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Sorry And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you

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by violent fairy tales Is your kid too well adjusted

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Well try brothers grimm following passage way every stories But

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there were a way to santa claus You hear about

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it L all right here we go Which sentence would

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provide additional support that fairy tales were not intended to

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be ideal worlds and hear the potential answer professor claimed

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children listen locals graphic All right well the name of

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the game here is credibility The best answer is going

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to come from some legit source which helps the author

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hammer the main point home Option b doesn't even come

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close It's not citing any kind of source All we

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have is the author's words that children back in the

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day understood the warnings of fairy tales Now if the

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author brought in children from a time machine in the

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past and then interviewed them will be a different story

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choi see makes the same mistake Is b it's just

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the author telling us that the fairy tales had more

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impact because they were local Well we're not saying that

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the author doesn't know what he or she is talking

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about But we need something a little more substantial than

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just a local On top of that whole issue c

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is extra wrong because the point it makes has nothing

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to do with the reason fairy tales were not intended

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to show nice happy worlds We're looking for solid evidence

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of the dark state of fairy tales before disney came

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along and painted a smile on every fairies face what

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would happen if we put a hard core old school

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fairy in an iron cage match with a sparkly disney

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fairy We shell out for the pay per view Okay

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option d does make a good point The tarantino like

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violence of old fairy tales is pretty solid evidence that

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the stories weren't meant to show what we think of

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now as storybook world This answer has a problem Wei

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have no idea who the person who mentions this point

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is it could be a fairytale expert or it could

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be the author's senile aunt mabel we just don't know

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Well option a fixes the problem by saying that a

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professor is the one presenting the evidence This would be

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a stronger if we knew who the professor is and

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what his or her credentials are If this professor's phd

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was in basket weaving well then his heir opinion on

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fairytales isn't much more valid than aunt mabel Still even

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though answer isn't perfect it's the best we got it's

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kind of like the last deform cupcake in the pan

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might not be perfect but it's Not like we're not 00:02:37.76 --> [endTime] gonna eat it Yeah

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