When I was small, my mother would always read bedtime stories to me. One of the stories she would always read was Harry Potter. The author J.K Rowling describes a wizarding academy – the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry - where many kinds of magical incantations and a variety of fantastic animals and plants reside. One time, I asked my mother,
“Mom, can I become a witch when I am eleven years old?”
This question seemed kind of ridiculous, but my mom just nodded and continued reading. Yes, we all know that wizards do not exist in the real world. However, no matter how fantastical the story was, J.K. Rowling’s words were magic. She actually made me believe that there existed a real magical world where I might be told that I have magical …show more content…
Unlike the “Republica And Grau”, which is set is closer to the real modern world, the story of “The Color Master” is based on a fairy tale – Donkeyskin– which is absolutely an imaginary story. However, it does not stop Bender’s journey to construct realistic characterization. When she wants to build the personality of the main character - the Color Master, she describes the differences between the Color Master and the ordinary …show more content…
For those stories, their tones are usually clear, concise, and straightforward because their audiences are much different from the stories we talked above. The main audiences for the previous fictions are adults or educated people. But the main audiences for fairytales are children. As we know, children are more open to trusting new things than adults because they do not have as much experience in the world as adults so they do not know or understand many things and mostly rely on their active imagination. They just need to be simple so that the children can understand the story using their limited understanding of language. Due to the fact that many fairy tales do not need to make much effort on character construction. In the story “Snow White”, the Snow White is described as pure and innocent and the queen is described as jealous and devilish (Grimm Brothers). The Grimm Brothers just give the plain personalities to the main characters. Children can easily know the characters by reading these kinds of stories because they cannot understand more complex. However, as people get older and older, they know more and more. They know the two persons are not able to fall in love at first sight; they know kissing cannot bring somebody back to life; they know the human nature is complicated. It can hardly determine a person is bad or good in the real world. Like
“Mom, can I become a witch when I am eleven years old?”
This question seemed kind of ridiculous, but my mom just nodded and continued reading. Yes, we all know that wizards do not exist in the real world. However, no matter how fantastical the story was, J.K. Rowling’s words were magic. She actually made me believe that there existed a real magical world where I might be told that I have magical …show more content…
Unlike the “Republica And Grau”, which is set is closer to the real modern world, the story of “The Color Master” is based on a fairy tale – Donkeyskin– which is absolutely an imaginary story. However, it does not stop Bender’s journey to construct realistic characterization. When she wants to build the personality of the main character - the Color Master, she describes the differences between the Color Master and the ordinary …show more content…
For those stories, their tones are usually clear, concise, and straightforward because their audiences are much different from the stories we talked above. The main audiences for the previous fictions are adults or educated people. But the main audiences for fairytales are children. As we know, children are more open to trusting new things than adults because they do not have as much experience in the world as adults so they do not know or understand many things and mostly rely on their active imagination. They just need to be simple so that the children can understand the story using their limited understanding of language. Due to the fact that many fairy tales do not need to make much effort on character construction. In the story “Snow White”, the Snow White is described as pure and innocent and the queen is described as jealous and devilish (Grimm Brothers). The Grimm Brothers just give the plain personalities to the main characters. Children can easily know the characters by reading these kinds of stories because they cannot understand more complex. However, as people get older and older, they know more and more. They know the two persons are not able to fall in love at first sight; they know kissing cannot bring somebody back to life; they know the human nature is complicated. It can hardly determine a person is bad or good in the real world. Like