John Steinbeck's 'My Grandmother': A True Story

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This story explains the story of fairy tale in which the dreams play a big role in this story. This story also explain the inter wishing of a person and his faintly over his love one. He believes to have power, to get the women of his drams and to find a way out of the frost. A woman was raise in the Holocaust and now her story is told in a fairy tale so little children can understand. This story is manly a flash back that she had. Her grandmother was killed for her religion, not knowing she made it through the Holocaust. Trying to explain her story to her little love ones, she thinks the best way to explain her story. This story is most defiantly a fairy tale. The words and phase use in this story is what make it a fairy tale story. With words that seem so magical is not a strong statement to make this a true story. Using the words once upon of a time is another …show more content…
Well, many people like nonfiction story. The story would be easier on the author to make this up as he/her goes on. Having dreams of her flash back, she tries to wake up. Thinking if her grandmother was a princess still comes across her mind. Anish wanting to know more about her grandmother pass,she kept asking where her life did and question if her grandmother was making this up. A man name Josef ran into Becca and told her everything, about her grandmother. After the entire story that her grandmother told her, and what she heard it from Josef, she found out that her story was like a horror story. This was a reflection of World War 2, in which her grandmother was a part of. In a fairy tale, people always expect a happen ending. With that, this will leave people guessing that the author purpose in writing such book or story. As her grandmother use herself in another image so that her grand kids can understand better, she use sleeping beauty knowing that they will listen to her. By doing that, it was easier for her to tell the story of her

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