Comparing The Godfather, And The Moon By The Brothers

Fairy tales are a wonderful thing for many young children all over the world. They can teach life lessons that everyone should know as they grow to become part of society. Fairy tales also teach children the wrong way of living, causing them to expect the wrong things in life. Fairy tales show that the lower class is so desperate to find happiness that they will destroy themselves in the process of finding it. Some fairy tales that show this lesson are The Snow Man by Hans Christian Anderson, The Godfather by Brothers Grimm, and The Moon by The Brothers Grimm. In The Snow Man, the snowman wants to go see the stove, whom he thinks is really fascinating, but melts because he is distracted by it. In The Godfather, the poor man wants someone to …show more content…
People from the upper class are the ones who get it more often and much easier. The people from the lower class struggle to get happiness in their lives. In The Godfather, the poor man is searching for someone to become to godfather of his child. It is all that he wants in life, for all of his children to have a godfather, but he struggles to find one for his newest child, as everyone else in the world has already become the godfather to a different child of his. When he lies down to sleep, he has a dream that the first person he met outside the gates would become the godfather. The stranger at the gate hands him a glass of water and tells him that if death is standing by a sick persons head and they drink the water, they will live through the illness; if death is standing by their feet, they will die. The poor man quickly grows a career out of it, but still has not achieved his happiness; he goes to meet the Godfather to achieve his goal. In The Snow Man, the snowman is searching for happiness in the form of the stove. He understands that the stove is the opposite of him, but he is very infatuated by it. The yard-dog explains to him that the stove is very warm, and that the snowman is very cold, and those do not mix together well, but the snowman is very much intrigued with it. In The Moon, the three men want the moon for themselves because they saw how much other people loved it. They were …show more content…
In The Moon, the three men that took the moon lived their life happily because they had light in the nighttime, something they previously did not have because their town was of the lower class. Not long after the three men took the moon, one of them fell sick, and later died. When he was buried, a part of the moon was cut off and placed in his coffin, still providing a little bit of light. A little bit later, the other man fell sick and died, and he was also given a piece of the moon to be buried with. Finally, the last man died and he took the rest of the moon with him. The town was left with no light because it was taken away when the three men died. They destroyed themselves by taking care of the moon because there were so many things that had to be done to keep it in good shape. The ones that search for happiness in the lower class destroy themselves, both physically and mentally, in the time they take to find the