Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
* G.K. Chesterton
I love this quote. It says so much and still says it in an exciting way. The message it gives is a central message in this class, that through experience, through ideas where dragonslayers take down these great beasts is where the truth lies not in just the fact that they exist; a situation has to be present where a story doesn't just tell us its true it shows it. This seems almost a way of getting your readers to believe, to not just tell but to show. How much am I suppose to believe that Bluebeard is such a bad man? You show me. This vision of the imagination that fairy tales present is the basis of fairy tales, making us imagine and then believing the imagined.
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