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Comparing The Story Of Grandmother By Louis And Francois Briffult

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The Morals and Values Contrasted between two Non-Fiction Tales The contrasts between two stories are often used to represent morals and values in very distinct ways. The way in which morals are perceived are different depending on how they are interpreted within the story. A story can follow the same outline and background plot but yet, use key ideas and characters to represent a different lesson for each case. This contrast allows us to open up our minds to newer ideas and perspectives in the story. In the fairytale, “The Story of Grandmother” by Louis and Francois Briffault and in the short story, “The Werewolf” by Angela Carter, the little girl helps represent different morals and values when dealing with the wolf through her presence of innocence and her actions upon the warnings she was …show more content…

The girl uses her presence of innocence to get herself out of difficult situations which gives the reader an insight on her way of thinking. In “The Story of Grandmother” she uses her innocence to deceive the wolf into thinking she is just going outside: “ ‘No Granny, I want to go outside.’ ‘All right, but don’t stay out too long.’ The wolf tied a rope to her leg and let her go outside” (Briffault, 7). The young girl shows the reader that by using one’s innocence and deception through one’s greater knowledge, it is possible to trick a character who has the wrong intentions. The moral is that even though she seemed trapped at the beginning, she manages to figure out a way out. This is significant because she puts on this mask to hide her intelligence in order to outweigh the wolf’s intentions. In the story of “The Werewolf”, the girl does the complete opposite. Her flaunt of maturity, strength and intelligence are what

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