How to compose a fairy tale sample. Fairy tale structure: how to learn to create magical stories

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Works of 2nd grade students

Kindness

Negrey Denis 2-a

Once upon a time there was a boy. They gave him a kitten. The boy loved the kitten and played with it.

There was a large cactus on their window. Once a boy walked past a cactus and it pricked him. The boy felt pain and began to cry. In the evening, when the boy went to bed, the kitten decided to take revenge for his friend and bit off all the spines of the cactus. And the cactus turned out to be magical and turned the kitten into a hedgehog. When the boy woke up in the morning, he did not see the kitten and began to call him. But in response to his call, it was not a kitten that looked out from under the curtain, but a hedgehog. At first the boy was scared, but then he saw his sad eyes and felt sorry for the poor man. He poured milk into a saucer and placed it on the hedgehog. As soon as he started drinking, the needles began to fall off, and the kitten became the same as before.

This magical cactus took pity on the kitten for the boy’s kindness.

Bream

Sychev Dmitry 2-a

Once upon a time there lived Dima a football player. He went to training. And after training, he and his dad loved to go fishing.

And then one day Dima caught a big Bream. Leschch prayed: “Let me go, Dima, don’t destroy me. I will fulfill any of your wishes.” And why not? Dima thought, releasing the bream into a bucket of water. If he fulfills his wish, I’ll let him go, but if he doesn’t fulfill it, then his mother will fry him for dinner. “I want,” says Dima, to win a football competition at school tomorrow.” The bream says to him: “Be calm, I will fulfill your request.” And so it happened, Dima’s team won. The coach approaches Dima and says that he will play for the city team. Dima became sad, and Bream reassures him that victory is guaranteed to him. And again they took first place. Dima became self-important and became brave. I went out with friends to eat ice cream and forgot about my friend. Bream. I came home, and Bream died of boredom and loneliness.

The moral of the story is: don’t forget those who do you good.

Fairy and animals. Fairy tale.

Matveeva Yu 2-a

Once upon a time there lived a hedgehog. He was a very kind, smart and friendly hedgehog.

He had a lot of friends: a bunny, a mouse, a kitten, a little squirrel and a little bee. And he decided to take a walk with his friends because it was a sunny day. They went to swim in the river. And after that they lay down to sunbathe and looked at the clouds in the sky and found funny figures in them. But the clouds floated away, the sun disappeared, clouds appeared and it began to rain. The animals began to look for somewhere to hide from the rain, but there was nothing suitable anywhere. And then the good fairy came to their aid. With her assistants Chip and Dale, she took the animals home in her magic carriage. The animals gave the Fairy tea with lemon and honey. Fairy went to her fairyland, and Chip and Dale stayed with the animals. They became friends and lived very happily.

True friend

Yanchenya Elena 2nd grade

There lived one boy and his name was Vova. One day he went for a walk. He didn't notice how he fell into the lake. And along the way a boy was walking, he saw that Vova had fallen into the lake and ran to save him. He saved Vova and Vova thanked him. Since then they began to be friends together.

Ball

Zeytunyan Arthur 2nd grade

My grandparents, who live in Maykop, had a dog named Sharik. This dog was very nimble and never sat in one place for a minute. In the garden, my grandmother planted seedlings of tomatoes and cucumbers. She looked after them every day. The seedlings have grown large. One day, restless Sharik ran into the garden and trampled all the seedlings. Grandmother saw all this and cried because all her work was lost. Out of anger, she sent Sharik to the Lagonaki mountains with her friends. The dog lived in the mountains, where she grazed cows and sheep. When my grandmother’s anger passed, she realized that there was no need to do this. But it was already too late.

Lion and animals.

Dadasheva Indira 2nd grade

There lived a lion in the forest. And he hunted animals. And so it was the fox’s turn. The lion catches up with the fox and catches up. And the fox says: “Don’t eat me, lion.” On the other side of the lake someone just like you appeared.” The lion got angry and said: “Fox, and fox, take me to the other side of the lake.” The fox took him away, and the lion said: “Fox, where is your lion?” “There, look at the lake,” the fox answers. The lion saw his reflection and rushed into the water. So the animals got rid of the lion.

Naughty frogs.

