Brother Grimm Stories: Styles Brainstorming

Topic: My Storybook will come from the Grimm brothers unit.  I mostly want to focus on different stories that relate back to the traditional fairy tales.  One story I think I will include will be Sleeping Beauty. In the Grimm brothers story “Sleeping Beauty’ is called Briar Rose.  Another story I have always been interested in is ‘Snow White’.  This could get complicated because of all the different styles and books of Grimm brother, but this also means I have plenty of stories to choose from.  

(Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales)

Bibliography:

1. Briar Rose, from the Grimm Brothers (Crane) Unit

2. Snow White, From the Grimm Brothers (Crane) Unit

Basically all of my stories will come from the Grimm Brothers Units

Possible Styles:

Animals as storytellers: I think it would be fun to tell these famous fairy tales from the eyes of animals.  I could get creative looking through the eyes of each of the different animals throughout the stories.  Making the animals storytellers could create a different back-story than what we are use to, because lets be honest every story have more than one side. 

Couples Therapy: I think this could be a really interesting twist to the stories.  Because most of these stories deal with a princess and prince it wouldn’t be hard to get creative with some problems that would need to be worked out in therapy.  I feel that with my major being sociology and my interest in counseling I would be able to somehow underline compare these stories to real life situations. 

Villain as storyteller: Since most of the Grimm stories have villains this could be fun to switch the story around from the princess view to the villains view.  I could even make is more understandable to why a villain has decided to be evil.  I could even make the readers be on the villain’s side instead of the ‘good’ side.  

Sequel to the story: I think this would be fun to get creative with.  Most of these stories don't have sequels, so I would be able to carry on with the story any way I wanted. For example what life is like after a prince saves a princess..  Do they live happier ever after, or do they keep running into problems??