I love the way this reading was written. “There was once” is a great example of society and its history, the way many of us were taught to look at life unknowingly. Many of these folk tales are told in subliminal messages, they paint a non visible picture in our minds, evil ” stepmothers” wicked “step sisters” .. the golden “prize”; a Prince charming; the l helpless miserable “good girl”. I have come to realize how these characters and traditional stories have manipulated the way I imagined life to be.
The second person in the reading was against any common cliché, I loved it. I believe that this reading opens up the minds of the reader. We must question all that we read. We must ask our selves why a wicked step-mom; a step-mom can be loving, caring supportive and many other great things, The second voice was basically questioning the first voice, The second voice was showing that he was tired of all the negative’s that reflected on the woman in these tales. The negative female characters in these stories seem to have been adapted as a norm for decades.
We must question everything we read, many of these tales tells a story about ourselves and the way society has been built around these readings. Our children and grandchildren’s children will also hear these tales, we want to be able to allow them to question and shape a better world, a great way of doing so is finding the root of reason. Why ?. Could a simple fictional story actually have a secret mission?, Could the tale of Cinderella have a connection with the gap between woman ? were woman sublimely taught not to value and care for each other?. Why is the price and marriage the happy ending, are a woman’s life not more meaningful?, Is marriage our biggest agenda?, can it possibly be a woman’s greatest achievement?. I think not, we must apply the tactics of the second voice in everything find the story behind the “story”.
