Children’s Literatures Truths

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talk to or trust strangers (little red robin hood). These stories have played a pivotal point in a child’s growth in there child hood years, having short stories read to them for entertainment, and as a vice for them to go to sleep. All of these things sound nice, pretty, and innocent yet these stories only touch on a few authors out there.

There are authors like Hanns Christian Anderson who like to add a little religion in his stories. Adding in Christian values that he based allot of his stories on, which some may have not gotten or realized at the time of reading. A story that stands out the most is the little match girl, it has a little something for both audiences children, and parents. For the children it shows them to be grateful for things that they have and the position they are in. Then for adults you start to see the religion that Hanns Christian Anderson decides to implement in the short story. A part that sticks out in the story is this “The light from the ...

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Yet there seems to be authors who write short stories for adults and children. This is a very solid and valid point but then u have to dig deeper in the text. Some things that people seem to over look is the setting of the story. Allot of these stories have no father figures, or the male is a weak minded individual. You look at the little red robin hood, Hazel and Gretel, Rumple Stilskin, Beauty and the Beast, The Fisherman And His Wife, and Aschenputtle. All of these male figures that are in the stories are week minded or not there.

When you think of American society what is the first thing that a person thinks of when they imagine a father figure or a male? They see a strong man ...

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