Kissing the Witch

 

From the book Kissing the Witch my favorite story is The Tale of the Spinster. It represents selfishness and extravagance in a way that is realistic. The woman is so caught up in the wealth she is receiving from “little sister” doing all of the work that she does not want her to leave, and does not care about what little sister actually wants. The woman does whatever it takes to keep the young girl around, even giving up her first-born child to make her happy.

People in today’s society are extremely money hungry, and this is not an exception in this story. She wants all of the rewards without doing the work herself. She goes to extreme lengths to keep little sister around, and yet does not really care about who the young girl is or where she came from. She is selfish, and it is a true problem that people in today’s society deal with constantly.

 

The author made the title of this book Kissing the Witch because she was trying to capture the irony behind her always giving reasons for the villains to be villains. She connects all of the tales, and makes you think twice about the “bad guy’s” past. This is similar to the new Disney movie Maleficent, and the play Wicked. It takes you into the other pasts of the people who are doing terrible things. For example, the woman from the Tale of the Cottage. She is evil, and wants to eat little sister’s brother. But why is she so evil? She goes on to explain it in the next story