The Beauty and The Beast Variants were longer and more engaging than the red riding hood stories. The Beauty and The Beast were also easier to read because they were not violent or dirty in any way like the red riding hood tales. These were all very different, although the moral was similar. If you do good and are patient you will be rewarded. Another moral is that looks can be decieving and if you are not superficial than you will be rewarded. My question is that if the moral is that looks are not everything and being superficial is bad than why does the beast always eventually become handsome at the end??
I agree with your opinion on The Beauty and The Beast comments. It was much easier to read because it was more story oriented. The clean but of vocabulary made it more interesting to read. I didn't even think about the question you had at the end or your comment. That is a very good question to be answered because it opposes to what the moral of the story. I think that when someone actually makes a story, they should think very well about the moral and how children will perceive them. As Engelhardt explains in the first chapter of the book (p.4), reading may be harmful to children. If the results give a child the wrong impression, it can be critical for the child. Great question though!
The points that you both brought up about the Beauty and the Beast variants were very good. I agree about it being a little easier to read because it was a little less disturbing but the Little Red Riding Hood stories seemed to be a bit more interesting because you could see where and how it started and how it is told know. What did you think about Zipes chapter one though? I felt that Zipes was extremely repetitive, his theory on how children are being homogenized by the mass media was the subject of all 23 pages and I felt as though it started to become hard to read towards the end. Englhardt believes that many of the books that children are interested in, such as "Goosebumps" and "Harry Potter," are not properly censored and are not good reading for children. On Pg. 9 it says that these types of books could actually be "dumbing down" our children but on pg. 7 it says that some publishers argue that if a child is reading then that is good in itself and I agree with that. There are so many other things children could be doing today that are a lot worse than reading "these" types of books like playing video games, watching TV, surfing the web and much more. It is better that they be reading something they enjoy rather than not reading at all.
I agree that the Beauty and The Beast variants were more entertaining as stories than the little red riding hood variants, but i don't think they were necessarily better or easier to read. i thought that the red riding hood stories were more interesting than disturbing because i had never seen the story in that context before.
Although the beast becoming handsome in the end can be seen as contradictory to the moral of the story, i think it can also be taken another way. maybe the beast becoming handsome at the end is representative of his inner beauty showing through.
As far as the Zipes reading goes, i also thought it was repetitive and though much of what he said was true i thought it was a bit exaggerated. Zipes was very negative about what children are reading today, but he made no suggestions on what they should be reading instead.
Great points Lindsey, I guess it would be appropriate to think that the moral of the "beauty" stories are about accepting yourself and realizing your inner beauty and in turn it shows through physically.
I also agree with everyone about Zipes being repetitive, I also believe that he was taking alot of shots on children's literature as a whole but yet he did not state any ways of improving it, atleast not in the chapters we have read so far.
It was interesting to read on p.47 "but the allure has also enabled authors and publishers to prey upon young readers' dispositions and desires and to sell them a menu that turns out to be junk food". Zipes refers to children's literature as junk food, which is not clearly defined but one would assume he means it is trash.
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The Beauty and The Beast Variants were longer and more engaging than the red riding hood stories. The Beauty and The Beast were also easier to read because they were not violent or dirty in any way like the red riding hood tales. These were all very different, although the moral was similar. If you do good and are patient you will be rewarded. Another moral is that looks can be decieving and if you are not superficial than you will be rewarded. My question is that if the moral is that looks are not everything and being superficial is bad than why does the beast always eventually become handsome at the end??
I agree with your opinion on The Beauty and The Beast comments. It was much easier to read because it was more story oriented. The clean but of vocabulary made it more interesting to read. I didn't even think about the question you had at the end or your comment. That is a very good question to be answered because it opposes to what the moral of the story. I think that when someone actually makes a story, they should think very well about the moral and how children will perceive them. As Engelhardt explains in the first chapter of the book (p.4), reading may be harmful to children. If the results give a child the wrong impression, it can be critical for the child. Great question though!
The points that you both brought up about the Beauty and the Beast variants were very good. I agree about it being a little easier to read because it was a little less disturbing but the Little Red Riding Hood stories seemed to be a bit more interesting because you could see where and how it started and how it is told know.
What did you think about Zipes chapter one though? I felt that Zipes was extremely repetitive, his theory on how children are being homogenized by the mass media was the subject of all 23 pages and I felt as though it started to become hard to read towards the end. Englhardt believes that many of the books that children are interested in, such as "Goosebumps" and "Harry Potter," are not properly censored and are not good reading for children. On Pg. 9 it says that these types of books could actually be "dumbing down" our children but on pg. 7 it says that some publishers argue that if a child is reading then that is good in itself and I agree with that. There are so many other things children could be doing today that are a lot worse than reading "these" types of books like playing video games, watching TV, surfing the web and much more.
It is better that they be reading something they enjoy rather than not reading at all.
I agree that the Beauty and The Beast variants were more entertaining as stories than the little red riding hood variants, but i don't think they were necessarily better or easier to read. i thought that the red riding hood stories were more interesting than disturbing because i had never seen the story in that context before.
Although the beast becoming handsome in the end can be seen as contradictory to the moral of the story, i think it can also be taken another way. maybe the beast becoming handsome at the end is representative of his inner beauty showing through.
As far as the Zipes reading goes, i also thought it was repetitive and though much of what he said was true i thought it was a bit exaggerated. Zipes was very negative about what children are reading today, but he made no suggestions on what they should be reading instead.
Great points Lindsey, I guess it would be appropriate to think that the moral of the "beauty" stories are about accepting yourself and realizing your inner beauty and in turn it shows through physically.
I also agree with everyone about Zipes being repetitive, I also believe that he was taking alot of shots on children's literature as a whole but yet he did not state any ways of improving it, atleast not in the chapters we have read so far.
It was interesting to read on p.47 "but the allure has also enabled authors and publishers to prey upon young readers' dispositions and desires and to sell them a menu that turns out to be junk food". Zipes refers to children's literature as junk food, which is not clearly defined but one would assume he means it is trash.
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