Well, above are my drawings of 3 main themes found in The Goose Girl: the importance of folk tales (a horse is coming out of the book, and a person/what looks like a teletubby named folk tales is forming and individual out of play-doh), the power of words (the o is a lightbulb), and the difficulty/rewards of learning languages (a goose and a tornado). Ps feel free to laugh at the pictures, I know I did!
I thought looking at how folk tales influence society/individuals could be really interesting. There is also a lot of research done about learning languages and I think doing some research about the learning of languages in combination with the different languages that the main character learns and how that influences her. And if I were to talk about the power of words there are so many different books (intertextuality) that I could tie in, or the spoken word vs written, etc.
Those were some more thematic things I thought doing a research paper on could be very interesting. But when I was talking with some friends about the book, someone brought up the main character's relationships (particularly with her mother) and how they changed as she went from insecurely searching for the acceptance of others to confidently accepting herself.
In short, there is a plethora of subject matter that I could write about. Doing research will hopefully help me narrow it down!
Nice duck doodle. :)
ReplyDeleteBut no, I like what you did here. Folk tales are super important, and they're a really interesting phenomenon--they somehow manage to shape and be simultaneously shaped by the culture to which they belong. I think you have some fascinating stuff!