Once Upon a Time

While I was reading this I kept thinking of the books/movie "A series of Unfortunate Events." There are many parallels between the two. First off, "A series of Unfortunate Events" Satirizes all the happy stories where everything ends up working out for the better and everyone lives happily ever after. "Once Upon a Time" satirizes fairy tales and all the cliché lines in them such as how the author keeps repeating the phrase "happily ever after." I also thought it was a bit ironic that the author says she doesn’t write fairy tales but then when she gets scared she decides to think of a fairy tale (although it is a grim one.) I’m betting that she recognized this irony though and put it in to further satirize fairy tales. Perhaps the most disturbing/ hilariously ironic part is the when the little boy, driven by the wonder of the fairy tale he had heard decides to brave the “thorns” which ends up being barbed wire . . . ok maybe it’s not as funny when you think about it.