Week 13 Reading Diary Continued: King Thrushbeard

Grace Kelly 

For the second half of this weeks reading of Crane’s storiesfrom Brother’s Grimm I really enjoyed all of the stories. My favorite, though, was King Thrushbeard because I had never heard this tale in particular. It seemed to have a very good lesson involved too. The princess in this story is very snooty, and makes fun of every suitor that comes to take her hand. She ends up getting what’s coming to  her when her father makes her marry a poor beggar. She then has to live that life, but eventually finds out the beggar is King Thrushbear, one of the men she made fun of. For my story I would like to have a young girl who is very beautiful, and gets whatever she wants as my main character. She makes fun of other people because they do not have as nice of things as she does, but eventually her parents kick her out because they are embarrassed by her selfish behavior. She soon learns how terrible her behavior has actually been, and sees that to have nice things takes a lot of factors, and that she was wrong to make fun of people for it. One day she is walking on the streets and sees her parents. She tells them that she has seen how she was wrong, and that she has changed. They will then allow her to move back in, and have everything she had before because she has learned the value in having these things.