Jack Zipes Child Abuse And Happy Meanings

When children have to go through the torture of an abusive childhood, they should be exposed to some therapeutic out the source of relieving the pain and hurt. With fairy tales they tend to make the common kid dream of a different future for themselves. For example, a little girl is told that she is not worth anyones time. When she reads a fairy tale she is the princess, hero, and protagonist of her own world. The alternate universe that many people use to escape their own lives are fairy tales. Within a fairy tale they have princesses, hero, princes, and happy endings. However, we can forget that there are villains, bad, and evil that have to be overcome to realize that. In Jack Zipes article “children's; child abuse and happy endings” explains …show more content…
Which is fairy tales. The ones you would have your mother read you when you are going to bed at night. However, not every fairy tales is good night story material. Zipes talks about the fact that the more gruesome the story the more it reminds adults about their own abandonment and neglect as a child. He uses different examples of Grimm brothers stories, like, hansel and Gretel. They were abandoned when young and left to defend on their own. Abandonment is something many people have felt in their lives. If not that then loneliness. How could an adult try to heal those feelings and try to get better? Hansel and Gretel had to find their way back home to heal what was done to them. To overcome that internal conflict they had to overcome their own external conflicts too. Zipes explains that everyone needs to overcome their own internal conflicts before they can achieve true …show more content…
What makes it OK to make the mistakes is whether or not we take responsibility for the mistake. Zipes made it apparent that adults tend to not take the blame upon ourselves and put it on the children. It is just easier to put it on the children because they are in an ignorant bliss. They will not see the harm in what adults do to them. Not until they are given such grief for it. They can live with the consequences and the adults get to go away scotch free. The example that Zipes used was “Little Red Riding Hood.” Little Red gets blamed for all the bad things that happened to her and her grandmother. The moral was that Little Red had to learn to never explore new things. However, Zipes revealed that children are not the one who are making the world dangerous. It is the adults. They never learn from what they have done because they only blame the children. They do not get to learn the lessons that the children have to learn and take the consequences for their