Reading Notes: Jacobs Part A
I was so pleased reading the Jacobs unit because it had all of the old fairy tales like Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and Puss in Boots but they are written in modern language which made it a whole lot easier to read than the other unit I did in Week 14.
The Cinderella story in this unit was called Cinder-Maid which I thought was clever since Cinderella was basically just the house maid by her step-sisters and her mother. However, the shoe that Cinderella lost was a golden shoe which is different from the other stories I have read.
The Beauty and the Beast story was very similar to the other ones I have read and the one that I used to create my own version of Beauty and the Beast. The daughter's name was Bella which is very close to the Disney version where her name is Belle. In the story, instead of there being a tea cup and candlestick that moved and talked, there were invisible hands. The beast appeared to have died at the end of the story, however the hide had split and a beautiful prince emerged from it. This was a fun little twist.
Although these stories were very similar to the ones I have grown up hearing, they had fun little twists that made them their own. This is the fun of creating our own stories.
Bibliography:
Author - Joseph Jacobs (1916)
Title - Europa's Fairy Book: Jacobs
Link - Mythology and Folklore UN-Textbook: Myth-Folklore Unit: Europa's Fairy Book
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