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Here's some constructive criticism.

The Boy Who Never Liked Easter- Good moral, but how do we know that the friend didn't know the boy didn't like Easter? It never says. Lots of people hide their fears, even from friends.

The Man From Mulberry Lane- Again, good moral, but it doesn't explain anything. He could have just been a boy nobody liked, regardless of color or ethnicity.

The Girl With The Golden Touch- Yet another good moral, but the story had nothing to do with drugs. Plus it's kind of a rip of the King Midas story, except with a sadder ending.

PlutoIsHades wrote:

Okay, here are my opinions.  First off, though, let me say these stories are really interesting!

Boy Who Never Liked Easter - he thought he was getting a good gift, but he was betrayed, showing that some people who seem to have good intentions are really evil.

Man From Mulberry Lane - I think he was bullied and picked on, and had taken enough, so he up-and-left.

Girl With The Golden Touch - Drugs can take over your life, like the gold touch did.  You can't do anything after a while without drugs/gold touch popping up.

You are right! You have guessed exactly how the morals connect with the stories!

PlutoIsHades wrote:

NeilWest wrote:

PlutoIsHades wrote:

Okay, here are my opinions.  First off, though, let me say these stories are really interesting!

Boy Who Never Liked Easter - he thought he was getting a good gift, but he was betrayed, showing that some people who seem to have good intentions are really evil.

Man From Mulberry Lane - I think he was bullied and picked on, and had taken enough, so he up-and-left.

Girl With The Golden Touch - Drugs can take over your life, like the gold touch did.  You can't do anything after a while without drugs/gold touch popping up.

You are right! You have guessed exactly how the morals connect with the stories!

 
I wonder if people will still try to give explanations.

I guess you'll never know what connections people can find!

imnotbob wrote:

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imnotbob wrote:

Here's some constructive criticism.

The Boy Who Never Liked Easter- Good moral, but how do we know that the friend didn't know the boy didn't like Easter? It never says. Lots of people hide their fears, even from friends.

True

The Man From Mulberry Lane- Again, good moral, but it doesn't explain anything. He could have just been a boy nobody liked, regardless of color or ethnicity.

True

The Girl With The Golden Touch- Yet another good moral, but the story had nothing to do with drugs. Plus it's kind of a rip of the King Midas story, except with a sadder ending.

False.  It didn't NEED to be about drugs. It's simply a metaphor. 

Yes, but it should say something about drugs because the "Don't do drugs" kind of came out of nowhere
I thought the gold touch was a drug-induced hallucination at first

It's basically saying the golden touch was a drug.

It was making her so happy at the time that she loved it but eventually it started to degrade her life, until it ended it.

These are more parallels than morals.

Last edited by soupoftomato (2012-03-04 15:49:00)

The first one
Lolwut?
The second one, you kind of have to draw inferences from inferences from inferences to actually get it, so I dunno
Third one I liked

bananaman114 wrote:

Seriously?
You WANT us to over analyse?
Morals shouldn't be this deep

+1 on 1 and 2, though I think the 3rd one was clear enough
I hate when people dig overly deep though it's annoying

jji7skyline wrote:

I don't get the mulberry one 

Read PlutoIsHades' explaintions.

NeilWest wrote:

jji7skyline wrote:

I don't get the mulberry one 

Read PlutoIsHades' explaintions.

Yeah, but...
You could get anything from that
That's digging way too deep and overthinking everything
Let's read this picture book I've got handy, shall we
...Actually, "Love You Forever" isn't really the best example
Here. An excerpt from "The Berenstain Bears' New Baby" (c) Stan and Jan Berenstain

They lived in a large tree which Papa Bear had hollowed out and made into a house. It was a very fine house. This is what it looked like inside. It was fun growing up in Bear Country... helping Papa get honey from the old bee tree... helping Mama bring vegetables in from the garden. There were all sorts of interesting things for a small bear to do and see in Bear Country. Small Bear felt good growing up in a tree...in his own room...in the snug little bed that Papa Bear had made for him when he was a baby.

Okay this excerpt is all about how the Bear family are pioneers from Siberia
It's very hard for them and Papa Bear is out of work, which is why they're forced to live in a tree
Small Bear is blinded to the rest of the world and is frequently chased by bees while he has to do chores, like getting vegetables from the garden, since they don't have the money to buy them from a grocery store
The whole family is illiterate, which is why they couldn't give their son a real name
And I think this story is a touchingly hopeful narrative about one family's struggle to survive.