lessons of life
Steve sat at the dinner table eating breakfast with Steve's little sister, Jessy, sat across from him. "Steve", she said, "where's skipper?" "He's gone now" I said. "Is he up in heaven? I want him back." "Me too," Steve said. "I miss him a lot," she said. "I know," Steve said, "so do I." Death is a hard concept for a small child to grasp. Its difficult to explain how someone can be here one day and gone the next. Children sometimes do not fully understand it, but when a loved one such as a parent dies a child can be devastated. Loss is something that everyone has to deal with at some point in his or her life. Fairy tales help children deal with life's difficulties such as death and separation anxiety by exposing them to it at an early age. Separation from a loved one is a common problem in many fairy tales. Often the heroine is separated from her lover, her parents, or the world that she grew up in. This is the case in the fairy tale "Thumbelina". Thumbelina is taken away from her home and wanders the strange outside world for months. Eventually, she meets a mouse who has it arranged so that Thumbelina is to marry a mole and live underground for the rest of her life. Thumbelina is distresse
Grimm "Snow White." A Treasury of Children Literature. Ed. Armand Eisen. Boston: Arial Books, 1992. 112-128. Anderson, Hans Christian "Thumbelina." A Treasury of Children Literature. Ed. Armand Eisen. Boston: Arial Books, 1992. 296-303
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