Getting there…
Lately I’ve been spending more time reading than actually writing. I have almost 15 pages of text, but I need to start thinking about what I really want to convey in this paper. I have (as we talked about in class) regurgitated quite a bit of information, and am still reading more and more to learn as much as I can about my topic. However, tying all the pieces together to make it “my own” paper is what I really want to start thinking about. One thing that has helped me do this is relating the sections in my paper to one another. By making my own inferences about why this means that and how this could have influenced that helps put a little bit more “me” into my paper.
This week, I have spent a lot of time reading actualy original fairy tales. After researching their history and development, I now want to read as many of the actual tales as I can and then relate those tales to what I have learned about their origins (hopefully this makes sense). I am finding the tales very interesting and fun to read, especially those that I already know (such as Cinderella) and finding out their original text was much different than what I know. I’ll spend the rest of this week reading tales and interpreting them, as well as doing a bit of biographical research on a few fairy tale writers/collectors.
I feel like it’s finally coming together!
The Snow Queen
Here is a link to my comic strip:
C:\Documents and Settings\Michelle Matthews\My Documents\Michelle\Eng489_AdvComp\The Snow Queen_AndersenforWeb\Launcher.html
Fun Things
After being a bit bogged down with history and culture, I have decided to spend a bit of time actually reading and analyzing some of the fairy tales I want to talk about in my paper. I have narrowed it down to three main writers I want to include in the paper, and I plan on choosing at least 2 works to discuss in detail for each author. The writers are Charles Perrault, The Grimm Brothers, and Hans Christian Andersen. The first story I chose to read was “The Snow Queen,” by Hans Christian Andersen. It was a very fun and intriguing story to read, and definitely brought out some characteristics of the lower class that I have been reading about. I decided it would be fun to make a comic strip about it, and possibly about a few other fairy tales as well. That way I can include tales in my paper without having to basically paraphrase them, which is a rather boring read. The tale itself is always better than the summary! I will spend the next week delving into these three writers and analyzing their works, then I would work on molding the history and these writers into a smoother paper. Lastly, I still plan to do a bit of research on the use of fairy tales today.
