2. The exposition of the story are the princesses, the king, and where the princesses go at night. An example is “As soon as you put that on you will become invisible, and you will then be able to follow the princesses wherever they go.”
3. The rising action is when the king finds the princesses worn out shoes and he then creates a challenge to find out where they go at night. A poor solider meets an old women and she told him where he can go to find them. He goes into the castle to discover where they go. The climax of this story is when the soldier follows the princesses to the ball and he ends up taking 3 branches from the silver, gold, and diamond trees. The falling action of the story is the soldier …show more content…
I think the protagonist is the soldier because he helped the king find where the princesses have been going. There are no antagonist.
5. The most important trait of the soldier is that he is loyal because and consistent.
6. Static character of this story is the king because he kept his promise to the soldier throughout the whole story. “And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife”.
7. A dynamic character of this story is the soon to be prince (the soldier) because he ends up marring the eldest princess. “And the king asked the soldier which of them he would choose for his wife; and he answered, ’I am not very young, so I will have the eldest.’”
8. An old soldier, a character in the Brothers Grimm story “The Twelve Dancing Princesses” came back from the war wounded and could no longer fight. He is brave because he took on the king’s challenge to find out where his daughters are going at night. The challenge was if you didn’t find them within 3 night you would be killed. Determination was another trait the soldier had because he had to follow the princesses. An old women gave him a cloak to make him appear invisible, the old soldier was determined to try his luck. Conflicts that could affect the soldier from finding the princesses and marrying one is that he only has a certain amount of time. The soldier ultimate goal is to marry one of the princesses and become