SUNDAYS WITH HRIDAAN: Goldilocks and the three Bears.
Hridaan Reads along this lovely tale and is fascinated with the story. The story was first recorded in narrative form by British writer and poet Robert Southey, and first published anonymously as “The Story of the Three Bears” in 1837 in a volume of his writings called The Doctor.The story makes extensive use of the literary rule of three, featuring three chairs, three bowls of porridge, three beds, and the three title characters who live in the house. There are also three sequences of the bears discovering in turn that someone has been eating from their porridge, sitting in their chairs, and finally, lying in their beds, at which point is the climax of Goldilocks being discovered.
The moral is :
1. Obey parents and not go to unsafe places
2. Have social manners
3. Do not be selfish
4. Do not take someone’s belongings
5. Have empathy and sense of apology for doing wrong. Too Perfect a story to teach kids as well as let their imagination wander.
