Jacobs’ Fairy Tales I read:
-The Story of the Tree Little Pigs
-The Golden Arm
-Lazy Jack
-The Cat and the Mouse
Book Summary: The Golden Arm
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publishing: Abela Publishing
Genre: Fairy Tales
Reading Level: Varies
Summary: This story is about a man who is looking for someone to make his wife. He looks all over and he finally finds a wife that has a golden arm. He pretends to love her but he knows that he actually loves his wife’s golden arm more than his actual wife. The wife dies one day and the husband pretends to be really sad at the funeral, but that night he goes and digs up his wife’s grave and then cuts off the golden arm. That night he is visited buy the ghost of his wife and he pretends that he does not have her arm but she knows that he actually does have it.
My Reaction to the Book: I thought that this was quite a weird story, and that the ending was really surprising because it kind of just ended out of nowhere, I expected there to be more to the story.
Potential Problems: The problem with this story is that one, the husband is shallow and he only marries his wife because she has a golden arm, two, the husband cuts off the wife’s arm after she is dead, and three, the husband is visited by the ghost of his wife.
Recommendations: I don’t think I would recommend this particular fairy tale to anyone, but I think that some of the other ones were good, “Lazy Jack” was a good one and it had a good lesson, so I would recommend some of the other Jacob’s fairy tales.
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