I'm not going to lie, when I first found out I was going to make a blog I thought of Barney Stinson. He is the character Neil Patrick Harris plays in How I Met Your Mother. I love that show! So I decided to use a catch phrase of his as the title! Pretty simple.
Tuesday I was sitting in my Childrens Lit class and we were talking about the different variations of Little Red Riding Hood. I have always seen it was a warning to little girls about predators, but not everyone in the class did. That lead to the topic on interpretation and miss communication. As the class went on the subject kept coming up, especially when Beauty and the Beast was brought up. A girl kept going on and on about how she loved the story and how it was romantic and teaches children not to worry all about books and so on. I was confused though, was she talking about the original or the Disney one? Turns out it was Disney and she didn't know that there was one before this animated one. That isn't surprising because a lot of people haven't read the original. But the original is defiantly not a love story, its completely different! And that made me realize that some people interpret things different due to life experiences. I always forget some people may not know or get the chance to read stories such as the original Beauty and the Beast or The Story of Grandmother. Incidents like that happen all the time. It amazes me!
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