We know this never really happens, but this is what we tell our children.
We let them learn the truth on their own.
Sure it does. It is called Fantasy for a reason.
We know this never really happens, but this is what we tell our children.
Because "and they they died in some horrible fashion or another." Doesn't help them get to sleep. ;-)
Because "and they they died in some horrible fashion or another." Doesn't help them get to sleep. ;-)
We know this never really happens, but this is what we tell our children.
Sure it does. When Queen White had her evil stepmother cast in iorn shoes and be made to dance on a bed of hot coals till she died that was a happy ending? right?
or the story of the goose girl where at the end the evil impostor was placed in a barrel of spikes and drawn down the street till she was chuncky salsa.the original brothers grimm tales were much better because they told more about true human behavior than any disney clasic ever did.
The story has to end some how....the problem is 'The story never ends.' So any ending always seems artificial.
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The story has to end some how....the problem is 'The story never ends.' So any ending always seems artificial.
As Michael Ende put it in the Neverending Story -- "that is another story and shall be told another time". The imposition of arbitrary endings, be they happy or sad ones, is in many regards a bad thing, imposing arbitrary limits and restrictions on the storytelling in the case of fiction, or a naieve perception of consequences in the case of reality.
No. They got squashed by a giant falling tree.