First Year Seminar

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I choose From Grimm to Disney as my first year seminar because I have a slight fascination with different stories and myths stemming from my all time favorite childhood book Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I read those books religiously and in between the tween drama and various Greek mythical monsters the book portrayed I fell in love with the series. Thus the reason I choose this seminar was because I was interested in what other fairy tales and myths were out there. What I am hoping to learn in this course the most is why the fairy tale came to be. I know that most were passed down in oral tradition but I wonder who actually came up with these stories and the history behind why they were made. My favorite fairy tale was  Little Red Riding Hood. I liked this tale back when I was a child, I think I liked it so much because as a child my mother was very overprotective of me. She wouldn't allow to go to a friends house unless she knew their mother the same would go with birthday parties and such. In the story Little Red’s mother allowed her to go into the woods all by herself. The contrast between the life of Little Red and my own really appealed to me because I really liked the amount of freedom her mom gave her. 
Image result for percy jacksonLittle Red Riding Hood: Patience, John (illustrator)

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