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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by violent fairy tales Is your kid too well adjusted

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Well try brothers grimm and see what that does to

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the following passage Read stories But even santa claus with

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being here about it all right Which sentence would provide

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additional support that fairy tales were not intended to be

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ideal worlds and hear the potential answers investor plain and

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children listen locals person mentioned quite graphic All right well

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the name of the game here is credibility The best

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answer is going to come from some legit source which

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helps the author hammer the main point home Option b

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doesn't even come close It's not citing any kind of

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source All we have is the author's word The children

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back in the day understood the warnings of fairy tales

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Now if the author brought in children from a time

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machine in the past and then interviewed them well that

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would be a different story but not the case here

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So bye Choi see makes the same mistake Is b

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it's just the author telling us that the fairy tales

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had more impact because they were local Well we're not

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saying that the author doesn't know what he or she

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is talking about but we need something a little more

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substantial than just a local On top of that whole

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issue c is extra wrong because the point it makes

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has nothing to do with the reason fairy tales were

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not intended to show nice happy world We're looking for

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solid evidence of a dark state of fairy tales before

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disney came along and painted a smile on every fairies

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face wow what would happen if we put a hard

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core old school fairy in an iron cage match with

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a sparkly disney fairy We shell out for the pay

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per view okay option d does make a good point

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The tarantino like violence of old fairy tales is pretty

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solid evidence that the stories weren't meant to show what

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we think of now as storybook world This answer has

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a problem though we have no idea who the person

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who mentions this point is so it could be a

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fairytale expert or it could be the author's senile aunt

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mabel we just don't know Well option a fixes the

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problem by saying that a professor is the one presenting

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the evidence professor Educated phd school right This would be

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a stronger if we knew who the professor is and

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what his or her credentials are If this professor's phd

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was in basket weaving while then his heir opinion on

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fairytales isn't much more valid than aunt mabel's Still even

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though answer isn't perfect it's the best we got it's

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kind of like the last deform cupcake in the pan

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might not be perfect but it's Not like we're not 00:02:37.208 --> [endTime] going to eat it Ah

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