synopsis for "the tinderbox"

synopsis for "the tinderbox"

Well over all I thought the tinder box story was very strange. The main reason I thought this was because of how the story was told and how fast the story progress but the story is only meant to be short and told for children. Overall I like the story because of how fast it moved and the amount the story drifted from scene to scene.

When looking at the characters in the story there are many differences between each of them. The main character the solider goes throw a lot of changers in the story from rich to poor then rich again and even falling in love. The solider as a person seems to be cold and greedy for one example the solider kills a witch just because she asked him a question but he does what he needs to the survive.

The royals in the story the king, queen and the princess don't have much of a story behind them as they are more side characters but they do play a big part in story and have a big effect on the solider character in the story. The princess in the story falls in love with the solider and the king and queen are against this because there is meant to be a prophecy that the princess would marry a solider so they don't want this and locked her away. This shows that the king and queen are posh and think there better then the other characters as they don't want there child to mix with people who are not royal like them. This shows that they are upper class and don't want to mix with the common people. As for the princess she doesn't seem to think like this as when she meats the solider she likes him and dozen't think of him as a lower class to her and this shows that the princess is fair compared to her parents

When it comes to the story it seems to be a very strange as the story jumps from scene to scene. As the story progresses you learn about how the solider changes and goes thought different stages of emotion. Then at the end the solider must kill everyone so that he can save himself from being killed and this really shows that the solider is not scared to take life when he has to. Though out the story the soldiers changes as he gains more money he gains friends because of this money then when he loses his money his friends leave him and he turns to the tinderbox dogs for help with getting what he wants. He then use these dogs to help him get away at the end of the story.

My overall view of the story is that its a story about someone gaining everything they want and then see the effects of the choses he made unfold around him. When I think about the story i find it interesting but the writing style of the story I don't really like but its only a fairy tale.