the Grimm brothers
The brothers Grimm are famous for their collections of folktales and fairy tales, such as “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Sleeping Beauty” Imagine Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm are alive today and they being interviewed on a TV show.
People around the country call to the TV show to made their own question that is a summary about this interview.
In that time the Grimm brother were writing a German dictionary they said they never think to do that kind of work, they left their jobs as professors at Gottingen University in 1837 because they were disagree with the king. They need find a new job quickly, so they write the German Dictionary.
The problem whit the king was the kings discard all the laws that protect people’s rights, and he ignored a petition protest.
They took the work to write the German dictionary as a temporal job, only for earned money but that job was bigger than they thought; German is an extensive language and they need to include the meaning of each word and the source of each word, but the real problem was the dialects who people speak around Germany.
The first call is from Sacramento California, Ryan a fourth-grade student and the question was about who the Grimm brother gets the ideas for their fairy tales, they answered to Ryan they said that stories have been hundreds of years. They have been handed down. For example a mother tells the story to her children, and the children tell it to their children, and so on, for example they spend a lot of time collecting folktales around Europe, and they rewrite those stories in their own style using their own ideas to represent right and wrong and about what’s good and what’s bad.
Samantha from Miami made a question about “Little Red Riding Hood” how they got the idea or only dreamed up, because they said they collected folktales and fairy tales, she want to know about the difference between the two class of stories.
They answered that question explaining the differences about the two classes of stories, they said a folktale is a story take place in a specific area and the hero may be a real person or a historical figure, and the fairy tale take place in a fantasy world all characters and events come from imagination-just like dreams.
Vida form Portland Oregon want to know if they considered collect stories from Egypt or China.
They said they started collecting stories close to their home Germany. They looked for stories from other part of Europe too, that was a big job! When they finish the dictionary, perhaps look fir stories outside Europe.
“Sleeping Beauty”
