This shows both traditional and modern themes in the idea that the poor man stays poor and should know his place which is very traditional however there is also the idea that the man is only poor because of his choices which is a fairly modern theme. This fairy tale teaches kids that people should take advantage of opportunities in their life but also that they shouldn’t get ahead of themselvesand to think before making important decisions.

After about 2 minutes of waiting a nice man pulled over and asked where they were going. The two girls told him they wanted to go to Target but it is too far to walk and wanted to see if someone would take them there. The man, being as kind as he was, smiled and said that he was actually on the way to Target and that he would be more than happy to take them with him! Being absolutely ecstatic Willow and Salem got into the man's truck with no second thought. 

Salem was looking at the window so excited to get to their destination, but she quickly realized that the man took a wrong turn. She quickly spoke up and told him “ Hey the turn to get to Target was back there”. The man reassured her and said that he knew a faster way to get to the store. However, about 20 minutes passed and both girls realized they were far far far away from their intended destination. 

3 hours later they pulled up at a random house in the middle of the woods and neither of them were ever seen or heard from again.

I wrote my Fairy Tale based on the new thing of serial killers and sex trafficking, but overall just not trusting strangers. Even with the older idea of having to hitchhike to get where you want to go, the common idea of sex trafficking and exploitation is still very real and very serious today with our time in the media. However, the traditional fairy tale theme I selected was the two helpless children most notably as seen in Hansel and Gretal. 

Rachel had just gotten out of something that turned out to be nothing. She had been used for 6 months by a guy older than her but once he found out there was nothing to be used because she wouldn’t give anything he left. But he didn’t just leave. He got cruel towards her. Every day Rachel dreaded going to school in fear of him. He truly scared her to her core. She tried to talk to Dorothey about it but she just didn’t understand the extent. It wasn’t her fault. She has always been wanted. At all times in her life. Dorothy had just gotten into a relationship. This wasn’t a normal relationship. It was the most wholesome, loving, and genuine relationship Rachel had ever seen. When Dorothy would talk about it to Rachel it would upset her but she did want to be happy for her best friend. She was truly happy for Dorothy. Dorothy deserved this in every way. But Rachel couldn’t help but feel an absurd amount of envy every time she heard Dorothey talk about him. Rachel felt like a kick to the stomach every time Dorothy talked about this because it just made Rachel feel more and more unloveable. A part of Rachel knew she wouldn’t find true genuine love but she couldn’t help but be a hopeless romantic. Unfortunately, she stayed dreaming but now she had a chance at this type of love. 

Rachel was very energetic and talkative but she started to like the opposite of her. She started liking Charlie. Charlie was not talkative at all and very much kept to himself. Rachel knew it was a stretch to get him to notice her. Whenever she talked to Dorothey about this she would just tell her to go for it. But Dorothy didn’t realize that Rachel couldn’t do that. She was no Dorothy. This crush Rachel had was what kept her afloat in her drowning idea of love. But then she realized no one can love her if she doesn’t love herself.

Rachel tried to spend more time working on becoming better. But it was very hard to take years back of hatred towards one's self. She always had in the back of her mind that Dorothey was winning. She didn’t know what it was that she was winning at. This made it harder for Rachel not to hate herself because every time she caught herself being envious of Dorothy she would hate herself for not being happy with her best friend's success. She worked on trying to be loved and love herself. One night she realized. It’s impossible. She gave up. She realized she truly didn’t care what people thought of her. She knew she was a fun person to be around and it was the others missing out. She couldn’t help how other people saw her and she wasn’t gonna kill herself trying to prove that she was lovable. At the time it still hurt and she felt sadness for not being loved. But she chose things that she could love. She focused on one thing field hockey.

Rachel put everything into field hockey. And by everything, truly everything. She spent every day practicing. If she couldn’t love herself or be loved by others she could love and be loved by field hockey.

This story is about not comparing yourself to others and putting your love where its deserved.

The old man loved his seclusion from the outside world.

The old man kept a garden to grow his food and keep himnself busy.

After many years of seclusion and gardening there was a incredibly violent storm.

In the aftermath of this storm his garden was destroyed.

So the old man was forced to venture into town to buy supplies and repair his garden.

Along with these supplies the man picked up some seeds of a strange sort.

The old man toiled and toiled away rebuilding the garden he lost.

After he was finished the old man planted these seeds and left them to grow.

The following day as he went to check his garden there was a piercing sound coming from the garden.

To the mans surprise there was a baby with a little green sprout on its head.

The old man who was used to being alone was thrusted into fatherhood.

One month later the child had already grown into an adult.

The old man was so happy that his son who he had only met 30 days prior was growing up so fast.

Another month follows and the old man’s son had grown into a middle aged man.

