Goldilocks and the Four Luthers
It would be most odd for there to be a comparison between a professionally written book and a fictional fairytale. Incidentally, that is exactly what occurs between the stories of “Where The Lilies Bloom”, by Vera and Bill Cleaver, and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. In the book, “Where the Lilies Bloom”, a young girl named Mary Call Luther and her siblings, Romey, Ima Dean, and Devola Luther, struggle to support themselves through a harsh winter while striving to conceal the secret of their father’s death. However, the comparisons to be noted between these two articles do not include death, but speak on manners such as intrusion of space, the unpermitted taking of goods, and the ridding of unwanted visitors. Their may happen to be more similarities than is first realized.
In the case of a character breaking into another’s home there are two. In “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, a young girl named Goldilocks, steals into three bear’s humble abode and pillages their possessions. A similar occurrence in “Where the Lilies Bloom”, is when Mary Call and her sibling intrude upon Kiser Pease’s, the children’s landlord, house when they learn that he is deathly ill. “Let’s just step inside a minute, Romey.” (Cleaver, 21), Mary Call
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When Mary Call Luther sees a Missus Connell driving up her driveway to inspect upon her family’s lives, she expects the worst until Devola points out an element to her. “Look,” said Devola. “Look Mary Call. She’s changed her mind. She’s turning around. Look at her. Look. Why is she going so fast the other way now? Look.” As it turns out, Mary’s brother, Romey, set a stuffed bear in the road to scare off his uninvited visitor. In “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, when the bears find Goldilocks in their house, they scare the girl so much that she turns tail and jumps out the window. Both situations investigate issues of scaring off unwanted