Once upon a time

This was a great story. In this story, its funny how at first she says that she does not write children's stories. She says that she does not accept that she "ought" to write anything but, when she wakes up from a nightmare, she comforts herself with a fairytale. When I think of a fairytale I think of Hanzel and Gretel, or Sleeping Beeuty, or Cinderella, these are stories geered at children. I wonder if the message of this story is that we never really grow-up, we still tell stories and dream of fairtales, just the content and the deapth of these stories change. she uses the basic and world-known fairytale words in telling her story. she uses "happliy ever after," "a wise old witch," "theives," and "entanglement." She does not use them in the traditional setting, she already tells us about their happly every after life, they already had a son, a maid, and a gardner. The most interesting thing about this story is that they were trying to keep people from getting in. In most fairytales the prince is trying to save someone(getting someone out). I wonder where this story is set and what time period? I'm thinking its in Africa because of the word Tsotsis and Baas which is relevant to Africa. The story seems to have many other small fairytales in ti, the boy that cried wolf in is this story when the alarms are being tripped over and over again, "everyone soon became accustomed to, so that the din aroused the inhabitants of the suburb no more than the croak of frogs and musical grating of cicadas' legs." The setting of the story seems like it could be in a rural place that just recieved a suburb. I'm wondering does the author wants us to see the fairytale that is irregular to our previous beliefs of what a fairytale is, or does she wants us to she the shortstory as a whole?