Why do you think Louise Murphy chose the fairy tale setting of "Hansel and Gretel" as a parallel setting to her Holocaust story?
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I think two reasons could explain the writer's choice. Firstly,she chooses a famous and largely known story. So, the topic is quite familiar to students. Using that, Louise Murphy tells her own holocaust story. Secondly, the purpose is to show to students that not all fairy tales are happy and beautiful.
I recon that author chose this fairytale as parallel setting to her story, because its characters and places were suitable. Two kids, father, stepmother,good and bad guys, forests and horror, that's everything she needed for creating her own story. Well known story helps readers to feel this one better.
As we have so many stories about war, its difficult to choose which one to read. This one is kind of unusual one. Also because its so hard to attract young people to read something about past. i think that teenagers wants to read books only about sex and other teenagers life's. This book is a good way to draw in them. I'm not saying that this book is written for teenagers, but its very suitable for them.
I agree with all three comments. It's a wonderful novel, thanks to which we can learn a lot. Nowadays teenagers do everything except for reading books and developing their imagination. I love your classes and I guess they are the best from all. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about such a beautiful book as the true story of Hansel and Gretel.
In my point of view Author choose this fairy-tale simmilar to Brothers Grimm story of "Hansel and Gretel" because of their simmilarity in imaging world and true life. Brothers Grimms story has the same characters and used some of them in different way. For instance in the fairy-tail were real canibals and in this book author replaced the by German/Russian enemies. I would say this is a soft and literal approach to tell the horrible story of holocaust using the frame or background of fairy-tail.
I think Louise Murphy chose this fairytale as a parallel setting because it's wll known story, it has its analogues all over the world. So, people would be interested to read another variation of this story and this variation is really close to reality, I think. Who knows if there wasn't really two Jew children who were hidden in the hut in the middle of thew woods??
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I think two reasons could explain the writer's choice.
Firstly,she chooses a famous and largely known story. So, the topic is quite familiar to students. Using that, Louise Murphy tells her own holocaust story.
Secondly, the purpose is to show to students that not all fairy tales are happy and beautiful.
I recon that author chose this fairytale as parallel setting to her story, because its characters and places were suitable. Two kids, father, stepmother,good and bad guys, forests and horror, that's everything she needed for creating her own story. Well known story helps readers to feel this one better.
As we have so many stories about war, its difficult to choose which one to read. This one is kind of unusual one.
Also because its so hard to attract young people to read something about past. i think that teenagers wants to read books only about sex and other teenagers life's. This book is a good way to draw in them.
I'm not saying that this book is written for teenagers, but its very suitable for them.
I agree with all three comments. It's a wonderful novel, thanks to which we can learn a lot. Nowadays teenagers do everything except for reading books and developing their imagination.
I love your classes and I guess they are the best from all. Thank you for the opportunity to talk about such a beautiful book as the true story of Hansel and Gretel.
In my point of view Author choose this fairy-tale simmilar to Brothers Grimm story of "Hansel and Gretel" because of their simmilarity in imaging world and true life. Brothers Grimms story has the same characters and used some of them in different way. For instance in the fairy-tail were real canibals and in this book author replaced the by German/Russian enemies. I would say this is a soft and literal approach to tell the horrible story of holocaust using the frame or background of fairy-tail.
I think Louise Murphy chose this fairytale as a parallel setting because it's wll known story, it has its analogues all over the world. So, people would be interested to read another variation of this story and this variation is really close to reality, I think. Who knows if there wasn't really two Jew children who were hidden in the hut in the middle of thew woods??
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