Tuesday, 12 April 2016

Analyzing Children Stories

The three stories I read were:
- The Little Gingerbread Man- by Carol Moore 
- Invisible Alligators- by Hayes Roberts 
- The Wiener Dog Magnet- by Hayes Roberts

In the story The Little Gingerbread Man, the main character is a non-human called The Gingerbread Man. There is some dialogue throughout this story. It is between the children and gingerbread men. This dialogue helps develop the situation by showing how the gingerbread man does not want to get eaten. The conflict in this story is the gingerbread man trying not to get eaten.The conflict is resolved by the gingerbread's friends save him. I think that most kids would understand this conflict.  

The next story I read was Invisible Alligators. The main character is a young monkey named Sari. There is dialogue through this story. It is between Sari and the Invisible Alligator. The dialogue helps explain what the main character is doing. The conflict is that the alligators are causing trouble. The conflict is resolved when Sari catches the alligators. 

The last story I read was The Wiener Dog Magnet. The main character is a little monkey named  Kiki Marie. In this story there is no dialogue. The problem in this story is that Kiki bought a magnet that was a wiener dog. When she was walking she then stated to realize that the magnet stuck to actual wiener dogs. There were also two alligators trapped in the rapids. This is resolved when she threw all the dogs across the river. The dogs stayed together due to the magnetism. The alligators had been saved.

These three stories have some similarities but not many. One similarity is that all three stories have a main character that is non-human. Another similarity is that in every story, any conflict that happens, is resolved. I think all of these stories would be appealing to young children because the stories are easy to read and follow the plot.     





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