Kirillov Danil 2nd grade

Once upon a time there lived a family of frogs in a swamp. The mother frog was going to catch mosquitoes for lunch. She told the little frogs not to leave the house, otherwise the voracious heron would eat them. And she left. The little frogs played, jumped, ran and did not notice how they were far from home. The heron came up and swallowed the frogs. The mother frog was returning from hunting and saw a heron with a full belly. The heron was sleeping, and the baby frogs were jumping inside the belly. The mother frog took a spruce needle and pierced the heron's belly. The frogs jumped out. They promised mom never to go far from home again. Always obey your mother.

Glass balls.

Kovalenko Katya 2nd grade

There were many different toys and lights hanging on the holiday tree in the store. Among them were plastic and glass balls. People passed by and admired the beauty and shine of the Christmas tree with its lights and balls. The glass balls believed that people only admired them and were very proud of it. They even began to swing on the branch out of pride. Plastic balls said: “Careful, you will break!” But the glass balls did not listen to them and swayed more and more on the branch. And so they fell and were broken. And glass balls no longer hang on the tree. And people walk past the Christmas tree and continue to admire its beauty and elegant appearance.

Mice and cheese.

Zhakenova Ainur 2nd grade

Once upon a time there lived a mouse. And she had three sons: Simka, Timosha and the youngest Vanyutka. In the morning, Simka ate porridge, Timosha ate cottage cheese, and Vanyutka ate nothing, he wouldn’t even drink milk. One day their grandmother came to them and she brought six cheeses. And Vanyutka liked the cheese. At night, a star fell in Vanyutka’s window. He made a wish that he would have a mountain of cheese in his hole. And when he woke up, he had a mountain of cheese. He ate everything and became like a ball.

Mermaid

Bulavenko Kristina, 2nd grade

We went to the beach with our girlfriends. We were sunbathing, and then we went swimming and saw a girl. Her name was the Little Mermaid. “I can grant one wish,” she said. I wished: “I wish that we would never quarrel.” And we were friends with the Little Mermaid.

Princess

Chabanenko Maryam 2nd grade

Once upon a time there lived a princess and she wanted to travel around the world. And one day I went. On the way, she met a cat and a dog and took them. She arrived in the kingdom where she lives. Once when the princess went into the forest to pick mushrooms and got lost. Sits and cries. Suddenly a fairy appeared and said: “Why are you crying?” And the princess answers: “Because I got lost.” And suddenly at that moment the princess found herself at home with a basket full of mushrooms. She lived happily ever after with a cat and a dog.

Little Mermaid Star

Afonichkina Elizaveta 2nd grade

Once upon a time there was a little mermaid, Zvezdochka, and her father was Neptune. He was mighty and strong. He had a golden trident. He was the king of the sea. The star was a princess and everyone obeyed her. But one day a man fell into the sea. The little mermaid took him by the arms and put him in a shell, and waited for him to wake up. He woke up. They were having fun. But when my father found out, they got married. And they had 2 little mermaids: Heart and Star.

Wolf.

Shevyako Anna 2nd grade

Once upon a time there lived an old man and an old woman. And they had a cat, a dog and a goat. One day the old woman decided to bake pancakes. I baked pancakes and went to the cellar for sour cream.

A wolf was running nearby, a very hungry wolf. He mistook the old woman for the smell of pancakes and wanted to eat her. He looked through the window and said: “Old man, give me the old woman.” “No way,” answered the old man. The wolf got angry and ate everyone. The old man began to think about how to get out. And I came up with it. They rocked the wolf and got out to freedom. And the wolf realized that the old woman smelled like pancakes. And the wolf didn’t hurt the little ones anymore.

Focus on a specific topic. Choose a specific leitmotif - “search for identity” or “loss”, “gender relations” or “family”. Explore the chosen theme in your story. You should write about a topic that is close to you personally or that can be approached from an unexpected angle.

• For example, choose the topic “family” and focus on your relationship with your sister. Write a fairy tale and place the birth of your sister or a childhood memory associated with it at the center of the plot.

This is an expression, but few people have thought that the hint that passes somehow casually, barely touching consciousness, is in fact that same barely noticeable path, following which you see that the fairy tale is not a lie at all, but a lesson for good fellows yes red girls

MAGIC TALES as a TOOL FOR FULFILLING WISHES

What are these self-fulfilling fairy tales? And how do they differ from simply making wishes and performing rituals? The author writes an ordinary fairy tale, expressing surging emotions. And depending on what emotions he has, the tale turns out to be sad or funny, romantic or fighting, with a joyful or sad ending. It is assumed that fairy tales were written for the purpose of entertainment, but it’s worth remembering “Kolobok” or “The Little Mermaid” - this way of having fun seems somewhat peculiar!

