1. In what repeats is the story that begins with paragraph 9 of "Once upon a Time" Similar to a fairy tale?

In what respects is it different? Would the story be more or less effective without the narrator's introduction? The fenced walls and risk of intrusions and "witches" make this story very much relate to a newer tale of Sleeping Beauty. The boy in encouraged to stay up high and away from the world while reading fiction stories for company. The major differences are the changes in time, old to modern. The story would probably wouldn't be as effective. Once the narrator admits this was a fairy tale before she tells it, it lets you envision it as one without much effort. Otherwise it wouldn't be viewed or understood as one until the end. 2. In paragraph 8, the narrator characterizes the paragraphs that follow as a "bedtime story". How does her tale differ from your idea of a bedtime story? A bedtime story does not normally include brutalized people, racsim, and high-tech security with barbed wire fences. This story has more of an eerie tone than that of a bedtime story. 3. The story's events are presented in strict chronological order. Five some examples of words and phrases that move readers from one time period to another. Why is chronological order so important? Words like "then" and "after" are common for use in chronologically strict stories. It is important because it doesn't hop around from the end to the start to the middle, it goes from beginning to last. 4.Imagine Gorimer's fairy tale dramatized, perhaps as a television documentary. Where would you interrupt the story to provide commercial breaks or station identification? How would you present the introduction? Explain your decisions. I would pause after every major event. Like the first hose being robbed, the new security measures, nobody waking up at the sounds of the alarms anymore, and the new barbed wire. This would keep tension going in either show or documentary. 5. Throughout the dairy tale, various objects and events (and even specific warnings) foreshadow the grim ending. Give several examples of such hints, and explain how each anticipates the ending. The witches warnings not to let anybody in, the easiness of the robberies, how the cat's got in and out with ease. This all lead up to the boy trying to scale the barbed wire. 6. Which characters are in conflict in the fairy tale? Does the story have a hero? A villain? What larger forces are in conflict? Are the conflicts between these forces resolved at the end? Explain. The townspeople are the robbers.The hero is the boy when he shows how awful the security measures are and how they are affecting life in the neighborhoods. It doesn't state if the conflict is resolved or not, but it gives the illusion of the security being taken down after the boy's death.