Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good. . Nenia Campbell
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In fairy tales, the bad things that happen to the characters are not a cautionary tale. If you read a fairy tale and a character is killed, you would think that must have been bad, but it's not. It was a lesson to be learned because that character should have been more careful. In life, there are certain things that can happen to us and we should be careful.

Even though those things may seem as if they only happened to the bad characters in fairy tales, those things happen to all of us. We all make mistakes, but those mistakes do not define who we are as people.

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