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Dear Ashley,
I suppose you are going to be the last person to receive your letter considering it is now Friday and I am just turning in the letter, sorry I have been sick. Anyway, Mrs. Goff had both our classes read the fairytale “Cold”. I believe the theme of the fairytale is “true love prevails over anything“. Fiammarosa and Sasan were both willing to go to extreme lengths to be with one another. Fiammarosa survived as long as she could in the heat of the desert and did not complain to her husband at all because she loved him. Sasan built Fiammarosa a house of glass surrounded by snow because he loved her and did not want to lose her. I believe that the last sentence is a symbol of Fiammarosa and Sasan’s love; it was grand but had its drawbacks. Fiammarosa was cooped up in the glass house alone with the children and Sasan had to travel back and forth between his work and his wife. Mrs. Goff also wants us to write a new chapter to go along with the fairytale so here goes.
After months of becoming comfortable with the quietness and stillness of her glass home in the mountains Fiammarosa received a letter. It was from Hugh. His wife had died giving birth to their son and he was now as lonely as she was, so he decided to come and stay with her. Fiammarosa was overwhelmed. What was she to do? There was no way to get in contact with him quickly enough to explain to him that she was now happier than she had ever been. It would kill him to see the glass house that Sasan built her, and that another man had seen her dance naked in the snow. She could not bear to tell him. She decided the next time Sasan came home that she would tell him to take her back to the hot city, and that she believed she could now survive him the heat.
About 2 weeks after Fiammarosa decided that she was to go back to the hot city she heard a knock at the door. She was so relieved that Sasan had not waited any longer to visit her and that they could begin their journey back to the city. When she opened the door, she was shocked to see a little boy that looked oddly familiar. He was out of breath and she could see he had been crying; his tears were frozen to his cheeks. He managed to get a few words out, “A man, trapped...frozen.” Fiammarosa was horrified, she thought to herself, “what could be wrong? Sasan has traveled up the mountainside many times, why now has he frozen in his tracks?” She followed the boy the best she could down the mountain side but when they got to the body Fiammarosa was stunned, “Hugh” she breathed. Her and the boy wrapped him in the blanket she had brought and slowly carried him back to her house. The whole way to the house Fiammarosa wondered how she would explain to him how happy she was and that she felt terrible that she had been so self-centered and put his life in jeopardy. After hours of lying by the fire Fiammarosa and the boy came to the conclusion that there was no saving him. Fiammarosa consoled the boy as he wept, she asked him how he knew Hugh, “I am his son,” the boy replied. From that night on Fiammarosa vowed she would take care of the boy as if he were her own. Sasan arrived the next night and was surprised to see another child in their home. “Who is he?” He asked Fiammarosa. “A friend of mine,” she replied softly, “we will love him like he is one of our own.”
Sincerely,
Erin O’Brien
P.S. Mrs. Goff also wants us to finish another story. I chose “Wolf-Alice” by Angela Carter. It is about a girl raised by wolves for so long that she too acted like a wolf. After a group of men shot her “mother” wolf, they took the girl back to their village and tried to train her to become a human again.
After months of making progress with the girl, the nuns believed it would be a good idea to let her out of her cell and see if she could survive as a human in their village. Bad idea. As soon as they opened the cell the girl darted into the woods. After hours of searching for her, the people wondered if it was even worth trying to catch her again. She did not want to live with them; she wanted to live with wolves. After deliberating for a while they decided it was best that they catch her in fear that she may bring back a pack of wolves and hurt their children and livestock. They searched for weeks with no luck whatsoever. They had almost given up hope until a man shouted, “Over Here! I think I see something!” They all ran to his side and sure enough there was a wolf den. They slowly marched toward the opening, guns in hand. They were so close to the opening when she ran out howling, a shot was fired and she was down. “One less thing for me to worry about,” said the leader and they headed back to the village to tell the women that there was no hope for her, they had found her chewed to death.
Well those are my stories. Hope you like them, sorry about all the death.
