Tales of Grimm
The title of the website is pretty informative about what the content will depict. The introduction is interesting because instead of explaining the history of the Grimm Brothers in a third person or formal manner, it is told by Maria the owner of Grimm Inn. Maria tells about her time spent inside the castle and her servitude to royalty for many generations. Maria explains through the trials and tribulations of kings, queens, princess and princesses, love was the overarching force.
The rest of the site tells the stories of Rumpelstilltskin, Little Briar Rose and The Frog Price. The one I had not heard about was Little Briar Rose, so I decided to read about it. The story is basically the story of Sleeping Beauty told from the prince's perspective.
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Robin Hood: A Trip Back in Time
This website's introduction is very interesting because it alludes to the anonymous prisoner in the story to be Robin Hood. I liked the section of the website titled "Robin's Origin" because it gave more history into the background of Hood, which was what I was interested in. I learned in more detail about the specific missions and the people he tried to help.
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Blackbeard The Wretched Pirate
This introduction to Blackbeard was very interesting because it's main focus was to tell horror stories from his past in a diary format, which I though was very interesting. The first diary entry is about capturing a ring that was very meaningful fro him. The next entry is about a cut throat Blackbeard who will risk any one's life to obtain anything he wants. I think the style and format of this particular website is interesting because it relates the history is a more interesting way.
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I like that you chose to pick stories that you were already familiar with, but wanted to delve deeper into the stories to see what more you could learn from them. The Tales of Grimm are very dark stories to begin with and I found it interesting that in the story of Little Briar Rose, the story was told from the perspective of the prince. That's quite a different view of the classic tale, in my opinion. I've never read a classic fairy tale story written from the male's perspective, so I enjoyed that very much. I really liked your choice of readings.
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