Myth Folklore

In the first Ted Talk the woman talked about how a single story was dangerous and would create an idea in a persons head which might not be true. I really related with this story because all my life I've been part of a single story. I have had so many people come up to me and would be surprised when I would speak english clearly because their first thought was that I was born in a different country and was an immigrant. I was born here but people always reduce my life to where my parents are from and what they have seen from the news. If they were to know more stories about me then they would understand that I wasn't just a brown man but someone that was born here and understood the culture, even making it my own. In the second Ted Talk it talked about how we are connected so much to the idea of fictional characters. I was surprised to see that people usually cared about fictional characters more but understood that they should not be feeling that way. It makes sense however ...

In this weeks reading I chose to do fairy tales because I have always heard that fairy tales are darker then they seem. I have been told that since a kid the fairy tales I hear about are not the true original stories and have deeper meanings with much more going on in the stories. Some of the stories I recognized like the one about the three little pigs and others I did not like the one about the wizard and the book. The three little pigs story seemed like it was going to be the normal story but I never knew they had asked a man for the things to build their house. The version I heard was that the pigs just found the materials and made their houses. I had heard in one version the pigs just ran to the next house that was still standing and in another they were ate like in this version. I had never heard about how the final pig was being stalked by the wolf after he had tried to blow his brick house. The wolf tried to trick the pig into coming out of the house but the pig would always ...