characters that share a certain attitude towards life and that is satisfying their need to live and eat; just like real life.

There is a moral to the story in these stories, for example, in the Tortoise and the Hare (pg 326) in 365 Stories and Rhymes Tales of Action and Adventure, “slow and steady wins the race”. The hare challenged the tortoise to a race and the hare thought he would win because he was faster than tortoise, and so tortoise was racing with hare and hare thought that tortoise would never catch up and so he takes a nap and then tortoise made it to the river from the old oak tree first. Hare was upset and kept explaining that he was faster than tortoise, but no one would have it because it wasn’t who was fastest but who made it to the river first.

In the Little Mermaid (pg 10) in 365 Stories and Rhymes Tales of Magic and Wonder, she had to wait until she was fifteen to swim to the surface. She had to be patient, just like the tortoise and expect great things knowing they would get to where they were going. These two stories have happy endings, as well as that of Molly Whuppie, who ends up marrying the king’s son by stealing for him and going to the giant’s house multiple times; but neither the tortoise nor the little mermaid stole to get a happy ending. And in the Three Little Pigs, the pigs also get a happy ending, being able to live together, the three pig brothers, in a brick house, that was neither straw, or sticks. The wolf left them alone, just like Goldilocks left the bear's house to never return. The difference here being that goldilocks didn’t have any bad intentions and the wolf meant to break down the houses and eat the three little pigs.

In conclusion, all the stories share similarities and differences. I mentioned a couple and I know there are more connections to this reality than we first get from reading the stories. There are good people, bad people, just as there are good and bad animals or magical creatures. Their moral judgment is judged by us and we can make connections to find solutions to solve some problems that we face or hear about from people or sources thus forming relationships. These relationships are ships that sail the horizon in mischief, solidarity, and action. These stories are written in a way that the challenges the characters face resemble our reality and in some cases exaggerate our world along with our expectation to give us something to look forward to. This being done by either patience, intelligence, and/or pride.

Source

365 Stories and Rhymes Tales of Magic and Wonder

The Little Mermaid pg 10

Goldilocks and the Three Bears pg 56

365 Stories and Rhymes Tales of Action and Adventure

The Three Little Pigs pg 306
The Tortoise and the Hare pg 326

English Fairytale: Molly Whuppie