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Why Do We Choose This Story?

We choose this story, beside it really famous in children`s Literature or children`s world, because it has many messages for us if we want to be good human.

Plot SummaryThere was once a handsome young prince was cursed by a wicked fairy who turned him into an ugly frog and put him into a well. The well was in the courtyard of a king's palace. The king's youngest daughter sometimes came there. One day, the princess threw the ball up so high, but the ball fell into the well. She was crying. The frog popped his head out of the water and said that he wanted to help her if she gave him everything that he wanted. And The Princess promised. After that, the frog dove to the bottom of the well and presently came up with the golden ball in his mouth. But The Princess against her promise and leaved him. The next day, as she sat at dinner with the king and his courtiers, something came by the great staircase—flip flap, flip flap! It was the frog. The Princess was angry when she saw him, but The King told her, if we promised, we have to realize it. Then, The Princess ate with him and picked him up to the bed. When the frog was sleeping, she threw him away through the window. But in the next night, when The Princess opened her eyes, she listened the frog was shout outside the door. When she opened it, the frog came in and slept upon her pillow as before until the morning broke. The third night he did the same. But when The Princess awoke the following morning, she was astonished to see, instead of the frog, a handsome prince standing at the head of her bed. He told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked fairy, who had changed him into the form of a frog. Then, he said that he wanted to marry her. The Princess accepted it. So, The Prince carried her to his Kingdom and lived happily ever after.

Text Analysis

- Symbols - Characterization - Sound

Symbols The Well  The well as the symbol of a place to through the punishment of the prince as an ugly frog by the wicked fairy 

Characterization  The Princess : Cheat Because when she promised to accept everything that the frog wants, she against her promise and leaved the frog away. The Frog : Spoiled When the king, the princess and the frog had their dinner, the frog said to the princess that he tired and asked her to take him up and lay him on the princess pillow that he may to sleep. The Prince : Honest When the princess was astonished to see a handsome prince standing at the head of her bed, The Prince told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked fairy, who had changed him into the form of a frog.

Sound : Flip flap, flip flap!  (The next day, as she sat at dinner with the king and his courtiers, something came by the great staircase—flip flap, flip flap!)-> It means that the frog came flopping up the great staircase 

Context analysis

- Author- Author`s Work- Setting

Author The Brothers Grimm in Germany called Die Brüder Grimm or Die Gebrüder Grimm. Jacob Grimm was born at January 4, 1785 and was die at September 20, 1863. And his brother Wilhelm Grimm was born at February 24, 1786 and was die at December 16, 1859. Were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular.

Author`s Work Brothers Grimm`s work popularized such stories as :- Cinderella - The Frog Prince- Hansel and Gretel- Rapunzel - Sleeping Beauty- Snow White 

Setting - When the eldest brother, Jacob, was 11 years old, their father, Philip Wilhelm, died and the family moved into a cramped urban residence. Two years later, the children's grandfather also died, leaving their mother to struggle to support them in reduced circumstances. They (Brothers Grimm) urged fidelity to the spoken text, without embellishments, and though it has been shown that they did not always practice what they preached, the idealized 'orality' of their style was much closer to reality than the literary retellings previously thought necessary.

- This Brothers Grimm`s story has equality with The Frog Prince by Dinah M. Mulock Craik. Although those story has equality, but also they has the different. There is about position of the well where The Frog Prince was living. In Brothers Grimm`s story, position of the well was in the courtyard of a King's palace. But in Dinah M. M. Craik`s story, the well was in a large dark forest, and in the forest, under an old linden tree, was a deep well.

Quotation The king frowned and said, "People who make promises must keep them.”

: We think, The King was right. Because in this sentence, we know as a good human, if we have the promise for someone, we have to keep and realize them. And if we`re not be, everyone never trust us anymore.

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