Magic Self-fulfilling fairy tales differ from those described above in that they are written with the goal of finding a solution to a pressing issue.

These fairy tales are always funny, with a traditional happy ending. Well, having fun while writing a fairy tale is guaranteed!

The fairy tale is written by the bearer himself (I don’t want to say the word “problem”), say, of an unresolved issue. An unresolved question is formalized by the author into words and, in the process of writing, is transformed into a solved one.

It is your INTENTION that works regardless of you.

That is, this is not a message like “I want”, this is an ALREADY resolved issue - you solved it in a fairy tale.

When you start writing, you already know how it will end, but you don’t yet know how you will get there, but you will all comejust like a bee finds a flower by smell. I assure you, the process is exciting!

These are the main stages of writing:

• 1.Description of the hero and situation.
• 2.Formulation of the claim (the hero’s dissatisfaction, picturesque suffering) 3.Formulation of INTENTION.
• 4. “Journey to distant lands” - preparation of the “battlefield”.
• 5. “Fight with a monster” and an anecdotal, ABSURD way to defeat him (sequence of actions - RITUAL!)
• 6.Victory, “PRIZE!” - fulfillment of intention, return of the hero, celebration.
• 7. “Fixer” - a promise to the future.

Experience has shown that writing a fairy tale can be done by EVERYONE!

How to start such a simple, but so tempting action? If you are under the influence of negative emotions, sad, annoyed, bring yourself to a calm state.

The state of courage will be excellent!

A good way is to imagine yourself slightly under a degree. Once again: just IMAGINE!

Come up with a super cool name!

Take the most brilliant name for yourself. Modesty is strongly discouraged! Don't wait for Muse, do you know how many people like you?Perhaps it just hasn’t reached you yet. Start writing! This capricious person will definitely visit you as soon as she smells the aroma of creativity!

By 5 point: those actions or events that you describe will be a ritual that you will need to perform specifically in this situation. This will be the most correct thing for you - it is your soul that directly receives the answer to what exactly you should do!

After all, you know that there are a lot of beautiful rituals, but for some reason they don’t work, and they don’t work because they are not yours!

On point 7: a message to the future is when already in a fairy tale what is needed has come true, the intended happy ending has taken place. But life goes on, right? And new distances open beyond the horizon. This is where we begin to casually attract the following tempting situation. For example, it happened - a lady got an apartment, moved in - and then an interesting neighbor comes in - Well, like, ask where the library is... In fact, there is a message to the future - the red maiden, and even with her mansion, is very much entitled to a good fellow!

But what kind of relationships are supposed to exist - more on that nextfairy tale

Self-fulfilling fairy tales are written to solve any issues: apartment, money, career, “sweet couple” - whatever the soul wants. Storyteller! State your goal more precisely! If you don’t formulate your goal, how will the Universe know what you, wonderful one, want? Well, choose your expressions: as you say, so it will be!

Good luck!

Fairy tales? What nonsense? I have not been a child for a long time and I know very well what fairy tales are. This cannot happen in life, because it can never happen - something like this is what many say when they first hear about self-fulfilling fairy tales.

Meanwhile, any fairy tale is not only an interesting story, it has a specific purpose. Remember the saying: “A fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it...”? So it's not that simple. There is even a certain direction in psychology called fairy tale therapy. In general, fairy tales are a useful thing. And, as it turned out, not only for children.

So what are self-fulfilling fairy tales and why are they needed?

Self-fulfilling fairy tales are fairy tales whose authors and heroes are ourselves.

After some time, the events described in the fairy tale come true in our lives.

We’ll talk about why this happens a little later, but now we’ll talk about how to write such fairy tales. Why are self-fulfilling fairy tales written? Of course, in order to make our life better, more enjoyable, more interesting.

You can start small and write a fairy-tale version of how to resolve a situation.

For example, you need a job. Write a story about how you find this very job. If we talk about something more global, you can write a fairy tale about your life, about what you want it to be like in the future.

