English 2033E Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Utility Knife, Molly Whuppie, The Paper Bag Princess

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Please answer three of the following five questions in paragraph form. Support your discussion with specific examples and details from the text. Do not just describe or summarize the story comment on the meaning of the elements you discuss. Your answers will be marked for their depth and detail: discuss the way social mobility (moving up the social class ladder) is portrayed in two traditional fairy tales. The way in which social mobility is portrayed is that if you can impress a king riches will follow. In puss in boots the master, or miller who is poor, moves up the social ladder with the help of a clever cat that his father left him. In the brave little tailor the tailor moves up on the social ladder by being clever in accomplishing missions given to him by the king. Puss makes the king believe that his master is the marquis of.