Fairy tales are more than just stories read to children before bedtime. They contain valuable messages commonly overlooked. In Maria Tatar’s piece, “An Introduction to Fairy Tales,” she explains how powerful these messages can be. Fairy tales often imply life lessons and incorporate them into their stories. These messages mold and make people into who they are today. As time goes on people forget about the fairy tales read to them as children, but some continue to keep the stories with them. Fairy tales help to build children’s imaginations and also build a sense of character, even at a young age. As adults fairy tales incorporate extreme power. As a person grows and matures they start to realize how fairy tales relate to the real world. Adults also comprehend messages in a fairy tale a younger child does not fully understand. They can see in a fairy tale what makes sense and also what is impossible in real life. Fairy tales cannot only bring you peace, happiness, joy and comfort, but also bring back many memories. If an adult read a fairy tale that was once read to them as a child, most of the time, a thousand memories would come flooding back to them. This could be very pleasant experience but could also be upsetting, especially if a person experienced an unpleasant childhood.
It is important to keep fairy tales alive because they are a major part of who people are today. They are a very important part of culture because fairytales have been around since the ancestors of long ago. People should not let fairy tales die out because they contain such value and meaning. They are a part of the human race and continue to thrive to this