Blog 4, Kissing the Witch by Jacqueline Mora

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My favorite story from the book Kissing the Witch had to be about the Tale of the Apple. I liked this story the most because it was made differently from the regular Snow White fairy tale. There was no prince charming coming to a rescue in this tell. Snow White came back to life on her own after the poison of the apple the step mother gave her passed her body. It just shows how independent women have become now a days and how they don’t need to wait for prince charming anymore, how women could take manners into their own hands. I also saw the competition factor between Snow White and her step mother. “I know now that I would have liked her if we could have met as girls, ankle deep in a river.  I would have taken her hand in mine if I had not found it weighted down by the ruby stolen from my mother’s cooling finger.  I could have loved her if, if, if.”  Many women now a days are always in constant competition with each other, and it has to do a lot with media, and men. Our culture says we have to look prettier, work harder, get the best guy, and you can’t feel happy for someone if they are doing better than you are. Emma Donoghue tries to question this standards that our culture has put on women.

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I believe author Emma Donoghue titled her book Kissing the Witch, because it’s used as the context that in the real fairytale stories the witch would have not been kissed by and of the characters because she was seen as a bad person. Emma Donoghue broke the traditional fairytale but adding different twist to every story. It gave me a sense of girl power feel reading these different stories. A was a connection of between good versus evil. Like every human has good traits and bad traits and not everyone is perfect. By kissing the with you would give in to her power and you would lose your power how sometimes we make decisions to fall in love and threw your whole heart in “losing your power” but not knowing what the outcome would be good or bad. It’s just a part of life that we must all have to go through.