Once Upon a Time…

I chose “From Brother’s Grimm to Disney” because I grew up in a very poor family. I was also one of the youngest of seven siblings, I was the first person to graduate high school and first to come to college. I needed something to tell me anything could happen for someone like me. I found fairytales first as hand me down videos from my sister. They allowed me the comfort of believing that anything could happen with just a little hope. Growing up I believed in the Disney fairytales, thinking they were the original, then I found the original stories my sophomore year of high school. This sparked my interest in the original fairytales, so when I saw that McDaniel offered a FYS on it, I waned to take the class to learn more of the origins of other fairytales. I hope to learn why fairytales help us through hard times in our life or why they create hope for someone like me when all they are are just a compilation of words that really mean nothing. They don’t provide any truth or fact that anything would ever actually happen in life.
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My favorite fairytales are Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Brave. I like these fairytales because they have quite literally shaped who I am. Snow white taught me to love nature; Arora taught me to be nice to everyone; Cinderella taught me to not give up even in hard times; and Merida taught me to be myself and not conform to something you don’t agree with. Out of them I would say that I prefer Cinderella and Merida just because I feel like I learned more from them.

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