A Report of Godfather Death by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The story of Godfather Death, which Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm narrated, was on birth and development of the 13th child of a poor man who prefers DeathDeathfor being Godfather of his kid. The poor man, thirteenth child, God, Devil, Death, King, Princess are the story’s characters. The story was set on the Highway, The Baptism, wood, castle, underground cave.
The poor gentleman was no capable of affording to get thirteenth child then wanted to question any individual he was meeting on the highway to be the Godfather of his youngster. He comes across DeathDeathand decided to let him be the Godfather since he could not distinguish between the rich and poor. Death demonstrated the thirteenth child herb at the woods by telling him that the herb’s usage was only for standing at the sick head of an individual but not on feet. The physician went against DeathDeathon using the herb in healing the King. In this case, the King betrayed DeathDeathagain by saving the princess since she was beautiful, then he wished to be her husband. After cheating on his Godfather for the second time, Death demonstrated to the physician his burning candle was signified the short life span. The physician asked DeathDeathwhether to light a new candle for him; instead, the DeathDeathpretended to be fulfilled by his request, then making a mistake of relighting.
The literary devices which are cast-off include personification, foreshadowing, and symbolism. Death is in person as a Godfather, not as a part of nature. The poor man provides the thirteenth child to DeathDeathwhich shows to the audience of a bad outcome. The burning candles each have a different length of flame, which represents s life span of an individual.
This story is relatively simple in reading and analyzing since the vocabularies are easy to be understood. Also, the story is suspenseful, and the audience learns the consequences of betraying. Death is personified as a Godfather and the person reading knows this was because the text stated, “Death threatened him with his finger.”
The story is moral a person cannot cheat DeathDeathand that DeathDeathdoesn’t discriminate since he treated his godson impartially. The story is subdivided into two sections basing on the point of view. The first section is basing on the poor man’s and Death’s point of view. The poor man decides to give DeathDeathhis child an alternative to God or Death since he doesn’t fair to all persons. Then DeathDeathappeared at the baptism of his godson.
The second section is basing on the physician’s and Death’s point of view. Death provides his godson the herb, hance telling him he could use the herb when he is on stand on the sick individual’s head but not feet. The doctor betrayed him twice, and DeathDeathby shows him a candle, which represented his short lifespan. Death track on his godson through imagining lighting a new candle, but he knocked it out. The writer conveyed to the audience that DeathDeathis fair and no one can cheat him.