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Little Snow-White

The diagram displays the fairy tale known as "Little Snow-White" by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The patterns noticed in the tale focused on one key thing, envy. Envy was the driving force throughout the tale. Without envy, then Snow-White would have still remained home and may have never met her Prince. The Stepmother was so envious that she would go to extreme limits in order to rid of Snow-White so that she would be the fairest of them all. In my diagram, I outlined the different factors of envy that occurred with the Stepmother which ultimately led to her death. The Stepmother became so consumed with being beautiful that any threat to her beauty needed to be terminated. Another pattern that I noticed was the number three. That was the number of tries it took to kill Snow-White. The first time the dwarfs saved her from suffocating. The second time the dwarfs removed her poisonous comb. The final effort was the successful one for the Stepmother. Although Snow-White did die, it was not a permanent situation. The number three was also the number of days the dwarfs mourned over Snow-White. Lastly, while they mourned there were three animals that came to visit Snow-white. I displayed one of these patterns of three in my diagram displaying the three tries it took for Snow-White to die.