Grant Peebles
Professor Preston
July 28, 2016
The Three Bears and Goldilocks
Fairy tales have been read to children since the dawn of time. A fairytale is a
children’s story about magical and imaginary beings and lands. A child’s imagination is
a powerful and unique thing. It’s not only used to make up games and stories it’s a very
key aspect in their creative thoughts and can define the type of education and lifestyle
that they will have. Fairy tales are used to feed this imagination that children have. Fairy
tales also help children develop critical thinking skills and also learn what is right from
wrong while reading. It’s always in a fairytale to have a strong moral lesson, a fight
between good & evil. These lessons rub off on people’s children. Gennady Spirin’s story
Goldilocks and the Three Bears is always a fairytale that is read to children. However,
children can hear and read this story and see some bad intentions from it. Goldilocks is
a young girl, about eight, walking around the forest by herself, where are her parents?
She broke into someone’s house which is a crime and also broke a chair and ate their
food. Goldilocks portrays a child who is a spoiled brat and that’s not a good message to
send to children.
In Goldilocks and the Three Bears a little girl named Goldilocks goes for a walk in
the forest and comes upon a house where she enters and finds to her delight three
bowls of porridge. The first one she tastes is “too hot!”, the next is “too cold!” but the
third one was “just right!” so she eats it all up. Goldilocks next finds three different size
chairs where she tries them out. She finds the first one “too hard!”, the next “too soft!”,
and then the little one was just right but it breaks when she sits in it “that hurt…I need to
lie down”. As she continues to explore the wonders of the bears home she finds three
beds and tries them out. The first bed is “too hard!”, the next “too soft!” but the third is
just right and she curls up and falls asleep. While she is asleep the owners come home,
which happen to be three bears, Papa, Mama and little baby bear. Much to their
surprise they discover the outcome of what Goldilocks has done to their porridge, chairs
and lastly their beds. Goldilocks wakes with a fright when she sees and hears the bears;
she jumps from the bed and runs away from the home as fast as she can (Southey).
A lot of parents may think that reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears to their
children is a good idea. This story contains what society thinks is the golden child.
Goldilocks is a white girl with blonde hair and blue eyes. Everyone who reads this or