The old man was starting to get worried but still relished the time he had with his son.

Once again another month had passed and the old mans child was the same age as as himself.

The old man was starting to get scared that his son would pass and leave him alone once again. 

The inevitable occurred and his son passed the old man was so distraught.

He decided that being alone was not worth it and moved into town where he was able make many friends  and live happily ever after. 

In our story, the theme is that good triumphs over evil because Mella puts Adward in his place. The “modern” part of our story is that A strong and independent woman puts a man in his place, raither than the man saves her. Also, our story talks about how men and woman should be a certain way. Our story talks about the double standards of dating too, because it is normalized that Adward gets so many girls and no one looks twice. 

This fairy tale uses positive work ethic and self fulfillment as a road to achievement instead of natural appearance and history. This fairy tale teaches you to work hard and you might just make it and that no physical limitation has to be a mental limitation. 

On the outskirts lived a witch. This witch smelled like beans all the time. In a society governed by smells, the witch didn’t quite meet their criteria. She was effectively banished from the inside of the kingdom, as everyone was so repulsed by her odor. The townspeople refrained from strolling in the woods at night, in fear of getting a whiff full of beans for themselves.

The witch lived a lonesome life. It made her quite sad, but the distance proved to be quite advantageous when a plague spread through the inside of the kingdom. To all of the royal court’s dismay, the fair princess had begun to cough, sneeze, and shake. It was evident that she’d caught the virus.

The townspeople were freaking out, and trying to find anything to cure her while also trying to take care of themselves. They were angry, trying to find any explanation. So, the angry townspeople did the thing most people do in times of crisis: point fingers. They swiftly went out to the woods and knocked on the door of the witch. The witch was being accused by the mob! They thought she’d done it because she was jealous of being cast out. But that wasn’t the case! The witch wasn’t evil.

She decided, in order to prove her innocence, she would find the proper ingredients for the cure. The three ingredients included lavender, honey, and sage. The witch knew exactly where to find these ingredients, as she routinely foraged the woods!

The witch went off in search of the first ingredient: lavender.

She had to go to a clearing in the middle of the beans forest on a nearby mountain. She walked and walked and walked, then climbed and climbed and climbed, and soon enough she saw a huge patch of lavender at the top! The lavender was bathed in bright sun, and smelled amazing.

Once she bundled the lavender, she went off in search of the next thing: honey.

The town harvested their honey from the famous Honey Waterfall. To the townspeople, this was a long walk, but for the witch who lived on the outskirts of town, it only took 10 minutes! She walked and walked and walked, then climbed and climbed and climbed, and soon enough she saw the honey glistening in the sun! The honey dripped slowly and beautifully from the top.

Once she gathered a jar or two, she went off in search of the last item: sage.

Sage was pretty common in the forest. It could be found growing in bundles under large oak trees. The witch simply walked outside of her cabin, and harvested plenty.

The witch filled her cauldron and made the potion in record time. She wanted to cure the princess out of the kindness in her heart! She made her way to the castle in a perfect disguise, but they could still smell the faint scent of beans that followed her. She presented the cure to the princess. The girl was weary at first, but decided to try it anyway as the sickness was quite awful and she wished to get rid of it. 

The cure worked wonders. The princess felt better in mere minutes, and thanked the witch graciously. The princess apologized for assuming the witch was bad because of her smell, and told the witch that she was one of the bravest people in the entire kingdom.

To pay the witch back for her efforts, she appointed her as the kingdom’s doctor. The witch did her job well, and was accepted with open arms back into castle life. Over time, everyone grew to love the smell of beans!

This fairy tale emphasizes the halo effect in which people make rapid decisions based on one singular trait. In this story’s case, it was the witch smelling like beans. We also included the repetition of three’s in several ways. Three ingredients in the potion, and the mention of walking and climbing three times. The plague in the story represents the modern issue of COVID-19 and how people were quick to judge the area of origin.

“What’s wrong?” asked her sister.

“Something feels off about this, but I’m not quite sure what it is.”

“Oh, I’m sure it’s nothing. Come along! I’m starving, and can’t wait to see what Mom packed for lunch!” The oldest sighed, and started walking into the forest, following behind her sister, who was skipping along the dirt road. They made their way far into the forest, arriving at the point where the grass turns into dirt and pine straw. Again, the eldest stopped, uneasy.

“What’s wrong now?” inquired the youngest.

“I don’t know, but I feel uneasy. Something is eating away at me, but I can’t explain why,” she responded.

“Well… maybe you forgot something at the castle?”

“Hm… maybe that’s it.” Even after considering the items that she left at the castle, she still felt uncomfortable, like there was something evil lurking. The youngest linked arms with her sister and they kept going through the forest. Eventually, they found a log that had fallen across the dirt path.

