Mark Graham
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I am a person who really likes to read and write and to share what I learned with all my education. My page will mainly be book reviews and critiques of old and new books that I have read and will read. There will also be other bits, too.
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Grimm's Fairy Tales #3
Here is another famous fairy tale from this edition entitled 'Little Red Cap' and just by the title you may have guessed that it is the real 'Little Red Riding Hood' where there still is a mother who sends her daughter to visit her sick grandmother with cake and wine and warns her not to dawdle in the forest too long for you never know what may happen. This Little Red Cap wonders along further and further into the woods to pick flowers for grandma too, and you guessed it thinks she better get moving for it is getting late. She arrives but to find out through a conversation she and 'Grandma' have for we all know is the big bad wolf in disguise after he eats grandma and then her for in this story the wolf after eating them decides to take a nap. Along comes a hunter and hearing Red Cap in the wolf's stomach decides to cut open the wolf's stomach and let's Red Cap and Grandma out and replaces them with stones and sews the wolf up again and when the wolf awakes doesn't really feel too well and falls down and dies. In the nicer version of Little Red Riding Hood there is no cutting the wolf and replacing them with stones for Grandma and Red just escapes the wolf by running away for Little Red Riding Hood learns her lesson about being safe for herself and others. The story continues in 'Little Red Cap' for the next time another day another wolf comes along, and did she learn her lesson and proved it in a trick on this wolf? Yes, she did and went home. Why did the Grimm Brothers feel the need cut open the wolf and place stones in his stomach? It is also kind of freaky to hear a person talking after being eaten. This is like a horror story and maybe kind of gory for kids to have nightmares about being eaten by something. If I remember though there was an old cartoon that portrayed the Grimm's version of this story and made not so mean. Little Red Cap is definitely a youth and adult read while Little Red Riding Hood is fine for young children.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Candies
One day out in the world there appeared a rainbow of color and what could it be but a rainbow of Skittles coming my way. This is a fantasy story that I wish could come true for everyone know Skittles bring about smiles and I apologize to anyone who may not like this candy or may be diabetic. This is one dream that could help more people to smile more and maybe even want to help more often than they do for every Skittle and smile someone who needs or needed help received the help that they needed so bad.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
Grimm's Fairy Tales #2
Another story in Grimm's Fairy Tales is the well-known 'Cinderella' and this version is nowhere near the Disney version. There are comparisons, but not like you know from the fun Disney one. There are two stepsisters and mother and a prince. There is no ball as in the Disney story, but a festival that everyone wants to go. There is no fairy godmother or mice or a pumpkin coach, but there are a few birds that do help Cinderella in a nice way. This Grimm version is slightly bloody towards the end when the prince goes in search of the one who loses the golden slipper. Also, at the end this story it kind of reminds me of the Hitchcock movie 'The Birds' and if you read or reread this classic you will see. Now I am so glad that I have read and watched the Disney version for this version is and should be clearly for adults only, but still glad to have read the Grimm version for it is a classic that must be understood for its' lesson(s) that it teaches. In so many ways as in how the stepsisters are punished for what they claimed as well as Cinderella learns that good will overcome evil.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Grimm's Fairy Tales
I have started to read a collection of Grimm's fairy tales for it was a Christmas present from my sister. This version is entitled 'The Brothers' Grimm 99 Fairy Tales' I was reading number 19 entitled 'The Fisherman and His Wife'. To me this is a story of out and out GREED. The fisherman goes out on his daily fishing job and does not come with any fish for the one he catches says that he is a prince and will grant wishes for whomever. The fisherman lets the fish go, but his wife keeps sending him back to ask the fish for better and better things till one day after on last wish something occurs for one should not wish what the wife wished. This is not the same fairy tale that was once in one of my school reading book as a Just for fun story.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
Wintertime
A snowy road going along through the woods going home.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
An Artistic Idea
I was browsing through what is on Yahoo.com stories this morning, and I came across an article about professions that are no longer viable it seems today. It ranged from shoe cobbler to draftsman to teaching and a few others, but these three stuck in my mind. The drafting career is mainly computer-aided drafting now. In reading about the draftsman career for I learned the basics to mechanical drawing and really enjoyed it back in school a long time ago and really liked it for it gave a different perspective to the various geometric shapes that could be drawn and even made maybe. My idea is to draw with pencil some artistic rendering of shapes along with measurements as an element to the overall 'picture' and then posting these drawings in the ART community and I am hoping for comments on these works and maybe even suggestions on what to draw next that you, the readers and writers, would like to see. I am planning on a collection to form of my artistic/mechanical drawings.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Art
Welcome to Kindergarten
Welcome to Kindergarten! We are going to have so much fun learning all we need to know. We well learn our letters and numbers, our colors and shapes along with learning to work together and use our manners in various situations. We will learn about plants and animals as well as ourselves. We will sing, draw and make things as well as learn what our bodies can do from walking to hopping and other things to when learning what our bodies need to grow. Kindergarten a year that will give you a good start for the rest of your lives.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Critique
A Snowy Day
One day when I was out walking in the woods on a snowy January day I came upon several animal paths. I believe one path to follow was a rabbit trail, one was a bird's trail, and the other was a dog's trail. I am a curious walker in the winter, so I decided to follow the bird's trail and see what kind of day a bird may have. I didn't get far for after about a foot of deep snow I presume that the bird decided to take flight.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Writers
A Winter's Tale
We will always remember building our first snowman whenever that was. This snowman was kind of lopsided but always stood as a guard when you were outside alone and gave you someone to talk to on some very cold days. Then one day you decided to build a small snow fort around this snowman, which turned out to be an almost igloo except for the big hole in the roof. This igloo was a special winter place where you could think and have a silent partner to share ideas. How many out have ever did this in their younger days?
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Writers
The Year 2050
the year 2050 the future dawns bright maybe the world.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Poets
2050
The year 2050 is a time of old-fashioned ways. This highway once where cars traveled is now a road for horse and buggy or buckboards galore. Gas is no longer viable due to global warming getting worse. Power grids are failing, and we are now going back to kerosene lamps and fireplaces for heating and light. If one is lucky one can still find batteries to use if one still has various kinds of lanterns for light. I find myself doing most of my work during the day and usually going to sleep with the chickens.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
The Year 2050
In the year 2050 I will be a person that will be in my late 80's and sitting in my little house with a notebook writing something. The world has changed for now it is a world of old-fashioned ways for technology has crashed and sent people in a tailspin. It is us old-timers who remember a time when we had to do various chores and jobs without computer tech. I am writing this with a pen then pulling out my old Selectric typewriter to give it a final polish. Thank heavens my parents taught me these ways and means.
By Mark Grahamabout a year ago in Fiction
