Tales from the Real World

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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jun 02, Katy Noyes rated it really liked it Shelves: Interesting updates of fairy tales, some worked better than others I would firstly say that I would be recommending this for year olds, rather than the the book indicates on the back.

While there isn't anything wholly unsuitable for younger readers, the themes are actually as in the fairy tales, but more so in today's world quite dark - abandonment, burglary, child abduction and of course abuse by a step-parent - they all come across as more upsetting in a context children will recog Interesting updates of fairy tales, some worked better than others I would firstly say that I would be recommending this for year olds, rather than the the book indicates on the back.

While there isn't anything wholly unsuitable for younger readers, the themes are actually as in the fairy tales, but more so in today's world quite dark - abandonment, burglary, child abduction and of course abuse by a step-parent - they all come across as more upsetting in a context children will recognise. Eight stories, each around 50 pages long and taken in plot and character from a famous fairy tale - we have: Couldn't he be 'in love' or grieving and ignoring his daughter?

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A good mix of stories, different modern contexts for their updates, and a mixture of happy and not-so-happy endings. It was easy to see the source story in each, and enjoyable spotting the similarities and how the writer had changed them.

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Hana Fares rated it it was ok May 21, Wilmari rated it it was ok Sep 17, In Gilead, environmental factors have caused the birth rate to plunge to near zero and the few fertile women are installed as forced breeders for the barren wives of the Commanders of the Faithful. The ages of Serena Joy Yvonne Strahovski , along with that of her husband, Commander Fred Waterford Joseph Fiennes , were a major detail altered for the adaptation; both are significantly younger on screen than in the book.

For Fiennes, whose character has sex with Offred every month, against her will, in a bid to get her pregnant, the burden of playing a rapist — albeit one committing an act sanctioned by the ruling order — does not sit easily. In seeking to build an authentic world beyond that outlined in the book, Miller and his team drew — as Atwood did in her original story — on history, creating a meticulously detailed mythology for Gilead.



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This explains why the outwardly pious Commanders of the Faith have based themselves in Cambridge, Massachusetts, north of Boston, rather than Washington DC. He says he has an unusual advantage in being able to question Atwood directly about her own inspirations. While Miller deliberately created a multiracial world unlike in the original book, in which minorities had been exiled , the show did not deal with, or mention, racism.

How those criticisms have been taken on board in the storylines for season two remains to be seen, but some cast members say that such issues are influencing their performances. Moss and I speak again, a few weeks after my visit to the set, on the day of the March for Our Lives, held across US cities and organised by the surviving students of the Parkland school shootings.

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