The Brothers Grimm: The Impact Of School Violence On Children

The Brothers Grimm, were brothers from Germany. In the early years, both brothers studied law, but after being inspired by a professor the Jakob turned his interest to past cultures. Jakob researched theories of language and grammar, while Wilhelms interest was more towards music and literature. Later in life, these brothers were professors in at the University of Göttingen, where Jakob was a professor and head librarian. Wilhelm was a assistant librarian and later a professor in the University. Both brothers were known for their research in language and folklore.

The Brothers Grimm collected their stories from family and friends. These collections of folk tales were told for almost two hundred years. “ The fairy tales, were part of

When a story is told, then told again to another person, then repeated again, it is enhanced with more drama and details made for each audience it is told to. I think that the original tales that, from what I read, were written for adults, must be altered to catch the reader's interest and in this case it was the children's interest that needed to be caught.

The stories for this week are more violent than most literature for children in the United States today. Some of these stories are actually offensive to many of us. And given the level of school violence in our society, there are those who think that stories like these promote violence; there are others who say the violence in literature is therapeutic, giving children an imaginative way to dealing with their problems. I do not agree that these stories promote violence. I do agree that these types of stories create imagination for children. To allow them to dream of fighting, hurting the evil villain and being made a hero is a way of understanding that we have a choice and that choice has consequences.

What do you think about the violence in the stories--good or bad, and why? This is another question that will get repeated as we move through the