“Watch me balance on this log!” cried out the older sister. She placed the picnic basket on the path and ran up to the fallen tree. Stepping onto the log, she held her arms out to balance herself, and slowly started to walk along the bark.

“Wait for me! I want to go next!” the younger sister shouted. The girls started walking along the log in turns, one behind the other.

“Maybe we ought to get going, we don’t want to be out too late,” the older sister said, turning around to face her younger sister, but nobody was behind her. 
“Hey, where’d you go?”
The princess started to panic, realizing she was the only one in sight. She jumped off the log and hurried to the picnic basket. It was untouched, sending even more worry through the princess.
“This isn’t funny! Come back!” she cried out, but the only response was the whistling wind in the trees. A shudder ran down her spine.
“I’m going back home! I don’t like your silly little game, and I suggest you come with me before I leave you in the forest!” The princess waited for an answer, but didn’t get one. Heart beating fast, she looks around before she makes her way back to the castle. The wind started to blow harder, and the clouds turned gray. She turned around once more to see if her sister was behind her, and met a large beast.
“Looking for this?” the beast said, holding a piece of cloth that came off of the younger sister's dress.

The moral of this story is to trust your gut, even when there seems to be nothing wrong or unusual. Typical elements of storytelling are in this piece, such as the main characters being two princesses who live in a castle by the woods. There is also a mythical beast, which is usually common in stories that have some sort of royalty. This story teaches children to believe in themselves and trust their gut instincts, and in this case, it was represented by the older princess feeling uneasy about the picnic in the woods.

As the years went by, the two animals grew close and were best friends, or that's what the rabbit thought. The snake started getting the rabbit into trouble, taking advantage of her forgiveness and kindness, and constantly bringing her down just to make her feel better about herself. That's how snakes are to rabbits, just like how mean girls pick on the “nice” or “innocent” girls that won’t be mean back. Soon, the snake started manipulating the rabbit and ditched her all the time for “cooler” friends that were snakes just like her. Everything the rabbit would try to do, the snake would sabotage. The rabbit gave the snake four chances to be a better friend, but the snake never changed. Whether it was relationships, or doing something for herself, the snake would always ruin it and make everything about her. She was a narcissistic brat.

 Eventually, the rabbit stopped giving the snake chances and realized what a bad friend she was. The snake soon realized she had no real friends that cared about her the way the rabbit did. The rabbit also learned to not let “friends” take advantage of her forgiving and kind nature. The rabbit started standing up for herself so no one would walk over her again. As for the snake, she got into a lot of trouble, hung out with other snakes and had no real friends, and ultimately found herself lost. Now the rabbit can tell the difference between someone that is a snake, and someone who is not a snake, and doesn’t let her guard down because there’s always someone that is going to be mean to someone else just to fuel their self-esteem.

                Sociological Content

The moral of this story is that people need to recognize red flags in their friends and kinda distance themselves from them if they aren’t being a good friend and are constantly trying to get them to change the way they are or get into trouble. The snake is a classic example of a mean girl and the rabbit is just one of those innocent kids who just wanted a friend but was too nice and let others stomp on them. That’s one modern thing, people in society right now are emphasizing the “red flags” and encouraging people to make sure they aren’t with someone that's gonna bring them down whether it's a romantic relationship or just a friendship. A more traditional element is the animals I chose, I feel like snakes were always seen as evil or misleading and animals like rabbits were innocent and more on the nice side. The snake ties into the mean girl thing and the rabbit with the innocent and sweet girl. 

I made this fairy tale and it is about child trafficking and kidnapping. In this case Tyler and Ethan were young and were probably never taught by their mom and dad to never take anything from strangers. The kidnapper is the antagonist of the story and is the ‘villain’ who kidnapps the children and tries to take them to his house. While Tyler and Ethan were young, they were both the protagonists and the main characters. Child kidnapping is fairly common especially to tobblers. Which is why you should teach your kids about this at a very young age.

So he went up to the child and helped him confirm the order for the large amounts of candy that the child had in his wagon totaling at a cost of $669.75. The child then said “thank you!” and gave him some of the candy. Samuel walked out of the store and saw a young woman struggling to open a car door, he then goes up to her and asks if she needs any assistance, the woman then starts shushing Samuel because of how loud he is. He then goes to the back of the SUV and opens the trunk of the car, he climbs in and opens the door from the inside for the woman. 

She then smiles and picks up the toolbox filled with lock picks and large hammers, as I get out she says “thank you!” and gives Samuel a ski mask she was wearing over her head as some sort of reward. Samuel lived in Florida, but you never know when you need a ski mask to go skiing. While he was biking home he saw a dog in a cage who was aching to get out, he then went up to help the poor dog out. He went up to the dog and used the key hanging next to the cage to let him out.

