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Literature can be found anywhere, especially in song lyrics. Music is definitely apart of my life. I listen to everything from country to rap. Every song has a meaning behind it and the artist who writes the lyrics writes about something going on in their life at the moment. It tells a story of what he or she is feeling and what happens at the end. I’m always looking up lyrics online and saving parts of lyrics that I can relate to or what I’m feeling at the moment. Certain songs go with my certain moods. Anything you gives you an effect or a feeling after you read it, I think is literature.

Right now I am watching the Steeler game and doing this quite fast so this is going to be short and probably not as good as it could be. When I first read the poems, I read through them fast and had no idea what I read at first. But once I went back and read through the poems slowly, I finally could see that all the poems connected and told a story. It’s the process of Tayo’s ceremony and the steps, feelings, and conversations, going on while the ceremony is taking place. There are a lot of graphic detailed things said in the poems where I almost stopped reading and was about to put the book down. But from the graphic details told in the poems, shows how angry Tayo is towards the white community not understanding or accepting the Native American culture. You slowly see how Tayo changes throughout his ceremony from the passages.

Fairy tales are meant to be told to children and are usually about dragons, goblins, elves, or any other magical creatures. Many children remember fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood or Cinderalla for years and years. Kids however usually don’t notice the bad parts or the secretly hidden true meanings behind these tales though. From reading, “Why Theory”, and analyzing both translations of Little Red Riding Hood, it’s easy to say that some fairy tales really can be “scary tales” to children, if children picked up on the real meanings behind them.
In the second version of Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault, the moral of the story is so obviously blunt about the scary truth of the world and has very questionable meanings to it. For example, the first line of the moral says, “Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf.” When I first read that statement, I initially translated that as if attractive young ladies talk to strange “wolves” or men, they will be persuaded into doing sexual activities with the “wolf” or man (or “provide dinner for a wolf”) There are many interruptions you can make about this statement of the moral but is this a story children ages 5-8 or 9 should hear, even if they don’t comprehend the real meaning of it? I think some fairy tales are meant for older children and maybe adults.