I suppose you are going to be the last person to receive your letter considering it is now Friday and I am just turning in the letter, sorry I have been sick. Anyway, Mrs. Goff had both our classes read the fairytale “Cold”. I believe the theme of the fairytale is “true love prevails over anything“. Fiammarosa and Sasan were both willing to go to extreme lengths to be with one another. Fiammarosa survived as long as she could in the heat of the desert and did not complain to her husband at all because she loved him. Sasan built Fiammarosa a house of glass surrounded by snow because he loved her and did not want to lose her. I believe that the last sentence is a symbol of Fiammarosa and Sasan’s love; it was grand but had its drawbacks. Fiammarosa was cooped up in the glass house alone with the children and Sasan had to travel back and forth between his work and his wife. Mrs. Goff also wants us to write a new chapter to go along with the fairytale so here goes.
After months of becoming comfortable with the quietness and stillness of her glass home in the mountains Fiammarosa received a letter. It was from Hugh. His wife had died giving birth to their son and he was now as lonely as she was, so he decided to come and stay with her. Fiammarosa was overwhelmed. What was she to do? There was no way to get in contact with him quickly enough to explain to him that she was now happier than she had ever been. It would kill him to see the glass house that Sasan built her, and that another man had seen her dance naked in the snow. She could not bear to tell him. She decided the next time Sasan came home that she would tell him to take her back to the hot city, and that she believed she could now survive him the heat.
About 2 weeks after Fiammarosa decided that she was to go back to the hot city she heard a knock at the door. She was so relieved that Sasan had not waited any longer to visit her and that they could begin their journey back to the city. When she opened the door, she was shocked to see a little boy that looked oddly familiar. He was out of breath and she could see he had been crying; his tears were frozen to his cheeks. He managed to get a few words out, “A man, trapped...frozen.” Fiammarosa was horrified, she thought to herself, “what could be wrong? Sasan has traveled up the mountainside many times, why now has he frozen in his tracks?” She followed the boy the best she could down the mountain side but when they got to the body Fiammarosa was stunned, “Hugh” she breathed. Her and the boy wrapped him in the blanket she had brought and slowly carried him back to her house. The whole way to the house Fiammarosa wondered how she would explain to him how happy she was and that she felt terrible that she had been so self-centered and put his life in jeopardy. After hours of lying by the fire Fiammarosa and the boy came to the conclusion that there was no saving him. Fiammarosa consoled the boy as he wept, she asked him how he knew Hugh, “I am his son,” the boy replied. From that night on Fiammarosa vowed she would take care of the boy as if he were her own. Sasan arrived the next night and was surprised to see another child in their home. “Who is he?” He asked Fiammarosa. “A friend of mine,” she replied softly, “we will love him like he is one of our own.”
Sincerely,
Erin O’Brien
P.S. Mrs. Goff also wants us to finish another story. I chose “Wolf-Alice” by Angela Carter. It is about a girl raised by wolves for so long that she too acted like a wolf. After a group of men shot her “mother” wolf, they took the girl back to their village and tried to train her to become a human again.
After months of making progress with the girl, the nuns believed it would be a good idea to let her out of her cell and see if she could survive as a human in their village. Bad idea. As soon as they opened the cell the girl darted into the woods. After hours of searching for her, the people wondered if it was even worth trying to catch her again. She did not want to live with them; she wanted to live with wolves. After deliberating for a while they decided it was best that they catch her in fear that she may bring back a pack of wolves and hurt their children and livestock. They searched for weeks with no luck whatsoever. They had almost given up hope until a man shouted, “Over Here! I think I see something!” They all ran to his side and sure enough there was a wolf den. They slowly marched toward the opening, guns in hand. They were so close to the opening when she ran out howling, a shot was fired and she was down. “One less thing for me to worry about,” said the leader and they headed back to the village to tell the women that there was no hope for her, they had found her chewed to death.
Well those are my stories. Hope you like them, sorry about all the death.