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Fairy Tales and Folklore
Lurie uses elements from fairy tales to enhance the theme of transformation. People are not always quite what they appear, and they can change. The most fully developed allusion is to the classic fairy tale of the frog prince, a tale that has existed, its first author unknown, for hundreds of years in Europe. It was published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Germany in 1812. The basic story is that a young princess encounters a frog at a stream after the ball she is playing with falls into the water. The frog says he will retrieve the ball for her if she...
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