A World Full of Fairy Tales

A World Full of Fairy Tales
I chose to write about Fairy- Tale Logic by A.E Stallings. When I read this poem it sends be back to the fairy tale stories that I read as I was growing up, it puts you in a place of the dragons and trolls and man eating goats. In a way it can make you can tell what it could be like to be in a world like that. At the same time maybe we are. In today’s world it can be like that maybe not man eating goats, but like some people say a “dog eat dog” world. It can be a struggle to be to in today’s world, but at the same time there is some magic today like falling in love with someone that could be your prince or your princess. For some it can be selecting a “prince from a row of identical masks” or kissing a bunch of frogs before finding the prince.
No one will ask you to hand over your firstborn, but then again it may feel like that if you have a lot of debt and feel like you are trying to swim but can hardly keep your head above water or you are trying to take “a leaky boat over a sulfuric lake”, though that is something I would not suggest or would even want to try. You feel like you have to do something to rise above everything and have something up your sleeve or in that magic hat. If life were anything like a fairy tale we would be able to wave our magic wand and fix everything within a blink of a eye. You can often relate something in everyday life to a fairy tale that you have once read or heard at least once in your life. With every will there is a way. Stallings puts an image in your head of being in one of many fairy tale stories. You can put yourself into the story as one of the characters in one of the many stories that he describes in his poem. Though like I said earlier you can see this as a part of a real life scenario that can be related to something on today’s time. It would be nice if everyone had a magic wand and make all of their problems disappear, as long as it wasn’t illegal.
Being in real life is hard enough. Could you imagine adding trolls, sulfuric lakes and other imaginary creatures like dragons, it would make life that much more difficult. It would be hard enough as it is already to repay a debt, who knows in the fairy tale world you would have some of your flesh cut from your body or even handing over your first born. Granted some people now of days would more than gladly hand over their first born especially if they have hit their teen years. Today it feels like you have to “fight magic with magic” (Stallings, Line 9). Magic being almost anything you can imagine in today’s time. For example, lawyers against lawyers with their words or evidence. You have to use and think the impossible to get thru some of todays and maybe even tomorrow’s trials.
“The will to do whatever must be done,” describes what almost any mother would do for her child, even marrying a monster to help her child even though it means the worst for her. Well, sadly not all mothers would do that. Say that it is sneaking past the dragon to see that one person that you love the most and would give anything to be with them no matter the cost, or say the dragon wakes up. It would be like young love, like the young woman who sneaks out her bedroom window to her prince at the bottom waiting patiently with the motor running. In fairy tales there does seem to be so many impossible tasks that in the beginning it seems like there is no chance that the hero is going to be able to conquer or complete his tasks and it always seems that the villain is going to win.
I can tell you I would hate to be in a world that had man-eating goats, though we do have animals that would be more than happy to eat people. It is a “dog eat dog” world or the fittest will survive. Today you must be able to read and write fluently to be able to do anything in today’s world. You must be able to fight to achieve the highest you possibly can to go anywhere and to be worth something. You must be able to provide for yourself to survive or you will be thrown to the wolves.
There could be a chance that a homeless person that you walk by every day could possibly be one the richest people in the world hiding behind “a invisibility cloak” just hoping to be noticed for just being them, even though there’s a good chance that they aren’t rich. Really how many rich people do you see on the street acting as homeless people? What would it be like to in a world full of fairy tales? I’m sure after a while it would get very tiring seeing fairies, trolls, wizards and talking animals. Could you even imagine coming up to a sulfur lake and only having a leaky wooden boat. As I think about a sulfuric lake, it makes me think again of the impossible, of being so surrounded y something that seems like you are drowning and not being able to swim. I guess if you were in a lake such as that, you would be swallowed up as soon as you came in contact with it.
So how do you fight the everyday challenges? You have to believe in the impossible, you have to try your hardest and do what you must to be the “top dog” in today’s world. If you believe enough you can always find a little magic in your life and hopefully defeat the dragon or a have a “army of ants at your beck” and call though the ants can be anything to help you thru the day, like 10 cups of very strong coffee. Everything will be a struggle and it may seem like you are ready to give and finally just hand over your firstborn son just so you can finally win the fight. You must beat the man eating goats by the hairs of their chin and be able to slip past the sleeping dragon to get to your true love. Even though everything seems impossible, if there is a will there is a way to defeat and conquer anything and everything standing in your way

Fairy Tale

I chose to write about Fairy- Tale Logic by A.E Stallings. When I read this poem it
sends be back to the fairy tale stories that I read as I was growing up, it puts you in a place of the dragons and trolls and man eating goats. In a way it can make you wonder what it could be like to be in a world like that. At the same time maybe we are. In today’s world it can be like that maybe not man eating goats, but like some people say a “dog eat dog” world. It can be a struggle to be to in today’s world, but at the same time there is some magic today like falling in love with someone that could be your prince or your princess. For some it can be selecting a “prince from a row of identical masks” or kissing a bunch of frogs before finding the prince.
No one will ask you to hand over your firstborn, but then again it may feel like that if you have a lot of debt and feel like you are trying to swim but can hardly keep your head above water or you are trying to take “a leaky boat over a sulfuric lake”, though that is something I would not suggest or would even want to try. You feel like you have to do something to rise above everything and have something up your sleeve or in that magic hat. If life were anything like a fairy tale we would be able to wave our magic wand and fix everything within a blink of a eye. You can often relate something in everyday life to a fairy tale that you have once read or heard at least once in your life. With every will there is a way.

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The Goonies-Deleted Octopus Scene

Nabokov’s Good Readers and Good Writers

With Nabokov’s Good Readers and Good Writers essay, he believes that the reader should have an imagination and have some artistic sense. He believes that the reader should be able to put them self in the position of the main character of the story. The reader should be able to understand the depth and the meaning behind the words.  They can use that imagination and artistic sense to help further their knowledge and understanding in the story and to help bring them even deeper into the book.

I totally agree with these characteristics. I believe that when you read you should be able to envision what is happening with the story. I want to be able to put myself in that position, to feel what the characters are feeling in the story. I think that every good reader should be able to use their imagination and put themselves into the story. It makes things more interesting. As for being a good reader myself, I think I am. I like to picture what it would be for me to be in that situation. 

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