![]() On the surface this may not seem as bad as breaking a chair, but by sleeping in Baby Bear’s bed, she has violated his private space and making it her own. At this point, she climbs into Baby Bear’s bed and falls asleep, crossing the final line. She tries each of their beds, finding one too hard, one too soft and one just right. Now she has eaten their food and broken the bear cub’s chair, raising the stakes from stealing food to outright vandalism and property damage. She finds Papa Bear’s chair too hard, Mama Bear’s chair too soft and Baby Bear’s chair just right, but as she sits in his chair it breaks. Second, Goldilocks decides to sit in their chairs, usurping their place. No one wants to eat something a stranger has been munching on and bears tend to be territorial about their food. The tension from this scene is found in her eating from the bears’ dinner when we know they are coming back to eat it. It continues with the rising action, which is broken into three sections: the porridge tasting, chair sitting and bed sleeping.įirst, Goldilocks finds the bears’ porridge and tastes each one, deeming the first too hot, the second too cold and the third one just right. Besides Goldilocks has placed herself as a villain by breaking into someone else’s home without hesitation. Since we’ve already met the bears, this act makes us afraid for both Goldilocks (for surely a girl is not safe with a family of bears) and for the bears (for little girls, no matter how cute, can be destructive without meaning to be). She finds a house with no one home so she breaks in. She knocks on the door and no one answers, so she lets herself in. But then a girl named Goldilocks gets lost in the woods and finds the bears’ house. Talking bears who live in a house and eat porridge. But let’s work with this opening as the hook. I say typically starts out because there are many versions of this tale, each with its own quirks and variances. The story typically starts out with the bears discovering their porridge is too hot and deciding to go for a walk, leaving their home unoccupied. ![]() We’ll begin with Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Now we’re going to look at how that plays out by breaking down a fairy tale. The past few blogs we’ve focused on complications, tension and raising the stakes. ![]()
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