How to write a self-fulfilling fairy tale?

Everything is simple here. First of all, remember this rule: my fairy tale - my rules! That is, anything you want can happen in your fairy tale, any miracles and transformations, any, even the most incredible things.

Since we are talking about a fairy tale, we can (and even necessary!) allow yourself to turn into a fairy-tale hero, for example, into a king, or a cheerful troubadour, or perhaps you want to become a princess, a sorceress or something else - please!

Don't be shy, let go of your imagination and let yourself be immersed in a fairy-tale world. For example, you can start like this:

“In a beautiful kingdom, there lived a princess. Every morning, waking up, the princess heard the singing of birds and felt a light breeze that brought to her the aromas of the magnificent flowers growing in her garden ... "

Next, you can describe the situation that requires resolution. Of course, in the best traditions of the fairy tale genre. Let’s say this: “The princess wanted to get busy - go to work. The Tsar Father supported the idea, and the princess went to the city to find a job she liked. But soon the fairy tale is told, but the deed is not done soon. Day, two, three days, the princess went to various shopping shops and manufacturing factories, but could not find a job that would make her soul happy. The princess did not despair, every day the desire to work became greater in her, and there was a feeling that the very thing that she would like was about to be found. And then one day..."

And now it is possible to describe in detail and with all the details the story of how the situation was resolved and how the main character of the fairy tale is satisfied and happy. Now the fairy tale is ready.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated here. The main thing is to start, and then everything will work out by itself. Sometimes we don’t even suspect what our imagination is capable of, but it is actually capable of a lot.

The resulting fairy tale needs to be re-read regularly, you can read it to yourself every morning or before bed, you can tell your children... There are many options, choose the one that you like best and suits you.

Why do self-fulfilling fairy tales work?

Why does what was written in a fairy tale suddenly come true in life? The fact is that such fairy tales are nothing more than a scenario of life or the development of a certain situation. There are elements of visualization, formulation of desires, goal setting, programming, etc.

And plus to everything - all this is written down, but writing down desires is very important!

While writing, we allow the subconscious to work more actively.

During the creative process, many restrictions are removed, because we seem to disconnect from the real world and don’t think about the fact that “there are no ideal men, and if there are, then everyone is already taken”, “the fire inspector always demands a bribe”, “impossible find a good job without connections”...

In a fairy tale, everything is possible! Thanks to this, our subconscious mind calmly comes up with the best options for the development of events..

Allowing us to admit the possibility of their implementation.

From the forum:

In fact " Tale about a droplet" is a self-healing fairy tale in its purest form. The beetle is the image of my fear, the dandelion is me, and the droplet is a person close to me, whom it was time to send on an independent voyage.

So, we create an image of our problem or negative feeling. We give him a name, endow him with worldly data, where he lives, with whom he lives, how he lives.
In the fairy tale, IT must pass three tests, after each of which a transformation occurs that changes the negative to the positive.
This doesn’t always happen; you can’t write through force. We write as it comes and only by hand.
If we didn’t manage to turn the hardened byaka into something kind and fluffy in one go, then we’ll write more.

The task of writing a fairy tale, to be honest, puzzled us.

As Oleg says, well, we are not storytellers by any means. Therefore, to begin with, we tried to remember our own experience of writing fairy tales. Sad details were revealed: Y lacks them completely due to a difficult childhood and physics and mathematics education, which in no way contributes to fairy tales; O has some experience, but it is so distant that it does not count.

A lyrical digression about the experience from O: “I tried to remember what kind of inventions and writing tricks (well, who was spared in my youth) - I had.

In fact, for the first time to invent, i.e. I started composing, not writing, fairy tales in early childhood. This happened because the ancient unit, extracting Cheburashka’s lisping voice from the record for the six hundred and twenty-fifth time, finally bent safely, and for parents (oh, how I understand them now) reading fairy tales to their child in voice and from a book every day was, to put it mildly, very frustrating. And then my mother, trying to resolve the current impasse with putting me to bed, suggested: “You go to bed and invent a fairy tale for yourself. Well, for example, about the birds..” I must say that I was an obedient child for the time being, and therefore I honestly began to come up with a fairy tale. About a family of woodpeckers (Sash, nothing personal - it was just the truth about woodpeckers). For some reason, the whole plot of the fairy tale revolved around the hollow, its internal structure and its defense. For some reason, it’s very comfortable to invent all sorts of details about home improvement in the dark under a blanket. And somehow this case hooked me - I spent quite a long time unwinding this fairy tale at night.

