I enjoyed the second half of the English Fairy Tales unit. Some of the stories were very interesting. They were not what I expected. For instance, the story of the Mr. Fox was pretty interesting. The story of "Mr. Fox" started off like any other romantic story. It introduced a beautiful lady. Her name was Lady Mary. Lady Mary had many suitors interested in but she was only interested in Mr. Fox. The story describes Mr. Fox as handsome and wealthy -- pretty much everything a young lady would wish for. Mr. Fox and the young lady courted but the young lady still felt like he had no idea who this Mr. Fox was so she set out to his home when he was away on business. When she went there she came upon a room full of dead bodies of beautiful young ladies. From a distance she even saw Mr. Fox dragging a young lady's body. She ran away unseen as quickly as she could. Over dinner the young lady confronted Mr. Fox about this revelation but he denied it. Her brother and friends showed no mercy and cut him into a thousand pieces.
Initially when I was reading this story, I thought that it was just another romantic fairy tale. A young beautiful lady falls in love with a handsome wealthy man. As I progressed through the story though I realized that it was not like any other romantic story. It was actually a lot darker than I thought it was going to be. It was kind of suspenseful and gory.
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