Good morning all seminarites.
I am sitting here on the morning after our class thinking about your many thoughtful responses. Among those I'd like to flesh out on Tuesday, along with new ideas, are: resilience of children; representation of ages and stages; similarities and differences between the tales; challenges to innocence; spirituality in the tales; issues of trust; ethics; representations of adults in the tales; adult v. child reader; representations of class; handling of cruelty; connection between disobedience and understanding/development; belief in overcoming obstacles; importance of forgiving; pacing and structure; empowering the child; how the tales are read now v. at different historical times/contexts; "the child--which child?"
Looking forward, RN
