Fairytales:Now and then.

Fairytales...Bedtime stories for children...This is what you think or know? Well...No!



   Many,Many years ago,people used to tell tales or their experiences to other people. Usually around a fire.Their stories mostly had bad end or were symbolic. In general,Fairytales were Real stories. It is true...Just  check it out.

   Personally,i know many fairytales and myths. The best past is to pass the feelings of a fairytale to other people adults or kids. You can see their excitement on their eyes...So...When you reveal them the true ends of fairytales like Cinderella,Snowhite or Little Riding Hood,suprise appears in their faces.
 




   It is so intresting to learn the true or alternative ends of fairytales. You may noticed that many movies have been released and their ends are different from the classic ones.Also,there was an announcement that Disney won't create any fairytale movie in the close future because kids aren't intressed in tales,mythical battles or princessed.Unfortunately,materialism is spotted even in kids who want to be pretty and rich,than princesses or heros.

 

From Kei Ishiyama's manga

     So it is really intresting and different to see alternative ends.Many fairytales changed for the kids' sake but none of you thought different ends? Books,movies even manga exist,presenting the real end or even imaginary conclusion. I do search for a book like this which no shop has it! But i have a really sweet manga book of Kei Ishiyama,in which Grimms' fairytales feature. In this book Bad Wolf and Little Riding Hood (I hope i say it right) are getting well.In reality,there is no huntsman who saves her and our heroine is all grown-up lady.Young woman,not a little girl.



   It is true,a majority of fairytales were changed to appeal and teach a lesson to kids. So Any Tale with bad end was modified even by the writer himself,like Little Mermaid of Andersen.(again,sorry for the spelling).Is this good or bad thing? Should kids know that there bad moments in life?

 Maybe we should focus on kids' development who don't like listening to fairytales.It is not the content of a fairytale that should bothers us but how we receive the end.

Really,when was the last time you listened to a fairytale?