A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales

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they eat or to tidy up the house. Some of the dwarfs wanted to find their daughter and bring her back but the other dwarfs disagreed and said they shouldn’t go look for her because it has been already months and she never came back. Finally They went off and went to look for her and went with courage. The seven dwarfs found the girl and she said “that she had a baby and married the one she loved and had remembered that it also happened in her dream when she was asleep but was awoken by her true love”.

The story “ The Seven Stage a Comeback” is the retelling “Snow White”. Both stories tell about a young girl who is poisoned by an apple, is awoken by a prince, and carried off into the sunset to be married. Both girls are cared for by seven dwarves, the main difference is how the girl came to be with them. The fairy tale is about a princess who is hated by her stepmother because of her beauty and is forced to run away into the woods or be killed. There she runs into the seven dwarves who take care of her and protect her. In the “Seven Stage a Comeback” the girl is the daughter of the seven dwarves. We can assume that they cared for her since birth until the moment she was carried away. The playstyle story shows what the dwarves went through after the girl left. They were heartbroken because of an ungrateful child who never thought to come back and visit the men who raised her after she found her own happiness.

All of the stories in the book are retelling fairy tales in different ways. Most readers are familiar with the fairy tales that are told in the book and can recall details while reading the book. Because the details of the fairy tales are familiar we are able to focus on different things in the retelling. In “Cinder Elephant” and “the Seven Stage Comeback” we do not focus on beautiful girls who suffer and then get their happily ever after, we focus on things that are more important than finding a prince to marry. Eleanor shows that intelligence is more important to finding someone who will truly care for her and be able to talk to her as an equal than what dress she decides to wear. The girl in “the Seven Stage Comeback” shows the harm that ungratefulness has on those who care for us. Each retold fairy tale allows the reader the opportunity to see more than the glitter and magic of fairy tales and see things that are more important to becoming a good person.