1. The fairy tales by Grimm and Anderson, and the stories by Jewett, Carter, and Oates, all have very similar underlying meanings.  They all have a central character who is young and pure, who is later corrupted by a menacing figure.  They all have a path that they are supposed to stay on, or they are supposed to act or live a certain way.  The young, pure character’s all have some sort of temptation or things that draw them off the path.  In the Grimm and Anderson stories however, the pure character maintains her purity and moral throughout the story.  In the other stories, however, the young girls almost seem to part of the temptation or “evil” and they do not maintain their innocence in the end.  2.  In the story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been”, it starts out describing Connie personality and relationship with her family.  The story builds up as you learn that Connie strays of her path when she lies about going to the mall and goes with her friends to hang out with boys.  It climaxes when an older man she saw once shows up at her house when she is alone and convinces her to leave with him.  There are examples of the Hermeneutic Code when you realize that Connie kind of leads a double life and when she first sees Arnold Friend when he says, “Gonna get you, baby.”  It raises questions about what might happen.  There are also examples of the Proairetic Code when she skips the mall to go somewhere else so she meets Arnold Friend, and when her family leaves so that she is home alone.  These events just lead into the story.  3. The stories of “Cinderella” and “The Little Mermaid” are very similar to later versions such as Disney.  The main difference in “Cinderella” was that they took out the gorier parts that would not be suitable for a younger audience.  The main difference in “The Little Mermaid” is the ending.  In the earlier version she does not end up with the prince and the witch is not as evil as she is portrayed in the Disney version.  It is more a story of her search for a soul, rather than the normal contemporary fairy tale where the main character ends up with the prince.  The more contemporary fairy tales are made to fit the common mold and have happy endings.