My further experience of writing fairy tales was far from it, not counting the one time I wrote, at a quite conscious age, a heartbreaking fairy tale about an artist based on the hackneyed plot “You draw her, draw her, and then she, damn it, will make her legs,” which has been widely used in world literature since the time Hellas. True, my experience with inventing fairy tales happily stopped, and another experience of inventing began - mainly tales, excuses, replies and other applied elegant lies that we so need in adult life.”

Thus, in view of the obvious lack of family experience in storytelling, we decided to turn to primary sources on how THIS should be done, and memories of our own experience, and rushed to the Internet.

We will not bore readers with the details of our literary research in search engines, to which we asked about how fairy tales are written. Let’s just note that we had a lot of fun, laughed heartily, and we recommend it to everyone at their leisure on long winter evenings. In addition to a bunch of rather monotonous information and funny quotes, I probably liked the definition given by J. Tolkien in the article “Fairy Tales”: “In general, fairy tales in many ways (and the best of them mostly) deal with simple, underlying facts and phenomena untouched by fantasy. But they, being placed in a fairy tale, begin to glow with an unexpectedly bright light, for the storyteller, who allows himself “liberties” with Nature, is rather her lover than her slave. It was thanks to fairy tales that I first guessed the hidden power of words and the wonderful nature of things: stone, wood, iron; trees and grass; smoke and fire; bread and wine."

And in the process, we came across a very interesting work by Gianni Rodari, “The Grammar of Fantasy,” which is an enlarged and accessible written summary of all significant studies related to fairy tales. From his work came references to the works of the Soviet folklorist Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp, in particular “Morphology of Fairy Tales,” which breaks down folk tales into “functions,” which brought him worldwide fame. And we were stunned. “Having analyzed the structure of a folk tale, and especially carefully its Russian version (which is largely part of the Indo-European heritage, to which German and Italian fairy tales also belong),

V.Ya. Propp formulated the following three principles:
1) “The constant, stable elements of a fairy tale are the functions of the characters, regardless of who and how they are performed.”
2) “The number of functions known to a fairy tale is limited.”
3) "The sequence of functions is always the same."

According to Propp’s system, there are thirty-one of these functions, and if we take into account that internally they still vary and are modified, then the material is quite sufficient to describe the form of a fairy tale:
1) absence of a family member
2) prohibition addressed to the hero
3) violation of the ban
4) scouting
5) issuance
6) catch
7) involuntary complicity
8) sabotage (or shortage)
9) mediation
10) beginning opposition
11) the hero leaves home
12) the donor tests the hero
13) the hero reacts to the actions of the future donor
14) receiving a magic remedy
15) the hero is transported, delivered or brought to the location of the subject of the search
16) the hero and antagonist enter into a fight
17) the hero is marked
18) antagonist defeated
19) trouble or shortage is eliminated
20) return of the hero
21) the hero is persecuted
22) the hero escapes from persecution
23) the hero arrives home or to another country unrecognized
24) the false hero makes unreasonable claims
25) the hero is offered a difficult task
26) the problem is solved
27) the hero will be recognized
28) the false hero or antagonist is exposed
29) the hero is given a new look
30) the enemy is punished
31) the hero gets married.

It is clear that the sequence of the given functions may be disrupted, some functions may drop out completely, but it is believed that using Propp’s system you can compose almost any narrative, story, script, fairy tale, and so on. All of the listed functions (laid out on tablets) make up “Propp’s maps”, which are used to teach and develop both children in developmental groups and philologists at universities. And probably the coolest thing is to come up with a plot, then mix the cards - and arrange the functions randomly - and come up with them again. Or choose random five cards... In general, a kind of drill. Inspired by the titanic work that Propp did, sorting out centuries-old folklore into its components, inspired by the statement of D. Roddari: “We are interested in these functions because on their basis we can build an infinite number of stories, just as you can compose as many melodies as you want, having twelve notes..." and also having convinced ourselves of the complete lack of experience in writing fairy tales, let us perhaps act as guinea pigs and try to tell our own tale about the journey, using Propp's maps.

What happened? look here.