Write a short fairy tale (творческоезадание)

 

Here is a guide how to write a fairy tale. Read it carefully and follow it.

You will find that writing a composition is easier if you remember two important rules. First, you must have something to say. Second, you must decide on how you want to say it.

A narrative composition of a fairy tale is a piece of writing that tells an imaginary story with supernatural powers, able to help or harm human beings. Think of a few of your own favorite fairy tales. They probably have several things in common. Almost all of them are told in chronological order; that is, the time sequence in which the events took place. All of them had a logical beginning, middle and ending. As a rule the beginning led up to the main event or events in the story, the middle told of the main happening or happenings, and the end told you what happened as a result of the event. Fairy tales are often very emotional and dramatic. The main characters in a fairy tale can be small imaginary beings or even animated objects. The language may be simple (it doesn’t mean primitive) but very expressive.

When you write a fairy tale, your purpose is to interest and entertain your reader. As a rule, a fairy tale teaches its readers to be kind, understanding, patient and helpful; the evil is always punished. Specific details and dialogues help your reader feel the events you write about are really happening, either to you or to someone else.

 

The Wise King

Once there ruled in the distant city of Worino a king who was both mighty and wise. He was feared for his might and loved for his wisdom.

Now, in the heart of that city was a well, whose water was cool and crystalline, from which all the inhabitants drank. Even the king and his courtiers drank from this well, for there was no other.

One night when all were asleep, a witch entered the city, and poured seven drops of strange liquid into the well, and said, ‘From this hour he who drinks this water shall become mad.’

Next morning all the inhabitants, save the king and his lord chamberlain, drank from the well and became mad, as the witch had foretold. And during that day the people in the narrow streets and in the market place did naught but whisper to one another, ‘The king is mad. Our king and his lord chamberlain have lost their reason. Surely we cannot be ruled by a mad king. We must dethrone him.’

That evening the king ordered a golden goblet to be filled from the well. And when it was brought to him he drank deeply, and gave it to his lord chamberlain to drink. And there was great rejoicing in that distant city of Worino because its king and its lord chamberlain had regained their reason.

 

 

In this composition the writer says his story is about a wise and mighty king, but he waits until the second paragraph to catch our attention. This he does by telling us there is only one well in the city, and that everyone, including the king, drinks from the well. We begin to wonder what the well has to do with the king. We want to find out what is going to happen. The writer then tells us, in chronological order, what happened.

A witch put a strange liquid into the well that would make people go mad.

All the people except the king and the lord chamberlain drank from the well.

The people went mad, and decided that the king and the lord chamberlain should be dethroned because they were mad.

The king and the lord chamberlain drank water from the well and became mad.

The writer, in his conclusion, creates an interesting ending by telling us that because the king and the lord chamber- lain were also mad, the people were happy because they ‘had regained their reason’.

 

Here is a list of topics for fairy-tales:

1. The Broken Cup

2. The Wise Man

3. The Talkative Fish

4. The Imaginary Menagerie

5. The Sleepy Head

6. The Crooked Cat and Mouse

7. The Busy Bee

8. The Bear Who Couldn’t Bear the Bare

9. Tick-a-tack!

10. Sprinkling, Wrinkling, Tinkling, Twinkling Tiny Brook