Kelly Link's 'Travels With The Snow Queen'

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What happen when the reader goes to do something and something else happen and people tell one the opposite of their goal? Kelly link’s story “ Travels With The Snow Queen” demonstrates the girls will to want to travel and find he loved one. The actions of the main character will determine how everything will end. The way the author narrates the story put one in the girl shoes and makes them feel the same way she feel. The main character is conflicted while on her journey and questioned her while traveling to her destination.
The beginning of our story the author put you in a memory of ones travels to your destination. The reader asked a guardsman for a place to sleep, he points towards an inn. “As he or she sleep they dream about being on the road because there other place that one want to be. Their feet bloody from all the walking and your legs are sore buy the night you legs heal.” [Uncanny magazine] How this story starts is you’re on the road because you always wanted to travel. This shows
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Compared with Anderson's other work, this one is the most highly recognized by scholars for its literary merit. The story focuses on a girl and boy - Gerda and Kay - who take on the challenge between good and evil.”[Kellylinkstories.blogspot.com] Each character in this story comes from the work of Hans Christen Anderson. In this case “Travels With The Snow Queen” is a summary of seven stories written by Anderson. Each character that is met has it own story and gives the reader background on them. The little robber girl is in this story, she rescues Gerda from an old evil lady, who turns out to be the robber girls mother. Later she meet this Lapland woman and Finland woman, they tell her she needs to travel even further to her destination if she wishes to reach it. The Little Boy and Little Girl is the second story in this seven-story short story. It talks about how Kay and Gerda

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