martedì 11 febbraio 2014

The Teacher's Secret and Other Folk Tales

The Teacher's Secret and Other Folk Tales by Joyce Hannam


SUBGENRE: folk tales  
SETTING: indefinitely
PLOT: In this book there are different folk tales that try to explain what are the difference between sons and daughters, because sometimes women are betters than men. We can see that sometimes a poor man is cleverer than a rich man and also the students can be cleverer than their teachers. Everyone in this book want to be clever, so what can happen?  
CHARACTERS: Fanta-Ghirò, Nasreddin, a teacher of an expensive school, princess Tara, Fredderick, Fatima NARRATOR: third person  
POINT OF VIEW: narrator's  
STYLE: the language in every story is very easy 
THEMES: differences between human behaviors, folk tales, legend, love  
PERSONAL COMMENT: I liked this book because it's a very interesting story of the human behaviors and because it is very easy to understand.

 Giusi Paolicelli

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