The Musical Tale of the Carrot Witch and an Unlikely Band of Friends A Fairytale
By Camile Allan and Sonja Eberly
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What
follows is a fairytale that was inspired by interviews done with five
randomly choosen students in English 344. The anonymous
transcripts of the interviews are provided below and should be viewed
before entering the fairytale. The characters, plot, and events are
based on the interviews that were conducted and will only make sense
after the transcripts are viewed.
This
project was inspired by the process of writing an ethnography, however
the process for doing so has been reversed. The questions asked in the
interviews were formed to elicit a stereotypical response and
stereotypical characters were formed from the answers. The storyline
follows that of a typical fairytale with modern aspects that have been
taken from the transcripts.
To view the
story click on "Enter the Fairytale". As the narrative progresses, part
is told in text form and part in video form. When prompted to make a
choice as to "What happens next?" the reader is in charge of choosing
where the story will go.
If you are
not satisfied with a certain ending, start over and take a different
path. The goal is to find the most satisfying ending to the story,
which in a fairytale is of course, the one in which all the characters
live... happily ever after