Longing to Belong
Summary of what happened in the article
Saria Shah is a little girl born to an Indian mother and Afghanistan father. At 17 years, Sarai visited her uncle in Afghanistan. She narrates a story of her desire to belong to a family and fit in. however, this could only be possible through an engagement, meaning she had first to get married. To fulfill her desire, Saria’s engagement was fixed by her uncle, but to his disappointment, Saria decided she was not ready for marriage anymore. Being caught up in a fixed marriage she had lost interest in, Saria had her aunt play the role of calling off the wedding.
What fairy do tales teach girls and boys?
Fairy tales teach girls and boys so many great lessons and how to live a helpful life. Apparently, very many fairy tales are being featured, for example, Sofia the first, whose personality in the tale is so noble, kind, loving, respectful, and adorable. One, fairy tales teach girls and boys life lessons wrapped in a story. In the story, the frog and the princess, children are taught to give others opportunities even if they do not look like people. Also, fairy tales help young children make sense of what is to become human while guiding them to understand the environment around them. Moreover, Visikoknox-Johnson (77) adds that fairy tales aid development in children and, at the same time, provide them with a valuable source of materials to view from a healing viewpoint.
How Shah achieves a critical perspective towards her own “desire to experience a fairy tale.
Under this, Shah describes herself as a princess in a fairy tale (40). She explicitly refers to her father’s tales, concerning the methodological motherland, but focuses on the romantic stories such as sleeping beauty and Cinderella to achieve a critical perspective towards her own desire to experience a fairy tale.
Works Cited
Shah, S. “Longing to Belong.” 2003, file:///C:/Users/GORGE%20TRAVEL/Downloads/ch2c.pdf.
Turner, N.A. “5 Reasons Why We Need More Fairy Tales and Fables in Our Life.” Medium, 26 June 2019, medium.com/@turnerstories/5-reasons-why-we-need-more-fairy-tales-and-fables-in-our-life-8ab8c94b9357.
VisikoKnox-Johnson, L. “The Positive Impacts of Fairy Tales for Children.” vol. 14, 2016, hilo.hawaii.edu/campuscenter/hohonu/volumes/documents/ThePositiveImpactsofFairyTalesforChildrenLeilaniVisikoKnox-Johnson.pdf.