Week 4. Tatterhood. What do these traditional and well-known stories teach girls? What do they teach boys?
My original answer was: Previous stories we have read have taught girls that men are there to save them. In Cinderella, the prince carries her away from the evil life she leads. In Little Red Riding Hood, the girl makes bad decisions and is eaten up by the wolf, and then saved by the woodman. Snow White kissed by the prince. These stories teach boys that it is their responsibility to save the girl, to be their hero
Even though my original answer was pretty truthful, I have opened my original position of these stories from just a lesson of women overcoming obstacles to include that even if the lessons were to show that women need to be …show more content…
When we read stories like Snow White, Cinderella, or Sleeping Beauty we are allowing children to imagine good winning. But it doesn’t end there. It isn’t simple good over evil, it is preparing children for the real world and allowing them to play out in their minds how to protect themselves from the bad in the world. It is unrealistic to allow children to believe there is no bad in the world. Stories that have violence, whether physical or emotional teach children that life can be complicated and they have to prepare for it. Of course, there are exceptions when it come to the age of the child. Expecting a three year old to understand the original story of Cinderella tale as an unfortunate girl who loses her mother to death would be acceptable, this is real life. But to have them cognitively understand the original story where the sisters cut off their toes and heels, is not possible. The story “The Day it Snowed Tortillas” is not a physically violent story, instead it is a story of wit and trickery. The harm it may cause is the lack of respect the wife shows the husband by treating him like a fool. This is a lesson for any child, at any …show more content…
3. Tatterhood would be the book that I would have to say I enjoyed the most, so far. The author of Tatterhood drew me in by using women as the subject of heroism. The author changed the norm of men being noticed as heroes, to women using strength and wisdom to save the day. I was originally raised in an Italian household, I say originally because I left home at an early age. Being a girl, I was constantly reminded of how strong my brothers were and that, (we) women were to take of them. Whenever I would ask to do something the boys were doing, I was told no, because I was a girl. In Tatterhood, Ethel Phelps brings to the surface that women are the stronger of the two sexes. Through life experiences I have learned that women are stronger than men. I wish I was introduced to Tatterhood when I was younger, but I am glad to have read it now and have already exposed the book to my daughter so she can learn earlier in life that women can do anything, even if it is a little mischievous.
My original answer was: Previous stories we have read have taught girls that men are there to save them. In Cinderella, the prince carries her away from the evil life she leads. In Little Red Riding Hood, the girl makes bad decisions and is eaten up by the wolf, and then saved by the woodman. Snow White kissed by the prince. These stories teach boys that it is their responsibility to save the girl, to be their hero
Even though my original answer was pretty truthful, I have opened my original position of these stories from just a lesson of women overcoming obstacles to include that even if the lessons were to show that women need to be …show more content…
When we read stories like Snow White, Cinderella, or Sleeping Beauty we are allowing children to imagine good winning. But it doesn’t end there. It isn’t simple good over evil, it is preparing children for the real world and allowing them to play out in their minds how to protect themselves from the bad in the world. It is unrealistic to allow children to believe there is no bad in the world. Stories that have violence, whether physical or emotional teach children that life can be complicated and they have to prepare for it. Of course, there are exceptions when it come to the age of the child. Expecting a three year old to understand the original story of Cinderella tale as an unfortunate girl who loses her mother to death would be acceptable, this is real life. But to have them cognitively understand the original story where the sisters cut off their toes and heels, is not possible. The story “The Day it Snowed Tortillas” is not a physically violent story, instead it is a story of wit and trickery. The harm it may cause is the lack of respect the wife shows the husband by treating him like a fool. This is a lesson for any child, at any …show more content…
3. Tatterhood would be the book that I would have to say I enjoyed the most, so far. The author of Tatterhood drew me in by using women as the subject of heroism. The author changed the norm of men being noticed as heroes, to women using strength and wisdom to save the day. I was originally raised in an Italian household, I say originally because I left home at an early age. Being a girl, I was constantly reminded of how strong my brothers were and that, (we) women were to take of them. Whenever I would ask to do something the boys were doing, I was told no, because I was a girl. In Tatterhood, Ethel Phelps brings to the surface that women are the stronger of the two sexes. Through life experiences I have learned that women are stronger than men. I wish I was introduced to Tatterhood when I was younger, but I am glad to have read it now and have already exposed the book to my daughter so she can learn earlier in life that women can do anything, even if it is a little mischievous.