The dog then runs away as he is now free from his cage and can live on without worrying about being in a cage. After he made it home, he got a knock on the door. He looked at his ring camera and saw a frustrated mother, a police officer, and an old lady holding the Yorkie dog that he had freed. He then opened the door wondering if he was having a surprise party at his house.

The frustrated mother, holding her wallet, accused him of “teaching her son to use her credit card without permission”, Samuel couldn’t believe it, he surely would have never done something like that to an innocent boy. After the mother was done ranting, Samuel gave all the savings he had from his summer job to the woman in order to pay her back. The Officer then came over and said that Samuel had “participated in an illegal carjack”, Samuel then got a fine of $2000, and now the money for his savings next Summer is also going to be drained down the gutter. The Old Lady came up to him and started tugging his ear and yelling that he “broke the dog out of the cage and made him escape”, Samuel started to realize that when he was helping people, he was helping them do the wrong things. Thus making him punished for what he had done, even out of good intentions.

Context:
This story is meant to teach children that it is important to mind your own business even if it seems morally right, as it can cause you to get into situations that can negatively affect you. I think that this is an important life lesson that can help reduce the stress of having multiple things going on.

One day, the man decided to remarry. The woman he married also had a teenage daughter named Greta that wasn’t too pretty. She was vain and mean and didn’t like to do any chores or help out.

The stepmother didn’t like Mila and she was mean to her, so one day Mila decided to run away. She walked for a while and she got tired so she decided to stop by a well. The well was old and dried and full of weeds so Mila started to pull the weeds and clean the well. Suddenly the well started to talk and said “Thank you good girl for taking care of me I’ll never forget and maybe someday I’ll repay you”. Mila left the well and after a while, she decided to sit under a pear tree for some shade. The pear tree was covered in caterpillars so Mila decided to help the tree and she took all of the caterpillars off of the pear tree. Then the pear tree started talking and thanked Mila for her goodness and for saving him. After she got some rest, she continued walking and stumbled upon a house in the forest. She knocked on the door and an old woman answered. Mila told the woman that she just needs some shelter for the night and the woman agreed to let her stay. Mila started to clean the house and do the dishes and sweep the floors and even make dinner for the both of them. Before she went to bed, the old woman transformed into a beautiful young woman because she was a forest fairy. She told Mila she would repay her for her kindness and she told her to go into the attic and pick up a chest but told her not to open it until she gets home. Mila went into the attic and saw it was full of treasure chests of all sizes so she picked a small one and came back. The fairy was surprised so she asked why she picked a small one and Mila said she thinks that was what she deserves. The next morning, she decided to return home and show her dad the treasure chest. On her way back, she found the pear tree that she helped and the branches were full of ripe pears. The tree lowered his branches for her so she could pick as many as she wanted. After she ate and rested, she continued walking. She got really thirsty and came upon the well from yesterday. The well gave her cold refreshing water. The girl thanked the well and continued to walk. She arrived home and her dad was so happy to see her for he had missed her dearly as well as she missed him. The stepmother and stepsister weren’t happy. Mila told them what happened and they opened the treasure chest. The chest started spilling beautiful clothing and money and jewelry. When they saw the miracle, the stepmother told Greta to leave immediately and find the house in the woods and get her chest. 

Greta left and she stumbled upon the well which was again in a bad shape. The well asked Greta for help, but she said she will do no such thing to ruin her nails, so she left the well. After a while, she stumbled upon the pear tree which was full of caterpillars and the tree asked Greta to help him, but she refused. After some time, she found the house in the woods and the old lady opened the door for her. Greta didn’t help the lady with any chores, she complained a lot and finally went to bed. The old lady transformed again into a beautiful fairy, and told the girl to get into the attic and pick up a chest but not to open it until she got home. While she was in the attic, the girl picked the biggest chest she could find and brought it down. She told the fairy that it is what she thinks she deserves. She left the house, dragging her huge chest for it was very heavy. But she was looking forward to showing her mom what she got. She got hungry and she found the pear tree which was now full of delicious pears and she tried to grab some so she could eat. But the tree raised his branches so she couldn’t reach any. Upset, she started to walk again, dragging her huge chest. Hungry and thirsty, she found the well. But when she tried to get water, she couldn’t reach it. Finally, exhausted, she arrived home and because she was selfish, she didn’t want her stepsister and father to see the “treasures” from her chest. So she went into her room with her mom and opened it. From the chest, all kinds of wild beasts came out and ate them both.

Mila and her father lived happily and well for many years.

The moral of the story is to always be good and do good to others as you want to be done to you and hard work pays off.