Please read all the instructions carefully to do the assignment. Assignment should be 200 or more word count and direct quotations. There is two parts to this assignment. Please annotate the The three ways of Lewis of writing for children file uploaded. Thank you!
Assignment part A
Instructions:
Inside are links to the three fairy tale tropes that we will be discussing — Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. Please note that you are not responsible for reading all the fairy tales in all three section, unless you want to read them all. For example, if you choose to read the Sleeping Beauty section, then you do not have to read about Cinderella or Little Red Riding Hood.BUT, you will read all three Sleeping Beauty fairy tales that are in the section. The purpose of reading all three fairy tales is so that you can see how the same story changes based on the teller and the time in which the fairy tale is being told.
Instructions: Which of the three fairy tales you read did you find most striking? Why?This discussion board question is asking for a personal response, and your personal response must be supported with details from the three fairy tales. Writing “Cinderella is weird” does not answer the question. Instead, what makes one particular Cinderella story better, weirder, more interesting, or more surprising, than the other two versions of Cinderella?Consider your personal reaction to the story. Consider what you expected and what you received. Consider the plot and word choice. But don’t let these considerations limit your response.Note: This discussion board does not have a required word count, but do include direct references to all three versions of the story.
Story links:
1. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29021/29021-h/29021-h.htm#Cinderilla_or_The_Little_Glass_Slipper
2. http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0510a.html#jacobs
3. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2591/2591-h/2591-h.htm#link2H_4_0037
Assignment Part B
Instructions:
You will be starting discussion of children’s literature with fairy tales because they are both ancient and modern in their cultural importance. As you have experienced with these texts, many of the oldest fairy tales are not considered “proper reading” for children, and yet fairy tales are also labeled as “childish.” In “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” Lewis points out that fairy tales are “accused [by others] of giving children a false impression of the world they live in” but he does not agree with this idea (4). Lewis also writes that “The neat sorting out of books into age groups, so dear to publishers, has only a very sketchy relation with the habits of any real readers. … No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time table” (3). And yet, schools divide reading out by levels and require children to read according to their “scores.”Pick one of the questions below to answer in a discussion board post. Then reply to at least one other student’s post.
- Why do these fairy tales still resonate with us today? Referring to Lewis, the fairy tales themselves, and your own thoughts, how do these stories “feed us”?
- The earliest literary fairy tales were written for an adult audience; the tales were often read out loud for entertainment. If children also happened to be in that audience, then so be it. With this in mind, what elements in the literary fairy tales you read for this module are to entertain an adult audience?
- The earliest literary fairy tales were written for an adult audience; the tales were often read out loud for entertainment. If children also happened to be in that audience, then so be it. With this in mind, what elements in the literary fairy tales you read for this module might children enjoy?
- Literary fairy tales were written for entertainment, not for education. With this in mind, what do these specific fairy tales reveal about the culture during which it was written?
- This is a question about the tone of the fairy tales. If there is a moral at the end of the fairy tale, is it to be taken seriously by the adult audience who is reading the tale? Are adult readers expected to catch the innuendos?
