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Professor: Scott Mellor...

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Under the Willow tree Knud and Johanna Two kids, Knud and Johanna, grow up together and bond over stories and songs. They're separated when their families move. They reunite as adults. He's a shoemaker and she's a singer. He declares his love for her, but she says she's going to France and she regards him as a sibling. Despondent, he wanders Europe. He sees her sing again, and someone tells him that she's engaged. He keeps wandering, and finally has a dream under a willow tree that she declares her love for him. While dreaming, he freezes to death The Dung Beetle Summary: A dung beetle from the emperor's stable goes around talking to all kinds of animals and plants. At first he's annoyed that he doesn't get golden shoes like the emperor's horse does, but then he realizes that when he lands on the horse he gets to be the rider, which is a fine treat indeed. Obsession with oneself Thinks he is so important because he came from the emperor's stable and saw the shoes be put on the horse Pride and self esteem are illusions, he is nothing He wants status and that is it Geotrupes stercorarius; given a fancy name and is still a nobody Freedom is a precious gift-- emperor's horse saved his life Self absorbed and obsessed, makes it home Irony that he doesn't learn or grow and makes decision to stay at home despite the fact that he says traveling is the best because you learn Just as stupid as when he started The Steadfast Tin soldier A boy receives a box of twenty-five tin soldiers. All the soldiers are alike except for the last one, which is missing a leg. This soldier falls in love with a paper ballerina cut-out, since she her fancy shmancy ballerina pose also makes it look like she's only got one leg. At night, a jack-in-the-box catches the soldier staring at the ballerina and threatens him. The next day, the soldier is set near the window and falls out. Coincidence...?! Some orphans pick up the soldier, put him in a newspaper boat, and let him float down into the gutter. A fish swallows the soldier, but the fish is caught and gutted. Luckily this happens in the house where the soldier lives, so just like that, he's back home with his great love, the one-legged-looking ballerina. The soldier and the ballerina stare at each other wordlessly, and something passes between them. Suddenly, one of the boys grabs the soldier and throws him in the stove; the jack-in-the-box probably had something to do with this. The soldier steadfastly holds onto his gun and continues to look at the ballerina. A lucky breeze carries the ballerina into the stove too. The next morning, the maid opens the stove and finds a little tin heart and a metal spangle from the ballerina's dress.

Love only without words, never expresses it No education, all by chance Without acts of bravery he isn't getting any closer to fulfilling his love Serendipity and chance Are not united in the end Obsessed with keeping up his appearance Roll of the Ballerina in the steadfast tin soldier She in nothing A fake Tin soldier sees her as one leg but she actually has two We know she is not what she appears to be When he thinks they are passionately in love we have a feeling this might be true He can't say anything because he is so steadfast and proud Melted in the oven together but they are not united Mute and silence; passive female roll Sometimes the woman is very passive and other times they are going against the roll of woman at the time Becoming famous, becoming a breadwinner What the Wind told about Vlademar Daae and his daughters The wind tells a story about the castle and a guy who used to live in it, Vlademar Daae who has three daughters. He goes on a mad pursuit for gold and loses everything --> his daughters are condemned to wander and die as paupers -he is spending lots of money to confirm his place in society -too good to help the servants -ruining nature, cutting down trees for material gain -secludes himself from everything on a quest to find gold -the higher you fly the harder you fall -selfish and unjust -daughters have to pay for the consequences of his selfishness -wants to find the "holy grail" to live forever, doesn't believe in eternal life through religion -all will pass, take life as it is and enjoy it (life of peasants) -fools gold The Darning Needle a darning needle complains about being used roughly by the fingers that grab her to sew with. She breaks trying to sew leather and gets stuck together with wax and made into a brooch. The brooch falls into the sink and she rests in the gutter. Street urchins play with her and stick her together with an egg. Verbal irony: -i know who I am and I am never going to change -she is changing throughout the whole story, getting lower and lower in society -she is convinced of her own importance

-her high place in society was due to chance, serendipity and luck -glass splinter, also shiny, convince each other of their place in society -thinks her relationship with the sun confirms her place; can't get any higher -andersen belittles people who see themselves as perfect and on top; she is lacking inner qualities...